Resisting The Leviathan, Fighting for My Life

Founding Father and our nations 2nd President, once wrote, "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide". In our present age, this 'Age of Information' as some say, perhaps one out of a hundred can explain the difference between a constitutional republic and a democracy. I argue that this so called age of information is an Age of Ignorance. What passes for public discourse in this country is much like a rancid frankfurter, squishy, foul and utterly gut wrenching. The utter intellectual sloth that dominates the airwaves is an insult to anyone with even half a brain. "Is America ready for a black president" one network asks. "Is America ready for a Woman President" another network blurts like an awkward school boy amped up on caffeine, bursting at the seams to get his voice heard.

What passes for intellectual discourse in this day and age is putridly disgusting, and frankly rather embarrassing. We have three candidates running for the Office of President of the United States of America, who have political and public records that show nothing but disdain for the constitution, and nothing but disdain for every Man, Woman and Child born of circumstance rather than privilege. Yet the brainwashed masses march on into the abyss waving their "Obama Change!", "Hilary!" and "McCain 100 years of war!" banners. Never mind that fact that if you asked the common man what policy issues they admired about any of the three candidates, as I have done, they wouldn't be able to tell you. Instead you get a kind of pathetic answer, something along the lines of, "I like So-and-So because they seem presidential", or "This guy seems like he really wants to change things". The last time I checked, such techniques were known as showmanship. During the 1990's teenagers didn't accept such inauthenticity from rockstars on MTV, and yet now it's the status quo for those seeking the highest office in the land?

We are in this mess because we've lost our ability to think. Sure we can buy cars, houses and designers jeans, but when was last time someone you knew actually had a free-formed thought? Our citizenry are to busy watching lost, 24, or getting high. If Liberty requires individual responsibility, and we've abdicated that, then surely we deserve the fascism that is marching ever closer and closer? When you ask the rapist in the alley for mercy do you really think you'll get it?

If we are to maintain our dignity and to preserve whatever precious little liberty that we have left, then we must GET INVOLVED. As Jefferson once argued, The preservation of liberty is the responsibility of the individual. That means resisting the State when it wants to give you a free education, but stealing from others. That means fighting back, when they pass a law that not only infringes on your rights, but also your neighbors rights, such as the smoking ban. That's my rant for now.

In Liberty,

Corey