They are crazy. Even here in my own state, good old fly-over country. We are not overrun with Muslim terrorists. The only terrorists we have to worry about receive government paychecks. Granted, there are a few sensible cops out there, but what little trust they build with the community is destroyed by the bad ones. I’m a former LEO; the last person on earth you want to trust is someone wearing a badge. Let them purge their own ranks, then we can talk about trust.
Whatever happened to the notion people are people, and we should attempt to live and let live? Here in America, oppression was born from the Sociology movement, which itself was born among radical English clergymen who tossed their Bibles in the trash. Historically, we refer to the Progressive Movement, but from that comes all the worst evils in US government today.
[T]he educated class’s religious fervor turned to social reform: they were sure that because man is a mere part of evolutionary nature, man could be improved, and that they, the most highly evolved of all, were the improvers…
Margaret Sanger and her Pro-Nazi racist abortion policies? A card-carrying member of the Progressive elite. The Roosevelt presidents and their massive power-grabbing, snotty, prissy middle class materialism? Yeah. In so many words, they both declared themselves the recipients of some divine right to decide for the rest of us what was decent and right, and more than once ordered thugs to murder people who didn’t want to play along.
It’s not the question of whether folks should promote good morals; I do that. It’s the methods. These are godless, Satanic children of Hell using the Devil’s own methods to accomplish their ends. “He will not cry out in the streets… A bent reed He will not tear off; a smoking wick He will not extinguish.” Matthew quotes this regarding Jesus, taking it from Isaiah 42:1-3. The ancient Hebrew symbolism was a man who didn’t come to change politics, particularly by exercising any sort of earthly authority. Ruling was for the goats, not the sheep of His pasture. And where did the goats end up, in Matthew 25? The desire to rule is a moral disqualification for rule. We convince humans to make better choices by teaching it, demonstrating it, by sacrificing life itself if necessary — but our own lives, not theirs.
Regardless of what the constitution says Ed, all men are not created equal- some are greater than others (but the sentiment of the idea is laudable). This means that everything is a competition and the fittest prevail- that’s the nature of life on earth. I think that Caligula summed up why we can’t just “live and let live” when he said (and I paraphrase) that the one quality that he always relied on in people was their own self interest. Can we ever expect anything more? I would hope so but I also expect not.
Caligula was a man of his times and culture, not to mention a complete psychopath. Surely I’ve said often enough here I put no trust in any human, including myself. My post was a lament of how the rulers of our nation are no better. I expect nothing but the worst from them. I expect wiser minds to grasp this. Live and let live is another way of stating the Zero Aggression Principle, which is a cosmic level Law. It’s cosmic in the sense it applies as a limited practical approach, utterly necessary as the default approach in a badly broken world on this lower level. Thus, it was more about pointing out why the US in particular is collapsing.
I wove my lament in terms of biblical imagery. I am non-competitive; it comes with the mystical approach to understanding. I see no need to celebrate something essential to what makes man so utterly unworthy of the higher realms. It doesn’t mean I don’t understand how to be playful and enjoy frivolous diversions, but that’s where competition belongs. I belong to that higher realm, and by refusing to wallow in worldly wisdom, I show this world is unworthy. I’m one of those people Caligula would have dispatched very quickly. Such is life on this level, and I know it. As our world slips into the deepest level of its worst nature, and new Caligulas arise, I have no expectation of living long, and it hardly matters to me.