Posted on 02/25/2019 5:04:51 AM PST by Kaslin
That will eventually happen, but my fear is this country is so incredibly wealthy that it will take decades to hollow it out to the point that we become Venezuela.
“The whole thing will collapse when competing factions of socialists end up fighting each other.”
We could start this internal conflict so easy if we could only blind the communications systems of the MSM. Easy pizzy puddin’ n pie. Would solve all our problems but quite impossible.... so don’t even try it.
In the days of AOCs last breath’s the American Dream was shattered for many. For many more they were now starving in the once great cities, and they were starving and killing themselves.
The Farmers, and the Constitution, had prevailed. As the socialist scourge and sanctuary cities taxed and tried to destroy the countryside, these farmers stopped the trucks, the trains, blew up the damns, and cut the power and imports to the cities.
The cities were now dying. The milita’s and military had long ruled out saving those city dwellers from themselves for they were all socialists and they hated the us, the very people who could have saved them outside the cities in the farmlands.
We had plenty of food, plenty of water, plenty of ammunition, and we all worked and served on the front lines in rotations to ensure the city dwellers never again left their city limits.
The "Greatest Generation" gave us FRD four times, the Boomers were hippies who gave us Johnson and Carter, and GenXers voted for Clinton twice. But the Millenials are the WORST EVER. Uh huh.
Everyone matures as they age. The same is happening with Millenials. Remember, Trump won by about 76k votes. We need to get more people on the Deplorable bus. To the extent there are lots of Millenials ready to vote, efforts should be focused on getting them red-pilled vs telling them they're a bunch of useless dopes.
‘Boomers’ did not elect Lyndon Johnson.
Excellent essay, thank you for sharing it!
Also, I read Wildfire recently and it was an excellent and captivating read! It resembled Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six” in some ways but with the story set on the universe of The Split.
Great line.
The point remains....in general, every generation of youths start out young and idealistic then life smacks them upside the head and they become realists. Millenials are no different, but the current generation of old coots (present company included) seems to have forgotten their youthful stupidity. The sooner we act to cultivate Millenials and make them red-blooded Deplorables, the better.
Math impairment.
The philosophical basis of this discussion is the battle between the COLLECTIVE (socialism) and the INDIVIDUAL (capitalism).
Here’s the proper argument:
Leftwingnutjobs believe that people “should be their brother’s keeper.” If I don’t want to be my brother’s keeper, then they want to use FORCE to compel me against my will to give away my property to others.
I don’t call these people “liberal” because liberal stems from the word “Liberty” and they do NOT want liberty. Rather, they want CONTROL over other people, which means the use of FORCE, either explicitly or implied.
Implied use of FORCE is via the Tax Man: If you don’t pay for DemoRat’s grand redistribution policies, the tax man will come to your house and take you to jail (yes, with a gun).
A good way to start a dialogue with Leftards on the subject of collectivism vs. individualism is begin with the premise that “I don’t believe in using force on other people, do you?”
Of course, the leftards will say “No of course not, I believe in peace!”
Then you work backwards to prove that yes, they DO believe in using force via the Taxman to force people to comply with their elitist-redistributionist vision for society.
These people are FASCISTS and need to be shown as such in the public eye.
They may be ninnies, but they are dangerous as hell.
We're through being Cool
We're through being Cool
Eliminate the ninnies and the twits!
It is not necessary to overdo the individual point. In fact it can be counterproducive. The missing link is the word that “liberals” (I agree the word belongs in scare quotes) exert themselves to suppress: society. Back in the day, a Civics teacher gave a homework assignment intended to teach - as the teacher smugly said the next day - that “society” meant nothing other than “government.” At the time, I did not accept the teacher’s notion, but I did not then know that the very start of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense puts paid to that idea:SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.Socialists love to use euphemisms - “society” when they mean government,“liberal” or “progressive" when they mean socialist, and so on.Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.
The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.
And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.
So, “You didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly. It is not the government but society - as Thomas Paine points out in Common Sense, a very different thing - which makes the pencil.
Government planning is merely interference in society’s subtle workings by people who have nowhere near the competence needed to make such large decisions and be responsible for them. It is nothing more than the irresponsible separation of responsibility from authority, in violation of the first principle of good management. Improvement in efficiency via government “planning” is a paper tiger.
But note that society is a concept larger than the individual, and even larger than government. “Society” is often referred to as “the market.” There is a name for a government which subsumes society: tyranny.
My verdict on Alexandria Occasionally Coherant:
I honestly think she’s mentally retarded. I’m serious. Maybe a victim of FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome)? There’s a developmental issue(s) with her.
“Normal” people have some type of brain to mouth filter. Slightly retarded people can look “normal”. I really think she operates at a Forrest Gump level with a 65/70 IQ.
I actually feel a little bad for her.
“The Millenials will likely be the first generation in U.S. history whose standard of living (for the majority of them, at least) will be LOWER than that of their parents. I see evidence of this all over the place.”
It depends on how you measure “standard of living”. If you measure it by all the things my wife and I have which did not exist when my parents were born we have a much higher standard of living. If you measure it by real estate owned and freedom of action without government interference my grandparents on both sides were VASTLY, TREMENDOUSLY, ALMOST UNIMAGINABLY wealthier than my wife and I and they were better positioned by far to survive most natural disasters and incredibly better prepared to survive without money. There is no way they could have ever imagined being as helplessly dependent on the system as we are nor could they have imagined that we would lose so much of the freedom they took for granted. They considered it normal to have enough food on hand to survive for six months without buying anything and much longer before possibly going hungry. In an emergency they could have taken in several other families, given them a place to sleep in the barns and fed them for a week or longer.
The first election Boomers could vote in was 1968. The voting age was (thankfully) still 21 then (and ought to be returned to and made 25 or 30).
I think Sanders does a damn good job, but if she ever needed a vacation or a break from those morons, I’d love to see their faces when Schlicter walked into the Press Room.
RE Occasionally Coherent:
Lol! Love it!
RE mentally retarded:
No, I think she’s completely serious, and lethally stupid. Should that tw*t ever get in control of anything, she’s a “true believer”. Watch “Doctor Zhivago”. Her kind is in that movie.
RE Socialism:
You know, I watched “They Were Expendable” this morning. An amazing AMERICAN movie, made during 1945, while the war was still going on.
There’s a scene, where the old ship repair yard owner, “Dad” Knowland (played by Russel Simpson) is sitting on the steps of the porch. He’s watching what’s left of the US forces head off into the Philippine jungle.
Robert Montgomery says to him “What are you gonna do, Dad?”, referring to the fact that the Japs are closing in.
The old man has a M1903 Springfield across his lap, an M1917 Colt DA .45 revolver strapped on his hip, a pipe in his hand, and a jug of shine sitting next to him. And he is PISSED.
“I’ll wait for ‘em here... 40 years it took me to build this place, and they can’t have it without a fight...” He says.
You know what?
I’m “Dad” Knowland.
Knowland time.
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