Shoutbox Wannabe.

[Ninurta]

My approach is always from the perspective of Freedom. Is it Freedom or Non-Freedom in its intent?

That has always been my approach as well, which is what puts me on the "far right" in the current political spectrum. All my life, it has always been the socialists and communists placed on the left of the spectrum, and they invariably devolve into totalitarianism, always have and always will, so whatever distance I can place between myself and them puts me that much closer to the "freedom" end of that spectrum.

Someone, somewhere, seems th have a vested interest in muddying those waters these days, however. Even to the point of changing the "official" colors of the sides to further confuse things. When I was younger, conservatives were represented by blue, because that is opposite of red and the communists on the left had already claimed red. Then, suddenly in 2000, someone swapped the colors on us, so that Republicans are now represented by communist colors, and leftists have misappropriated the blue for themselves. Confusion reigns, especially for the old folks that recall the original color scheme.

I hear in the wind that a large portion of the dismal results of this election has been attributed to "the youth vote", with voter turn out among young folks setting records in multiples of hundreds of percents from previous. Fine by me - they get the world they vote to get, and if that's what they think they want, it's their world to form. It won't be long before I check out of it anyhow, and then they are on their own to enjoy what they thought they wanted. I can't, for the life of me, figure out what they have against freedom, financial stability, or quality of life, but if they want to vote against those things - and apparently they do - then they get what they beg for. They get the world they create, and I don't have to worry about it for many more years.

It's at this point where I detest "democracy", however. There is no reason that 51% of a nation should be able to coffle the other 49% and drag them down the same road to hell that the "majority" wants to travel. Back when we were a Republic, there were safeguards in place to protect that minority from the tyranny of the majority, but those safeguards are, for the most part, gone with only lip-service being paid to them on "patriotic" holidays.

So now my task, in my final years, is to teach my kids and grandkids how to survive in a world where the only freedom left is in the underground and underground economy. I don't care to overthrow any more governments, because that is a fool's game that only results in the dissatisfied left wingers waging war to get their security blanket back. Instead, i think that ignoring the governments and going your own way is the path to freedoms now. Just work outside the framework that has been set for the leftists to console themselves with over the loss of their freedom, finances, and quality of life. Things are not going to get better with so many citizens willing to trade their freedom for an illusion of security under a dystopian oligarchy, so the next best thing is to gear up to operate outside the coming system, rather than fight against it.

Fighting will only result in a perpetual war until there is only one man left standing on the planet.

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