If you have noticed, certain elements on both sides of the
political isle want to limit your choices. This ranges from who you can
be with/friends with (gays vs. strait/people vs organizations), to even what
you can eat. It is these elements of the political right and left that
share another form of radicalism. That radicalism is them believing that
they know best over the masses as a whole. So here are some examples of
this radicalism.
Food Choice: Throughout the country both the
political right and left have this notion that they must protect us from
ourselves. This includes food. In New York City salt is banned from
restaurant tables because of its apparent link to heart disease. But is
that not a conscious decision by each individual to add more salt to their
food?
Republicans and Democrats also limit
the choices on school lunch menus by their advocating healthier options.
However those "healthier" options are either not filling enough
or do not taste good to the school children. Some schools have even
denied second helpings to students based on this health fascism culture on both
sides of the political aisle. As such there has been instances of
children fainting in class due to a lack of food or nutrition.
Trans-fats and other food items or
ingredients, because of their perceived unhealthiness (which is usually due to
them being overeaten) have also become banned or restricted in both restaurants
and from consumer products. However, is not the better solution to keep
consumers informed of what they are eating? Well even this can go
overboard as places like restaurants would have to be forced to put calorie
count, grams of fat and other information about the food they make on the menu.
Problem is that it takes money (lots of it) to do which may force
struggling businesses out of business. Those information boxes on food
already are misleading as a high calorie count is not necessarily a bad thing
as some people need that amount of calories, fat or sugars just to stay
healthy. Sure it is nice to know what you are eating, but having it
pushed in your face or being used as a deterrent by government to steer you
away from certain foods is downright dumb.
Item choices: In this case the tax system limits
choices you make. States, municipalities, and the Federal government
itself tax foods, alcohol, restaurants and other items you buy to push you away
from using them. These are called sin taxes. So you may pay an
extra five to 45 cents just to buy a particular item. For instance
plastic bottles in the United States have an extra five cents tacked on each
bottle you buy because the government does not want you to buy things like soda
or things contained in plastic. Tobacco products are also taxed highly
despite people on the right, left and center of politics wanting to completely
un-ban marijuana and its associated products. Hypocrisy is the name of
the game here.
Health choices: The government also seeks to protect us
from our own selves by controlling our health choices. Obama-care (the
Affordable Healthcare Act) forces people to buy healthcare from insurance
companies or otherwise pay a penalty. Basically, the government saw fit
to decide that we cannot choose for ourselves if and when we needed health
insurance and decided to force us all to get it. Think this was strictly
an idea from the political left, then think again as a similar idea by the
Republicans was proposed back in the 1990's. So now you may be forced to
buy healthcare that either is un-affordable, violates your beliefs (as they may
cover euthanasia or contraceptives which violates religious or moral beliefs),
or very simply violates your choices as a whole.
Conclusion: These are some of the many small to
big things that impact our lives with this radicalism of big brother knows
best. We are forced to subsidize with our money planned parenthood, big oil,
green technology, corporate welfare, and other items that the Federal
government has no business spending our money on. If we want to give money to a
green business or oil then we will simply buy their product. If we want
to spend or donate to Planned Parenthood or a charity of some sort then we will
give our money to them by our own choice. But government gets in the way
and say that they decide who is worthy and thus our money goes to whomever they
want and not what we want. This radicalism has to end and to do it, we
must elect people who do not have this radical notion of believing they know
better than everyone else and elect people who will refuse to spend our money
save for what the Constitution allows.
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