Road to Serfdom
The Road to Serfdom was written by Friedrich Hayek in 1944. Hayek is a classical liberal or what we in America call a “libertarian”. He wrote his book in response to laws made by Franklin D. Roosevelt. He might also be against the present Republican party. Well meaning people take away our rights during wartime. During peace time those rights are never fully given back. We get used to having the government in our lives. After a while we get sick of government planners and their corruption. The masses usually poorly educated (I think from government schools! lol) seek a leader to “clean up the mess”. This leader becomes a dictator and thus we the people lose our freedoms.
I see that in our society today. We are told by the media that the government must take care of our health care. The government will pay for things like education and health care so we can have our cars and plasma televisions. Now the government is telling us that we are causing global warming and that it is a CRISIS. The government will bail us out of this crisis by not allowing us to use electricity, certain cars, and even certain types of lighting. The government will decide what we will use and how much.
The only difference between the Democrats and Republicans now is that the Republicans want to interfere in your life LESS. They both are for central government planning. The Democrats will make our nation a disaster quicker. The both are really for the same thing.
Now that the government has the right to listen to conversations, who is to say the wrong person in government will use this right against its own citizens? The Republicans allow dissent. Certain Democrats do not. I believe that these certain Democrats are actually Socialists. They believe they are planning our future for the good of society.
I like the Mormon belief: “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.”
The government taking care of us from babies to our deaths takes away our freedom to learn and grow and become better people. I think that is why none of us wants to walk into a housing project at night. People who are being taken care of by the government do not need to live responsibly. No morals means that the government would have to control the people more and more.
In America, we haven’t got to that point yet. We still are fighting over the best way the government can take care of us rather than fighting to get the government out of our lives.
We still have our freedoms, but we are fast on the road to serfdom.
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