Nannystateitis ~ n. A disease of the progressive and activist organizations that makes them think that its ok to trample on the rights of the majority to punish the bad behavior of the minority in order to protect “the greater good.”
The greater good - now that truly is a reason to give up your rights isn’t it? The greater good is one of the tag lines that activist groups and nanny-state politicians use to invoke an emotional response so that they can pass increasingly intrusive legislation slowly stripping all of us of our rights. Unfortunately this is not a new concept and statements like “we need to pass this (insert intrusive legislation name here) in order to protect the greater good” or the ever popular “We must enact this law to protect the children.” Why do people keep falling for these untrue slogans and vote to strip themselves of their rights?
Please tell me you my loyal reader are not stupid enough to think that the government or any of these special interest groups give a damn about your safety or your children. These actions are purely to seize just that much more control of your lives and your actions. We see “feel good” laws and regulations pass and now have playgrounds around the country without slides or swings, or intruding on a business owner’s right to allow smoking in their establishment.
One of my favorite nanny-state lies is about the artificial sweetener saccharin those of you over thirty may remember this one. It started with a study in the late 1970s that showed saccharin contributed to bladder cancer in rats. So of course the nanny-state bureaucrats had to step up and pass all kinds of laws and restrictions. Warning labels had to be put on saccharin containing products and a lot of regulations on its uses were put into place. The only problem is that they didn’t tell you that the rats were subjected to levels of the sweetener that no human would ever come into contact with unless you drank 800 diet sodas a day. You know I’ll bet if you ate the amount of regular sugar in 800 sodas a day you would run a much higher risk of obesity and diabetes, so with that said lets pass laws that ban sugar too.
In the beginning I said that Nannystateitis is a progressive disorder and it is but do not mistake what I am saying. I do not use progressive to mean democrat because nanny stater’s are truly a bi partisan group that is not hampered by race, religion, sex or political affiliation. Nannystateitis is truly cross-cultural and it is part of every activist ideology and it occurs when oversensitive cry-babies get offended or someone gets hurt or killed.
Lets take this for example. The United States suffers 6,500 drownings or around 1 per 50,000 of population on average per year. I would like to point out that is 6500 people more than have died from saccharine caused cancer. So using nanny-state logic we should pass legislation against going into the water. So close all the swimming pools and beaches because 6500 out of 300,000,000 die on average from drowning, or we should ban bathtubs because around 75 children a year die in them, therefore they are a safety hazard. So we need this law and it needs to pass to “protect the children.” Are you all starting to get the point.
So after deciding that you as an individual are too stupid to make your own choices these activist groups and the government pass these laws not to protect you but more so to control you and your behavior.
Stand up and stop believing their crap and allowing them to continue to lie to you with their made up facts and skewed statistics or one day you may just wake up in an Orwellian nightmare that you can’t escape.
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