{"id":49875,"date":"2024-10-29T15:48:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=49875"},"modified":"2024-10-29T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:48:52","slug":"patriots-parasites-and-the-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/29\/patriots-parasites-and-the-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots, Parasites, and the Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

What motivates patriots to enlist?\u00a0 Patriots love the idea of America, yes, but first and foremost, they subordinate their love of the intangible to the tangible: their family, friends, and neighbors.\u00a0 They believe in their fellow Americans so much that they\u2019re not only willing to risk their life for them, they\u2019re yearning to kill the people \u2013 \u201cforeign and domestic\u201d \u2013 who dare to threaten their fellow Americans.\u00a0 Patriots feel it their duty to defend what they deem sacred, and that alone should help clarify why rates of enlistment<\/a> haven\u2019t recovered since the regime desecrated what\u2019s sacred in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government\u201d is often regarded as a saintly organization that cares only for the people it claims to serve; however, contrary to what the reader and author alike have been taught for years, decades, etc. \u2013 yes, the brainwashing has been overwhelmingly thorough \u2013 the government is not some charitable organization that acts solely based on the citizens\u2019 needs.\u00a0 No, \u201cthe government,\u201d which sounds robotic and deceives the reader, implies that a robot can\u2019t possibly harbor selfish, human nature. \u00a0Even the righteous bureaucrat cannot evade \u201cthe natural law of parsimony<\/a> (the most gain for the least effort).\u201d\u00a0 Like any other organization, \u201cthe government\u201d is comprised of people \u2013 but not just any people.\u00a0 \u201cThe government\u201d \u2013 henceforth, \u201cthe regime\u201d and its \u201cparasites\u201d \u2013 is, more often than not, comprised of people who worship power.\u00a0 Yes, \u201cparasite\u201d \u2013 like it or not \u2013 is the only way to accurately describe someone who lives off of another.\u00a0 They are not helping their fellow Americans; they are parasitizing and persecuting<\/a> the very same people they claim to be serving, all the while promising that it\u2019s in our best interest.<\/p>\n

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Patriots who\u2019ve considered enlisting can see as well as anyone how their would-be employer treats what is sacred, whether it be the intangible \u2013 the American way of life \u2013 or the tangible: family, friends, and neighbors.\u00a0 The regime does not care for its fellow Americans, whom they deem annoying, inconvenient, and a threat not<\/em> to democracy but to their hegemony.\u00a0 The regime cares only for its fellow parasites \u2013 foreign and domestic \u2013 not because these are the caring type but because \u2018caring\u2019 helps maintain their control.\u00a0 While the people of Flint, Michigan and East Palestine, Ohio still suffer, the regime cares for Ukraine\u2019s parasites.\u00a0 While the people of Maui, Hawaii still suffer, the regime cares for Israel\u2019s parasites.\u00a0 And while the people of Western North Carolina still suffer, the regime tells us that we should be more concerned with the upcoming elections than with caring for our family, friends, or neighbors.\u00a0 Adding insult to injury, the regime pits our fellow Americans against each other because an angry, divided populace is easier to manipulate than a decentralized but united people.\u00a0 Not only do we not need the parasites, we cannot flourish with them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why are rich doctors flying supplies on their private jets to Western North Carolina?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that the regime\u2019s job?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that the regime\u2019s only<\/em> job \u2013 to help the people it claims to be serving?\u00a0 Furthermore, shouldn\u2019t such a selfless act wholly discredit the parasites\u2019 existence?\u00a0 After all, the rich doctors who donate their time and resources pay more in taxes than most earn as a salary, only to then be coerced to pay the regime to do the job that these doctors are doing themselves.\u00a0 Again, not only are the parasites not<\/em> helping us, the greatest opportunity for all materializes only without them.\u00a0 All of us \u2013 parasites included \u2013 would be better off<\/a> if they were to find gainful employment in the real economy instead of living off of us while claiming that we can\u2019t live without them, which, in some instances, they\u2019re no longer even pretending (\u201cno more money, sorry\u201d).\u00a0 In which scenario is the aspiring military recruit actually helping his family, friends, or neighbors: helping the people of Western North Carolina or killing the people of Western Russia?<\/p>\n

The would-be recruit is aware of the fact that the parasites are more than happy to lead our country into war with, say, Russia, Iran, or China than to help Americans.\u00a0 What did the Iranian people do to your family, friends, or neighbors?\u00a0 What about the Russian people or the Chinese people?\u00a0 I doubt that most Americans have great affection for other countries\u2019 people, but do we want to kill<\/em> them?\u00a0 No, but that\u2019s what the parasites desire, as dead patriots in foreign lands are less threatening than the bona fide patriots within our borders.\u00a0 Any escalation of violence between other countries\u2019 parasites and ours is only their \u2018business,\u2019 but, curiously, this seems to be the only time that we don\u2019t<\/em> \u2018need\u2019 the parasites; they tell us that they<\/em> need us<\/em> (to fight, kill, and be killed).\u00a0 Due to its unbridled, pathological hubris<\/a>, the regime is wholly unaware that the potential recruit might wish to do something besides die for it.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just the military that\u2019s causing patriots to dispense with their patriotism and to instead focus on their family, friends, and neighbors.\u00a0 The passive-aggressive barbarism known as \u201cdemocracy\u201d \u2013 increasingly less passive by the day \u2013 reveals the obvious.\u00a0 The current president isn\u2019t \u201crunning the country,\u201d and, as with the previous one, the next one won\u2019t either.\u00a0 Why is the \u201cland of the free\u201d seem to so desperately crave abuse from so-called leaders who, by the poison of politics, only make life worse for the rest of us?\u00a0 Is it a lack of confidence<\/a>?\u00a0 Yes, and the would-be recruit who changed his mind is aware that we\u2019re no longer the \u201chome of the brave.\u201d\u00a0 Americans need another president as much as we need another war; unfortunately, we\u2019ll likely get both in short order, which has patriots trading the political nonsense for what actually matters \u2013 family, friends, and neighbors \u2013 our country.<\/p>\n

Casey Carlisle writes in the Pacific Northwest.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What motivates patriots to enlist?\u00a0 Patriots love the idea of America, yes, but first and foremost, they subordinate their love of the intangible to the tangible: their family, friends, and neighbors.\u00a0 They believe in their fellow Americans so much that they\u2019re not only willing to risk their life for them, they\u2019re yearning to kill the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-49875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49879,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49875\/revisions\/49879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49875"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}