What is Our Nation Coming To?

Glancing over the headlines of the week, it is clear that a creeping sense of socialism in this country is no longer creeping -- it is a very real threat that no future administration may come close to being able to stop. If I am reading this situation correctly, we are at a true turning point in world history. The forces of freedom and liberty are fast being swept aside. We are heading into a Rousseaun era in which the United States and indeed all other states will degenerate in a large collectivist cesspool. Ayn Rand said, "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." How right she was.

Blogger Benjamin Weingarten is concerned about the encroachment of government into our daily lives. So are we. The tidal waves of state intervention are coming ashore, washing away our independent enterprising ways and drowning the ambitions and dreams of freedom with the falsely comforting deluge of governmental assistance for all our endeavors.