My lifetime achievement award medal was given to me on
Sunday evening. (The U. S. Department of Homeland Security has put me on their No-Fly list.)
The main comments from friends and family, for the past few days, have been open statements of envy. “What did you do to deserve that?”
Since we will never know what I did to deserve this honor, and we certainly won’t know why a lifelong Republican got this award, I can only speculate.
My first guess is that my fundamental rule ‘never get or
accept publicity for my successes’ is probably what has bureaucrats confused. My reason for rejecting publicity is that
people won’t help me in the
future if I am the kind of person who takes all the
credit. I want to keep being an
activist, an effective one. (Bureaucrats hate the idea that an activist may prefer annonymity. It is perceived as secrecy.)
My second guess about the reason for being put on the
list is that I am a fanatic lover of commerce. That means I’m effective in bringing about
social change because I am moving the society in the direction it will go in
the long run. (Four decades of successful activism may look to bureaucrats as though I am leading a gang.)
Lefties, on the otherhand, can’t succeed because they are trying to put on the brakes, stop the world, live in the past and promote outmoded-medieval ideas. In their frustration Lefties occasionally resort to violence.