As America sinks ever further into the totalitarian abyss, it occurs to me just how unique the desire for freedom truly is. Freedom requires responsibility, which is where the vast majority of humanity is weak and gets off the bus. America achieved freedom for a time because it was the product of a specific, unique people who were capable of self-reliance and self-restraint. But we opened the floodgates to peoples from around the world, and the old values that built America and made it great have been submerged under a tidal wave of mediocrity.
Looking at the countless grievance groups dappling the scene today, it's easy to conclude that most modern "Americans" hate the very notion of freedom. They do not desire to live in peace and away from government interference. No, for them there are never enough regulations, lawsuits, invasions of property rights, suppressions of freedom of contract, denials of freedom of association, attacks on bourgeois society, or plunders of wealth to make them happy.
Most people are either at your feet or at your throat -- they are either slaves or oppressors; they cannot be free, responsible, independent, and peaceful. My ancestors understood this, and growing numbers of us today are re-awakening to this sad reality of the human condition. Though the institutions my ancestors built may be lost, at least their wisdom isn't, and the time will come to enforce that wisdom once again. Not through slavery, but through separation, exclusion, and expulsion.
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