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What price pride when that pride is misplaced, when those you revere are not what you imagine them to be? When they fight for themselves, and their privilege, and bend your ear to fight not for your rights, but for their privilege as well? Fight against "socialism," when you don't even know what it is, nor why you should fear it. You fight not against an idea, but only against a word. How stunningly stupid you are. And proudly so.
Willful ignorance is a crime against nature, a crime against humanity, for it is through this kind of ignorance that the worst injustices have been done. And to have modern Americans, people with access to all the knowledge gained in this world and all its history through war and peace, through famine and depredation, turn their backs on knowledge and fight to preserve ignorance is a slap in the face of the founding fathers you pretend to revere, a deliberate urination on the documents by which this nation was formed.
Our founding fathers, for all their faults, revered knowledge above all. They believed they fought so their children might not have to. They learned war-craft and tactics so their children might learn literature and mathematics.
And yet those who heed the clarion call to battle sent by those who claim to be defending the "spirit" of the original intent of this country (a lie as blatant as calling a cow an airplane) stand proud in your ignorance, hating what you are told to hate, fearing that which you are told to fear, with no personal knowledge of the issues on which to draw upon. You are pawns on the chessboard, moving to block and parry without any awareness of how or why.
If told to resist health care reform, you do so, though it is not your freedoms they rise to defend, but the freedom of your oppressors to continue their oppression. Like our forefathers studied war and diplomacy to free the next generation to study something else, we should give ourselves health care, so we may free the next generation to seek something else. But you meat puppets do your masters' bidding and because of it the very discussion is drowned out by your white noise.
Freedom to be sick, to be denied health care, or to go into debt to procure it, is not freedom. It is merely another form of slavery. And you people welcome your chains, and cheer one another for your submission to them.
I say unto you then, stay stupid, and be proud in your stupidity. Hearken to the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck. While they decry your right to health care they sit in their million dollar homes, sipping champagne, or gobbling prescription pain meds like candy, laughing at you all the while.
You do their dirty work, and pat one another on the back for your folly. You are the anchors tied to our throats, dragging us under. America has long since lost its way thanks to people like you.
This has become the Home of the Knave.
(with thanks to the Swedish power metal band Falconer for the title of this thread)
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