Well spoken truth.

They will come after anyone who steps up. We already see it. We would be fools to underestimate this.

For us to succeed, we will destroy countless peoples’ lives and careers, such as they are. Put yourself in their shoes. If your life and career were politics and it provide the life we see for your and your family, and you sat in a seat of power, what would you do to anyone who came to take it away from you? Would you see yourself as a fraud or as a victim?

No one comes out of this well. No one.

The choice, however, is to live your life as a slave or as a free person.

In the worst times of historical slavery, there were certainly atrocities. Those cannot be dismissed or minimized but it is equally false to pretend that the horrors were the norm. Slaves were valuable property and regarded as expensive tools, even by the most ignorant slave owner. They were provided with some semblance of food, housing, and structure to their lives. In a significant number of cases, apart from the lack of true freedom, some lived very comfortable lives and were very well cared for.

Our situation today is akin to the latter. We are well cared for slaves. We no longer have freedom to pursue our own path and possibly fail. We are not free to make our own decisions about our life, health, or happiness. We are not permitted to truly own anything outright.

And most people cry out for more and more slavery, insisting that if we just has house privileges or the master gave us better healthcare or more leisure time, we’d be happier slaves.

Do you want to live as someone kept slave and condemn your children and grand children to a life of slavery? Or will you choose to be free?