Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

Celebrating the 4th this evening.

Kind of hard to celebrate between an ongoing crisis that seems like it will never end and the unceasing drumbeat that I’m going to be branded a racist and maybe even fired from my job if I refuse to apologize for slavery and white privilege or dare oppose the Green New Deal.

Then I get a link from Ray to an article about the Sierra Club officially embracing that resistance to the green agenda is racism in defense of white supremacy. This is the last straw. Anyone who is a reptile or fish hobbyist or lover of freedom in general should never give a penny to any environmental organization ever again.

I take that back. The last straw already fell Many years ago.

Such tactics are a great way to harden someone’s heart. Desensitize people by pummeling them with an unrelenting guilt trip; that they are guilty of some crime committed by their ancestors or other members of their race or ethnicity- original sin - and it will drive many of them to dig in, double down and gear up for a fight to the death.

That’s the only way out if they keep insisting on their way or the highway. On top of really disturbing acts of wonton brutality inflicted on some of the most vulnerable people of our society including the elderly. Things that make me think of Nazis and the night where they smashed the shops of Jewish people.

Everything we hold dear is under attack. Even the National Anthem!

It’s that bad.

I fear for the Country.

Hope everyone can have a happy and safe 4th of July celebration. Hope the majority of the nation will come to their senses and choose peace and tolerance over bullying and coercion that is trying to tear down America and will inevitably lead to another civil war. I really don’t want one. I have better things to do with my life than fighting. But take that away and try to put a yoke on me or punish me for someone else’s sins and I’ll have no choice.

It’s better than going quietly into the night like the Jews to the death camps and that’s what they’ll try if we allow ourselves to be disarmed. These are terrible thoughts but maybe appropriate on the holiday eve where we celebrate a past war for independence against an enemy pales before the evil that is an enemy within.

Something to think about as the fireworks sound in the fading twilight. I hope most of the people out there celebrating understand what Independence Day is really all about.