The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event of the year. Tonight the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts, 31-17 to win their first championship in franchise history. With two teams as evenly matched as these two were, it was really a fun game to watch (except the very end of the game for Colts fans — sorry guys).
Besides the game itself, the Super Bowl has become known for the commercials. With the game being watched by tens of millions of people, it’s rather expensive to buy a commercial spot. This year, a 30 second commercial cost about $3 million to be put on the air. With that kind of investment, it’s no wonder companies try to produce commercials that are both entertaining and memorable.
This year, Audi produced a commercial that I believe is truly memorable. In fact, I may have nightmares about it. Why? Let’s just say it came too close to what may be reality in the not-too-distant future.
If you can’t view the video, here’s a summary: The Green Police are arresting everyone they find that is doing something that they consider to be hurtful to the environment (using plastic grocery bags, throwing away batteries, using incandescent light bulbs, setting the temperature on the hot tub too high, etc.). At the end, there is a roadblock set up and the Green Police are conducting eco-checks of vehicles. They notice one car that is an Audi A3 TDI clean diesel and let the driver through.
Is this just an entertaining ad? Or is it somewhat prophetic of what’s coming in this country? Notice these three points:
Number 1: If the environmentalists had their way, we wouldn’t have plastic bags, incandescent bulbs, or vehicles that were not fuel-efficient (at least by their standards). Anything they believe would harm the environment, they want those things to be outlawed. If they can’t be outlawed, they want a stiff penalty for using them so that people choose other more environmentally-friendly options.
Number 2: The federal government (Congress and President) have been working to consolidate power in Washington. The federal government controls a lot of things in our lives already. Those currently in power (the Democrats) are trying to gain more power.
Number 3: The environmentalists have a great deal of influence over the Democrat party.
I don’t know if the people at Audi produced this commercial because they want to promote the environmentalist agenda, or because they want to take advantage of the green movement to sell some vehicles. Either way, the enforcement of various environmental regulations like we saw depicted in their commercial is not all that far-fetched. We may be closer than we think.
The bottom line is that the federal government has gotten too big and too powerful. We need a smaller government that focuses on providing liberty to all Americans, rather than a larger government that takes away liberty because those in power believe we are incapable of fending for ourselves, so they deal with us as children.
When the government starts taking away our freedoms, they will not stop. They will keep coming for them, until eventually we have become enslaved to those in power. To say this would be a shame would be a gross understatement.
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Speaking of Super Bowl ads, did you see the one for the Census? Talk about a colossal waste of taxpayer money. That’s $3 million down the tubes. But I guess at this point, $3 million is just a drop in the bucket of wasteful and foolish government spending.
