When you engage on the Internet, there are always people who do not want to do things, are unwilling to engage, and think they can hide from the government.  They say they do not want to (pick your action), get a carry permit, sign a petition, purchase ammunition from a store, join a state or local action group, buy a gun from a dealer, or others because:  

They Do Not Want to Be on a List.

The problem with this is:  

99.9% of us are on multiple lists, whether we want to be or not.

There are a few people who do not own telephones, who are not on the power grid, who do not subscribe to magazines, read things on the Internet, or buy goods with credit or debit cards. They are very, very few. They are ineffective politically or in a conflict. The digital shackles we have accepted or which have been placed on us are ubiquitous and encompassing. There is no place left to hide and no place left to run. Either we win this fight for limited government and the rule of law politically, we lose by becoming engaged in some sort of civil war, or we lose everywhere because there isn’t any place left to run.

Canada is becoming worse than the USA every day. Mexico is far worse already.

Nowhere in Europe is better than the USA is now, and everywhere in Europe is likely to get much worse if the USA stays on the path the Biden/Obama administration has put us on. Africa? You joke. Japan? They don’t take immigrants. Australia—it’s already worse than the USA. China? India? They are much worse.

Convert to Islam? Islamic countries are all worse than the USA if you value freedom and private property.

If you read AmmoLand or other forums about hunting or shooting or conservative politics, you are already on several lists. In authoritarian/totalitarian regimes, the government is concerned and very effective at finding and knowing who they can trust and who they cannot. Trusted people are a small number.  Nothing on the Internet is truly lost. Credit card purchases are forever. Phone conversations are recorded and stored. They are probably only listened to by machines, if at all, but they are kept and can be searched later.

At present, there are some protections in place that make it difficult to use these resources to divide the country into the enemies of the regime and everyone else. Those protections are rapidly being eroded by the current regime.

Even if you take gold coins on a sailboat and head out to sea, you are subject to officials in every port. You will be asked for bribes, subject to have your boat confiscated, with no serious rule of law. Carry a gun with you on the boat to protect your life and possessions?  Very difficult because most countries do not allow it. They will confiscate and prosecute if it is to their advantage. They have the power to search you in every port. Your voyage is tracked by satellite.

We are in a great political contest to force the power of the government back into the cage created for it by the Constitution. If we win, it may take decades to undo all the damage created by the administrative state. It cannot happen all at once. Such is the nature of the rule of law. If we lose, the deterioration we see will accelerate. More inflation, more lawless importation of multitudinous immigrants, more potential cheating at elections without any accountability. The middle class will continue to be attacked from all sides. We are on the slide to complete tyranny, as experienced in Venezuela. The Supreme Court would likely be placed under the influence of Progressives.

We can win. Our opponents do not have infinite resources available to cheat. Winning the election is the easiest fight we have available to win. Winning takes courage and the willingness to take small chances now to avoid terrible effects later.  Political victory is much easier than winning a civil war, as patriots are picked off piecemeal against a strengthened and growing entrenched administration.

Paraphrasing Patrick Henry: When will we be stronger? This is the time to use our political will and power, before our voices are silenced, before our rights become transgressions in the law, before our churches are only allowed to preach what the government wants them to preach.  As a Christian, I urge everyone to vote. In the USA, it is our duty to vote. It is how we have an impact on our means of government. This is a sea change election.

In the words of the words of Chinese military philosopher Sun Tsu, who lived centuries before Christ:

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

In the words of candidate Donald Trump: “Fight! Fight! Fight!” to elect President Trump and change the course of history. This election may be our last best chance to restore the Republic without internal war or, perhaps worse, the tyranny seen in places like Venezuela. It is worth the hour it takes to vote.

About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.