On this 4th of July, I am asking myself why liberals celebrate independence from the British at all since they now want to be just like them
[ Think about it .... if not for those founding fathers (all white males, most of the property owners and Christians), we'd all have the NHS, strict gun control, and most everything else liberals want now. ]
Relaxing today and only occasionally checking the news (obsessive compulsive disorder sucks sometimes), I am struck by the trumpeting that everyone from liberal to conservative is celebrating Independence Day. And that got me thinking - why do liberals celebrate our independence from the British? If I think back to the most moonbat leftward stories that I have posted on since this blog began a year and a half ago, no country seems to embody all things liberal as much as the UK. Let me just run down the short list here and as you read through think to yourselves if a Nancy Pelosi or a Barack Obama would oppose any of these things that are already installed across the pond (not their rhetoric, but what they really want):
Workers rights: Especially in Britain, the unions have carte blanche over everyone else. In fact, in what is literally a jobs apartheid, public sector workers spend NINE fewer years at work over their lifetime than private employees AND earn 30% more.
Welfare: Welfare is so generous in Britain that some dads quit their jobs entirely because they can get paid more by not working. The government pays a £30,000 annual benefit to fat people to stay home, not work, and eat.
Crime: Guns are strictly banned. Criminals are not penalized but those that fight against them are. British police arrest people systematically 'just for the dna.'
Parental rights: In some parts of Britain, all parents being banned from watching even their own children on public playgrounds just in case any one of them might be a pedophile. Instead, "play rangers" now watch the children. Parents that oppose the gay agenda are not allowed to adopt, or even pull their children from gay indoctrination classes. Condoms are routinely given out to 12-year olds.
National defense: The military is entirely gutted. Not enough left to post anything meaningful about.
Healthcare: In Britain, there is a single government-run healthcare (mind you, I use 'healthcare' here lightly) system that bureaucrats are exempt from (they get private care instead). So iron-fisted is the system that if you try and get private counseling because of the long lines and wait times, you will be dropped from the queue. Health and safety inspectors are given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents. This is a society that is taking newborn babies away from mothers because some bureaucrats think the baby might grow up obese. And babies are taken away if some bureaucrat deems the mother to not be smart enough. The National Health Service (NHS) in Britain is foisting physician-assisted suicide on the downtrodden and is going in the direction of making it available to the healthy. Abortion is so ingrained that they even run abortion commercials on the tele. Comparative effectiveness is the prime directive and healthcare quality for the elderly has been rationed significantly as a result.
Environment: This is a country where environmentalism is now an official religion. Global warming is as matter-of-fact in Britain as the sky being blue, and the government dumps generous amounts of taxpayer money into public indoctrination to keep it that way. In fact, there are plans to give individual British citizens a 'carbon allowance' - down to the last woman and child. Politicians in Britain think it necessary to cut their population in half for environmental benefits. Local governments have also launched the thermostat police on the population. Wind farms that don't work are sprouting up like mushrooms. Britain has a recycling system in some places so detailed that it requires you to put material into 9 separate bins, with the threat of fines and jailtime if you happen to put the wrong material in the wrong bin. Maintaining your lawn is considered a sign of 'moral decadence.'
Religion: The population is obsessed with being de-baptised. Muslims have special rights over Christians. The Holocaust is minimized so as to not offend Muslims. Burka swimwear is required at public pools even for non-Muslims.
The above posts are just those that I picked up. There is, of course, far more. With that in mind, what of the above results do liberals in this country not want? For them, what is the point of independence from Britain when, 234 years later, they want to be exactly like Britain is? What is the point of celebrating a day when this country demanded its right to self-determination, as a country (make no mistake that liberals would cede our sovereignty to the UN tomorrow if they could get away with it) and as individuals, when that very notion is anathema to everything liberals want? In the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers listed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as our most unalienable rights. Yet Pelosi, Reid and their Democrat minions seek to undermine these very rights much like what was done in Britain. They don't believe in the pursuit of happiness, but rather in government handing out happiness to the subjects. There is no liberty when government controls every aspect of one's life. And they sure aren't pro-life by any means, especially for the elderly and the unborn. So just what the heck are they celebrating today I wonder?
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