Politics

Someone once said “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” I don’t know who said this but boy was he ever right! This seems to be just the case with the politics of today. Provide a hobgoblin, parade him for all to see, everyone screams and hides from this paper and paste scary thing coming to get them. The ones that produced the hobgoblin in the first place miraculously come up with a wonderful solution that helps them out far more than it does any good for the people, and then, when the blind sheep clamor for this solution and give up everything they have in order to obtain this “solution” the trap snaps shut and WHAM, they don’t realize what hit them, or that they fell into the trap that was the only real threat all along!

Of course, people these days are used to having someone else provide for their every need, usually that someone else is the taxpaying population via the government. Once the government becomes the provider of people’s needs there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right. In my opinion there really is nothing the government owes us than to just be left alone, which, of course is just what they don’t do! Mark Twain said once, “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.” I agree.

You know something that I find troubling? Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.” He is right you know. Unless something is done we’ll have a worse mess than we do now in a matter of a few years. The classroom philosophy stinks and it has been stinking for a long time now. Of course, people say, “What can I do about it, I am just little old me and I can’t change the world you know.” Maybe you can and maybe you can’t, but I am quite sure if you keep talking like that you will be absolutely right! On the other hand, just look at the people who have individually changed the world, both for the better and for the worse. Think of Jesus for instance, or Mohammad, or Buddha. Or look at someone more modern like Stephen Spielberg; don’t tell me that with all of his propaganda movies he puts out he hasn’t changed the world. Look at Hitler, he certainly changed things, or how about the Wright brothers inventing the airplane, wow what a change! I guess I could go on and on but I think the point is made. Just think of it like this, you are not too small to make a change, remember trying to go to sleep with just one mosquito in the room?

And don’t try telling me there is nothing wrong with the system we have today. Any time I have to go to someone else to get permission to go to the bathroom on my own property there is something drastically wrong! Sure they have their excuses but I don’t care, I should be able to design, build and install my own septic system without interference from someone else. It’s not like I am interfering with another man’s life by doing so. For that matter there is something very wrong when I have to pay a yearly rent called property tax on land that I thought I owned outright. Usually when a guy pays the full price for something that thing belongs to him and nobody else can claim anything from it. So why can someone take my land away from me if I don’t pay this rent? It’s tribute I guess, and many times God allowed His people to be under tribute when they didn’t follow Him in the past so I suppose we should look to the real reason for having to pay this tribute. I have known quite a few people that do this or that paperwork or declaration or whatever new scheme they happen to come across and they say that they no longer have to pay property taxes. Well, in every case they end up tossed out on the streets. I think something is up! I haven’t yet found a case where the people do what Daniel did and they go to God instead of going to a false god of paper to save them. I see only one way out of this mess and it’s not voting in new bad guys or filing forms. It’s going right to God and saying I’m sorry while really meaning it. It’s repenting for real and actually changing our ways instead of continuing to wallow in the filth we have made for ourselves. God said, “If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land.” The solution isn’t all that hard to figure out, it just takes us actually doing it. Is it that hard? Is it so much harder than spending years doing paperwork, jail time, paying fines, getting the house taken away, having the children stolen by the system, loosing the family, and all we get in return is more slavery and a little bit of entertainment from a TV? I see that it’s a whole lot harder to do as one guy all alone and it would be easier if there were lots of people working toward the same goal together. I suppose I’ll just have to go along anyway and pray for others to do the same. We had better hurry up though, we aren’t getting any more freedoms while we sit here and whine about loosing them. The pressure is not abating and it can only get worse until we get our act together.