As I've said before, I go through everyday abiding by the law and don't even notice it. There is nothing illegal that I feel compelled to do. That's true of everyone that I know too. If you are always feeling restricted from compelling actions by our law, I'd worry more about you personally, than the law.
I hear you. And I believe you're being honest here. But maybe you should consider what you're confessing to. You 'go through everyday' without ever thinking, and certainly not caring, about the fact that there are others who don't see things as you do, people with different goals, different concerns and different values than those you take for granted.
Your political ideology, regardless of what you call it, has nothing but disdain for the American political traditions of individuality, diversity and freedom of conscience. Those values stand in the way of everything you believe in and, based on the views you've been expressing, you won't miss them when they're gone.
Here's what you are completely oblivious to. My political persuasion is the centrist perspective that has always worked for America. What's changed is that the power of propaganda has dragged conservatives to extremes previously unknown to Americans. Destroyed pride in our capability, our democracy, and our purpose. Brought into disdain the American dream and replaced it with self centered, me first and only, wealth centric, aristocracy.
From where you've been led to you can't even see America.
Like I said, how you label your views doesn't interest me. I'd classify you as firmly in the Straussian Neo-con camp, which often masquerades as 'centrist', but it's the values you represent that I find repugnant. You want to move our nation further and further from the liberal values on which it was founded.
And you're right. It "works", at least in the short term. Authoritarian state power can drive us to great things (at great cost). That's why fascism has been so damnably hard to eradicate. I suspect we're in for a nasty resurgence early this century.
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