Perhaps liberals love affair with public transportation,
high-density housing and urban development will be seen in a different light
once all the COVID-19 lock-downs are ended. At least in the United States, and
assuming they ever do end, as “experts” seem to be continually extending
the time they say is necessary to keep them in place. (A new report from
Harvard researchers says that these measures may be necessary until
2022.)
Cramming
myself into a New York subway and hanging onto a strap while others lurch (and
belch and sneeze) around me isn’t my cup of tea, nor is getting funneled thru
an airport and fondled by TSA employees for the privilege of flying in an
elongated, motorized cigar tube with 75 strangers to get to another airport
where we all wait for our luggage to return to us. Neither am I fond of being
carted around in a city bus with my seatmate falling asleep and leaning into
me, shortly after he has apparently consumed a meal containing prodigious
amounts of garlic and washed it down with a similar quantity of alcohol.
I am personally averse to being
housed in massive, urban, multi-family developments, be they low and sprawling
or towering 30 or more stories into the sky. Moreover, since I have claustrophobia, I have
never enjoyed riding in a packed elevator, staring at my own feet and listening
to bad Muzak, and that will be even more the case in the future.
If you like dense urban environments
and public transportation, more power to you. Honestly, that is your
right. But, our officials, elected or otherwise, do not have the right to strip
the rest of us of all our liberties. They have no right to tell us we can never
leave our homes. In perpetuity. They should not be allowed to tell us where (or
how) we should live. Or how we should get there. Or if and when we can attend
weddings and funerals. Or worship our God.
So, as for me, give me liberty and
give me breath. God willing, I will take to the open road in my own vehicle--
perhaps heading from my decadent, if modest, single family home—and head out
across the vast American West, whether it be on Route 66, across “Big Sky
Country” (Montana), or to visit the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore.
By the grace of God, Washington and
Jefferson bestowed upon us our freedoms. Lincoln preserved and enhanced them. No
modern-day politician-- or group thereof—can be allowed to take back what they
have bequeathed us.
Democrats, Socialists and Chinese
Communist Party members, listen up. We shall be free. Or die trying to once
again make it so.
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