Posted by
Dennis in Pensacola on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:41:04 PM
The suppression of dissent began quietly, with the distribution of educational materials that clashed with the principles that had guided this country to greatness. They questioned virtually every accepted principle of the people who were attempting to raise the children being taught ‘new math,’ ‘new history,’ and ‘new science.’ –No longer was it acceptable to accept objective fact and data, it was necessary to view all things in a subtly nuanced way. –Filtered through the lens of objective reality.
The very nature of good and evil came into question. Evil, say in the case of a Hitler or a Stalin or Castro or Mao, became relative. The Holocaust, the purges, the concentration camps and gulags, they were often attributed to bias or downplayed to a lesser impact. Personal responsibility became an anachronistic idea, morality was considered a form of hate because it implied a level of judgment against people who were helpless victims of circumstance and unable to change their proclivities. This became the subtle, and later unsubtle, -message that was transmitted via the internet, the radios, and the televisions.
In this fashion, those who spoke about right and wrong became extremists and ‘haters.’ –Marginalized because they didn’t agree with the spew that emitted from virtually every governmental and public fountain. Persons of Christian faith (and other faiths to a lesser degree) -were denigrated as less than intelligent, dangerous, and irrelevant. Societal standards of conduct were reversed.
This is where we stand today.
I fear that we can’t reverse what our lax attitudes have allowed to pass.
Tomorrow will bring more changes. I think we are unlikely to like the results.
Judging by the reaction of the congress and the administration to dissent, I think it likely that hate crime legislation is coming in the very near future. Hate crime legislation that will narrow the allowable level of dissent to a bare yea and nay minimum. –Any elaboration of conservative or religious values may soon be a crime.
The ownership of guns will be severely restricted to mostly the criminal class and the government.
Euthanasia may be coming soon to an assisted ‘living’ facility or nursing home near you, courtesy of socialized medicine. After all, a person’s utility to the country can be valued and a dollar cost limit established with modern actuarial techniques…
Your can bet that your carbon impact upon the environment will soon be a factor in how you are allowed to live. –After all, we are the greatest causers of harm to the environment in the world today, wasters and despoilers of everything that we touch…
Taxes will be levied against religious organizations that fail to toe the party line, as they clearly violate the ‘rights’ of their fellow persons to live as they choose. Churches that are against abortion recognize sin in many forms, etc… -All will be taxed because they fail to meet the narrowed standards of tax-exempt organizations and are ‘exclusive’…
Increasingly, the shift to democracy (as opposed to being a republic as the founding fathers wished) –will cause the country to slip into populism. We will be governed by public opinion polls which will increasingly overtly denigrate dissenting views, and ultimately they will be abolished.
Far-fetched? –I really hope so.
I think that our only hope is that they go too fast. –That they raise their activity to a level that causes dissent among the couch potatoes sufficient enough to make them leave their couches and make a stand. Otherwise, we are already beaten because we have been asleep at the wheel for so many years while they worked their magic with the young of our country.