Root Hog, or Die

06April2010
Collectivism isn’t new; it isn’t a conception of man. It, like individualism, is inherent within us; one of two states in the human condition.

There is a sizeable portion of our society, which bears ethical resemblance to swine. They desire neither liberty, nor opportunity, only security; and they’ve no care for what the "farmer" may want in the end, so long as they’re fed on time.

We’re not fighting their ideological leaders, the farmers. We're fighting the very lowest among them, the greedy little piglets. Every one of them would prey upon their neighbor, yet they choose to live with one another because plunder has become their way of life. Their moral code justifies it, so they consistently vote to make our legal system agree.

That makes them the most dangerous of herd animals…the entitled electorate. Just as a hog will eat anything it can get to, so will they seize anything left undefended in the name of society’s “need”.

When Thomas Jefferson said that it was the natural progress of things that the people yield their liberty and government gain ground, he couldn’t have imagined the world today or just how right he was. We are in one hell of a fight.

But, take comfort.

It has also been said that when Socialism is allowed to take hold and grows in its power and acceptance by the people, it will at last become the position of contemporary conservatism. Then, as always, to struggle with the revolutionary minority which seeks to overcome it. If that sounds absurd, one need only think that in the socialist nations of Europe; the word “Liberal” means something closer to our definition of “Libertarian” than that of “Socialist”.