Recently by Eric Peters: Some Random ‘Car Stuff’
Some friends have been actively talking about their Exit Plans about getting out of this country before the curtain goes down. While there is still time. They believe the situation to be hopeless. That despite the upwelling of liberty-mindedness among some, the vast majority of Americans are not liberty-minded. That Americans tens of millions of them are stupid, unreachable, mean, irrational, authoritarian-minded Babbits and poltroons. People who always speak in we and lust to control others.
Reluctantly, I have to concede the point.
I have had exhaustive (and exhausting) conversations with countless people some of them probably a lot smarter than I in terms of raw IQ who just cant connect the dots.
Or much worse dont care to.
The problem is as much psychological as it is intellectual. There may just be a defective sub-species of human being, homo servilus, who much like a bee in a hive is programmed to crave the collective and therefore accepts its corollary coercion as the natural and right order of things.
Its very easy to get these bees to reveal their true natures. Their core antipathy to individualism and its corollary, liberty. Just let them know, for example, that you find sports/celebrity worship disgusting. Or that you dont subscribe to any particular religious doctrine or much care what doctrines others subscribe to, so long as they leave you be.
Let them discover that you dont feel obliged to pay more taxes for our children only an obligation to take care of your own children. Criticize war.
Make a negative comment about cops .
So, I dont disagree that jumping ship is probably a smart move. Nonetheless, Im reluctant to leave the country, for many reasons high among them just orneriness. This is my country, dammit. I hate the idea of just giving it to them.
That said, I am beginning to wish Id gone deep when I selected our fallback redoubt. We consciously moved to very rural SW Va. from the Northern Virginia area (near DC) about eight years ago to a great extent to limit our exposure to whats surely coming. But I am thinking now that we would have been smarter to have moved to rural Idaho or Wyoming or Montana (like Chuck Baldwin did) instead. There are too many Clovers here.
And signs of sprouting continue to worry me.
For example: Several recent letters to the editor in our small community newspaper go on and on about how we need to raise taxes on real estate so that our schools will have adequate funding. There is one school an elementary school in a far corner of the county threatened with closure because of limited revenue and not enough students to justify keeping it open. So the idea was floated to close it and consolidate it with another. The children would then get bussed a little farther to their new school. This is an outrage to the parentsites of these children, who believe others should be compelled to provide the necessary revenue to keep the old school open for their children.
Everything discussed in terms of we, of course. Its never my children need you to pay for their school.
If I were to speak at a public hearing about this and ask why dont people who chose to have children bear the responsibility for raising their kids which includes educating their kids as opposed to their kids becoming an open-ended claim on the property on the liberty of other people who had nothing to do with it Id likely be the victim of a mob beating. At minimum, Id become a community pariah regarded as selfish and anti-child (as well as anti-education) because I am troubled by armed men threatening to kill me and take my property so that it may be given to someone elses kids kids Ive never even met let alone had anything to do with bringing into this world. It is no defense, either, that such a policy makes it that much harder for people whod like to pay their own way to do so.
Other peoples kids take precedence. Over everything.