The difference between free will and force

Eric Peters explains it.

The Future of Transportation in Our Democracy
The Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation—where in the Constitution does it state the federal government shall have the power to micromanage our comings and goings?—said the other day that people who haven’t given up their cars with engines for devices with a battery are similar to people back in the early 2000s who stubbornly refused to embrace the cell phone future.

Words to that effect.

He actually said more than just that. The money quote is as follows:

“The automotive sector is moving toward EVs, and we can’t pretend otherwise. Sometimes when these debates happen, I feel like it’s the early 2000s and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.”

Observe the passive voice masking-over the force behind all of this. The automotive sector is not “moving toward EVs.” It is being pushed toward EVs. He then equates not wanting to be pushed to buy something unwanted as being stupid. There is contempt—and menace—in this statement.

The irony of it is also lost on the Biden Thing’s secretary of transportation. Most people did get cell phones because – here it comes! – they offered advantages over land lines. These included more convenience and lower costs overall, if you bought a basic model (these currently can be bought for about $50 and a cheap monthly plan with unlimited service can be purchased for about $35). They also could do more things than just a phone, as everyone knows.

People bought them for the same reason most people prefer hamburgers made of beef rather than Impossible Burgers made of...well, whatever they make them out of.

It wasn’t necessary for the government to issue a slew of regulations aimed at making land line phones more expensive to manufacture—in order to discourage their use and make cell phones seem less expensive. There was no need to dangle tax kickbacks in the faces of people to get them to make the switch. People just made the switch. Because it made sense to the people who chose to buy cell phones.

These things are not “democrats.” They are autocrats. The remarkable thing—psychologically—is the general acceptance of this obnoxious lording-over by these autocrats. It is a phenomenon specifically characteristic of Leftist autocrats, who like to style themselves “democrats”—as for example the claque of autocrats who lorded over the old German Democratic Republic; i.e., communist East Germany. Because it goes down a lot easier when you tell the people you’re lording-it-over that they live in a “democracy.”

The United States—at one time a republic, with a governing structure specifically erected to stymie such “democrats”—is becoming more and more like the “democratic” republics of the old Warsaw Pact while Russia is becoming in many ways more like the republic America once was.

The reason for that may have something to do with the Russian people’s 70-year-experience with “democracy” as practiced by the leadership claque of the old Soviet Union. It gets old being told what you’ll be allowed by autocrats who allow themselves everything—and always at your expense.

The future of transportation in “our sacred democracy”? Ain’t none—the autocratic thugs who rule (not govern) us are ag’in it, see. Private transportation, that is, other than perhaps a bicycle or skateboard. You will take the bus, or subway, or train, or whatever your masters deem fit for you to take, and you’ll like it. Or, y’know, else.

Don’t try them, serfs. You have been warned.