RE:RE:RE:Don't mean to be telling my Canadian friends "yeah always do what your all knowing government tells you to do...."
That's not the issue and never was -
It came to me the other afternoon what was wrong with America today. Maye it was the WWII videos I'd watch on YouTube, or the movie about English lads signing up to fight in Flanders. But as the son of one of the Greatest Generation, I realized that all this fuss about "rights" was because we no longer have a sense of DUTY. A duty to the nation that provided us with a free education. A duty to society for the medical care we've all depended upon. A duty to the men and women who died fighting for the freedom we all enjoy. How easy is it for some to forget all that they have received by living in this land, and only focus on what they feel they missed out on.
There was a time when I was young that most Americans considered themselves as part of the whole, not this side vs. that side, not conservative nor liberal. Sure, there were political differences but we didn’t think the other side was our enemy. Sure, there were protests, but the protesters didn’t attack the capital nor barricade the streets. Sure there has always been crime and corruption; the government is staffed with human beings after all. But we believed in Ameria. I found it particularly telling when a trucker from Quebec said that money was being send from a U.S. donor to support the protest. WAKE UP that’s not a protester, that’s a political operative, a paid agitator. Another Right-wing, fascist attack upon freely elected, democratic government.
What this is all about is an ignorant, immature disgruntled minority in our society is throwing a tantum. When I was raising kids a, “I don’t want to and you can’t make me” wouldn’t last 5 minutes in my house. We all have a responsibility to our society and, our nation, in addition to the “rights” that make us free. You have the right to live in the wilderness or under a bridge, or even worse in Yerington. You have a right not to eat in restaurants, shop in stores, drink in bars, or to go anywhere you won’t infect others. What you don’t have a right to do is refuse public health measures intend to protect the lives and wellbeing of others.
I grew up in a time and place where gambling, drinking, and whoring was available 24/7 but what you did or didn’t do was your own business UNLESS AND UNTIL it affected another. We respected our personal freedom and rights as much as anyone, but we also recognized that living together meant working together, and not working against each other.
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