Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[Eric the Green]

This philosophy of self-reliance in what we now call red states and red counties did not used to interfere with sensible notions of government acting to help and protect the people. They voted for Democrats like FDR to fix the economy and the eroded land, and bring energy to the Tennessee Valley, and they appreciated them. They supported JFK and LBJ when they acted to help reduce poverty in Appalachia, and brought good lighting and plumbing to the rural people. Gun control was accepted, and so was the qualifications clause of the 2nd in the Courts that were appointed by the presidents they voted for. They supported populists in the 1890s when they wanted to be able to pay their debts and stop being exploited by the railroad barons, and they supported progressives in the 1900s and 1910s when they acted to rein in the monopolies and the trusts and create the income tax. In the North they supported Lincoln when he got the government to invest in their lands and help settlers.

Red culture today is not the culture of the founding fathers; not even a little bit. The founding fathers knew that their country would be changing; that the constitution was amendable. They designed checks and balances because they knew that tyranny had to be guarded against. They knew the state needed to be protected, and so did the people need to be protected from excessive state power.

Red culture today accepts conspiracy theory nonsense without the slightest reflection. Red culture today wants everyone to carry weapons hundreds of times more fast and powerful than those the original militia carried. Red culture today accepts crazy religious doctrines without question that would have horrified the founding fathers. Red culture today supports blindly the right of corporations and big business to mercilessly exploit workers, rip off consumers, destroy the environment, and ruin our economy, all in the name of less taxes, self-reliance and free-enterprise. Red culture supports a president who doesn't have the slightest qualification for the job and who wishes to destroy our country and start a world war. Red culture today expects us to salute the flag and support wars without the slightest thought, as if our country was always right, and then in the same breath want to stockpile weapons of war against the country they claim to support. Red culture supports the right of the police to shoot down young people without cause, as long as they are black. Red culture supports bad eating and bad smoking habits, and then insults hippies who want a freer lifestyle and preaches self-reliance in the face of people who want their government to act on behalf of the people. Red culture today is the most dangerous group of deluded fools that the Western World has EVER produced. We face this fact as a nation, and some reds wake up from their sleep, or we die as a nation-- AND SOON!