Posted on 02/24/2019 8:31:25 PM PST by week 71
We Had a Great Run,
Don’t Be Bitter.
Pick any given time in history; pick any given person, or group...they - too - were “conflicted” by their future.
In 1961 - when I turned 16 - I had no idea what the future would hold...but, I still had to put on my big-boy pants and walk right into it.
These things don’t change with time, it’s just that now there are more places to write (and whine) about it.
Seems every journalist got into the business to try and acquire the skills to tell us his/her problems and hang ups...and they all do so...daily.
“Que Sera Sera”, whatever will be, will be...wise words and the stark truth. You can try and prepare for every contingency, but the future isn’t written, and anything can happen.
So, lets all just live life and stop trying to play “Back to he Future”.
Some people just are unreasonable and maladjusted and are not content unless they have absolute power and a harem with two thousand women. Political movements tend to house a disproportionate amount of those, alongside people who are really losing out to no fault of their own.
A lot of people are losing out due to bad choices they did earlier in life, say, studied puppetry instead of something useful. So they are losing out, and it’s their own fault, but they can’t do anything about it either, and so they join up the ranks of the opposition.
The point here is not who forms the ranks of the opposition. The point here is that in a democracy the opposition has an actual shot at grabbing power. They have the freedom to do so. They are encouraged to do so. And so any smart political agent is going to find a way to organize these people. The same way any smart commercial agent is going to find a way to make money. There is always someone. An evolutionary process will produce it.
And the resentful will win, because upward mobility is a very strong motivator. Hope really does trump fear. People with a shot at gaining status are always going to outcompete people who are just trying to keep what they have. They are plenty of pathways, but the writing is in the wall. In a “free society”, the politics will always move to the left. Always.
From https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/leninism-and-bioleninism/
I hope so.
Voter fraud should be our main concern. We must eliminate it, especially ballot harvesting.
That’s all right on. You’re preaching to the choir, friend. Thanks.
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