America's Mixed Messages Steered People Wrong

America, as a country, was established as an effort to claim independence.  The proof of this is a formal document called the Declaration of Independence.

Independence is one being able to do for one's self, not requiring the permission, direction or approval of another.

The settler's on the American continent wanted to secede from the British kingdom.  They wanted to be an independent country of their own authority. Eventually, they achieved it.

The recognition of independence was so pervasive that it is spelled out multiple times, in multiple ways in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.  Rights were not given to groups or classes or types of people. No, rights were guaranteed to every individual person.  This was to ensure that the highly valued independence fought for as a country are enjoyed by every citizen in this country.

All the basics are there.  The core principle of independence is there.  Then, government decided to do the one thing it never should have or really had to the right to do.  They began to do things for people.  not just offer to do things as incentives, but to demand that things would be done and the residents must participate and/or contribute to them.

The government, any level of government, should NEVER be in the practice of doing things for people.  The government's role is to ensure that the people are independent.  That people are able to do for themselves.  Read the Declaration of independence.  Read the Constitution and bill of Rights.  It's all right there.

Instead, government, for whatever purposes and reasons be they good intentioned or deceptive from the start,  began to do for people and it has caused problems ever since.

There will always be people who will want to be kept like pets.  If they think their lives will be easier, safer, less complicated, whatever, they will always opt for the gilded cage.  They may not be independent or even free, but they are being taken care of.  Someone else is doing things instead of the people having to do it themselves.

Yet there will also always be people who value independence even more than life itself.  They don't want or need others to do things for them, they just want the opportunity and level field to be able to do for themselves. 

There will always be a conflict between the two types of people because those who want things done for them will be seen as a drain on the resources of those who want to do for themselves.

Those who want things done for them always see the independents as people who are not contributing to the collective whole.

America was not established as a country for the collective whole though.  It was established for those who would be independent.

To live independently is to accept the risks that go along with independence.  There are pro's and cons to every society, none are absolutely perfect.  In choosing the benefits of living in an independent society, you must accept the consequences of living in an independent society as well.

Too many people only want the benefits but refuse to accept the consequences.
They have been mis-lead by government which never should have begun doing for people in the first place.