Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
.... maybe we have a common thread running through our demented lives.
it might surprise you just how liberal my views really are. though my philosophy is anarchist to the core, i am a realist and know that my way of life depends too much on self control for this culture where instant gratification and the cult of entitlement hold sway. i am so tired of what this government has become, but i don't see the fault to lie in the administration or even within the system itself. the people themselves have allowed their government to lull them into a complacent slumber. substituting myths like the sanctity of human life and the necessity of growth for simple integrity and common decency. we haven't repaired the mistakes of the past, we have compounded those errors and are now racing headlong toward the very tyrannies that this country was founded to escape.

we are the masters of the slippery slope. never taking the cautious steps of the prudent man, but bounding off with reckless abandon and a certainty of our own righteous destiny. a step to the left sends us hurtling toward the massive bureaucracy of the socialist nanny state, a paradise of mediocrity where all are sustained and none may excel. a step to the right and we are rushing toward the oligarchy of our nightmares, capitalism run amok and the entire world as our foe. i yearn for the middle road, but that was plowed under long ago.