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“Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.”
~ Milos Forman
We are always one election away from losing more of our freedoms. That is why we should act on our freedoms to protect our future by registering to vote, and voting. I am always surprised and disappointed at the popular vote count in major elections in the United States.
I am not suggesting that our country may fall into a totalitarianism regime, but we should be wary of those who would prefer to control more and more of our society’s inherent freedoms not given to us by elected officials, but by God.
I prefer the original phraseology of the Declaration of Independence and its reference to “The Laws of Nature” and “Nature’s God” with respect to “our Creator”. It leaves open individual rights to worship or not, to believe or not and to be equal in their exercise of freedom. Any other interpretation excludes non-believers [or as our early legacy makes clear, any persons who do not believe as does the majority].
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…”
Vigilance is critical in a free society and so is being part of an informed electorate. Unfortunately, our public schools have placed less emphasis on instruction in civics and government and focused more on liberal humanism propaganda with a distinct absence of reason and principled thinking. This has had the net effect of reducing what used to be an obvious need for moral vigilance and replaced it with ignorance and apathy.
Each succeeding generation from the turn of the century on has been more willing to march to presumed safe beat of the government’s drummer than to the pursuit the riskier, yet, more rewarding path set by their own nature. As economist, Thomas Sowell once stated:
“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face”