Bacon, Guns & Whiskey

The calls about my car’s warranty expiring, to grandparents that scam them out of their life savings, and now to world leaders that impersonate government officials are pervasive.

How many scammers have you heard of being caught (or even identified)? But you can probably bet that the impersonators of Marco Rubio will be pursued, but what about us little people? Orwell’s words in 1948 turn out to be more and more prescient by the day it seems” “some [] are more equal than others.”

Like many other things in today’s world, “We the People” have become complacent and this scenario is the smallest example of it. It’s how we’ve allowed a government to be run by people who “serve” only to enrich themselves and that its citizens overwhelmingly fear. The Founders feared the British government and started a revolution to free themselves from that tyranny — we, instead, pay more attention to the latest “Real Housewives of _” episodes.

How do we change this? We have to start paying attention to the seemingly silly stuff, the differences in how our would-be rulers act (and are treated) versus the rest of us, and who is benefiting from those laws that are supposed to make all of America better — more often than not, it’s not ‘all of America.’