Let me explain something. What we have here in America are two opposing ideologies: one that states that our rights are natural, and one that erroneously believes that our rights are granted by government. I am a proud conservative and a life NRA member because I am an adherent of the former ideology, specifically believing that our rights are God-given. Our rights, which our Founding Fathers recognized and knew from where they were derived, were carefully and clearly spelled out in the first ten amendments to the Constitution a.k.a., the Bill of Rights. These ten essential rights, the rights to which all human beings that exist are entitled, are also the very basis of a free society, one in which every person has equal opportunity to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, but without the guarantee of equal outcome, which cannot be achieved, even by force, because no human is perfectly equal to any other. All that being said, as long as someone does not adhere to and preach the foolish notion of the latter ideology, that only government can grant and revoke rights, then I personally have no problem with that person. It is when, and only when, someone comes along and insists that I relinquish my God-given natural rights in the name of safety or security, or even peace, that I have a problem with that person.
This will be the last post I ever make on this subject: Hillary Clinton, and those like her, are believers that only government can make life better, and that all people should subjugate themselves to the government. They believe that they can improve society and make it perfect by experimenting with ideas and policies that they, themselves, create, many of which have been tried throughout all of human history, and proven ineffective and often deadly. They run our educational system, a system that has failed to teach our children the very essentials of what the United States means in the world and in history and why our government works the way it does, hence, the ignorance of how such things as the Electoral College functions and the intent behind its implementation. They believe that our Constitution is old, outdated, outmoded, and needs to be revoked. They believe in disobedience to our laws and they believe in employing chaos and social upheaval, all the while declaring that they do it in the name of a just and fair "democratic" society, which is all utter hogwash. In other words, these people are the enemy within our borders, and their shrill voices screech louder and louder each day, their protests increasingly violent.
I cannot help but wonder how this all happened, how it all started. When did it become acceptable to believe that any of us are wiser than our Founding Fathers? These were learned men of means. They were well-off enough to receive educations to which many colleges and universities fall short, today. They contemplated. They deliberated. They fought and argued with each other, but they never came to blows about those things which they all understood the most and held dearly in their hearts and minds, which is the principle that God gave man the drive to learn, to try and to err, to learn from his mistakes, and to handle success as humbly as he handles failure. The Founders understood that our freedoms are born with us, and only those with a desire to control us and do us harm can try to take them away.
Folks, we have to recognize the enemies within our midst. They are there, right next to us. Yes, some people are quite ignorant of our Constitution and of our founder's intent, and they may not know God. We have to try to teach them, and if they refuse to believe the evidence, well, we at east tried and, at least, the seeds of knowledge were scattered upon them. Perhaps, some seeds will find purchase and take root. I implore everyone to, please, take time to read the Constitution and learn about it and why it is written as it is. Read some of the letter from Hamilton and Madison and other, both pro and con, and understand the reasoning and the wisdom that our fathers relied so heavily upon. It is with this that we fight the enemy within, and nothing else, lest we all come to disaster.
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