These Rights of Freedom have for 200 years functioned to keep the government away from lots of aspects of the citizens life and have secured a lifestyle where everybody can enjoy the way he or she thinks a good life should be.
That impliment that I have to tolerate that my neighbor is living in a totally different way than I am - unless of course his or mine lifestyle include something criminal.
This is the basic of the western lifestyle that has generally given us the good life and every invention in the pursuit of happyness.
However the 21th century is different, the Rights of Freedom are falling apart and a lot of citizens are getting very frustrated about this.
How did it happend that the Rights of Freedom became a joke?
1. THE GOVERNMENTS in the western world BECAME BIGGER AND BIGGER. When you have small governments concentrating on the few things absolutely necessary for the citizens things are and were fine. Freedom works. But slowly and seemingly unstoppable these governments grew and grew and made the Rights of Freedom fade for every law they passed.
The intentions were always the best. Making a safer and better world for all of us by forbidden this and that and impose this and that. But the only sure result was slowly but surely taking away everybodys right to make up his way of the good life.
2. THE POLITICAL CORRECT ELITE CAME INTO POWER. This group of people was once known as marxist, communist and so on. And that way they never came into power. But disguised as do-gooders they entered every political party with the fundamental belief that it was possible to - by the means of the law - to make a better life for all. And laws we got. Tons of them. I dont think you can find a directive of less than 100 pages from the EU. And they are written in a language unspeakable for most people and read by very very few. Thereby creating bureaucracy in a scale the world has never seen before burdening the taxpayers unprecedented.
3. THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT WAS THE BEST TO SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM IMAGINABLE BECAME DOMINANT. The marxist didnt achieve this by preaching their real goal. State ownership and equal misery for all. No they achieved it by putting the voters on addictions. Handing out small goodies to everyone so the generel population didnt see the bigger and biggers flaws in their sovjet-style survaillance-sociaty, their megabig bureaucracy with priviliges for the political class in unprecedent levels. The voters became addicted to these goodies and liked the idea that the government solved every problem imaginable even though it was a lie and even though they knew it was a lie but it was so nice to listen to.
4. Sound logic was now at risk and were discredited in less and less concealed ways. You shouldnt think that the people and wise politicians would allow this to happen but they did. Because the media was by now heavily influencing the political agenda and the media was heavily populated with do-gooders so the DO-GOODERS could SET THE AGENDA. Thereby common sense people were now a threat to this new form of stability where the governments were more important than the life of its citizens.
5. GOOD PEOPLE DID NOTHING. Jefferson: "The only thing it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing." We took 20 tax-hikes and said nothing. We took 1000 new behavouristic laws and said nothing. We bought the newspapers even though the agenda became more and more clear and we said nothing. We accepted survaillance in an unprecedented scale in the name of fighting terror and we said nothing.
Luckely so many people are now so fed up with this political correct marxist elite that a european and american spring must be on the way - very soon.
If you want inspiration on this read my next blog: Rights of Freedom - part II - 5 points to fight back and win over the political correct elite.
