The shining city on the hill is infested with vermin. They’re undermining its foundation. They’re destroying its luster. They’re attacking anything, everything, about it that makes it special. Left unchecked, they will reduce this glorious beacon of liberty to a rat-infested cesspool of tyranny.
We no longer have the luxury of ignoring this problem. A can of RAID and a couple mousetraps won’t get the job done. It’s much too late for half measures. We need to examine the entire political complex and make some hard choices. Time is running out, so this might be our last chance to save the shining city on the hill. We tried, numerous times, to replace the most troublesome parts of the city, but our hearts weren’t in it. All we did is delude ourselves, by giving the shining city a new coat of paint, doing our utmost to ignore the city’s weakened foundation.
This isn’t the first time that Americans faced a hard choice. This isn’t the first time that political vermin have undermined our liberty. We should have learned our lesson then, and we could have, but we no longer teach those subjects in our government cess-schools.
The first time this happened in America, Summer of 1776, a masterful wordsmith defined the problem in a timeless outburst of prose called ‘The Declaration of Independence’. Most of us are familiar with its inspirational opening paragraph which defines our liberty with matchless eloquence. Unhappily, too few of us read further and heed the telling words in the second paragraph:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
In 2010, the despot who is afflicting We the People with "repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny" isn’t the monarch of a distant nation. The despot who is undermining the solid foundation of our liberty isn’t a Dumbo-eared shill with delusions of messianic grandeur, either. At most, he is simply this despot’s newest front man.
The despot who is ravaging our liberty and destroying the shining city on the hill is an entity of our own making, one whom we, foolishly, continue to hold in high esteem. I refer, as if you haven’t guessed, to that icon who represents this once great nation: Uncle Sam. As the embodiment of America, Uncle Sam symbolizes our nation. The kindest thing I can say about him - about the America he represents - is that he’s not the man he was...he’s not the man whom we know that he must be.
Uncle Sam’s (America’s) character deficiencies are too egregious to be called ‘flaws’. They’re more like character chasms. Here, in no particular order, are a few of the obvious ones:
Grave Robber: You work hard all your life and, through your effort and ingenuity, you amass enough wealth to pass along to your family. It’s not enough to set them up for life, but it’s enough to help them over life’s speed bumps. You’re on your death bed and feeling good about this financial legacy, when a ghoulish Uncle Sam shoves the Grim Reaper out of his way then picks your pocket via death taxes.
Thief: Living the American dream, you take an idea and run with it. Thanks to long hours and grim determination, you realize your dream and reap the rewards. Happily ever after? You know better. Using his personal knee-breaker, a thug called IRS, Uncle Sam mugs you, then gives your hard earned wealth to his posse of parasites.
Brain-Washer: Like any despot, Uncle Sam’s primary obsession is perpetuating, expanding, his power over We the People. He accomplishes this, with infuriating efficiency, via his death grip on America’s government cess-schools. After indoctrinating your tykes for 12 years, he’s feeling smug, because he has programmed them to believe what he wants them to believe. He has preconditioned them to do what he wants them to do. Best of all, he has them so mind-numbed that his government-schooled idiots with self esteem will never, ever, question Uncle Sam’s actions or authority.
Master Manipulator: Backed by his FCC goons...aided and abetted by a relentlessly compliant News Nitwit horde, Uncle Sam does his best to redefine objective reality to suit his tyrannical needs. It’s not a perfect storm of bullshit, but it’s effective enough to inflict a Dumbo-eared shill, a Botox Bitch, and punk named Whorehouse Harry in positions where they can do the most damage to We the People.
Trouble-Making Agitator: Uncle Sam uses class envy to whip the parasite horde into a mindless frenzy, then turns them loose on American achievers. Divide and conquer is alive and well in 21st century America.
Now that we know what Uncle Sam (America) has become, it’s time to send the statist cockroaches scurrying for cover. How? By shining a bright light on a few "repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny"
Constitutional Inversion: From the onset, our Elected Tormentors, and the army of bureaucratic trolls who do their dirty work, chafed under the U.S. Constitution's unambiguous restrictions on the federal government. They understand, too damn well, that the Founding Fathers' Constitutional game plan was to establish an island of government surrounded by an ocean of inalienable individual rights. Gradually, inexorably, deliberately, generations of Elected Tormentors inverted this original concept until, today, we have a small, shrinking, island of besieged individual rights that's surrounded by a relentlessly rising ocean of government.
Free Speech is a prime example of this Constitutional inversion. When the Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15, 1791, the phrase "Congress shall make no law" built a wall between Uncle Sam and our free speech birthright. Fast forward to the present, and free speech is being eroded by relentless infringements: FCC restrictions, campaign finance reform muzzles, plus ‘hate speech’ laws.
The Public Burden Scam: The Nanny State's extra-constitutional intrusion into the health care marketplace - Medicare and assorted other welfare state crap - rolled out the red carpet for a gem that's the weapon of first resort for socialists and shysters. It's called "the public policy issue" scam and it gives these scumbags an excuse to plunder capitalists' deep pockets and dictate, in great specificity, how they must run their business.
Obamacare and its vaunted public option would give Uncle Sam a perfect excuse to micromanage your life. If he is paying for your healthcare, he gets to call the shots on all your healthcare needs such as treatments you’re allowed to have and when you can see a medical professional whom he will select for you. This same public option gives Uncle Sam the excuse he needs to control anything/everything in your life which impacts - however remotely - your health. That means he dictates where you live, where you work, where you shop, what products you’re allowed to buy, and a million other things that are none of the Nanny State’s f-ing business.
The Commerce Clause: This is Uncle Sam’s liberty nuking WMD, thanks to judicial system jackasses, who told Uncle Sam: "if you can tie it to commerce, you can regulate it". This Twilight Zone interpretation opened a political Pandora's Box that unleashed an insatiable Nanny State on our individual liberty. This egregious misinterpretation of the commerce clause led to the liberty-nuking carnage that followed.
What is/was the original, legitimate, purpose of the commerce clause? It gave the new federal government the power to prevent an individual state from erecting trade barriers with its neighboring states. In the ensuing centuries, the commerce clause was inflated to give the Beltway bozos the power to dictate such things as: auto design, broadcast content standards, educrap standards, regulate the hiring practices of private firms, dictate food content, restrict drug availability, etc. The list is long and getting longer every damn day.
Can the shining city on the hill be saved? Yes, and no. A simple urban renewal won’t do it. It’s too late for that. The place is too far gone, so it needs to be razed and expunged of all its vermin. Then, it must be rebuilt, after we restore its solid foundation of marketplace capitalism, inalienable individual liberty, and an ironclad limit on Nanny State power.
It’s a very steep hill to climb, because, in too many cases, sovereign individuals allowed Nanny State largess to transform them from rugged, self-reliant, individuals into parasitic wards of the all powerful Nanny State. That makes the preferred solution - a return to Constitutional principals - a tough sell. Gloomy Gus that I am, I fear that it will take a complete collapse of the Great American Nanny State's house of cards to make a properly-Constitutional American government a viable option.
Assuming a critical mass of sovereign American individuals can be achieved, I'm convinced that a new Constitutional Convention will be needed to plug the loopholes that these power-obsessed Beltway bozos opened in the our nation's founding document. Until that glorious day arrives, learn to swim, PIGsters, because the ocean of government is thisclose to swamping our shrinking island of rights.
I hear you pounding your desks out there, PIGsters. I hear you bellowing: "What the hell does all this have to do with Political Correctness, Hambo?" It has everything to do with Political Correctness. Cultural Marxists rely on relentless Nanny State growth to help them snuff out our inalienable individual rights with their P.C. bovine excrement. Therefore, daring to believe in a limited, properly-constitutional government is the ultimate form of political incorrectness. Are we all on the same page now, doubting PIGster Sparky?
