{"id":3518,"date":"2018-12-03T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2018-12-03T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:24:40","slug":"those-who-unmake-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Unmake Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once you take over, once you deny common people their rights, the product of their efforts, the ability to earn and save for a better future, it doesn\u2019t matter what words you use to justify it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the name of the people\u201d becomes functionally indistinguishable from \u201cby divine right.\u201d It becomes unchecked power. It becomes the ability to rule and do what you think is best, without restraint.<\/p>\n

It becomes Auschwitz or Siberia. It becomes mass graves and immiseration. It becomes Venezuela and Zimbabwe, and people eating house pets, and starving children.<\/p>\n

The only way to stop these things, crimes as old as time, the result of people being given unlimited power, is to give to the common people \u2014 the folks who aren\u2019t born of \u201csomething\u201d don’t have the right ideas or the right education or the right pedigree \u2014 the same rights as you give \u201cthe important people.\u201d Even if you disagree with people\u2019s way of conducting themselves. Even if you think their ideas are zany, you have to give them basic civil liberties: the right to property, the right to life, the right to due judicial process to include the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.<\/p>\n

Because when you take that way, you\u2019re reposing power in the hands of the power hungry, who will devour the world and never be satisfied. That way lies atrocities, mass graves. More importantly, that way lies the loss of \u201cbourgeois virtues\u201d by the common people because what\u2019s the point of working hard, saving, and being wise, if in the end your stuff will just be taken away and given to other people?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re already well down the road to that insanity. Things like progressive taxation and confusing victimhood and virtue are already an ethical blot on the face of our society, and rats gnawing at the foundations of what made the West great.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is the goal of Democrats and RINOs. Both are enemies of freedom and the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Source: Those Who Unmake Civilization<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once you take over, once you deny common people their rights, the product of their efforts, the ability to earn and save for a better future, it doesn\u2019t matter what words you use to justify it. \u201cIn the name of the people\u201d becomes functionally indistinguishable from \u201cby divine right.\u201d It becomes unchecked power. It becomes … Continue reading Those Who Unmake Civilization<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,50,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-of-the-constitution","category-evil","category-government-tyranny","category-war-on-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}