Are we really this stupid?
I am the most prepared person on my block. I am easily among the most prepared in my zip code. At my current pace, I am likely to join the ranks of the most prepared in my state very soon. I have food, water, gasoline, maps, medicine, bullets, batteries, blankets, alcohol, bartering items, and the means to move it all rapidly. I also have a plan. Several of them, actually.
The question I’m most often asked is “why?” Why do I take preparation so seriously? Why am I so concerned about being able to survive any situation? Why do I carry a gun everywhere I go? Why can I quote the Bills of Rights of both Texas and the United States? There are a lot of answers to those questions, but one single idea lies at the root of all of them. I am prepared to defend myself and everyone around me from any wrongdoing, foreign or domestic, because the vast majority of you are not willing to defend yourself. In fact, as far as I can see society has gotten too stupid to defend itself from much at all anymore.
Seriously, when was the last time you looked around and took a rational accounting of what you’re living in? Right now we’re being told to believe that the two most capable people to lead the country are Barack Obama and John McCain. In an even more bizarre twist of stupidity, most of us believe that those two people are our only choices!
The current government has failed at literally everything it has ever done in our lives. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, welfare, and every other program currently administered by the federal government are complete disasters. There is no competition, and the one invariable fact of business is that an organization which exists with no competition will not only fail its customers, but will do so in the most spectacular fashion possible. There is not an American alive who believes that his or her tax money is being spent wisely. Everyone in the country knows that we continue to elect people who rob us, cheat us, and are even willing to see us die for profit, or even worse, vanity.
So many of us stand around and talk about how messed up it all is every day. We complain that Obama wants to spend too much of our money or that McCain wants to send all of our kids off to die. We whine about our taxes, warrantless snooping, and even torture. Seriously, here we all are, Americans, and somehow we haven’t gotten it across that it is not okay to torture our fellow human beings under any circumstances.
We must seriously be the single stupidest collection of people on the planet. Somehow, despite knowing for a fact that the people that we’re electing are criminals who would quite literally be working in telemarketing call centers if we hadn’t somehow allowed their families to get into politics, we still allow them to represent us. For some unknown reason we’ve all decided to look the other way when logic and reason call, preferring to ignore the very reality of the truth that if we continue electing these people to our highest offices they will eventually kill every last one of us through sheer incompetence.
So why do I prepare for anything? Because I look around and I see the real world. I see a bunch of people who don’t value human life at all, and they’re the ones with the keys to the bombs. I see a federal government that has long since stopped caring that its sole function is to protect the very rights that it has taken from us. Most importantly, I see a bunch of people who are not only too stupid not to notice that it’s their own damn fault that things are so bad, but are so dense as to fail to realize that they’re all doing the most terrible things that they could possibly be doing for the future of our nation and for their very survival by continuing to believe a single word from the federal government and by continuing to elect from the pools of criminals we call the Republican and Democratic parties.
What’s that? Oh, you see that too? Yeah, what are you doing about it? Voting for McCain? Obama?
Let me offer you another solution. Go buy some tuna and canned peaches. Get bullets, at least one good assault rifle, and flashlights. Make sure you know where you’ll go if martial law is declared. Make sure you know where you go if there is no longer any gasoline in America. Because if you can look around the country and see the shape we’re in and not see clearly that the absolute root of every single problem that we currently have, have ever had, or will ever have in this country is because of our ever-growing and overwhelmingly incompetent federal government, then you are the reason I am preparing. You are the one running us into the ground by believing that men like Barack Obama or John McCain could really bring about fiscal responsibility – the real kind, not the delusional, self-serving criminal kind that you’re probably thinking of. You are the one who buys into the absolute nonsense of global terrorist conspiracies and the need for a multi-trillion dollar war against enemies that might someday pose a threat if the people you continue electing insist on repeatedly poking them with their enormous egos.
Look around and ask yourself: are we really this stupid?
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