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Neplusultra wrote:
The pendulum is swinging back towards freedom and rights, at least as far as sentiment goes. Let them try the back door and we'll give them the same lesson they learned last time when they tried the front.
The pendulum never seems to get all the way back to freedom and rights, always one notch further down the path to a completely controlled society. This is of course by design. The pendulum swings10' to the total control side, then 9'11'' inches back to freedom, and then back to 10' of the control side only to return to 9'10''. We're now at around a 10' to 6' swing and every decade, we have less rights than the decade before that and more laws restricting our rights... then yes, they require is to get PERMITS to exercise our rights.... how insulting is that. A permit to exercise a pre-existing right.
When are people going to demand the government roll back some of it's controls? I know plenty of people here in the Seattle area who are more than happy with the controls, and want even more. They want socialized medicine, they want an even bigger government and they want guns to be 100% banned like in the UK.
Like back when the original revolution happened, at least 1/3 of the population agrees with what Obama is doing and wants him to do it even faster. Around 1/3 doesn't really pay attention and will go whatever way the majority seems to be going and 1/3 is to some degree or another, against the loss of freedoms. However, of that 1/3, only around 10% are actually willing to get worked up about it and write congress and or the President and then, only 10% of them would ever get worked up enough to attend events like thetea parties.... and because of work or other responsibilities, only half of that 10% would likely show up... giving us the number that was actually reached on April 15th.
It will take a small percentage of the population and not a majority, to take back this country and that will only happen after the government makes a big move. So the slow pot of water will eventually boil us all to death as not many realize how precariously balanced we are at the precipice of Fascism.
