I don’t like calling people idiots, so I’ve redacted this, but the substance of it is hard to deny, even if I don’t agree with all of the list. Note also that a few of the items are unverified. Taken from Politically True:
- If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally …
- If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion …
- If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here is evolution, but your government stops a $15 million construction project to keep a rare spider from evolving to extinction …
- If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book, but not to vote for who runs your government …
- If your government believes that using steroids or other drugs will ruin your life, but throwing you in prison for years will not …
- If your government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt …
- If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat …
- If an 80-year-old woman can be strip-searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched …
- If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more …
- If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher [is] “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable …
- If children are forcibly removed from parents who discipline them with spankings while children of addicts are left in filth and drug infested “homes”…
- If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing, and free cell phones …
- If your government’s plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working with 99 weeks of Unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work …
- If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor buys iPhones, TVs and new cars, and your government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage …
- If your government believes that the way to make a school of unarmed children safe is to pass another law, this time with the illusion that three 10-round magazines in a rifle is safer than a 30-round magazine …
I want my country back from all those who are trying to manipulate it for political, financial, or ideological gain.