– which is what you expected from me on America’s 250th Independence Day, isn’t it? – allow me a few thoughts snatched out of the luminiferous ether, and a handful of links.
First, Happy Independence Day. The United States has survived quite a lot, especially if you count all the hubris-powered blunders American politicians have produced. Part of the reason is Americans’ resilience: our stubborn habit of growling at our troubles, bearing down, and pushing through. Not to put too fine a point on it:
- The politicians fuck things up,
- Disaster ensues;
- Ordinary Americans take care of business.
It would be nice to think it’s ingrained in us, but the developments of the post-World War II decades suggest that it’s not ingrained in all of us. An increasing number of our people believe that “our” governments really are “here to help.” Worse, those folks think they have a right to be bailed out of their own, homemade troubles, whenever, wherever, and to whatever depth.
I could go on about that, but I’ll spare you. Celebrate what we’ve been through as much as what we have.
Second, beware. The forces hostile to freedom are more numerous and more active than at any previous time in the nation’s history. While some of those forces are essentially mindless, others are quite purposeful. The men who guide them know what they’re doing.
There are convulsions on the horizon. The first of them will arrive with the midterm elections, which are certain to be infected by every sort of fraud. If the pattern of previous years is repeated, those who have supervisory authority over those elections will either wring their hands and moan, or will be found complicit in the fraud.
Third, remember this above all else:
It is not granted.
It is not “voted.”
It is taken.
In the usual case, it’s taken by force of arms. The oppressed must rise up and defeat the oppressors. If you’ve wondered why half a billion Europeans, the stock from which most Americans are descended, can’t seem to throw off the yokes “their” governments have fixed upon them, reflect on how completely they’ve been seduced by welfarism on the one hand, and disarmed on the other.
The great majority of White Americans are too proud to accept government handouts. That’s admirable. But a growing fraction of our people do accept them, and would regard anyone opposed to those handouts as an enemy. One of the best things anyone can do in the cause of freedom is to help others toward self-reliance. Every mendicant removed from the State’s teat is another potential freedom fighter.
Then, after you’ve got him to stand on his own feet like a proper American, take him to the shooting range! Let the sound of freedom ring in his ears, and yours. Then get him heeled up, which really should be regarded as every able-bodied American’s civic duty.
Fourth and last, a few links:
- For Independence Day
- For Independence Day Part 2
- For Independence Day Part 3: When It Came
- Two For Independence Day
- From My Cold Dead Hand
Now enjoy the weekend. I plan to do so. I’ll see you on Monday.
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