Dear progressives,
We mean no disrespect with this. We love you like brothers and sisters, but there are a few things we need you to know. Please hear us out.
We know most of you don’t see yourself as a religious people. But stop for a minute to think about it. Religious people enjoy the security, the protection and providence of their higher power. We see this in you. It seems to us that your higher power–your central authority–your provider and protector is the state. In state you trust. And its a trusting that seems to blind. We see you accepting whatever the state oriented media feeds you and refusing to look beyond it. Blindly loyal to an ideal, you narrow your vision to that which is comfortable: that which reinforces your trust in state.
This is a frustration to us because we see things that you could see–and need to see–but won’t see.
The state, using the media, parades a vast array of victims before you and makes great display of caring for each. This plays to your highest motives and we don’t blame you at all for giving them your compassionate support. But there’s a part you won’t see. The state’s ‘other hand’ is busily working to take more from the producers to pass out more candy to more people of voting age to ensure their hold on the power levers. It drives the country deeper into debt, (16 tr. going on 22 tr.– that was Trillion!). It weakens the military, (huge budget cuts). The population is disarmed, (gun control all the rage). The president signs a series of executive orders that let him suspend constitutional rights any time he deems there to be a crisis, (chilling possibilities). Various agencies, including homeland security, purchase–in the last year–more than a billion hollow point bullets; oh, and 7,000 fully automatic rifles. (True story. look it up. If you’re bad at math that’s 130 fully automatic assault rifles and 20 million bullets for each state in the Union. This is not the army. It’s homeland ‘security’.) Radio stations are forced to install a box that lets the state take instant control of every station across the nation any time they like (true story. look it up.) And the private capital which creates the nation’s wealth is taxed away in the name of fairness, weakening the economic engine; leading us, at best, to centrally controlled stagnation (which we are seeing more and more of every day) or worse, a catastrophic collapse followed by iron fisted tyranny.
Of course, our independent-minded populace would fiercely resist iron fisted tyranny, wouldn’t we? How inconvenient, at that point, that homeland security is fully armed, we are disarmed, our rights and protections are legally suspended and we have no control of our communications…
With all the soaring debt–which even the CBO says is unsustainable and will lead eventually to a catastrophic collapse–the president said recently that we don’t have a spending problem. Nancy Pelosi concurs.
You tell us we need to wake up to a more enlightened way of thinking. You can see very clearly that we are throwbacks to an earlier day. But through the same lens, we can see just as clearly that you are so willingly, hopelessly duped. We understand that all you want is goodness and fairness for all. But they’re using that noble motive to use you! The leaders you trust, use those wonderfully pure motives to capture your loyalty and undying support. They tell you how much more evolved you are (playing to your pride) and how progressive and forward thinking this all is (who wouldn’t want to be forward thinking). Meanwhile, that ‘other hand’ is doing all of the above and much more. (It’s all in the ‘manifesto’ if you care to read it.)
We wouldn’t mind so much that you throw the door open to certain tyranny–but you drag us along for the ride. That we mind.
And before you say this is just conspiracy theory, know this. .
It’s only ‘theory’ if it isn’t actually happening.
Sincerely,
One of the 65 million conservatives that voted against our current president.
