Government in 2016

With the illusion of choice being set out before us, I thought it would be a good time to muster up some mystical energy and foretell future events.  Now I’ve never actually done this before, so one or two things may be wrong within this list, but I really don’t think I’ll be too far off.  If history tells us anything about tomorrow, it’s that the future is a closed book collecting dust on the shelf, we’ve read it all before, every time closing it without having learned a damn thing.

Of course these predictions are for either boss from either gang taking the reigns of the protectionist scheme called government. 

• The economy will continue to be a centrally controlled system in the hands of a few men.  If Executive Order #13603 is enacted, most of private industry will be nationalized, meaning control of various industries will be handed off to officials within the President’s administration.

• The natural rights you were born with will continue to be controlled through the following:
• The Patriot Act  
• The NDAA, in which the Presdient claims the power to throw you in a cell indefinitely without trial or charges.
• Executive Order #13603, which not only claims state-ownership of private industry, but ultimate ownership of your life through conscription.
• The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act , which denies free speech wherever the Secret Service decides.

• Government will still claim ownership of a certain percentage of your property, which was earned through your labor.  Therefore government claims ownership of your labor.  

• Children will continue to be born slaves to the debt of previous generations.

• Plans for Predator Drones flying over American skies will still be in place, though they will be re-branded “Patriot Drones” and they will be providing “Freedom Surveillance.”

• The Federal government will still be murdering innocent civilians (sometimes Americans) with killer robots called Reaper Drones, yet when new terrorists come about with bombs strapped to their chests, our freedoms, yours and mine (and theirs, if they too weren’t so controlled to realize it), will be blamed for why they want to kill us.

• Public-Private partnerships, or corporatism, or fascism; such as Trapwire  and Monsanto, or legislation such as the Affordable Care Act will continue to thrive.

• Still more natural rights will be under attack as the TSA moves from airports, to subways, to the roads.

• Plants that grow naturally out of the ground will continue to be illegal, while drugs that are created in laboratories which not only have horrific side-effects, but also kill people, will continue to be legal.

• The wealth you earn will still be redistributed to foreign dictators who will continue using it for purchasing weapons from American companies (yet more corporatism) so that they can continue to uphold a totalitarian state.

• Men and Women in government that have sworn to protect the Constitution will continue to go to trial and be ostracized when they do so because they weren’t instead protecting secret government powers.

• Elected officials will continue to be liars, cheats, thieves, and murderers.  They will continue to legislate to the highest bidder on all matters healthcare, military, and energy.  They will continue creating hundreds of thousands of new laws every year to further control the masses.

• No matter what these elected officials do, no matter how awful, you will continue to vote for them.  As you continue to choose this authority over your life, and as your life continues to be ruled by these select few, your life will continue to not be your own.

• Finally, no matter how many die, whether through sanctions or bullets, the actions of your government will continue to be justified with the rhetoric of democracy.  These people will continue to die for the better good.  War will continue to be peace. 

You don’t have to stop voting, but you better realize that there is no lesser of two evils.  Voting should be understood as a moral issue.  If you understand that everything stated above (amongst many other things) will continue to happen no matter who is elected, and you accept that, then by all means go out and vote.  As the executive office grows stronger, maybe you will feel more comfortable that it is your guy who gets to be judge, jury, and executioner.  I won’t.  When the government that takes charge of my life decides to murder a 16-year-old American boy in Yemen, understand that it doesn’t matter who is in charge.  These powers never retract.  They only grow stronger, and sooner or later, it won’t be in Yemen that executioner is working.  It will be in your backyard.