Headlines today read “FDA takes momentous step to ban flavored cigarettes”, and I sense a schoolmarm totalitarianism taking gigantic leaps towards its ultimate goal. Why is the government involved in this at all? What is so bad about allowing adults to choose whether to smoke flavored cigarettes? I understand the answer, that flavors make the cigarettes more appealing to kids, yada yada yada. This isn’t the proper role of government at all, but no one will make a fuss because non smokers despise smokers. “And when they came for the menthol enjoyers, I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a menthol enjoyer”, is really the lesson here. No one ever cares to defend freedom until its enemies at right at their own doorstep, dismantling their liberty without any pushback. And they wonder why.
Another important lesson is that our regulatory agencies are filled with woke prudes. It might seem a contradiction to label as ‘prudes’ the people who want degenerate sex ed taught at very young ages, and who agitate for all-ages drag shows, but prudes they are. They are obsessed with controlling the behavior of others, which is why they aren’t content to live and let live. In animal fashion, they hate those who are different than themselves. They hate the freedom of others. They act on this hate, and so find gainful employment in our bloated regulatory bureaucracy in order to punish the public for being free. These are woke schoolmarms, eager to tell others what to do, and how to live. They make up a vital part of the totalitarian system, just as they did during the Nazi and Soviet regimes.
