Didn't read the article, just read the thread so far, but do have this to share:
As long as people are thinking in terms of left/right paradigms, and fighting and pointing fingers at each other, the real power players will have their way. It's the classic "divide and conquer".
The U.S. is actually an experiment as to how well humans can govern themselves - it's really not about big government, but about self-government. Many of the concepts presented in the Declaration of Independence were actually taken from the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations. You might want to check out
iroquois constitution and
iroquois constitution united states
Since its inception, the U.S. experiment has been under attack by those initially based in Europe who were possessed by greed and lust for power. A study of the Rothschild family will reveal much.
What most people who support socialist, marxist, communist, and all the other "ists" don't realize, is that all of Life, every cell of Life, in all its varied forms, is imbued with the Spirit of Freedom; for all comes from Freedom, was created Freely, to be Free. And this continent in particular, has the blood and bones of people who lived freely not that long ago, embedded into the ground everyone is walking on. The Free Spirit of those ancestors has not been silenced. Many still walk the Sacred places. There is another dimension besides the one you see with your eyes.
The struggle of humanity is a long one - those who want to be free and happy, and the schoolyard bullies who want to control others and take what they want from them. What's even more disgraceful are those who would use "the government" to bully others and take from them what they want for themselves. That's the dilemma this country has been in since its inception and still is struggling with today - those who want to use the government to take from others what they want for themselves, because they are unwilling to work for it themselves - so they "elect" bullies to "represent" them at the schoolyard fight. That's why the corruption of politicians is so rampant - most are nothing but schoolyard bullies for hire - even the female ones.
All sorts of noble sounding labels are used to justify "social programs", but the reality is, "charity" is not truly "charity" if it is forced - it's "tyranny". And each person thus becomes enslaved by "big brother". "Big brother" enslaves when it forcibly takes from some, and "big brother" enslaves as people become dependent on it, looking for it to solve their problems. Each time "big brother" forcibly takes from one and gives to another, it robs each person of the ability to meet the challenges of Life and the opportunity to develop the spirit of Love and Caring within them. No one, and no government, can force the spirit of Love and Charity into another. It is developed from within, as each opportunity to express it is met.
The reality is, the struggle will go on until each person truly realizes that they are a Free being and what an awesome responsibility and power that is. How invigorating it can be.
It is for wont of "things" that people enslave themselves and each other, and none of it, truly satisfies the soul, brings Peace to the heart and mind.
All the politico's, with their books, articles, blogs, finger pointing, lobbyists, law making, oppressive frenzy, ... will never be the answer, will never come up with the correct answer for another person. For the answer to each person's happiness and destiny lies within themselves. It's not through a government bail out, government grant, government education, government health care, government trade agreement, government official, ... that a boy becomes a real man, or that a girl becomes a real woman.
As long as Americans look to government to solve their problems, to insulate them from the challenges of Life that make them real whole persons, there will be strife in this nation.
"God Bless the Child who's got his own."
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