I’m driving down a two lane highway doing five mph over the posted limit.  The guy behind me, less than a car length away, is obviously frustrated that the idiot in front of him is going so slow.  Come on, I’m five OVER the posted limit, not five under.  What’s the problem?  Simple.  To him, the speed limit sign isn’t a limit, just a suggestion.  So, even though there’s a double yellow line, he passes me and then has to cut back in abruptly because of a car coming the other way, which he couldn’t see because of a curve in the road.  Hmmm….. Maybe that’s why there was a DOUBLE YELLOW LINE!

His behavior got me to thinking.  Is it possible that many of the problems we face in this country right now are because too many people look at rules and regulations as just “suggestions” and not RULES AND REGULATIONS?

Now don’t get me wrong.  I am a confirmed small government advocate.  There are way too many stupid rules and regulations out there which need to be scrapped.  However, while they are in place, they need to be obeyed.  We can’t just make things up as we go along. That’s called anarchy and chaos.

The problem with the left in this country is that they are constantly winging it when something doesn’t go their way.  Any idiot who doesn’t see it from their point of view must be a Neanderthal.  Our Constitution is just an outdated document drawn up by a bunch of white suprematist slaveowners over 200 years ago.  We have to change it based on the ideas, concepts and morals of our own era. And if you don’t believe that, you must be some sort of racist, fascist, xenophobic, homophobic, knuckle dragging jerk.  Well, maybe I am, but lets look at it my way.

I believe there is a need for a secure border.  Why?  Because if we don’t have a well defined and defended border, we don’t have a country.  Part of the reason that so many people have wanted to come to this nation over the last two hundred fifty plus years is that we did have secure borders which made this a safe and prosperous place to live.

The European Continent has been a fountainhead of knowledge and culture for several thousand years, but it also has been broken up and conquered by many groups of invaders during that period of time. These people violently imposed their morals, customs and culture on the peoples they defeated.  The same can be said of Asia, the Indian sub-continent, and most of Central and South America.  Only North America has had relatively few conflicts between the countries which compose that region, especially the United States and Canada.

Here’s where the left jumps in and asks “What about the extermination of the Native American Peoples by the white race? There is no doubt that wrongs were committed in that area.  However, they were the inevitable consequence of a clash of cultures, one “civilized”, the other primitive and tribal.  There were atrocities on both sides.  Contrary to some popular narratives, the American Indian was not a peace loving friend of nature.  He was at constant war with many of his neighbors, kept slaves, practiced brutal methods of torture and was occasionally cannibalistic.  Small herds of buffalo were frequently driven off a cliff and only choice parts cut from the carcasses.  In many tribes, competence at thievery was considered a virtue.   These customs didn’t make them bad people, but showed the wide gap between the red man and the whites.

But I digress.  Back to the speed limit concept.  If we can individually decide what a “reasonable” speed limit is, and there are no consequences for violations of the posted limit, we have chaos and a very dangerous environment.  If we throw out our Constitution, then we also throw out all the laws on the books, because each of them are based on the concepts and provisions inshrined in the founding documents.  It then becomes “everyone for themselves”, “might makes right”, and “only the strongest survive”.  Like that concept?

If you don’t, then “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”  Live within the system, but feel free to try to change it.  Legally, that is.  Get your elected representatives to pass new laws if you can. Meanwhile, live with the ones currently in place, whether you agree with them or not.  That is, or at least used to be, the American Way.