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I had a sudden realization the other day.

Inner cities--the ones devastated by leftist, redistributionist, high-tax, high-planning, low-freedom, low-personal-responsibility policies since the end of the Second World War--the ones where the poor, the minorities, the "left behind" of the post-war boom have been consigned to live--the inner cities are the New Plantations.

The New Plantation Owners are almost exclusively Democrats--both white Democrats and black Democrats. Not all Democrats--just those who seem to bubble up to the top of the urban power structure wherever they're allowed to do so. The crop that these New Plantation Owners raise and harvest is not cotton.

The crop is votes.

Most often, the harvest is of black and poor people's votes, fertilized with the manure of promises of government money. But sometimes, in a weird sort of heartless crop rotation, the New Plantation Owners come in and push the poor people aside, building "gentrified" urban neighborhoods--either with or without a big stadium, arena, or shopping complex as its centerpiece. But in either case, the people who "benefit" from these programs never really benefit.

They're just told by the plantation owners that they will benefit--that prosperity is just around the corner. So, in gratitude, the very people who are the primary victims of these programs vote for the politicians who continue to inflict them upon them. But prosperity never comes to the victims of the New Plantation Owners.

If those government programs were effective, why then are the lives of the inner-city poor no better now than they were in the 1960's when Lyndon Johnson launched the "Great Society?" Why has the poverty rate not improved? Why has literacy not improved? Why has not the family in the urban core been strengthened?

The reason is that it's never, NEVER in the interest of the New Plantation Owners to actually make things in the urban core better. They're continually holding the carrot on the string out in front of the residents of the inner cities, and then continually jerking the carrot just out of reach by their taxation and government policies.

And of course, who do the politicians blame for this?

Who do they always blame?

The productive class. The business community. The eeevil, heartless Republicans. The poor. Everybody but the New Plantation Owners themselves.

When I make the comment that socialism is slavery, I'm deadly serious about it. The chains aren't of iron, the chains are of ideas--of ideology, but they're every bit as binding as those that bound the slaves of the past. They shackle the urban poor to a philosophy which is destroys everything it seeks to save.

The only path to freedom for people is freedom. Government can not give freedom. Each individual person can only give freedom to him or herself--by taking responsibility not only for who they are and who they might become, but also for who they have been in the past. Freedom is recognizing where you have made mistakes, learning from those mistakes, and growing as an individual. It is the opposite of the dependency mentality which the New Plantation Owners require of their slaves.

Freedom is not the easy road. But it is the only road that leads to every man and every woman becoming the best person that he or she can possibly be. All freedom requires is that you stop listening to the siren call of the New Plantation Owners, and begin to live your own life, the best you possibly can, and stop depending on the New Plantation Owners for anything. Because history and experience have shown that you can not trust the New Plantation Owners--you can't trust them for anything.

Government never gives freedom. It can only take.

Or it can stop taking. If enough of us say STOP loudly enough and often enough.

While there's still time.

In case you haven't noticed, the New Plantation Owners have taken control of the Federal Government, and are hell-bent on turning the entire country into the same kind of plantation that they have inflicted on the urban core. It's not so much that they're evil people, they're just disastrously misguided. They really do believe that you're better off as a slave on the New Plantation than you would be as a free human being. With them as the New Plantation Owners, of course.

They want your votes. And in exchange, they want to run your life while never quite delivering on their grandiose promises of a better tomorrow. Does that sound like a good trade?