With the United States declining in every way, thanks to Barack Obama, moderates are really beginning to get on my nerves, especially ones appearing on Fox News with the initials B.O.
If people are for freedom, for example, they should be for freedom.
If a restaurateur opens an eatery in New York and is legally forbade from serving trans-fat, that's "a good thing," according to many moderates, despite the fact that such law hinders freedom for consumers and proprietors. I believe people should be free to eat wherever and whatever they want. In this fit-conscious society, other restaurants could make a killing serving healthy foods while proudly displaying the trans-fat content of each menu item. Adults would be free to choose for themselves.
The next time a moderate enters the bread aisle of his local supermarket to pick up a loaf of the fluffy white stuff and finds a uniformed government official adding bricks of wholegrain bread to every basket, I wonder if said moderate will change his tune. "No thanks; think I'll stick with the white," the middle-of-the-road shopper might say.
"I don't think you understand," the government official will respond. "A new law states you no longer have the option of white, but please don't sell this wholegrain loaf short. Michelle Obama loves it. Seriously, stand between the First Lady and this healthy loaf of bread and you'll lose some teeth... and perhaps get audited by the IRS."
Were the above scenario to come to fruition, moderates would cry out, "The government has gone too far!"
Such a cry is hypocritical because it's another way of saying, "limiting freedom is okay in certain situations but not in others, and I'm the person to decide what's too far and what's just right." Such a stance is harmful to the country because Barack Obama is now the person deciding what's too far and what's just right. And his 'just right' is left of most Americans.
Freedom is freedom. Government protecting us from ourselves is government protecting us from ourselves. You can be for one, but you cannot be for both.
A, "let's limit certain freedoms to save people from harming their bodies," attitude is not having principles and sticking to them; it's lacking the guts necessary to take a firm stand.
Perhaps this entire article is pointless, because moderates have never been accused of having guts.
