{"id":35520,"date":"2018-06-26T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35520"},"modified":"2018-06-26T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:02:48","slug":"many-americans-are-getting-the-country-they-asked-for-and-they-dont-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35520","title":{"rendered":"Many Americans Are Getting the Country They Asked For and They Don\u2019t Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/good-ideas-someone-else\/\">Many Americans Are Getting the Country They Asked For and They Don\u2019t Like It<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<p>Every single action taken is a precursor to a future action. That\u2019s something that not enough people understand. All of these things that sound like such good ideas when they happen to the \u201cenemy,\u201d whoever that might be? They seem a whole lot less like good ideas when they happen to you. Many Americans are getting exactly the country they asked for and they don\u2019t like it at all.<\/p>\n<p>The astounding levels of cognitive dissonance make it impossible for some people to see that they themselves were the ones who set the precedents for things happening today. If you give the government \u2013 any government, not just ours \u2013 an inch, they will take a mile, and I guarantee some of that mile will be to your own detriment.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of people will read my headline and be too mad to read the article. They\u2019ll retort angrily, \u201cI didn\u2019t ask for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not. Maybe you are as pure an anarchist as ever there was. But just about everyone has had some feelings about things that should apply to one group but not others. It\u2019s arrogant, and it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s examine some events that are causing uproars and then look back to when it seemed like a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Border Control is really taking the whole \u201ccontrol\u201d thing seriously.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another place where folks were cheering until it happened to them. The scene at the US-Mexico border has been a tense one recently as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal aliens entering the United States. While some people strenuously object, many others have rejoiced over these policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans Are Getting the Country They Asked For and They Don\u2019t Like It Every single action taken is a precursor to a future action. That\u2019s something that not enough people understand. All of these things that sound like such good ideas when they happen to the \u201cenemy,\u201d whoever that might be? They seem a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11054,6156,5756,827],"class_list":["post-35520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-border-control","tag-daisy-luther","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35521,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520\/revisions\/35521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}