America as I knew it has already disappeared. Sadly, I probably wasn't awake enough to pin point the exact date, bit it's been decades. We've been living under an illusion, thinking we had freedom. Freedom is only accorded at the convenience of the government, and Lady Justice is far from blind. We have some semblance of freedom for the mere fact that there's over 300 million of us. But ask those still jailed, because they believed the illusion and showed up in DC on January6, 2021.
Yeah I guess you're right in many ways, but, as someone who (legally) immigrated from Europe a few years ago, to me America is still much freer than any other country out there, and I've visited or lived in a lot of them.
In Japan for instance, if you want to buy some farmland and homestead, not only do you have to pay somewhere in the ballpark of $30-100k per acre, but you also need to go through an interview with the local government, get permission from all your future neighbors, get a license, etc. In other words, the barrier to entry for something like homesteading is just insanely high.
In America you can still (largely) go and buy some land for an affordable $3k/acre, build a house on it, own animals, farm your own food, buy a firearm to protect your family. Things you simply cannot do in many other countries.
I know it's not perfect, and cities are much less free than the countryside.
And you're right, if you stick your head up and get political and protest you're going to get targeted by the police state for kidnapping and harassment like those protestors on Jan. 6th.
But, for context, in England people get arrested just for tweeting the wrong thing from their house. As much as we're going downhill, we're still in a better position than most of the world.
The lessor of two evils is still evil, and just because it could get a lot worse does not make it acceptable. Americans have been arrogant about their freedom, but they didn't understand freedom well enough to protect it. Any understanding of human nature should have prepared our founders to have made a Constitution that protected our freedom better, but it would have only prolonged the inevitable. It's my belief that any government will eventually slide into tyranny. I find it amusing that so many are so involved financially and emotionally in choosing their next master, and are stupid enough to believe that elections matter.
Reagan was misspelled by the way.
America as I knew it has already disappeared. Sadly, I probably wasn't awake enough to pin point the exact date, bit it's been decades. We've been living under an illusion, thinking we had freedom. Freedom is only accorded at the convenience of the government, and Lady Justice is far from blind. We have some semblance of freedom for the mere fact that there's over 300 million of us. But ask those still jailed, because they believed the illusion and showed up in DC on January6, 2021.
Whoops, good catch, thanks. I fixed it.
Yeah I guess you're right in many ways, but, as someone who (legally) immigrated from Europe a few years ago, to me America is still much freer than any other country out there, and I've visited or lived in a lot of them.
In Japan for instance, if you want to buy some farmland and homestead, not only do you have to pay somewhere in the ballpark of $30-100k per acre, but you also need to go through an interview with the local government, get permission from all your future neighbors, get a license, etc. In other words, the barrier to entry for something like homesteading is just insanely high.
In America you can still (largely) go and buy some land for an affordable $3k/acre, build a house on it, own animals, farm your own food, buy a firearm to protect your family. Things you simply cannot do in many other countries.
I know it's not perfect, and cities are much less free than the countryside.
And you're right, if you stick your head up and get political and protest you're going to get targeted by the police state for kidnapping and harassment like those protestors on Jan. 6th.
But, for context, in England people get arrested just for tweeting the wrong thing from their house. As much as we're going downhill, we're still in a better position than most of the world.
The lessor of two evils is still evil, and just because it could get a lot worse does not make it acceptable. Americans have been arrogant about their freedom, but they didn't understand freedom well enough to protect it. Any understanding of human nature should have prepared our founders to have made a Constitution that protected our freedom better, but it would have only prolonged the inevitable. It's my belief that any government will eventually slide into tyranny. I find it amusing that so many are so involved financially and emotionally in choosing their next master, and are stupid enough to believe that elections matter.
Agreed 100%, government always ends the same way, it's like a parasite that grows until it strangles its host (productive people).