Splitt
Active Member
We should already be supporting local growers when we can. They are the backbones of our communities.There is always potential for something redemptive to come out of dire situations…I've been thinking about all this inflation and indeed some of it has nothing to do with which party is in charge in either of our countries (I'm Canadian) … there's the Ukraine situation and post-COVID disruption and all that BUT…a lot of it sure does have to do with, frankly, liberal fiscal stupidity of the highest order as well. Not enough money? Just print more! What could go wrong? There's no historical examples of what happens when we do that is there????
But what this inflation (and as the father of a family of 6 I sure feel it at the pump and grocery store) just might bring about, at least for some, is an increased desire and motivation to be more self sufficient and sustainable and depend less upon government run infrastructure. The number of people I personally know who are dead serious about trying their hand at gardening for the first time come spring is such an encouraging thing. With the price of meat, hunting and fishing (maybe fishing haha) becomes a legitimately ECONOMICAL consideration. If the grocery store prices become insane it starts to make more sense to seek out local producers and farmers and support them instead.
And quite frankly a population that is less reliant upon the state to "take care of them" and has learned to take care of themselves and each other within their communities is a bigger threat to the whole liberal/leftist philosophy than just about anything else. They need the people to depend on them for everything if they're gonna control them. Maybe this pressure will result in people figuring out how to "not need them" so much.
They don't want us to do those things though. A socialist style of governance doesn't allow independence of thought or action. Manage the control of food and energy and you control the vast majority.
I remember listening to Lilly Tang Williams, an escapee from China talk about how a cow died in her village. The local governor seized the cow, butchered it, and kept the choice cuts for himself. The remainder didn't even go to her village. Socialism in a nutshell.