By Robert Ringer
Lew Rockwell.com
February 28, 2019
Now that the Dirty Dems are openly pushing socialism, it’s a good
time to address the most misused word in the dictionary: right.
It’s a word that’s pretty much synonymous with entitlement.
The subtle difference between the two is that right has a much
stronger moral connotation to it than entitlement.
It’s very official sounding, as though it were handed down from on
high, while an entitlement suggests victimization, which connotes
weakness.
That said, to those millions of Americans who are seriously thinking
about boarding the Socialist Express:
Other than life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, there is no
such thing as an absolute right or absolute entitlement.
True rights are those given to us by our Creator.
All other rights are created in the minds of collectivist dreamers
and scoundrel politicians.
In other words, the Founders did not create the idea that life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are fundamental human
rights.
They simply reaffirmed what is axiomatic to anyone who believes
in the sanctity of natural law.
Sadly, many people actually believe in the idea of artificially
created rights, and even though such “rights” also have been
around since the founding, until relatively recently they did
not pose much of a problem.
That all changed, however, when FDR introduced Americans to the
welfare state, and artificial rights have been gaining traction at an
accelerating rate ever since.
Further, now that Democrats have pulled off their masks and are
openly promoting victimhood as the underlying philosophy of the
land, the shocking idea of manmade rights has achieved a
respectable enough status to be seriously debated in the public
square.
A federally mandated $15 per hour minimum wage, free college
tuition, a guaranteed minimum income, reparations for descendants
of African-American slaves, Medicare for all, and every other zany
component of the Green New Deal are all on the table and being
vigorously discussed by elitists.
And the boss of all this, by her own proclamation, is a 29-year-old
former bartender who is economically illiterate. No, make that
completely illiterate.
Though I’m always hesitant to give the perennially shiftless Barack
Obama any undo credit, I have to admit that his clumsy attempt
to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” has led
directly to millions of heretofore sleepwalking citizens wondering
if the transformation he was referring to is the kind of country they
really want for their children and grandchildren.
It’s important to point out, however, that it’s not just the
Dirty Dems who are touting socialism.
Sure, Republicans like to obsess about reforming entitlements, but
who among them has been courageous enough to talk openly about
taking away people’s artificially created rights?
Make no mistake about it, the third rail of politics is very scary
to the Washington establishment.
Since artificially created rights are just that — artificial — the only
way to implement them is through government’s never-fail trump
card: force.
Delusions aside, government is nothing more than a criminal
organization held together by the threat of brute force — and
actual force, if that becomes necessary.
Political power does, indeed, grow from the barrel of a gun.
Millions of Americans delude themselves about this reality, but
the cold, hard fact is that government can do anything it damn
well pleases to you, your family, and your property through the
threat of force — and, when necessary, the actual use of force.
If you doubt it, I would suggest you check with Roger Stone
or Paul Manafort.
Sadly, most people tend to ignore what government’s essentially
unrestricted use of force means in real terms.
Their normalcy bias tells them that we have checks and balances
in place via our three branches of government, thus a Stalin, Hitler,
Mao, Castro, or Maduro could never happen in today’s America.
Alas, they are hopelessly naïve.
Whether it’s Waco, Ruby Ridge, taxation, the silencing of
free speech, or the regulation of consenting-adult activities,
government force is always the trump card.
Government doesn’t need to be morally, or even legally, correct.
All it needs to be is ruthless, and it has never shied away
from meeting that challenge.
Conservatives love to fret that we’re on a path to becoming
a European-style social welfare state, but that’s hardly news.
We’ve been on a social-welfare path for decades.
To the credit of Americans, however, they have demonstrated that
they have the ability to overcome the momentum of the Socialist
Express, though it has become increasingly difficult to combat the
Radical Left’s rhetoric about such abstracts such as “social justice”
and “fairness.”
In truth, of course, implementation of the Democratic agenda has
nothing to do with fairness, but everything to do with government
force.
After all, if the rich aren’t willing to give poor people a, “fair shot”
the government has no choice but to use force to bring about
fairness, right?
It’s an alluring con that never fails to convince millions of low-
information, low-IQ voters who are overcome by envy that they
need government’s help to “level the playing field.”
If the statists in Washington really wanted to bring about fairness,
the fairest thing they could do would be to allow people to opt out
of any government programs and regulations — including taxes — in
which they do not wish to participate.
Unfortunately, government takes that option off the table and
instead embraces the role of being the number-one aggressor
against the natural rights of a supposedly free people.
The bottom line to all this is that artificially created rights
implemented through government force constitute a violation
of natural law, a violation that leads ultimately to tyranny.
Worst of all, those who do not believe such a thing to be possible
in the United States of America are sure to be caught unprepared.
Do not allow yourself to be included in this group of wishful
thinkers.
Wake up, America!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/02/robert-ringer/wake-up-
america
