No-Salt Divorce [Updated Below]
Because Leftist thinking is such an aberration from normal rationality and because they have succeeded in convincing so many people that they are just like them, only with a sightly different view of the world, I find it important to remind myself every once in a while of just how mutated, twisted, and violently inimical to human life Leftist though is.
We can thank Orit Sklar for the latest example [and for seeing the dangers ahead]. In her Human Events column of Tuesday instant, she comments on the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which, among other draconian ‘suggestions’, seeks to cut per-day sodium consumption by each one of us to the level of a bowl of soup [tip of the fedora to Stacy McCain]:
I don’t know about you, but when I read that the government intends to commence “concentrated efforts” to influence the “U.S. marketplace” and “adjust taste perception” “gradually over time,” my totalitarian-o-meter pins in the red zone. I think we’ve heard enough of this current administration’s rhetoric to know that “efforts” are really mandates, “should” is really “shall.” “You get to keep your policy” means “you don’t get to keep your policy.”
Let’s not fool ourselves. Let’s connect some dots. Individual coverage mandates under Obamacare, enforced by “swarms of new officers” are on the horizon. How long before the federal government grants itself the power to conduct “diet audits” to examine shopping lists and restaurant visits? Might an eyes-wide-open rationing system include withholding healthcare from, or otherwise penalizing, non-compliant Americans?
As she points out, such things are already happening in Britain and Europe.
Here in America, the Administration is going to model it’s plan on Mommy Bloomberg’s one that was imposed in New York City under threats of government force [ie: at the point of a gun].
Please do take the time to click here and read the whole thing, but make sure you either have some booze or Valium with you.
Leftist thinking is not normal thinking; it is a mutation — the product of a psychologically unbalanced set of minds that are living in a fantasy world.
SIDENOTE: I do disagree with one of Miss Sklar’s statements:
I’m not saying that government officials should be banned from expressing their opinions about what they perceive as “good” for the rest of us….
I am advocating that they be banned from offering us any advice. Goddammit, they’re there to do a specific job and not to be my mother or father. Shut your pie hole and do your damn job [especially you mayors and the like who feel compelled to tell my how to take care of myself during a frickin' heat wave! I'm an adult, you nimrods!]. I’m one of your bosses — the people are the Sovereign in this country.
Now…just to show I’m not a total hard-hearted bastard, I’ll offer this bit of truly friendly and heart-felt advice: if you find you have the urge to treat me like a child, sit down, take some nice deep breaths, and drink some of this:
UPDATE at 1715…
-In Stacy McCain posting linked above, in the Comments section, Roxeanne de Luca [one of the mistresses of Haemet] comments:
I generally eat a very low-sodium diet (out of personal preference), and I eat my veggies, but the government has NO place telling me what to eat and what not to eat. Human liberty, people.
Also… maybe it’s just me, but when it’s blazing hot outside, I need salt. Otherwise, I stumble around like a drunk person because my body chemistry is all off. Will I have to fill out some form next time I want a plate of nachos?
-Over at The Lonely Conservative, Karen, ever the optimistic American [I repeat myself, I know], sees the potential opportunity in the strict regulation of salt:
I can see it now – a new black market on sugar, salt, baked goods and fatty foods. Maybe I can start a new career – Black Market Munchie Momma. No nutritional labels on my goods. No sirree! But I certainly wouldn’t sell something I wouldn’t feed to my kids, or myself, for that matter. The black market is soon to be the new free market. Oh, change, ain’t it sweet?
Oh Karen, don’t you know: they’ll regulating our sugar intake next!
And now it’s time for WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS…..
The Scene: A badly lit street in a bad section of town in 2020. A skruffy-looking, but tall man hovers in a darkened doorway with his hands in his jacket pocket as another man approaches who is looking every which way to make sure no one’s following or watching him. He stops in front of the man in the doorway…
WALKING MAN: Hi.
DOORWAY MAN: Hi.
WALKING MAN: You got any stuff?
DOORWAY MAN: Maybe…you from the USDA?
WALKING MAN: Nawh…nawh…I’m cool man, I’m cool. Smitty sent me, man.
DOORWAY MAN: Smitty huh?…what he say, man?
WALKING MAN: He said there was this dude who had primo stuff for a reasonable price, man — top of the line like. He said he hangs around the doorway to the old Wendys. He said ‘Tell the dude “Smitty 1E” sent you’, man.
DOORWAY MAN: Ok, man…just gotta make sure. Them USDA guys are real good…a lot of them used to work for ACORN and The Panthers, man.
WALKING MAN: Aw…I ain’t one of them, man. I clean out the ovens over at the District Rationing Board.
DOORWAY MAN: Jeez…that sucks, man…I’d rather be here out on the streets.
WALKING MAN: It keeps me in the stuff, man, keeps me sodiumed.
DOORWAY MAN: I can dig that…okay, here’s the deal: I got some primo Morton, pre-ban, but, if you’re willing to pay some more, I got Kosher, man, Kosher.
We return you now to Occupied America in 2010.
I hope they don’t reduce the level of salt in Soylent Green, it’s just right now
Trouble is, with the Chinese Soylent Green you feel hungry again an hour after eating it.
The process of thinking couldn’t possibly result in their conclusions.
I’m heading to Sam’s Club to stock up on sugar, lard, white flour and chocolate chips. You know, just in case.
I’ll get the booze – you know they’ll be coming after that eventually [all that will be left will be Victory Gin].
It all makes sense now….the plan, it’s all starting to come together….flood the oceans with toxic oil, prevent any reasonable effort at a cleanup….just to cut off people’s access to that giant watery source of free salt down at the beach!
You’re starting to think like one of them Bolshes – quick, take two Founders and call me in the morning.