The One Radical Pledge That Could Actually Scare Politicians Straight
It's an old Japanese tradition who's time might just be right to come back!
Let me ask you a question I’ve asked people for years. Do you know the first sign you see when you enter a National Park? Not the one with the park’s name, the other one. Loosely, it says: “Please don’t feed the animals. They become dependent.”
That sign is a warning, and it is not just about the bears. What it really says is this: if you hand out free food to wild creatures, they forget how to take care of themselves. Eventually, they depend on the hand that feeds them. And if that hand ever closes? They starve.
Now let me ask you this: if it is true for animals, why would it be any different for humans? Because here is the ugly truth: our politicians have figured out that feeding the animal part of society is the easiest way to buy loyalty. Free checks, free food, free phones, free rent, free whatever, and in return, the people who are fed will gladly vote for their feeders forever.
The more people who depend on the government for survival, the less our so-called leaders have to worry about serving society as a whole. They just have to keep tossing scraps to the dependent and watch the votes roll in. And the saddest part? This is not new. Every advanced society that ever fell followed the same pathetic script.
Look at history. The Egyptians. The Greeks. The Romans. They all got fat, lazy, corrupt, and dependent. They all started rotting from within. Bread and circuses kept the mobs happy while the system hollowed out. And here we are. America is creeping up on 250 years. Take a wild guess how long most great societies last. Two hundred to 250 years. Congratulations, folks. Next year is the big birthday.
Right now, we are living our own version of bread and circuses. Free college debt “forgiveness.” Endless welfare programs. Pandemic checks that made work optional. That is the bread. The circuses? TikTok dances, celebrity politics, social media outrage, and 24-hour screaming matches on cable news. Meanwhile, the country that feeds this show is rotting like a neglected barn.
And if that was not enough, we have completely nuked the idea of personal responsibility. Lawyers run everything now, so no one truly pays for their crimes. We blame guns for gun violence. Excuse the hell out of me, but I have never, and I mean never, seen a gun get up on its own and shoot up a movie theater or a Park Avenue high-rise. Guns do not kill by themselves. People do.
But that is the game we play today. Blame daylight on the sun. Blame night on the dark. Don’t blame teachers for poor education. And we don’t blame politicians for anything. And the politicians? They never apologize. Not for lying, not for screwing up, not for burning down the country in slow motion. They stand there with chocolate all over their face saying, “Who, me?”
Meanwhile, the Japanese once held honor in such high regard that if they disgraced themselves or failed their people, they would commit ……