{"id":1613,"date":"2020-08-24T23:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2020-08-24T23:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:48:56","slug":"welcome-to-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/welcome-to-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only wish I could say he was wrong about this. But I can’t. Because he isn’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In mid-March of 2020, the United States of America became a socialist country, despite President Trump’s promise in his\u00a0State of the Union\u00a0address one year prior.\u00a0\u00a0To those who lost their non-essential jobs, those who met empty shelves, those who discovered that their “free” education was too costly, those driven insane by incessant fear-mongering, and those faced with capricious and nonsensical restrictions \u2014 welcome to socialism.\u00a0\u00a0Deceived by the arrogance of science and appeal to authority, or perhaps with false science to mask nefarious motives, public health and safety were used as a contrivance to replace liberty, freedom, and democracy with the\u00a0Game of Socialism, in which (elected) tyrants play with our lives.\u00a0\u00a0Do health and safety trump liberty and freedom, and must we sacrifice one for the other?<\/p>\n

The Constitution of the United States provides for no limitation of our liberty, freedom, or democracy in an emergency.\u00a0\u00a0Is this because our Founding Fathers had never heard of the Black Death (1347, multiple) or the Great Plague of Marseille (1720) or the Yellow Fever from the Caribbean (1793) or smallpox (vaccine 1770)?\u00a0\u00a0Why, then, did they limit powers in the face of such great calamities?<\/p>\n

Absent such powers, the federal government cannot take advantage of panic, real or contrived, to tyrannize the states or the people, and with the 9th and 14th Amendments, neither can the states (or cities) tyrannize their people.\u00a0\u00a0The protections of our Constitution have been eroded over the last century by a crisis culture that has people abandoning liberty for (illusory) safety, as\u00a0notes Robert Higgs,<\/p>\n

But if the dominant ideology does not give strong support to the Normal Constitution, it will eventually be overwhelmed by the Crisis Constitution.\u00a0\u00a0Step by step, a ratcheting loss of rights will attend each episode of national emergency.\u00a0\u00a0And we may as well admit that such emergencies are inevitable.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I ran across a great Eisenhower quote the other day, which will be going into the Notable Quotes sidebar-section forthwith: “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.<\/a>” It speaks to the very heart of my long-held contention that this awful predicament is not due to the fact that the Constitution has somehow failed to protect US; it’s WE who have failed to protect the Constitution. In our weakness, our timidity, our complacency, we allowed it to be first ignored, then flung down and danced upon—to the point that we recently witnessed one of the most abominable Congresscreatures in American history openly mocking both it and us as she grossly defied its strictures, derisively shrieking like a rabid howler monkey: “Are you serious? Are you serious?!?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

The above-excerpted piece is kind of a long ‘un, at least by AmThink’s usual standards; they tend to run shorter pieces than most other aggregator\/portal sites do, in the main. But it’s deserving of a perusal nonetheless, link-rich and bang-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only wish I could say he was wrong about this. But I can’t. Because he isn’t. In mid-March of 2020, the United States of America became a socialist country, despite President Trump’s promise in his\u00a0State of the Union\u00a0address one year prior.\u00a0\u00a0To those who lost…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Welcome to socialism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,39,55,68,74,107,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-believe-it-or-else","category-big-tsimmis","category-death-to-liberty","category-gangstergovt","category-leftward-ho","category-losing","category-the-liberal-way-of-war","category-where-do-we-go-from-here","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-39-id","wpcat-55-id","wpcat-68-id","wpcat-74-id","wpcat-107-id","wpcat-122-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}