{"id":1695,"date":"2009-07-31T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/31\/i-have-seen-the-enemy"},"modified":"2009-07-31T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:42:00","slug":"i-have-seen-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"I have seen the ‘enemy …’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A bumper sticker in downtown Amarillo today had the following message: “I love my country, it’s the government I’m afraid of.”<\/p>\n

Let us ponder that one.<\/p>\n

We live in a representative democracy. That means a majority — or often times, a plurality — of Americans elect the people who represent them in government.<\/p>\n

I gather from the bumper sticker that the owner of the vehicle adorned by the bumper sticker doesn’t support the actions of the government. I don’t what they would be, since I didn’t meet this individual to discuss the issues. But a republic such as ours allows us the opportunity to elect the people we want to run our government.<\/p>\n

Therefore, our government reflects the will of most of those who bother to vote. Sure, it’s often just a majority of a minority that decides these things, and elects these people. But they’re our leaders, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

So, what is it about our government that frightens this person?<\/p>\n

Whoever he or she is ought to run for public office at the earliest possible moment.<\/p>\n\n

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A bumper sticker in downtown Amarillo today had the following message: “I love my country, it’s the government I’m afraid of.” Let us ponder that one. We live in a representative democracy. That means a majority — or often times, a plurality — of Americans elect the people who represent them in government. I gather … Continue reading I have seen the ‘enemy …’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}