I agree, which is why I'd indicated that I didn't particularly agree with his conclusion. I don't see it particularly as a generation conflict but a citizen vs insane government conflict. The politicians must be reined in. Government must be downsized drastically. We can't keep spending. It will literally take generations to fix the mess they've created assuming not another dollar of debt is created...and we all know that Obama isn't about to stop spending, even if it means destroying the nation. And many are growing to believe that has been his goal all along.
It is his goal. His and George Soros. When I look back at his first few months I can’t believe there is an American alive who would still support him but they do.
“And many are growing to believe that has been his goal all along.”
True, and I recall FReepers including Mrs. RQSR, and myself predicting that goal prior to his election.
We and those others that predicted the results we are seeing actually listened to the bastard when he spoke. He said what he was going to do, and if he did not, then his wife did.
All one had to do was listen, but too many seemed to want the Black guy to win, and wanted to be a part of the first real Black guy being President. They put words they wanted to hear into his mouth rather than listening to his actual words. They stepped into the polling booth, and said “I’ll show THEM I’m NOT prejudice”, and voted for Obama. Then they walked out of the booth feeling all warm and fuzzy about themselves.
They were BS’d, and America is now on the road to “H”.
In 1992, I confess, I voted for Bill Clinton. Out of disgust and "and what's the use" feeling of despair. My motivation was to allow the socialist left, bent on destroying America by transforming it into a new Socialist Paradise. The ordinary citizen, unaware of the seriousness of the threat, would be aghast at the results and rise up to quash the movement, once and for all, and we would return to the governement of the people by the people.
At the time I was unaware of both the Cloward-Piven strategy as well as the depth of cluelessness and indifference of the average voter.
I was 17 years too early.
What I assumed would take a entire presidential term to accomplish (the transformation and indignance of the American populace and the rising up of a people who realized that their way of life was being destroyed) could actually be accomplished in one year. No one, in 1992, could imagine that level of insanity could prevail. Not everyone has yet realized it today!
The prescient novel 1984 summed it up perfectly, and we are fortunate (?) to be able to experience the unthinkable first hand :
The internet is a danger to us all, because too much information is a BAD thing...
“WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
Yes, it is TIME to DownSize DC!
Eliminate entire departments (Education, EPA, etc)
Eliminate all functions not expressly designated to the Federal Government by the Constitution. All other powers rightfully belong to the State and the People. NOT to our elected elitist overlords.
Force the Congress & Senate to telecommute most of the year. Live in their home districts under the thumb of the electorate and away from the lobbyists.
The legislature in Texas meets on a 2 year schedule, unless a special session is called by the Governor. It has worked well for us a long time.