Isn’t Life Strange?

“You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man’s age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.”

Ronald Reagan - “A Time For Choosing” (1964)

As I mentioned in yesterday’s podcast, I’ve been trying to write a few things but am suffering a bit of writer’s block. To be honest, I’m convinced that the long-cherished American values of freedom and liberty are nearly dead, and they are dying, as said in the movie Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, “to thunderous applause.”

It is difficult to find the right words that will properly and artfully express my fears.

For generations we’ve been warned about the dangers of tyranny, about allowing governments too much control over the lives of individuals. We’ve witnessed what happens to nations that suffer under a heavy-handed government that stifles the freedoms we have held dear since our nation’s founding. And now, due to our own greed and an out of control sense of entitlement, many of us are encouraging this government to enact the very policies that can only serve to destroy that liberty and freedom.

Those sitting in seats of power in Washington D.C. are only too happy to oblige.

If yesterday’s power grab of GM and Chrysler doesn’t convince you of the intentions of this government, nothing will.

God help us.