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Originally posted by Radar
It's like trying to play a poker game where people make the rules up as they go along. There is no way to win. Except in this case the rules have been established but they are simply cheating. And when someone like me wants to stop the cheating and bring us back to an honest game, you think I'm the nutty guy.
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I actually don't think you're nutty for having these beliefs. Maybe for others, but not these. To my guestimation, there are millions of people here that think the same, possibly tens of millions.
Many that I have met in my travels are not the stereotypical anti-gov't nutjobs either. They arent all burned out vets, bikers, crazies off their meds, or just plain anti-authority pains in the ass. From my experience, they are people who have read the promise of the USC and BOR and cannot reconcile the current events with was written there.
The culture in Amerika hes evolved into one that accepts what I would call tyranny. It's a very specific tyranny though. It's very appealing and comforting. At least to this point it has been. Generally speaking, when someone brings the conflict in the USC and what the gov't is doing now it's so foreign of a concept to the masses that are so happy, free and content (compared to the rest of the world) that they are rejected. The masses are incapable of imagining anything other than what *is* now. The true workable ideas that replace the income tax are incomprehensible. The idea of abolishing the income tax has been discouraged from being thoroughly thought out into a workable replacement. People's fears surface instead of positive possibilities. It's very UN PC to seriously suggest such a thing as to abolish income taxes..
So I can relate to the anti-war...ooops, I mean anti-Bush people in one small way. I have heard some complain that when they oppose the war, they are considered anti-American. From their perspective this isnt true. When I propose that the income tax be ripped out by the roots, set on fire and shot twice through the mellon, I'm looked upon as anti-american too. Because we both are promoting ideas that clash with the masses that are too busy enjoying beer, cable tv and fast food to even care.
But then again.....there are more than a few people that think that *I'm totally fucked up*, so there you go.