Selling Liberties on the Cheap
Trading Liberties and Freedoms for a Tyranny Disguised as Security
We exist in a society with a large portion of the population that is willing to sell off their liberties for a measure of security.
Half the population lives in some element of fear. Or anxiety that is masking as fear.
And these people, we call them Liberals, or the Far Left, they are willing to barter with our Federal Government to provide for them this security, if the Federal Government will eliminate their fears and promise to provide them a greater level of security against “harm”.
What absolutely none of these people known as Liberals, or the Far Left has come to realize is that the conditions for fear, and the message of fear that they embrace are all being manufactured by the same Federal Government from which they seek security and protection.
It is the wolf who is currently terrorizing the sheep into some mutual agreement to make the wolf their protector, whereupon the sheep will find out that it is too late, they have made their Faustian bargain with the official state in wolves clothing.
The city dwelling Liberal now walks the big city streets in fear, as “No Cash Bail” programs embraced by progressive District Attorneys across the land attempt to remedy “inequities” in the Justice System by creating a revolving door criminal system.
Felonies are bargained quickly to misdemeanors, and misdemeanors to no crime at all under this new system. And even violent criminals are arrested, and left to walk. Recidivism is rampant in America’s largest cities.
When you add in Liberal policies on the Homeless and drug use, which has added tents for the homeless on every major thoroughfare and city street in our largest cities, and has open air drug use rampant, the city Liberal feels another added dimension of tension.
A simple walk-to-work, a life style decision to settle in the city, eschew the use of a car, and have access to shopping, ethnic foods, diversity, is met now with the fear of criminals preying upon the innocent, stepping over human feces in the streets, and having to witness junkies shooting up at all hours as you ambulate to your big city career job. Each of these twice daily or more walking events adds yet another layer of anxiety, another feeling of hopelessness, a sense of trepidation.
Not enough mind you to join Ma and Pa in the suburbs back in the old safe hometown, no.
Why would anyone give up world class sushi just steps from your door, combined with that Indian place a block away, adjacent to that “bowl” restaurant, and just across the street from that great soup and smash-burger joint? Not to mention those two great bars within walking distance of the rental apartment.
Just make sure to take an Uber after nine, I mean, even if only blocks away from home one doesn’t want to risk their lives for a few fancy smoked cocktails at that faux speakeasy you have to live in the neighborhood to even know exists.
You see there exists two odd thoughts juxtaposed inside the city dwelling Liberal mind. First, that by taking advantage of this “city lifestyle” they have availed themselves to exposure to exquisite cuisines from across the globe, the neatest little cocktail bars one could find, and in a place nothing where they grew up could ever compare, these city dwelling Liberals have a sincere sense of smug superiority.
That “Townie” friend from back home, Good God, what they call “great sushi” would be gas station fare in the big city. And you’d never find world class dim sum.
But then isn’t the “cost” for this lifestyle one of living in some measure of constant fear? A fear of crime happening directly to you, a fear of those homeless having that mental breakdown exactly as you wander by. A fear of getting stabbed by a dirty needle from one of the many junkies you are forced to pass shooting up on the way to work.
Add in the anxiety and fear of this new inflation that is threatening the paycheck, robbing the city-dwelling Liberal of the chance to ever own their own home, and you end up with an individual whose appreciation of their liberties and freedoms is not as great as their sincere desire for “daddy government” to provide a measure of relief from the constant fear.
Of course absent any realization it is the very same Federal Government responsible for the inflation, the crime, the filth and degradation all around them. The same Government spending 24 billion dollars on the homeless in California with a Democratic Super Majority that has created the problem, because Liberals simply do not understand the concept that the more of something you subsidize, the more of it you get.
You can make bank on one thing, though.
The CIA, the FBI, and the Democrats understand how selling fear to the general population works in their favor.
Because this means when you give a speech you drape the building in an ominous blood red. You clench your fist in fists of rage and claim that those MAGA, they are the “greatest terrorist threat to our Nation that exists today”, and you foment a hatred and fear in the minds of the Liberal city dweller for those suburban uneducated hicks. The big city Liberal agrees that these people should be surveilled by the FBI as they attend PTA meetings and express a concern for the curriculum being taught to their children.
The big city liberal bonds with the alphabet community, as they are threatened by these awful MAGA folks, why “those people” rail against innocent drag shows, and call the helpful transitioning of minors who wish to transition their own sexual being, “mutilations”. The Liberal fears for these innocents, these LGBTQIA+ little ones, who just wish to lead their pronouned lives. Even at a young tender age, when they require hormone blockers, breast removal surgery, and castration. And who isn’t in favor of castrating the transitioning child? Oh, those evil MAGA, who stormed the Capitol on J6, tore down the gates, and soiled the office of Nancy the Queen. Those people. Those Deplorables.
Being a Liberal city dweller is to have your emotions taxed continuously, at the same time your fears are stoked by the minute in any visit to Twitter, Insta, or Tik Tok. MAGA is everywhere, it is a constant fight with the suburban parents to turn off Fox News. To prevent family from slipping backwards and into political bed with them, the hated them.
A spiraling feeling of fear and anxiety is the constant companion of the Liberal city dweller that only the Democrats can solve and salve, the hated MAGA Republicans are part of the problem, they cannot be any part of the solution.
The city dwelling Liberal has no understanding of history, their college history elective was about women’s liberation in the 1960’s, and nothing in that class discussed that when you sell off liberties and freedoms it comes at the cost of never getting them back. The iron grip of tyranny takes their place.
Freedoms are hard fought won, not given. Liberties are achieved through standing up to authority, not joining forces with them.
The fleeting feelings of security will wane once the boot of authoritarianism and tyranny come to roost in a world absent liberties and freedoms. Choice dictated is never as wide and sweeping as free choice. Security never as “secure” as that which arises from self-reliance.
Half the nation, Liberals all, have now aligned themselves with the “security state”, literally. The same people in the 1960’s protesting Nixon, The War, our over-reaching big Federal Government, now find themselves embracing the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and war mongers such as Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, the Lincoln Project.
Rob Reiner now embraces the Deep State he held in such contempt in his youth.
Hollywood, once the purveyor of movies questioning official Washington, DC, showing us the deceptive CIA in “The Falcon and the Snowman”, or “The Parallax View”, and “Three Days of the Condor”, now embraces and praises all things Deep State.
They know Joe Biden has dementia right now, and cannot be our acting President, but they do not question who is in charge at the present time, they have no concern at all. As long as it isn’t DJT. They’d rather live with the current “empty White House” than DJT in charge.
One would think seeing those Manolo Blaniks covered in human feces as the city dwelling Liberal heads off clubbing would cause a change in attitude. And one would be wrong.
The city dwelling Liberal just wants to sell off all freedoms and liberties for the warm blanket of security as provided by the Democrats and the Deep State.
Not realizing that soft embrace will one days soon be an iron grip.