That’s why the 1billion poor poor Chinese won’t uprise, because most of them don’t know that others live much differently.

Take away my high flow shower head and replace with a water saver that drips water like the Chinese water torture instead of using enough water to make me feel clean.

Take away my 3gal toilet and replace with a 1.6gal toilet I have to flush twice or three times as often.

Take away my water softener and leave me with hard water that doesn’t allow soap to suds up in the shower.

Take away my detergent with phosphates and leave my clothes and dishes dirty.

Corrupt the press and academia to where they no longer care about facts but only about their preferred man-bites-dog narrative in which we are, inevitably, the bad guys.

Take away my charcoal grill, gas lawn mower, insecticides and fertilizer so I can’t pollute the air the jet-stream leftists fly through in their private jets.

Force me by law to put all three of my under-12 children in car booster seats, preventing me from fitting my family of 5 in a car, even in a station wagon. No, make me buy a van or SUV to comply with the damn law, then raise the price of gas to $4 a gallon and accuse me of being a polluter.

Tax whiskey and tobacco, telephone service, gas, hotel rooms, restaurant food, and electricity to the point where I can’t afford to have fun, talk about my troubles, drive anywhere, travel, eat out, or keep the house under 80 degrees in the summer.

Ban conservative talk radio and fox news to keep me from seeing or hearing from anyone with an opinion that isn’t as inane and knee-jerk lefty conformist as a college sophomore’s.

Ban old children’s books because of the miniscule amounts of lead in them. While you’re at it, put the makers of handmade wooden toys out of business by requiring them to perform expensive testing on their products. Do all this with the supposed intention of stopping Chinese factories from selling dangerous toys to us.

Take away my right to give money or time to a political cause according to my desire and ability to give.

Take away a company’s right to deduct the pay of its executives over a million bucks from its taxes, forcing it to use options and other gimmicks that only make the payouts bigger and the incentives more perverse.

Take away a company’s right to set its own control and accounting policies and force it to hire two different auditors that micro-manage every aspect of its “finances” down to the configuration of network devices that financial information flows over. What’s next for Sarbanes-Oxley, auditing the electricity that powers them? This has cut the profit of American public companies by 50%, but there is another 50% of profit left for government to steal away.

Raise up an entire industry of Attorneys General in the various states who believe their way to the Governor’s office depends on how many businessmen they can frogmarch to jail for losing money or filling out a form the wrong way.

Elect an entire party of lawyers to the legislature who pass such a multiplicity of mutually contradictory laws in the states and nation that nobody ever knows if they are breaking some law but suspects they are. That this forces everybody to consult lawyers for all sorts of things with terrible results for getting the wrong advice is not unintentional.

Sweet Lord when will this insanity end?

But yeah, I’m finding it harder and harder these days to resist the urge to physically smack some sense into some people.

We can win Erick’s Revolution with the big, mythical number of 14.

We only need a few 47 to win the Senate back. And it’s not overreaching, I guess.

LOL!!!!

By the way, remind me to stand upwind of you when we man the barricades.

On a second thought…… NOOOO!

The deadly NYT liberal virus might contaminate my perfectly-shaped CONSERVATIVE bubble butt!

[Sorry sis if it becomes so graphic. Blame specialist's Asian toilet. It's catching. ROFL!!!!]

Totally beside the point, of course.