Self-Inflicted Wound

Playing out now in England is a glimpse at the cynical political world of the conservative. It’s a premise we never should have allowed, but in the easy days of relatively low budget deficits, when abortion was the only red-hot topic, there was a sense that we were all in this together and while the U.S. wasn’t perfect, where else were we going to go? It was nowhere near the horrific landscape it is today.

Conservatives, either in England, or here in the U.S., who are largely communists anyway, have been playing this cynical game of “who else can you vote for?” As if that were the only option left for conservatives: vote for them, don’t vote and basically elect liberals, or vote for liberals. It didn’t matter what insults they put forward as legislation, or what back-stabbing they had to do after being elected, all that mattered was getting elected. And, you had to vote for them, if you weren’t a screaming, purple-haired liberal, because “who else can you vote for?”

When one truly understands the entire political universe, they understand that there is nowhere to go with your vote that is not a self-inflicted wound. Out of the three choices listed above, none are acceptable. Not voting is still voting, because unless you leave the U.S., you will be subject to the decision that not voting made. The only way to not play the game is rebellion.

This is the slow descent into communism that has been planned out and mapped for over a hundred years. The United States is the latest “fat cow” to be sacrificed on the alter of “community.” It’s no wonder that I have, since probably twelve years old, rejected community, disregarded everything communal. I didn’t want to be “part of the group.” Even in my rodeo days, where I was most at-home, I drove into the fairgrounds, got my bullrope out, rosined up, found my bull, tasked one of the other cowboys on the chutes to pull my rope, nodded my head, did whatever I did on the bull, got off, got my gear packed up and drove away. “What about day money? Didn’t you stay for the payout?” They’d mail me a check, if I won anything. I put my address down when I got my number. It was because I saw “the group” as an inherently corrosive thing, something meant to bend my actions or attitudes to a commonly-acceptable point of view. One cannot be faithful to one’s own particular perspective on the world if they give one damn about someone else’s opinion of what they ought to do.

That doesn’t mean failing to listen and take good advice, or working with the team. I am typically a team player when I understand what the team seeks to accomplish and I agree with it, then, I play my part. I don’t want to socialize with the team, or become their friend. Like the rodeo, I want to come in, ride the bull, and leave.

So, when I look at politics, I understand the necessity of the vote, but I don’t want to support anything other than America-First. That used to be a given before, say 1960. To that end, Trump has been a good representative of what I want, the policies I agree with, not all of them, he makes mistakes, especially when it comes to selecting people to be in his circle, though he does make some good choices, most of them are bad. But the fact that the cynical Republicans who’ve been running this show for most of my adult life hate him, makes me a supporter. It’s not so much that I like Trump as that I hate them, the manipulators, the “who else can you vote for” crowd. That and he exposes them for their bias, the hateful little creatures that they are. They pretend that it’s just Trump, but they were exactly the same with Reagan and all he would do is smile, but that was a different time, when America was not on a ticking clock.

The world we endure right now is a product of all of them, Democrats and Republicans. There’s a lot that Republicans could have done to stem it, to expose and reject the liberal agenda, but that’s not who they are. They are communists, all of them. Not one person, no matter how theoretically America-First, will look at the truth of the matter and realize it’s already too late. It can’t be fixed and while I believe there are a few who get it, not nearly enough of them do.

Red states should be organizing to break away from this union. It isn’t like turning one’s back on the constitution or wanting some white-supremacist homeland, it’s really about survival, except that every politician is now owned and have slowly been owned since somewhere around 1787. No one will fight for the principles of freedom, because the people are the obstacles; their freedom, restricts the actions of the state. It’s really as simple as that and every time some politician suggests giving up a little freedom for security, they should be taken out, tarred and feathered for the mere suggestion of it, because what they really mean is not “give up a little freedom” they mean “give the state more power.”

It’s all about power that either resides in the individual or the state, there is no middle ground. It’s one of the few zero-sum games out there. Even the belief, that I generally hold, that there is a middle ground in which giving a little freedom in certain areas produces more freedom overall can no longer be validated, because even though there is that point on the political spectrum, momentum demands that it goes either in one direction or the other so that point can never be maintained. It’s the missile principle, one cannot shoot a missile up to 40,000 feet and have it stop. It either has to continue into outer space, or fall back to earth.

In England, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is about to lose big. This is how fed-up the Brits are. Even though the tide is turning against the invasion of foreigners, largely Muslim, they are about to throw out the conservatives who were the only bulwark against it, sort of, like Republicans want to shut down the border, but have done nothing other than talk about it to get re-elected. The Brits have had enough and are going to vote in the Liberals just as a punishment for the lies and betrayals of the Conservatives. Instead, they should flock to the Reform Party led by Nigel Farage, but groups rarely do the right thing. Groups mollify and coddle, criticize and ostracize the true independent thinkers until they conform.

The true choice, however, is to completely rebel. One has to be able to look over the destroyed landscape and recognize that they can’t plant a flower and make it all beautiful again, they have to bulldoze it, plow it, disc it and replant. Most of my life I was able to see the flaws, the injustices and recognize that they were minor and could be worked out. That changed in 1987, though I didn’t recognize it at the time as a harbinger of the future that it was.

That was when they passed the seat belt law in most states and while I protested it as the dangerous thing that it was, recognizing that it was the state taking control of my body, forcing me to “buckle up.” Most people didn’t understand it as the confiscation of both mind and body that I did. First, it required me to put tab A into slot B, every time I got in my pickup, ten or fifteen times a day, though most people will only be in a collision that a seat belt will serve its life-saving purpose once or twice in their lifetime. It is the law that is the problem, not the seat belt. They should have been an option in the vehicles, so that those who chose to wear them had them available, but that is where it should have ended, if we did care about individual choice, freedom and independent thought. What they don’t tell you is how many people are saved from death by being thrown clear, a statistic that is necessary to make a proper decision, but is not kept by the state, because it doesn’t support their law. They don’t tell you how many people die, seat belted into a submerged or burning vehicle. They also don’t mandate a breakaway from the seat belt in an emergency situation, you’re just stuck there, dazed from the crash, your instinct to evacuate thwarted by the restraint, forcing you in your confused and maybe broken state to think clearly enough to reach around and release the buckle, if it has not been driven out of reach by the collision. Maybe you bleed to death, hoping to be rescued, or are asphyxiated, because the vehicle is still running, but the conditions outside are pumping carbon monoxide into the car.

Here’s where the corrupted government part comes in, even back then. The legislature, in all its communist zeal threatened the auto makers, in 1985 or 1986 that they would have to put air bags into the vehicles at a time when they were being squeezed by foreign car sales. It was fiscally almost impossible; air bags were very expensive new technology at the time.

The auto makers could get around that expensive mandate, if they worked to make seat belt laws compulsory in a majority of states. It was a lot cheaper to buy off politicians than it was to install air bags in all of their vehicles, so they did that, but they never got to the majority of states to impose seat belt laws in the time allotted and were forced to install air bags nonetheless. Where is the individual right to make one’s own decision in this scenario? Why do we need seat belts if we have air bags? It doesn’t exist, because politics today do not have to consider the rights of individual citizens, they’re communist and can dictate to the people what they will and will not do.

All they ever had to do to make this acceptable, to people like me, is put it up for a vote. Anytime an individual right is threatened, it should at least go to the people for a vote. That doesn’t mean the violation of an individual right is acceptable, there is the 9th Amendment that states: “The enumeration in the constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Certainly, being able to decide whether or not driving conditions make the seat belt more or less safe is one of those rights “retained by the people.”

This is one of the many reasons, it’s too broken to fix. The communist government finds it much easier to deal with individual corporations who willingly discard all individual rights to comply with the agency that can regulate them out of business. That was the old definition of fascism that I’ve noticed has been rewritten from “a form of government that has strict control of the economy and society” to “a far-right, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society and a repression of criticism and opposition.” If you change the “far-right” to the “far-left” you have that right now in America. That’s why Biden is losing.

A lot of things will mean the breakup of the union, several of which are right now in-play. I think one more bailout for the bankers will do it. Maybe forced digital ID will, or a completely and undeniably stolen election. They already played that card and the next one might be the wildcard. Nuclear war might put an end to it all. It doesn’t really matter, the sole object of any legitimate state legislature should be configuring the needs of the state when it breaks away. Any politician not willing to look at that option is nothing more than a communist sympathizer and traitor.

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