Depression point
News, Political ·Monday March 1, 2010 @ 19:34 EST (link)
State Blood Milk Addiction by Stefan Molyenux really depressed me. I had been hanging on to an irrational belief that we could vote liberty in and the looters and their enablers out. But it's not possible. Too many people depend on government sinecures, pensions, indirectly created jobs (think accountants and lawyers), and of course handouts. Think federal employees (SEIU), teachers, the military; welfare and Medicaid/Medicare recipients; companies that receive most of their funding from government contracts; all of these are parasites that believe they are entitled to a continued flow of funds obtained from working people at gunpoint. And nothing you say will convince them otherwise any more than you can convince a lottery winner to tear up their ticket.
There are two possible solutions: change the culture (neither Hitler nor slavery are popular any more, but they were very much so in America in the 1930s and 1860s respectively) or violent revolution. I don't think violent revolution will be successful (we have semi-automatics, they have tanks, air support, missiles, artillery, and automatic weapons, and far more training), unless the military can be convinced to join us, but they're generally trained to be perfectly obedient killing machines (Oath Keepers may help there). But even so, that would require the first plan: changing the culture. And that's really hard, because the state controls the schools; as Hitler said, "Your child belongs to us already."
If even one state—or even one county—could break free, the whole mess would unravel. Which is why they will tighten their grip and throw down more bread and circuses. Forever.
