Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 7: 6 "Abandon camp and enter the fray for some gain, and you may lose your equipment."

What is your camp? What is your equipment? I have my own list, and I've given it many times before. No matter, here it is again:

1) Life
2) Liberty
3) The Pursuit of Happiness
4) Property

Our camp is based upon these rights. Our equipment is the constitution. It is the laws of a nation based upon an idea, the idea of freedom. The enemy continues to fight based upon the idea of advantages, not rights. The enemy is socialism. This is the fight today.

Your life is to be expended for the benefit of others, not yourself. Your liberty is solely for the purpose of providing for those who need, but cannot (will not) produce. Your happiness is the happiness of the whole, not your own alone. Your property may be confiscated at will.

Your equipment was, but may no longer be, your right to trial at law, before a jury of your peers. If we surrender to the Democrat vision of an America where needs are met by taxation, we may no longer be free at court. Your equipment is lost in this hellacious vision.

Consider. Thomas Jefferson gave us a vision where an American citizen would NEVER see the presence of a taxman at his door. Today? You pay the taxman with 4 or 5 months of your annual labor. January, February, March, April, May? Could it be? Your work is tax slavery those months?

What is the gain we have believed? Soak the rich. Since 1913, since the progressive agenda took constitutional force over our nation, we have surrendered our rights. We somehow bought the view the progress came from soaking the rich.

Leave the damned rich alone. Look to yourself. What are you able to accomplish? What would you be able to do if no one took any money off your paycheck? How would you spend/invest your own money for yourself? We do NOT need the GAIN offered.

Myself, I'm not quite ready for Keep America Great. I know, our president is a genius. He's probably right in moving from MAGA to KAG. But, myself? I'm not ready. I still think America's greatness must be reclaimed. I think that 1913 must be repealed.

More. I think that the MAGA mandate extends way past elections. It speaks to every local school district and community. Is each living up to the vision of freedom captured into our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence? Where we miss one iota, we fail.

When did we abandon camp and enter the fray for gain? WWII is when. Coming out of it, we somehow thought that the public weal was necessary for personal gain. It was in the following decades that public funds were targeted toward private gain.

When you suckle at the public tit, you surrender your private rights. That is the gain that made us abandon our camp and put at risk out true equipment. It's amazing we've lasted so long following so foolish an abandonment. We are still here. But, for how long?

We're here as long as the American Way makes it possible. We still live by the American Way even though we've suckered for laws that abort it. We can claim that, with pride. But, if we fail to return to camp, and protect the equipment of freedom, we'll eventually fail.

Here's my long-term prediction. First, we'll succeed. We're too great a people to fall for the lies of the left, the foolish silliness of short-term gain at cost of long-term freedom. We'll sus it out.

But what if we fail? Freedom will rise again. It will be our loss, and our shame if we fail here. But it will NOT be the end of freedom. Why not? Because we've proved its power, its goodness. We rose to the position of greatest nation in history by freedom. It will not die.

We won't fail. @realDonaldTrump saw the risk and rose to address it. He is the right leader, right now. He will not let us fail. I trust that, and I'm NOT a naturally trusting soul. He will not abandon camp, nor lose our equipment for freedom. He's too aware to do so.

161 verses completed, 261 to go.

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