civilized ku # 369 ~ pure, unadulterated populist bullshit - PT. 3
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 09:31AM 
The bear and the eagle ~ Long Lake in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenTHIS JUST IN - just as I had finished penning pure, unadulterated populist bullshit - PT. 2, an anonymous "RR" popped up and graced us with this populist deepity*:
As government expands liberty contracts.
... as fine example of pure, unadulterated populist bullshit if ever there was one.
*BTW & FYI, for those of you who may be outside of the thinking loop, a "deepity" is a statement that has two meanings, one of which is true but superficial, the other which sounds profound but is meaningless.
Only a dimwit who is completely devoid of any reading and understanding of history, in this case in these here good ole USs of America, could make a statement like the preceding deepity.
In the first place, as government "expanded" in this country, we got the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, and the "liberty" to choose our representatives in representative republic.
Remember that, dimwit?
Over the years as government has "expanded" we got a lot more liberty, such as, the "liberty" of women's suffrage, the "liberty" of the Emancipation Proclamation, the "liberty" provided to children with the end of child labor, the "liberty" of a continuing effort to guarantee civil rights for all, the "liberty" to breathe clean air and the "liberty" to live on land that has not been polluted by industrial toxic waste, the "liberty" to travel on an interstate system of roads, the "liberty" to go to work in safe environment, the "liberty" to live under a system of law/laws intended to create and foster a civil society, the "liberty" to be educated, the "liberty" to free speech (to include speech from dimwits), the "liberty" of a free press ....
The list of liberties enjoyed by the citizens of this country goes on and on and has expanded exponentially over the years since its founding. To believe otherwise is to be a deluded fool.
Has government been "perfect" in this regard? No, it has not. But fixing those "imperfections" is best served by a conversation between and amongst an educated and informed citizenry and the educated and informed representatives they elect to perform the functions of government.
BTW & FYI, I want a government that is exactly (or as close as it can be) to the size it needs to be to get the job done. And here's a hint about the size that it needs to be - just in case you haven't noticed, it's a BIG country.
All that stated, can one, I'll settled for just one, spewer of populist BS out there please inform me as to just what liberties he/she has had taken away by "expanding government"?
And, BTW, please, if you include the "right" / "liberty" to do whatever you want, whenever you want, and where ever you want without restriction as a "liberty" that you have lost, do us a favor and keep that anarchistic piece of populist BS to yourself and your dimwitted fellow travelers.
Reader Comments (1)
I'd also like to see the pushers of said deepity point to an example of a lax (read small) government presiding over a really free, open, just country.