Thank you for returning to Common Sense Civics and Citizenship’s weekly newsletter, where we have been discussing freedom -or lack thereof, this week, and what we can do about it. Our first article addresses some blame and shame being tossed around at American citizens. Americans don’t take lightly to government’s accusations that they are to blame for the ills of government. We just change who is holding office. I have received a very quick response and lots of shares to this first article. I hope you will be motivated by it as well.
In our second article, we look at recycled information about the National Archives being a trigger point for the easily offended. If you’ve been a participant in this weekly newsletter, you can well imagine that freedom, liberty, courage, and more are motivational points, not triggers to Americans’ unhappiness. Glad to have you here. Let’s begin with our first article:
When the government who is supposed to protect your freedom blames you, the citizen, for its failures and lack, what is wrong with this picture?
Only about 40% of the planet lives in freedom. Those who do not live in liberty generally migrate to free countries, primarily located in the west. The land they seek out most often is the United States. Yet, just this past week, the United States has blamed the port crisis on its citizens, saying, “You (Americans) need to want less stuff.” Blaming Americans for wanting food on the shelves in the stores or toys for Christmas for their children is somehow a fault? What kind of country blames its citizens for wanting products? Where have we seen this in history before?
That’s not all. A current candidate for governor of one of the 50 states has said that parents should have no input in what their children are taught in school. That’s right. Pay your taxes and obey. Your children belong to the state now. Where in history have we seen this before? Does anyone remember the old USSR?
I don’t buy any of these old, tired, failed philosophies of loser socialism. There’s no sense pedaling it to me. I saw its flaws, failures, and mistreated citizens as a child when we accessed factual news in this country. Even a child can figure out what good government looks like.
Here are some things we can do:
Order gifts now. Order what you can afford. Buy local and support your neighbors. Celebrate Christmas with your heart, not with the heavy hand of state on your back telling you that you are greedy. It’s God’s work to convict you of sin, not the state. The state’s job is to see that economic, religious, personal, and constitutional freedoms are preserved. If those you elect are not doing that much, replace them.
Run for school board. It’s the new #1 job. While we’re at it, replace volunteer school boards with a stipend. That’s right. If board members get a stipend of taxpayer money, they have to listen to taxpayers. Volunteer school boards seem to have run away with self-importance. They no longer know their place. “Volunteer” appears to have taken on the meaning of “I own this position and your kids.” Let’s nip that wrong idea in the bud immediately.
Once your government starts accusing you of the ills it either caused or failed to prevent, you know you no longer live in freedom. Blaming and shaming citizens is like biting the hand that feeds you. We ought not to let government forget that we are government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people. That idea is in the heart of America. That’s why people come here. We’ll fix what is wrong. We will start by taking back our children, schools, and our supply chains.
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