EdwardBaiamonte
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Start by disbanding the EPA and IRS. But the dems would resist.You sound like you're already lost freedom and are so duped by the dictators who took it from you that you aren't even aware of it. The EPA is the green SS. And that's just for starters. Homo marriage is a gov coercion that takes away freedom and you're FOR it? Obamacare is nothing but more gov intrusion. Books and speech are banned by left wing entities and you put more blame on the right? People are segregated and subsequently castigated by the left and you think the right is the threat? Get a grip! You're demonstrating the existence of the concern in the thread's premise.I don't doubt her sincerity but having lived and worked for many years overseas under a totalitarian regime I know what does and doesn't constitute such an entity. If there is going to be one in this nation it will come from those who claim they want to "protect us" from that happening. At the present I am hearing that from the extreme right rather than from the left.
Beware of those who would frighten you into believing that your fellow Americans are the "enemy" and be even more wary of those who claim that they can "protect" you from them. That applies to both extremes so I am not pointing fingers here because both extremes are equally capable of it.
We the People must protect our own rights from those who would take them away. We grow when we expand rights like gay marriage. We are threatened when we restrict rights like making it harder for everyone to vote. The biggest threat to our rights today is Citizens United in my opinion. Corporations are not part of We the People and should be banned from all elections in my opinion.
I tend to agree with this though it doesn't matter whether suppression of liberties occurs by the left or right--both are equally dangerous when imposed by a central government. The argument that America is better than pre-WWII Austria simply is irrelevant to the point Werthmann is making, i.e. if we fail to be aware and pay attention:
1. What seem to be well intentioned and useful government programs can in fact be wolves in sheep's clothing with motives that no way resemble what is put out there for public consumption.
2. Again, that frog put into hot water will immediately jump out. But put him in cold water and gradually heat it, and he will be lulled into complacency until he is boiled to death. Each tiny change in the law or policy that restricts our freedom, choices, options, and opportunities may seem unimportant in the grand scheme of things. But if we fail to push back and object, even strenuously resist, the central government taking over what we should decide for ourselves, eventually we collapse under the sheer weight of all those 'unimportant' little changes and lose all ability for self governance.
Who among us thinks that is or would be okay?
Or eliminate the withholding tax so everyone had to reach into their pocket, and move tax day to election day! It would in effect do away with Democrats.