A universal truth

Nature hates duplication!!! There are endless proofs of this.  Several come to mind;1) When a broken bone is set in a splint or cast to get it to heal, it DOES heal, usually, but when the cast or splint comes off, it is seen that the limb thus supported has lost significant muscle mass and strength, because the cast was supporting the limb in position and the muscles, no longer needed in that role,and not being exercised, either, began to disappear. 2) When we begin habitually nagging at ANYONE, we find that we must do it more and more,because, as we act as a “crank”, the person’s “self-starter” erodes and disappears.

A wise application of this would be that we should generally avoid doing things for people-friends,our children, coworkers, family, relatives, the poor, ANYONE, that they could do for themselves. People who are in the helping professions learn this, and the rest of us need to learn it, too. The more we do for other people unneccessarily, the more helpless they become. That is why the welfare system is so bad.Otherwise able-bodied, mentally normal people who find that they can get enough food, adequate shelter, and pocket money from the government, in return for just filling out the proper forms and submitting proof of poverty,will eventually lose their drive to earn those things on their own, it’s simply “nature hates duplication” in human form. If the government is doing the worrying about physically supporting Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones can worry about other things. It becomes, eventually, that horror known as “learned helplessness”, where people become convinced that they can’t take care of themselves, and need the government to support them, or they will quite literally lose their home, starve and die. This is the aim of socialism, it seems, in America and elsewhere.Just convince  American employees that they are incapable of planning adequately for retirement and so the government will “give” them Social Security, and they will not even try to save anything towards retirement (“I am entitled to Social Security, after all”). Then, later, when anyone whispers that the SS program cannot survive in its current form for too much longer, hear the screams of the retired and nearly retired, terrified that they will starve and die if the program is scrapped, or even altered in any way. They will feel compelled by their fear to vote for whatever politician or administration will protect them from the heartless people who want to change things and kill them. Politicians are aware of this, and the Democrat ones tend to be the ones who keep peddling the “you vote for me, and I’ll take care of you, poor thing” pablum. Selling fear and helplessness, and being reelected for it

Social Security,Medicare, socialism and the welfare system have also weakened families wherever they have been tried. Remember, nature hates duplication! For much of human history, families,all over the world, in countless cultures, while imperfect, have tended toward caring for their own elderly family members,and to their sick ones. In America, for many years, people who could afford to (there were many, even in the middle class) had houses built with room for the extended family to live together, with several generations under one roof, children being raised around old people, all generations benefitting. Single family houses boomed after WWII, though, and”old folks homes” proliferated, and it became first possible (the government chipped in), then socially acceptable, to shuffle off the grandparents to the local warehouse for the no-longer-young-and-able and abandon them to “expert professional care”. With their Social Security checks, they didn’t need the kids’ money, and eventually retirement villages sprang up, where children aren’t even allowed, except as visitors, and grandparents can “live independently”, supported by government  benefits, paid for by strangers, instead of by their children. So it is here. In France, the old, supported by government largesse, are so thoroughly abandoned by their families that thousands of old French died in a heat wave there several years ago. The heat wave hit during the national month of vacation, and the adult childen couldn’t be bothered to interrupt their family vacation long enough to check their old parents and be sure they were OK. The government was supposed to do that, too, presumably.

The way to strength is to AVOID this duplication, and help people understand that they CAN support themselves, now and later, they don’t NEED government programs, that the government can only give away the money it gets from EVERYONE ELSE,  and that the more we do OURSELVES, the happier and richer we make ourselves.

This is NOT to say that we should NEVER help others, but we do need the wisdom to help them ONLY with the things they CANNOT do or get for themselves, and leave them the dignity of providing for THEMSELVES whatever they can.

Liberalism is a mental disease!

I’m pretty much a libertarian, with conservative sympathies, and it angers me greatly how liberals operate and communicate from their own personal opinions and feelings, which are rarely backed up by any actual facts or truth. They had one middle-aged liberal on TV a few weeks ago, who said,”I formed my opinions in the 60s, when I was in my teens, and never really thought about those things again”. That is apparently the way most liberals are. They are duped in their childhood or youth into believing passionately in certain ideas or principles, by some beloved or respected liberal adult, and take them as their own without any examination of their validity, truth, or even practicality in our imperfect world.

Hundreds of millions of people  perished horribly under Communism in the 20th century, men, women, children and babies,most of them unarmed civilians, many innocent of any crime, some only guilty of the crime of speaking out against their totalitarian government. Yet modern-day liberals take Communist principles as their model: a strong central government that owns and runs all the major industries (no more “big bad corrupt corporations”, see?), owns all the property, and provides free (crowded and ugly) housing and medical care (of the most impersonal , dehumanizing and inefficient kind) for “the masses”, a prohibition against ALL religion (the “opiate of the masses”, according to Marx), and a government-controlled press. We aren’t there yet, natch, but the liberals, helped by the ACLU and other such organizations, ARE,by judicial tyranny, eroding our property rights, our religious freedoms, and the freedom of dissent. You think they DON’T block dissent? The Clintons (the gods of the liberals/leftists, right up there with the womanizing, boozong, dishonest Kennedys) in the 90s tried and almost succeeded in putting the American Spectator out of business because the editors dared to strongly criticize the Clinton administration, more than once. And do you hear the liberal uproar whenever any scientist or scientific group complains about the hysteria over global warming? A young liberal woman was on FoxNews a couple of weeks ago with Laura Ingraham. She looked like an underweight hippie, complete with a sweatshirt with an atheist slogan on it. The neckline was torn off, baring her shoulders. She actually said that when conservatives spoke out, the liberals had a moral obligation to shout them down, physically attack them, take them to court, get their show cancelled, or whatever it took, because the liberals are morally superior to the conservatives, and the conservatives were therefore not protected by the first amendment. To me, she’d just explained why the double standard exists in the mainstream media, most of whose employees claim to be liberals. It’s an OUTRAGE.

One of the stated aims of the Communist Party AND the ACLU (whose founders were all members of the Communist Party) is the abolition of private property, and the Supreme Court recently made a ruling that greatly weakened private property rights. Not a lot was said about it in the MSM, until the Internet bloggers got the word out, and the public were informed. The ACLU sure didn’t make any objections, and I don’t remember much whining from the Democrats in Congress, either. The liberals, moreover, seem to expect people living in our southern border towns to just sit back and allow illegal immigrants passing through to damage and destroy their property, and steal their food and crops and whatever,as always, liberals wanting to be generous with OTHER PEOPLES’ property.

The ACLU works tirelessly toward their stated goal of official atheism by making it harder and harder for the American people to freely express their religious faith. The liberals are OK with that, too. In their moral superiority, they proclaim “God is dead” on the cover of a popular magazine, which makes it then just fine to be a promiscuous, permanently-stoned hippie type, or an abortion-performing doctor, or a pornographer, or an amoral Hollywood star, or billionaire liar, or bitter, angry, vicious-tongued Massachusetts senator with a drinking problem, or member of NAMBLA, but NOT OK to believe in God , certainly not publicly, with crosses, statues of Christ, and such. See, the first amendment covers Mapplethorpe’s “art”, I “can look away”, but I must take down the creche in my churchyard because “it offends people”. Liberals act as if they’d like all the believers to go away quietly and worship in unmarked basements with all the windows painted over and nothing they do audible from outside the basement.

Well, that’s enough for now, stay tuned!

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