The Empire Strikes Back

Some say that was the best Star Wars movie.

Whether I think so or not is not the point of this post.

Funny how I started watching it and starting having this foreboding about the future of this country.  Sometimes the subconscious will move you in directions that are quite surprising.  Why watch this movie now?  That's what surprises me.

It is only a movie of course.  But it is about the struggle of freedom over tyranny.  The movie moves towards its most critical point and leaves it there at the end.  That sets up the final movie in the series, where freedom wins in the end.  But that is not the movie I watched, but this one, where the outcome is still uncertain.

I'd say that George Lucas is probably a Democrat.  Quite a number of very rich people are Democrat.  It is a strange phenomenon.  Very rich people are supposed to be Republican, but it doesn't work out that way.

The movie is about the struggle for freedom---the irony being that the writer of the story is one among many who are responsible for the extinguishing of freedom in his own country.  That's what's so strange about it.

Freedom isn't about getting things from the government.  Freedom is about getting a better life for yourself and doing it for yourself.  Someone who does things for you, especially if it is the government, will not be doing these things without a price tag.  The price tag is freedom.

People all over the world came to this country to have the opportunity to better themselves.  They didn't come here to be equal.  You don't better yourself by being equal.  The left wants equality.  What they will deliver is equality, all right.  Things will get equally bad for everybody, but not for themselves.  For that is how it worked in the Soviet Union.

We should not seek equality, but we should seek opportunity.  That's what's being given up.  Or in grave danger of being given up.  The outcome is very much in doubt.