Posted on 04/01/2021 7:31:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 04/01/2021 10:44:43 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.
There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.
1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
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If you don't play along, it fails.
If you don't play along, it fails.
The warping has begun. In a few years, this country will be something no one in their right mind ever imagined it would become.
Hanson slips when he equates McCarthyism with “cancel culture” and the “Twitter Reign of Terror.”
“Cancel culture” and the “Twitter Reign of Terror” give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
Don’t forget, free speech is no longer allowed.
I believe one of Trump’s failings was not having control of his own social media channels. I don’t think he ever imagined that free speech would be turned off in America.
Trump helped make Tweater universal and then the left shunted him off. I remember touring the WH in 2107 with my grandson and reading tweets from Trump as he was sending them.
Just like the Socialist utopia of Venezuela !
Long lines, no food, government takeover of anything financial, nationalize industry and "share the misery".
One helluva toboggan ride. All most of us can do is wish to hang on tight to the most secure point that can be reached on the toboggan, and hope it does not go over a cliff on the way down.
Wish and hope sometimes fail. Most of the time, really.
Sometimes it is hard to distingu8ish pessimism from reality.
RE: Hanson slips when he equates McCarthyism with “cancel culture” and the “Twitter Reign of Terror.”
And Joe McCarthy wasn’t entirely wrong either. He may have exaggerated the scope of the problem and targeted some innocent people, but not by much. The government was the workplace of perhaps 100 communist agents in the late 1940’s and early 50’s. He just didn’t know their names.
Many of those he wanted investigated were TRAITORS to this country. Some of these people engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union. They also manipulated U.S. foreign policy to the benefit of the communists.
For example, they maneuvered to cut off aid to the Chinese nationalists in order to betray China to the communists. This betrayal left mainland China in the hands of the Communists and the nationalists fled to the island of Taiwan.
More than 50 years later, the betrayal continues and is still in existence but it has now penetrated deep into the fabric of society - Hollywood, Sports, Technology, Education and even our government ( I am looking at folks like Eric Swalwell ).
*** Long lines, no food, government takeover of anything financial, nationalize industry and “share the misery”. ***
Just as Harris promised, equity of outcome.
“Sometimes it is hard to distingu8ish pessimism from reality.”
I am a pessimist I freely admit that. But I’m pretty good at observation.
If you don’t play along, it fails.
Sounds just looks how Hollywood and D.C got to be like it is.
The Dems have us surrounded with the corrupted institutions of society and, by their control of the communications channels, bullied to hold our tongue. With the “Biden” administration, they’ve pulled the chain to flush America into their swamp of servitude and ideological conformity. We’re now circling the drain. If we simply flow down the drain, we’ll end up in the cistern where the Dems and the evil of the world that eggs them on are waiting to feast on the decomposing remains of a once great America.
Only if the drain somehow plugs up before we’re down the tubes, then maybe we’ll claw our way back to freedom, but it’ll be an awful sh*t show.
Nice metaphor. As we’re being flushed away the Dems are also wiping their assess with the Constitution. A once profound and imposing document has become toilet paper.
Vice is good.
Exactly right. Don’t Like the rules, then stop playing the game.
Millions of Americans are going along out of fear. I stopped watching the media 20 years ago and they have only gotten worse. They only speak when there is a lie to be told. What possible value is that in anyone’s life?
Stop wearing a mask. You don’t even have to be confrontational, but if the person has no authority to force you to wear one, ignore them.
Stop using goods and services of woke companies. You couldn’t get me on a major airline at gunpoint these days. I refuse to buy any apple products. Facebook? Who really needs it?
There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.
1) Money is a construct.
- It can be created from thin air.
- Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now.
As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.
2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore.
Joe Biden took an oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” But,
- He has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void.
- Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much.
- Arrests, prosecutions and trials are all fluid.
- Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.
- Crime rates do not necessarily matter.
If someone is carjacked, assaulted or shot, it can be understood to be as much the victim’s fault as the perpetrator’s. Either the victim was too lax, uncaring and insensitive, or he provoked his attacker.
How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer.
3) Racialism is now acceptable.
- We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily — if at all — by an American commonality.
- The explicit exclusion of whites from college dorms, safe spaces and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial. It is unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of “good” racism.
- Falsely being called a racist makes one more guilty than falsely calling someone else a racist.
4) The immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen.
- The newcomer, unlike the host, is not stained by the sins of America’s founding and history.
Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules and social distancing, stay out of school and obey all the laws. Yet those entering the United States illegally need not follow such apparently superfluous COVID-19 rules.
Their children should be immediately schooled without worry of quarantine.
- Immigrants need not worry about their illegal entry or residence in America.
Our elites believe illegal entrants more closely resemble the “founders” than do legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.
5) Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children.
- They cannot be asked to provide an ID to vote.
- “Noble lies” by our elites about COVID-19 rules are necessary to protect “Neanderthals” from themselves.
- Americans deserve relief from the stress of grades, standardized testing and normative rules of school behavior.
- They still are clueless about why it is good for them to pay far more for their gasoline, heating and air conditioning.
6) Hypocrisy is passe. Virtue-signaling is alive.
- Climate change activists fly on private jets.
- Social justice warriors live in gated communities.
- Multibillionaire elitists pose as victims of sexism, racism and homophobia.
The elite need these exemptions to help the helpless. It is what you say to lesser others about how to live, not how you yourself live, that matters.
7) Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it.
- It is more humane to let thousands of homeless people live, eat, defecate and use drugs on public streets and sidewalks than it is to green-light affordable housing, mandate hospitalization for the mentally ill and create sufficient public shelter areas.
8) McCarthyism is good.
- Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts saves more lives and careers.
- Cancel culture and the Twitter Reign of Terror provide needed deterrence.
- Now that Americans know they are one wrong word, act or look away from losing their livelihoods, they are more careful and will behave in a more enlightened fashion.
- The social media guillotine is the humane, scientific tool of the woke.
9) Ignorance is preferable to knowledge.
- Neither statue-toppling, nor name-changing, nor the 1619 Project require any evidence or historical knowledge.
- Heroes of the past were simple constructs.
- Undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees reflect credentials, not knowledge.
- The brand, not what created it, is all that matters.
10) Wokeness is the new religion, growing faster and larger than Christianity.
- Its priesthood outnumbers the clergy and exercises far more power.
- Silicon Valley is the new Vatican, and Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter are the new gospels.
Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them. They still could be transitory and invite a reaction. Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized.
The answer determines whether a constitutional republic continues as once envisioned, or warps into something never imagined by those who created it.
similiar tactics. goal is different.
mccarthyism to protect constitution bad.
mccarthyism to destroy constitution good.
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