BACK TO THE FUTURE

The thought occurred to me today; is it even remotely possible to reduce the size and scope of our government without a complete collapse?

The amount of energy that is going into fighting healthcare, cap and trade, bank bailouts, cash for clunkers and all the other crap that has been thrown our way has been amazing; and it has just begun.

The government has grown, slowly at first, from a small relatively weak central government into a Leviathan that is involved in literally every aspect of our lives, from the food we eat to the toilets we use to get rid of it. It controls our money, our transportation, where we live, how we live and what we live in. It controls how we communicate, what we say and how we say it. It uses taxation to control our finances and our labor. We are not free to even go fishing without having the proper paperwork.

Most people have become so numb to this constant interference that they don’t realize it’s there. They think nothing of being forced to put on their seatbelts, get a permit to cut down a tree or being forced to have their children poked, prodded and drugged to go to school. You don’t want to send your child to school? Someone from the government will take them from you because they know best.

Want to sell a few eggs from your chickens? You need the government’s approval to sell them anywhere but your yard. What about milk from your cow? You don’t even want to go there.

With all of this and the overwhelming layers of control exerted in every other aspect of our lives, aren’t all of the protests and letters and anger nothing more than a distraction to our masters? In the end, what will they accomplish?

Let’s just say that all this effort manages to stop the healthcare bill. It’ll just come back in another form, forcing the fight all over again. While we’re busy fighting the big problem, pieces and parts of it will become enshrined in bureaucratic regulations and local codes. The system cannot be tweaked. It will always get what it wants; openly or behind closed doors.

It has taken 100 years to create this system of control. It can’t be destroyed that quickly. At least not the way we are attempting to do it. The system will always be able to repair any damage we do quicker than we can move onto the next problem. We will be running around in a circle. It’ll be a useful circle, too. The system will use it to distract everyone from the things that it is really doing.

It looks to me that we are facing an ugly reality here. We are either going to be cogs in a machine that is run by the few at the top for their own comfort or we are going to witness the violent destruction of all that we have come to know and expect. I just can’t find a middle ground here. I think that we will know pretty quickly which way it’s going to go.

Most of the world will be content with their place in the machine. Not America. I believe that we are on the cusp of a revolution, one that will destroy our country, our way of life and our immediate future.

I think that out of this will arise, over time, a new country which may be a lot like the old, where life revolves around community and most people may not get more than 10 miles from their place of birth in a lifetime. I think that we are heading back to the future, to America sometime around 1870-1890.

We need to start preparing for this.