"The Deadly Sting of Snakes,
Scorpions and Democrats"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart, President of the
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author
and speaker on freedom and property rights issues
Copyright
Sunday, July 20, 2014 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, July 16, 2014
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NOTE: Although this article may appear
harsh and strident to some, the historical facts and the perspective
we portray as a conservative are accurate.
"A snake or a scorpion can kill one
person. The Democrats have almost killed a once-free nation based on their
failed policy of irrational compassion in exchange for votes."
Ron Ewart
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Very few people like snakes, venomous or not. Snakes hide
in the bushes or under rocks and strike without warning. Just recently
there was an article about rattlesnakes not shaking their rattles before
striking, as if they had learned that giving a warning is detrimental to their
health. Venomous snakebites aren't always deadly given that most hospitals
keep anti-venom vaccines on their shelves, provided the victim gets to the
hospital in time.
In another related article we learned of a snakebite victim
that was in the wilderness with his friends when he was bitten on the palm of
his hand by a rattlesnake. His palm immediately became discolored and
started to swell. His friends called in a helicopter airlift where he was
taken to a rural hospital. The rural hospital immediately realized there
was no way they could treat the bite and that major surgery would be
required. The victim was then airlifted to an urban hospital where
treatment took place almost immediately. Besides the usual inoculation of
anti-venom, the victim's arm was sliced wide open from palm to elbow, exposing
all of the muscles, tendons, veins and arteries. The pictures of his arm
and palm were so gruesome that viewing them would not be for the faint of
heart. This procedure was done to relieve the pressure built up in the arm
by the venom. After many major surgeries, skin grafts and the expenditure
of over $100,000, the victim regained use of his hand and arm but to a limited
extent.
In another incident, one of our friends and his wife and child
were in Mexico on vacation. While in the hotel, the man reached for his
pants to put them on as he got out of bed in the morning. Almost
immediately he felt a painful stinging sensation in his middle finger.
When he looked down, a scorpion scurried under the bed. They caught the
scorpion and immediately went to the local clinic where he received an
anti-scorpion venom inoculation. Even so, his finger blew up to twice its
size and after receding to its normal size, all feeling was gone and has not
returned. Had the scorpion bit him in the neck instead of his finger, he
may have not lived to tell about it. Our friend said that he would never
visit Mexico again.
Now of course it is not the snake's or the scorpion's fault
that humans get bit from time to time. They are just doing what snakes and
scorpions do to survive as living species. But what if instead of a snake
or scorpion, you were being bit mercilessly by your own kind and it wasn't just
one person that was going to get very sick or die from the bites or stings, it
was a whole country that was going to get very sick and possibly die? That
leads us to the venomous painful sting of Democrats on an entire society.
Now what the Democrats have done to America for the last 100
years of the Progressive movement has been endlessly written about in article
after article, essay after essay and book after book. What could we
possibly add to the dialogue that would provide any more enlightenment to the
issue? After all, it is merely a question of a difference in ideals and
philosophy of how to govern, isn't it? No! It is more than
that. It is a question of power and who in a diverse society will govern
that society. In a representative democratic society, who is in power is
determined by the number of votes a particular faction (party) can garner at
each election cycle. Over the last 100 years the Democrats have been very
successful in garnering the number of votes necessary to remain in power for
long periods of time.
But how have they done that? They have focused their
attention on those less fortunate among us. They have focused their
attention on the poor, the downtrodden, the indigent, the uneducated, the
minorities, the illegal aliens, the free loaders, the disabled, women and the
mentally ill because these groups represent the lion's share of the votes.
The method of their focus was to promote each of these groups as victims, which
gave the victim (according to the Progressives) the absolute right to a
piece of the public treasury that the Democrats promised they would deliver if
elected. This has been the simple winning strategy of the Democrats to
remain in power for most of the last 100 years. It is a brilliant strategy
that is of course if you can ignore the fact that they have violated the
constitution to promote that strategy for most of those 100 years. The
list of those violations goes on and on and is still going on.
Now it can be argued that what the
Democrats/liberals/
The great hidden fallacy of this premise lies in three areas.
1) If you put out a bird feeder and fill it full of
birdseed, the birds will come. If you keep the bird feeder full, more
birds will come and more birds will come and more birds will come until
generations of birds come. To take this system of bird feeder distribution
to its final destination, eventually there will be more birds than bird seed and
the bird feeder system will be over whelmed. To find the comparison
between perpetual bird feeders and the open borders of the United States under a
financially strapped welfare system is not a far stretch. In fact, there is a
direct correlation.
2) By putting out the bird feeder you rob the birds of
their natural state of fending for themselves under the inviolate natural law of
the survival of the fittest. In other words, you genetically weaken the
entire species of birds by artificially feeding them. You take from them their
natural heritage to survive, thus robbing them of their strength as a
species.
3) Although the Democrats profess to be compassionate,
their open declaration of compassion is hidden by their real goal of maintaining
perpetual political power by buying the votes of all those less fortunate among
us and those who choose to be victims of society, rather than contributors to
society.
Even if we were to believe that the Progressives' motives were
truly altruistic, which this author doesn't, they either ignorantly or purposely
ignore the realities of a never-ending bird-feeder system where the number of
birds coming to the bird feeder to feed is directly proportional to the number
of bird feeders available. The more bird feeders there are, the more birds
will come to feed. This policy can only be described as irrational
compassion and is a self-fulfilling prophecy to catastrophic failure. When
there are more birds than bird feeders and bird feed, the system breaks down
catastrophically. Because you see, all systems have limits and if you
exceed those limits the system fails. The current crop of birds (people)
doesn't know how to feed themselves other than coming to the bird feeders.
Tens of thousands of birds (illegal aliens) are coming to "feed" on the
existing bird feeders that are already over whelmed by American "birds" feeding
at the government bird feeders.
Now if the Progressives' motives are not altruistic, then they
are as cunning as the snake slithering in the rocks, ready to strike without
warning. It is our strong belief that the motives of the
Progressives/Liberals/
The behavior of humans is not that far from the behavior of
birds, or pigs, when it comes to providing the sustenance of life; that is food,
water, shelter and defense against predators. America was built upon
strength and the unalienable rights of the individual. It was not built on
weakness and not subjugation by and dependency on government. A growing
welfare society is a weak society and reeks of dependency. If it cannot
provide for itself in a competitive environment, it cannot be strong enough to
defend itself against predators ….. foreign or domestic.
Is there a place for compassion in our society? Certainly
there is but that compassion is best handled by private individuals, benevolent
organizations and churches, not a government that violates the constitution to
provide what can only be called enforced charity at the point of a gun.
If our leaders are weak, so will our society be weak and
America is weaker than it ever has been in all of its 240 years. It is
especially weak under the current leader who can't, or won't lead. America
is made weak by government exploiting man's inherit desire to get something for
free. It is made weak by a culture that puts an inordinate and misplaced
priority on mind-altering drugs and alcohol. It is made weak by 80% of the
American population totally disengaged from the political process allowing the
virus of corruption (the human snakes and scorpions) to infiltrate our
institutions. It is made weak by the 4th estate becoming as corrupt as the
government. It is made weak by purposely ignoring the foundation of
successful self-government through the rule of law under the umbrella of wisdom
contained in the U. S. Constitution. Most Democrats are not aware that
their ideology and policies have led to the systematic destruction of the
American economy, its values and exceptionalism. Their allegiance to the
party is essentially from the perspective of blind loyalty. It is the
leaders of the party that cast the veil of deceit over their true goal of
absolute power.
America will only get weaker and more corrupt as long as
American's are weak and only seek that which they can get for free, with that
which they get for free derived from the sweating brow of those who work and
produce. It will only get weaker and more corrupt if the electorate
continues to elect those politicians that promote the failed ideology of
irrational compassion in exchange for votes in order to maintain their hold on
power.
The hard reality is, we have a divided society based on two
opposing ideologies. One of those ideologies promotes weakness, sloth and
leads to corruption. The other ideology promotes individual freedom and
responsibility. After over 100 years of Progressive rule that has led us
on a path to financial ruin because of too many bird feeders, institutionalized
corruption, failed economic policies, the breakdown of morality and the
dissolution of American sovereignty, perhaps it is time to recognize which
ideology is open and above board and promotes individual freedom and national
strength.
No! Conservatives are far from perfect but at least they
have their sights set on promoting the best within us. Are some of them
corrupt? You bet! But at least their goals are generally aligned
with those brave men that pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor at the birth of freedom so that we all can share the proven benefits of
true liberty. At least they tend to believe in the Constitution as written
and intended by the Founders and not as a "living document" subject to the whims
of a degrading society.
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org), a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washingotn State, an
advocate and consultant for urban and rural landowners. He can be reached
for comment at info@narlo.org.
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