The way things are going in the good old US of A, I couldn't help thinking about the rudentes among us. What with over half the population depending on the government for some type of aid, and a majority of voters beholding to big government politicians, (to go along with all the countless bleeding heart useful idiots who should know better), not to mention the exuberant gangs of inner city youth flash mobs and community organizers and brainless union thugs and intellectually smug academicians and...the list is almost as endless as the heartburning nausea that envelopes me every time I am subjected to Nancy Pelosi's witchy visage.
As if it wasn't bad enough that over half of us have already sworn fealty to Big Brother, a good portion of the rest of us are so lost in our distractions and amusements, in our daily lives of Thoreauian quiet desperation, that we run the risk of inadvertently succumbing to Big Brother as well.
In the name of national security, the government can whisk us away to God knows where - and our families certainly won't - without due process, without legal representation...the airports assault grandmothers and infants (potential terrorists), force disabled individuals to remove prosthetic devices, sexually attack both males and females...street cameras monitor both our cars as well as pedestrians...the IRS can and does read our e-mails...we are required to pay ever expanding and rising fees and taxes, we are forced to buy health insurance and subsidize illegal aliens...we are told what to eat and not eat, how much soda we can buy or how much salt we can use or how much trans fat we can consume.
When the majority vote against a pet progressive cause, e.g. homosexual marriage, leftist judges overturn the people's will...democracy in action?
Big Brother wages endless wars for the profit of the military-industrial-security complex and claim it's all for our security.
(When was the last time terrorists attacked us?)
Meanwhile, we use our soldiers to guard the poppy fields in Afghanistan and shake a finger at North Korea for threatening to use nuclear technology that we helped provide them with. (Both the Clinton and Bush administrations sold material and advice to North Korea to get a 'peaceful' nuclear energy program off the ground. And, let's not get started on how the US of A and its CIA supported a freedom fighter named Osama bin Laden when he was attacking the Russkies).
At home, our goddamn lily-livered D.C. politicians trip over each other in their mad dash to provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens while taking away the 2nd amendment rights of lawful Americans.
Where will it end?
Benjamin Franklin warned that those who were willing to surrender some of their liberty for security would soon lose all their liberty.
Maybe that's what the majority of the rest of us want.
As Voltaire remarked about the rudentes of his time - and humans in general - "They are oxen which require a yoke, a goad and some hay."
Well, we have been goaded and provided with hay. It remains to be seen if the lashing of the yoke is soon to be completed. I wouldn't bet against it.
(And, in advance, sheep are even stupider than oxen.)
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