By Don Jans
Samuel Adams said, “It is high time the people of this country explicitly declare if they will be free or slaves.” The people of all countries must make this choice. If the people do not explicitly declare, they will become slaves. History has proven that when a people become uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved, those in government will take more and more freedom and impose more and more rules on the people. Bureaucrats, technocrats, and experts are predominantly collectivists and not individualists. Collectivism calls for surrender of individual rights to the state for the good of all, while individualism calls for freedom of choice by individuals which also requires that each individual take responsibility for the consequences of their choices; positive or negative.
A simple summary is that collectivism is slavery and individualism is freedom. The United States was founded on individualist principles, and flourished as an individualist or free nation. The American left, as do all good collectivists, is calling for a transition of the United States from an individualist nation to a collectivist nation. This is why we see so many policies of the American Left follow the teachings of Karl Marx and practices of nations such as the Soviet Union and its satellites, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Cuba, Venezuela, and the others.
History has proven that collectivism has only resulted in a nation of a controlled or enslaved population that is poverty stricken, crime invested, despondent, desperate, and non-productive, while the few elites live a special and privileged existence with riches and power. Individualism has resulted in societies that flourish with a rising living standard for all, low poverty, low crime, a vibrant and innovative people, and a free people to learn and expand their minds without government restrictions or regulations.
IT IS TIME WE AMERICANS CHOOSE, will we be free or slaves, will we be individualists or collectivists, will we have less government or more government, will we have more choices on how we live and think or will we surrender more and more to government controls, will we again seek for free and open education or will we support indoctrination, and will we choose to negate the transformation to a Marxist totalitarian state or to follow the lead of the American left and become a Marxist totalitarian state.
The American left is trying to put into place some critical criteria to complete their transformation. Understand, that all collectivist despots have accomplished their goals through indoctrination of the public, by propaganda to support the indoctrinated ideology, and then intimidation to enforce their ideology.
David Atkins, a newly elected California member of the Democratic National Committee, declared recently that Democrats and liberals should “start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan” in order to “deprogram 75 million people.”
Several far-left pundits and lawmakers have been making more bold and authoritarian statements about how to deal with President Trump’s base after he leaves office. A “cult expert” discussed how Trump supporters could be “deprogrammed”, such as “coaching” family members to “free” them from the “Trump cult.”
The call on October 30, 2008, to transform the United States of America is real and it is happening. The United States can no longer be classified as an Individualist nation or a Constitutional Republic. The United States today no longer protects those liberties and rights endowed to us by our Creator. The United States today more closely adheres to the “Communist Manifesto” than it does to the United States Constitution.
All of the above is irrefutable truth. OK you say what can be done. In times of great crisis, bold and decisive action must be taken. When the American Colonist chose freedom over slavery, they conceived of, drafted, and adopted the Declaration of Independence. Within that document declaring independence form the tyranny of government, they had the foresight to understand that the evils of tyranny, the evils of collectivism were not just an evil particular to their situation, but was an evil that had existed long before them and would exist long after them. They told us, “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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
That time has arrived. It is time to call for national elections, that is the executive and legislative branches of government. The choice must be if we will remain free or become slaves to government. The result of that election will determine our course. Remember it is not an election necessarily between Republicans and Democrats, but between Freedom Loving Americans and the American left which is comprised of the Democrat party and their surrogates such as BLM, ANTIFA, and RINO’s. If the Americans choose freedom or individualism, it will require a complete revamping of our executive and judicial branches of government with a replacement of those supporting the American left with Freedom Loving Americans. It would require that rule of law be reinstituted and adherence to the Constitution, which will result in limited government.
If the American people choose slavery or collectivism, nothing will have to change. The course we are taking this very day has us on the path to slavery or collectivism.
Don Jans is a national acclaimed author and speaker. He is also a lifelong student of history, with a special emphasis on Russian history. His study of Russian history led to 1917 which led to the study of the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Don has written five books on the topic of Collectivism (Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Progressivism).
Don has been a guest on numerous nationally and regionally broadcast radio programs. He is a weekly guest on a nationally broadcast radio program where he discusses collectivism and how it is impacting the United States, relating current happenings to the collectivist agenda.
Don has spoken to numerous groups across the nation on the topic of who and what is the United States and who and what is collectivism. The collectivist movement has called for a transformation of the United States. What is critical for all to understand is what is the transformation; what are we now and into what will we be transformed.
Don’s speaking approach is the same as his writing approach, and that is to be direct and straight forward with no regard for the current mandated approach of political correctness.
Samuel Adams said, “It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” If we are to remain free, we must be about setting brushfires of freedom.
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