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ELITE LEMONADE

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In another example of Optimists Gotta Be Optimistic, you can occasionally glimpse Libertarian articles spewing about how we are all so much freer now ( I don’t know if they believe that or not, or if it is a survival mechanism for their publication ).  One article said we are much freer now because most states are allowing concealed carry.  I could spend all of today’s allotted time questioning the basic assumptions behind that fallacy, but just ask yourself two questions.  Are the places you grew up in with reasonable gun laws now one RCH ( red crotch hair, a valid unit of measurement ) away from completely banning most firearms?  Sure, something like only a dozen states are heinous in their draconian stance on gun control, but that is also where most of the population is ( with the exception of Texas and I’m sure it has crossed the minds of the most liberal left leaning state worshiping moronic mouth breather of a politician there that if they restrict guns too much the place would be overrun in record time by the Alt Mexico Narco State.  A lesson California refused to ever consider, probably because they are incredibly Short Bus ).  If all the least populated states allow CCL’s then the freedom is limited in toto.  Two, if most firearms are artificially jacked up in price through political methods ( as in the American arms industry backing banning of foreign assault/battle rifles, and even war surplus bolt guns ), introducing a repeat of the Saturday Night Special de facto ban, how free is half of the population to own firearms?  You could also claim we all have the freedom to own machineguns, as long as we have the ten thousand dollar and up entry fee.

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You might look at the lack of a military draft and proclaim that be an example of more freedom.  On the face of it this is true, but ignores two points.  First, our rulers could no longer afford to sustain the conventional size army that needed a draft.  It made little sense to sustain a practice that fueled insurgency by the native population.  We didn’t gain a freedom so much as not run out of bodies before the feds ran out of money.  And two, the elites didn’t lose a military that they needed, they gained one they could exploit.  Many countries still retain the draft, and get little violent reaction to this.  It certainly isn’t popular but it isn’t worthy of storming the Bastille, either.  Those countries are actually in a situation where they need to literally defend their borders, and as long as a mutual social contract is upheld between the rulers and the masses ( as in, young men know they need to defend their families ) that doesn’t abuse this then the draft is kept.  But here in America, the draft was never a necessity.  At first we thought it was, but the social contract was broken by bureaucratic bumbling and abuse.

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Citizens willingly went to die in the European mud to save our bankers profits.  They had no idea they were the vanguard to imperial expansion.  They went along with the fiction that we had to attack Hitler.  But then it wasn’t exactly too hard to figure out that a Cold War wasn’t just defensive.  In peace time, our men were drafted and subjected to undemocratic practices ( if you believe your citizen soldiers are equal, you don’t expose them to radiation experiments and etcetera-that is what the Nazi’s did ).  The National Guard was used and wasted in Korea ( at a time the National Guard was assumed to be only defensive and local ).  By the time Vietnam came around, the rose colored glasses were broken.  Never mind their politics, the war protestors did the rest of us a big favor by putting their health on the line to try to stop the cannon fodder from being sent to the colonial outpost we inherited from France.  Vietnam was never defensive, but strictly imperial.  It was a meat grinder for the profits of the military industrial complex.  It was never about defending our country ( of course, neither was Iraq, but nobody cares now.  They aren’t being forced to go over there, for the most part.  Cough, cough, Stop Loss ).

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But, again, Vietnam was the last Big Army conflict.  We couldn’t afford those anymore ( if you think we could, why did we need dozens of other countries to pay for Desert Storm? ).  The draft only ended because we couldn’t afford it anymore ( time the Oil Shock with the end of the war ).  The elite made lemonade out of lemons.  Not because they saved tax dollars.  No, government spending just kept increasing-just not for a labor intensive military.  But for the social benefits of turning our military from imperial legions to mercenary corps.  The military went from being a means of rebellion to a means of a poverty safety valve.  Before, it cost lots of money in manpower for the military ( all that wasted money NOT going into the pockets of our rulers ).  Now, even if the men and women ( FemiNazi agitators and the religion of PC of course pushed women into the military but a bigger push was lack of male volunteers ) are paid much more in salaries, most of the military budget goes to equipment.  More of the military budget went to contractors.  And the men were assumed to volunteer to go get maimed and slaughtered.  No social backlash, and more peace in the ghettos and backwoods as now there was an actual employment option ( as suck ass as it was-if you don‘t want to cook crack and sell it, a decidedly low life expectancy occupation, you could still roll the dice they‘d station you in a peaceful location if you joined the military ).

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This elitist attitude towards the lower class, only fit to be slaughtered on the battlefield, with the expectation that they would do so voluntarily, takes us right back to the British royalty and class warfare ( which is why I despise that wooden teeth mother humper Washington who was as aristocratic and elitist as any ruler over in Europe.  He just had better speech writers and biographers ).  No freedoms should be implied in it.  We continue tomorrow as I cover home schooling, marijuana legalization, taxation and future secessionists. 

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