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What if the government's true goal is to perpetuate its own power? What if the real levers of governmental power are pulled by agents and diplomats and by bureaucrats? What if they stay in power no matter who is elected president?
What if the frequent public displays of adversity between Republicans and Democrats are just a facade? What if both major political parties agree on the fundamental issues of our day?
What if the leadership of both political parties believes that our rights are not natural to our humanity but instead are gifts from the government?
What if the leadership of both parties gives only lip service to Thomas Jefferson's assertions in the Declaration of Independence that all persons "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" and that when the government assaults our natural rights, we can "alter or abolish" it?
What if the leadership of both parties quietly dismisses those ideas as Jefferson's outdated musings?
What if the leadership of both political parties believes that the constitutional requirement of due process somehow permits mothers to hire doctors to kill babies in their wombs, out of fear or convenience? What if the leadership of both political parties believes that the president may lawfully kill any foreigner out of fear, because due process is an inconvenience?
What if the last four presidents have used high-tech drones to kill innocent people in foreign lands with which America was not at war and claimed that they did so legally?
What if most members of Congress from both political parties believe in perpetual war and perpetual debt? What if the political class believes that war is the health of the state? What if the leadership of that class wants war so as to induce the loyalty of its base, open the pocketbooks of the taxpayers and gain the compliance of the voters?
What if the $33 trillion current federal government debt has been caused by borrowing to pay for wars and false prosperity? What if the federal government collects about $4.5 trillion annually but spends about $6.8 trillion? What if the feds borrow money to pay $700 billion in interest annually? What if it is insane to borrow money to pay interest on borrowed money? What if American taxpayers are still paying interest on debts incurred by Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and every post-World War II president?
What if the banks have borrowed the money that they lend? What if they can't pay it back?
What if the government demands transparency from us but declines to be transparent to us? What if government leaders assert the make-believe that they work for us?
What if the federal government has access to all our electronic communications, bank accounts, medical and legal records, and utility and credit card bills? What if the government knows more about us than we know about it? What if the government thinks the Constitution is make-believe and doesn't apply? What if it mocks the Bill of Rights?
What if the government the Founding Fathers gave us needed our permission to do nearly everything? What if today we need the government's permission to do nearly anything?
What if, on Thanksgiving Day, our gratitude is not to the government that assaults our freedoms and steals our wealth but to God, who gave us our freedoms and our ability to earn wealth? What if, on Thanksgiving Day, our gratitude is for life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the exercise of free will and human reason? What if these are integral to our humanity despite the government's assaults on them? What if, on Thanksgiving Day, we recognize the evils of a fractious government that is blind to the consequences of its borrowing, killing and assaults on freedom?
What if, on Thanksgiving Day, we are most grateful that we are free creatures made in God's image and likeness, but sick and tired of the government?
What if we begin altering or abolishing the government, make-believe or not? What if that brings Thanksgiving happiness?
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