What Can We Do?
For anyone paying attention, the United States is changing right before our eyes. The change is more than business as usual. The federal government is taking the socialist-lite programs and ideas of the last several decades and ratcheting them up to the level of irreversible socialist takeover. When the government has 50.1% of the voting population in its pocket, it’s Game Over. The number probably stands in the mid-40’s right now. How does someone who likes the idea of America as a free, capitalist society respond?
If you think you can vote and encourage your friends to vote, I technically agree, but it isn’t nearly enough. Each of us represents about 1/100 millionth of the voting population. It’s probably a bit less than that after you factor in the phantom “community organizer” votes. Even if you have a lot of friends, that still isn’t much of a voting bloc.
We can take up arms, which may be the only alternative some day, but it just doesn’t seem right at this point. Plus, I wouldn’t know who to shoot. Almost everyone I know is a good person, and without doubt many of them are Democrats. I’m certain that my Democrat friends don’t hate America, they just vote for people who do. The statist philosophy that guides modern Democrats infects nearly every element of the culture. People are brainwashed in small doses, every day, to believe it is morally superior to support government force over free will. This mind virus is not limited to Democrats, it’s just in a more advanced stage.
The Tax Day Tea Parties were great, but in the short-term had as much impact on stopping out-of-control spending as the anti-war protests had on ending the Iraq War. However, watching the liberal meltdown reaction proves they were effective. Liberals only go ballistic on people or ideas that are effective. There’s a reason that Arlen Specter can sit in virtual anonymity for 30 years while Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber are viciously attacked as soon as they enter the public stage.
The Tea Parties demonstrated that people are ready to do something to stop the madness of changing America.
The original Boston Tea Party was not a stand-alone event. It was a reaction to a reaction to an action. The action that started it all was a boycott of British tea, which nearly bankrupted the British East India Company. The Brits addressed the boycott through the Tea Act, which put a higher price on non-British tea. The Boston Tea Party was the Patriots’ response to the Tea Act.
Boycotts are the original American Way of doing something about intrusive government.
Selecting a target isn’t easy, especially when the intrusive government is our own. There are good people and fellow Americans who will be impacted by an effective boycott. However, there isn’t a stronger, non-violent, way to send a message.
Personally, I’m boycotting companies that accept government bailout money. As a defender of free market capitalism, I strongly believe it is wrong for the government to interfere in the free market. The governments’ role is to protect its citizens from force and fraud. Anything more leads down a road few of us would want to go, if we looked closely at the long term consequences. Government is force and politicians who say otherwise are frauds.
I’m in the market for a new car and I know it won’t be a GM or Chrysler. I won’t even look. As much as I support American manufacturing, I want to see both companies go bankrupt and out of business. The Bush/Obama bailout plan is a big step in the wrong direction. The government should not have a shareholder stake in a private company, nor run an agency that competes against private companies. (Government Health Care is coming soon…). This needs to end right now. I have no illusions that GM going bankrupt will stop the tidal wave of big government intruding further into our private lives, but there will be a certain schadenfreude satisfaction to see willing partners in a business/government relationship wind up on the rocks.
You might say that boycotting a business funded with taxpayer money is just shooting yourself in the foot. Ask yourself what John Galt would do? Oh yeah…who is John Galt?
If you think you can vote and encourage your friends to vote, I technically agree, but it isn’t nearly enough. Each of us represents about 1/100 millionth of the voting population. It’s probably a bit less than that after you factor in the phantom “community organizer” votes. Even if you have a lot of friends, that still isn’t much of a voting bloc.
We can take up arms, which may be the only alternative some day, but it just doesn’t seem right at this point. Plus, I wouldn’t know who to shoot. Almost everyone I know is a good person, and without doubt many of them are Democrats. I’m certain that my Democrat friends don’t hate America, they just vote for people who do. The statist philosophy that guides modern Democrats infects nearly every element of the culture. People are brainwashed in small doses, every day, to believe it is morally superior to support government force over free will. This mind virus is not limited to Democrats, it’s just in a more advanced stage.
The Tax Day Tea Parties were great, but in the short-term had as much impact on stopping out-of-control spending as the anti-war protests had on ending the Iraq War. However, watching the liberal meltdown reaction proves they were effective. Liberals only go ballistic on people or ideas that are effective. There’s a reason that Arlen Specter can sit in virtual anonymity for 30 years while Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber are viciously attacked as soon as they enter the public stage.
The Tea Parties demonstrated that people are ready to do something to stop the madness of changing America.
The original Boston Tea Party was not a stand-alone event. It was a reaction to a reaction to an action. The action that started it all was a boycott of British tea, which nearly bankrupted the British East India Company. The Brits addressed the boycott through the Tea Act, which put a higher price on non-British tea. The Boston Tea Party was the Patriots’ response to the Tea Act.
Boycotts are the original American Way of doing something about intrusive government.
Selecting a target isn’t easy, especially when the intrusive government is our own. There are good people and fellow Americans who will be impacted by an effective boycott. However, there isn’t a stronger, non-violent, way to send a message.
Personally, I’m boycotting companies that accept government bailout money. As a defender of free market capitalism, I strongly believe it is wrong for the government to interfere in the free market. The governments’ role is to protect its citizens from force and fraud. Anything more leads down a road few of us would want to go, if we looked closely at the long term consequences. Government is force and politicians who say otherwise are frauds.
I’m in the market for a new car and I know it won’t be a GM or Chrysler. I won’t even look. As much as I support American manufacturing, I want to see both companies go bankrupt and out of business. The Bush/Obama bailout plan is a big step in the wrong direction. The government should not have a shareholder stake in a private company, nor run an agency that competes against private companies. (Government Health Care is coming soon…). This needs to end right now. I have no illusions that GM going bankrupt will stop the tidal wave of big government intruding further into our private lives, but there will be a certain schadenfreude satisfaction to see willing partners in a business/government relationship wind up on the rocks.
You might say that boycotting a business funded with taxpayer money is just shooting yourself in the foot. Ask yourself what John Galt would do? Oh yeah…who is John Galt?
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