Ogre’s Politics and Views

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Now last week I mentioned the vast political advice being given to the failing, floundering National Republican Party. Today I read about the governator’s advice to the party. And it appears I had nearly the same thoughts as Vox Day on this one. The big-government liberals in the Republican Party are why the party is such a mess — so they shouldn’t be relied upon to fix the party.

More and more people (like Schwarzenegger) are telling the Republican Party that they need to move leftward (euphemistically “towards the center”) in order to win elections. Now the Republican Party is already left of center (on a freedom-based scale where right is free, left is total government, and the middle is the mid-point between the two). The Democrat Party, under it’s current leadership of Obama, is FAR to the left. But many people, seem to think the Republican Party needs to move further left to get more votes. And it looks like the majority of Republican Primary voters agree — which is why McCain is on the top of that ticket.

What I wonder about, more than anything related to these events is if these people are right. Now I don’t think for a minute that the Republican Party can out-liberal the Democrats. But these self-styled “moderates” appear to be saying that the Democrat Party has gone too far left — and the only way to get the votes is to go really far left, but not quite as far left as the Democrats. They’re implying that the Democrats are too radical for voters, but people would prefer a huge, oppressive, tax-heavy government — just a tiny bit smaller and less oppressive than what Democrats want. Are they right?

It is certainly hard to know what a large number of voters want. The tyranny of the majority will prevail, however. The more I read and talk with people, the more I see that it certainly does appear that the majority of the voting population does want an oppressive government. It appears that the majority is completely happy with not having any freedom if they feel good about it. It looks to me like the majority is fine with bloated, useless government regulations because it’s “For The Children.”

I just wonder if it’s the majority of people, or just the majority of the voting people.

I know a lot of people who simply want to be left alone (like myself). I know a lot of people who will just ignore the government when push comes to shove (make owning guns illegal? Go ahead, I don’t care, I’m keeping mine). I know a lot of people who want freedom, but who are just taking it, no matter what government does (and being violently punished by government when they’re caught). I just wonder if there’s a point where this large number (or at least what I think is a large number) of people will finally just get pushed over the edge and will start fighting back for their freedoms. It’s not going to be this election cycle, and it may be never. Then again, the fewer people that vote, the larger this group appears to grow.

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Or, if there were more fair, unbiased reporting, “The Latest on the Unlawfully Detained Religiously Persecuted in Texas.”

The message is clear. If you participate in a religion that the government does not like, you have no rights and you have no freedom. Keep in mind, those who support these actions by the government — there still have be ZERO people convicted of any crime. There has been NO due process of law. There has been nothing but idle speculation of what “might” have happened. And again, there have been NO juries empaneled and NO evidence submitted to a court of law. Yet the punishments have started and continued.

The state is now investigating the apparent “crime” of building buildings. No, there’s no reason to investigate, other than the state doesn’t like these people. No one has suggested that anything wrong has happened — but the state says they are determined to find out how these people got money to build a building. That’s insane in a free country. That’s blatant persecution and harassment. But that’s today’s government.

And now, government is getting ready to decide:

what the parents must do to get their children back or whether their parental rights will be permanently severed.

Once again, in case you missed it — NO ONE HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY CRIME. This is the same state that has seized children of adults and will not give them back. In the VAST majority of these cases, there isn’t even any suggestion of a crime!

This is wrong, wrong, wrong on every level. I know some of my readers say that this religion is bad for kids. I know some claim that there has been sex with children. But there have been ZERO cases in a court of law that show this. And over FOUR HUNDRED kids and their parents have been punished — no matter how many are guilty.

Those who think that the state is right here, keep that in mind when the state shows up at your house and destroys your family without so much as a minute in court. This it the same government (different state) that accidentally convicted 3,000 people of child abuse. I wonder if you’re guilty of something right now, just because the state says so…

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Those of you not in North Carolina likely have never heard of the Global TransPark in Kinston, NC. This is a great example of how government simply cannot force the economy to do what they want. The government demanded that people start buying things from this TransPark. Well, people didn’t want to. Since people didn’t want to, businesses didn’t show up. Therefore, government started throwing money at businesses so they would open up there. Of course, since people weren’t interested in going there, the businesses all failed. But that didn’t stop government — they kept throwing more and more money at it. The next group of businesses only lasted as long as government literally paid them to be there. This cycle continues, now going on for over 15 years.

In this most recent cycle, the state is giving yet another company another $100 million to open a business there. No, there’s no demand for the business, but the government is giving this private company one hundred million dollars. Heck, for that money, I’ll open any business you want me to. Sure, it will likely close in a year or two when they run out of money for lack of business, but that doesn’t matter. Government will just bribe someone else to open up there for awhile. After all, it’s an “investment.”

Worse, want to know where government is getting the money? Remember all those tobacco lawsuits? The ones that claimed to be about “health?” Remember the massive amounts of bribes settlement cash extorted collected from the tobacco companies to reimburse states for their medical costs? Yeah, that money? That’s where the cash is coming from to bribe this aviation parts company to open up shop. And people expect me to believe anything any government official or employee says.

But hey, as a recent commenter here regarding other government bribery says:

Are you aware that scores of thousands of people in High Point and Piedmont Triad region depend on the prosperity of the Market and the industry it serves.[sic]

So making more people dependent on government is a good thing. In fact, the more people we can get depending on government for their every need, the better off society will be — because only government bureaucrats know what you need and can ensure that you get it. Hard work is bad, government is good. If you oppose this position, you’re evil. Up is down and wrong is right.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

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