{"id":1753796,"date":"2022-11-28T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753796"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:03:34","slug":"hon-thaddeus-g-mccotter-an-ode-to-the-adage-mind-your-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hon-thaddeus-g-mccotter-an-ode-to-the-adage-mind-your-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter: An Ode to the Adage &#8220;Mind Your Own Business&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhon-thaddeus-g-mccotter-an-ode-to-the-adage-mind-your-own-business%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/article_Karen.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                One of the casualties of the communications revolution roiling our Insane Age is the old adage, \u201cmind your own business.\u201d Not only has this sage adage been ignored, but minding everyone else\u2019s business is being promoted as a social good.<\/p>\n<p>We witnessed the apex (to date, at least) of such intrusive behavior during the COVID pandemic, as half the citizenry was more than happy to mind the business of the other half; and, further, to punish them for allegedly \u201crisking\u201d the lives of others. But such COVID fascism didn\u2019t occur in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout its history, the Left has made hay breaking the Tenth Commandment by coveting thy neighbors\u2019 goods. To facilitate this redistribution of goods, every Leftist endeavor and narrative is aimed at furthering the process of collectivization. Of ideological necessity, they are hellbent upon eradicating the very concept and existence of an individual possessing their own business \u2013 economic or otherwise \u2013 to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s not just individuals. Amazingly the Left has actual businesses \u2013 for-profit, private sector entities \u2013 refusing to mind their own business by <a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/2022\/08\/08\/mccotter-who-makes-these-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foisting the DIE cult tenets<\/a> upon the rest of us. Thus, nearly every public and private entity captured by the Left during their long slouch through the institutions is now singing the same discordant, siren song of collectivism based upon \u201cidentity.\u201d This disastrous Leftist din is implicit, explicit, ubiquitous, and incessant.<\/p>\n<p>As a personal example, our family\u2019s health insurer requires the accumulation of points to retain a lower rate for coverage. Daily on their website, one acquires points by, among other means, acknowledging one has read a \u201ccard\u201d bearing a health tip or \u201cother important\u201d information ostensibly related to one\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, you guessed it.<\/p>\n<p>On a nearly daily basis, my cards contain a tenet of the DIE cult (\u201cDiversity, Inclusion, Equity)&#8230;\u201cCarbs are a source of sugar,\u201d \u201cHydrate frequently,\u201d \u201cWhat Is Implicit Bias?\u201d \u2013 excuse me? Now, one would think the insurer would realize two things. One, it is unhealthy for some individuals to be continually subjected to the promotion of a Maoist-derived, socially injurious ideology. I believe the fashionable term of late is \u201ctriggered.\u201d Two, I am not one of their employees.<\/p>\n<p>To our description of how the Left promotes minding everyone else\u2019s business, we can now add \u201csneaky\u201d and \u201ccoercive.\u201d Again, under the coercive threat of raising my premium, I must accumulate points. Reading cards accumulates points. Ergo, the insurer slips in the tenets of their DIE cult\u2019s secular religion to individuals, such as yours surly, who would otherwise be free from such indoctrination. Well, at least from such indoctrination by this insurer. Recall how the Leftist din is ubiquitous and incessant, as well.<\/p>\n<p>What my insurer has done at the behest of the Left is to transform me into Vaclav Havel\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hac.bard.edu\/amor-mundi\/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23\">greengrocer<\/a>.\u201d I acknowledge I\u2019ve read their \u201cwoke\u201d card, but I don\u2019t believe it. In fact, I disagree with it. Thus, the Sovietization of my relationship with my health insurer is complete. You try to indoctrinate me; I tell you what you want to hear; real life goes on outside of our relationship. In many ways, I have been transported back to a 1980s college classroom. Paging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Closing-American-Mind-Education-Impoverished\/dp\/1451683200\">Allan Bloom<\/a>\u2026\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By refusing to allow Americans to mind their own business, the Left is ensuring domestic discord and the national division. But there is no other outcome from the Left\u2019s comic book morality. The Left deliberately conflates tolerance and acceptance. Yet, within our republic, one is entitled to tolerance but not to acceptance. To compel acceptance is to violate the agency of another, to impinge upon their freedom of conscience. Within the Left\u2019s warped, Manichean world, then, the imperative of collectivization and coerced acceptance means that one either submits and agrees or is deemed evil and canceled. When the repressive Left shouts \u201cStronger Together!,\u201d it is not an invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Better to abide the old adage. Minding one\u2019s own business is the consummate kindness. It respects the differences between individuals; tolerates them when necessary; and leaves all parties able to pursue our American dreams, either singularly or jointly, without coercion and in full accordance with the self-evident truths and God-given, constitutionally recognized, and protected rights we all possess by birth.<\/p>\n<p>Something tells me that my insurer won\u2019t be putting that on a card any time soon\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A Human Events contributor, the Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter (M.C., Ret.) represented Michigan\u2019s 11th Congressional district from 2003-2012, and served as Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee. Not a lobbyist, he is a frequent public speaker and moderator for public policy seminars; and a Monday co-host of the &#8220;John Batchelor Radio Show,&#8221; among sundry media appearances.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the casualties of the communications revolution roiling our Insane Age is the old adage, \u201cmind your own business.\u201d Not only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}