Don't We Know This Trick?

I have said for years that you can't lead people where they don't want to go.  I was wrong.  You can lead people where they don't want to go if you trick them and lie to them.  This is what tyrants have been doing throughout history. 

Right now our politicians are cleverly working to create civil unrest.  Economic disaster awaits the collapse of the dollar, and current policies have guaranteed more severe fallout ahead.  Politicians use the media and government agencies to create greater divides among us, along race and economic lines.  The health care law seizes control of a huge sector of our economy.  College loans are now all handled by the federal government, making indebted students slaves to the state.

When everything falls apart, it will require more government intervention, perhaps even martial law.  The public will cry out for more government control to help settle the upheaval in society.  The government will be more than willing to use the heavy hand to control the population.

Here is the trick:  use government policies to create unrest in society, then let government swoop in to save the day with even more control.  What's the definition of tyranny?

Moral Mondays

The Moral Mondays movement in Raleigh seeks to call attention to the (apparently) immoral actions of the Republican led NC legislature. 

They object to the legislature's effort to allow taxpayers to keep more of their own money.  It must be moral for the government to seize money from citizens and fund various welfare programs.  How dare the government stop taking so much money to give to other people?

The government is the bully who can take away and give to anyone he wishes.  When the bully considers stealing less, the beneficiaries scream, and enlist others to scream for them.   It seems to be motivated by selfishness, the very characteristic the beneficiaries condemn in others. 

The real irony is the Moral Monday demand that abortions not be restricted.  How can terminating the life of unborn children be considered moral?  It seems that their standard for morality is that which makes their lives easier.  No wonder moral standards vary.