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.
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.
Vice is good.
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.
Bttt.
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As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP
Comparison to GDP may be helpful to compare to other countries but it is nonsensical when talking about the ability to repay.
Debt to tax revenues shows ability to repay. Debt is 7 to 8 times tax revenues and climbing.
Debt is nothing more than deferred taxes.
In addition, currently debt is being serviced at historically low interest rates. When rates return to historical averages, interest will eat the fed budget.
The American Revolution was a fight against arbitrary rule.
Oh well...
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Well, this one is more or less true. Debt functioning as money matters, of course, to the few who are collecting the payments. Eventually, on the path we are on, they become rich while everyone else becomes poor.
This is why usury, still a sin, was a crime until very recently.
But yes, crime based money works very effectively.