Posted on 04/14/2024 5:37:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Imagine you are a mouse — a placid little creature — living in a labyrinth. You don’t know it’s a labyrinth; it’s just where you live. You follow a well worn path, meandering along, chasing the red button. The red button provides you with food or whatever makes you happy.
But you’ve started to notice that things are changing. It’s not as good as it used to be in the labyrinth, not as easy to get to the button. And the payoff when you get there isn’t as good anymore. You’re anxious, but you’re not sure what to do. You’re starting to wonder about things. It’s been dawning on you that following the path isn’t getting you anywhere, and you may even be going backwards.
Suddenly you’re presented with a choice: keep running along the same path, or exit the labyrinth. Will you head for the door? Are you nodding yes? Will you do it? What will it take for you to lift up your head and leave the comfortable confines of the labyrinth?
In a recent Substack article, the online commentator Kulak wrote that history is divided into alternating periods of the centralizing or decentralizing of political power, noting that we have been in a period of centralization from 1700 to 1945. That seems about right, although things took a turn for the worse in the short-term after 1945 with the rise of the gargantuan state. Now the cracks in the foundation are beginning to show.
In fact, don’t tell anybody from the Deep State, but decentralization is happening now. The grand bargain the American people made with an expansive federal government is falling apart. The people tolerated big government for a lot of free stuff, but now the government is undermining the bargain
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I hope you’re wrong, but I’m afraid you’re right
I find it interesting that most of those “laws” can be explained by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: “The amount of entropy (or disorder) in any system always increases over time”.
Regardless of how complex they are made to begin with, everything falls apart. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
AI will replace humans in that capacity soon enough.
When we look at things like the DDR, Nazi Germany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, North Korea, we see evil, human misery and degradation, fear, injustice, etc. when Democrats look at these governments they see wonderful things. They see bureaucrats with unlimited power. They see a population that is forced to conform to every politician’s whim. They see a government ruling class that has the freedom to do exactly what it wants with a serf class that has no freedom at all and they think “that’s the way it should be here”. And I don’t know what Democrat voters think. I suspect they don’t think.
It was designed for a moral and a religious people.
Where did our rulers in Congress give themselves the power to force every working American to participate in a mandatory Ponzi Scheme?
That's right ...
They invented it out of thin air.
You nailed it right there. That is the problem that has destroyed America. The Piñata Grande to the world.
“The Bargain with Government Is Coming Apart”
Bargain with the devil is always a loser.
“When we look at things like the DDR, Nazi Germany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, North Korea, we see evil, human misery and degradation, fear, injustice, etc...”
Union government has elements of all those.
Bflr.
There is a philosophical divide. Where we see evil they see good. Where we see oppression they see opportunity, etc. The problem is all of that good stuff for them comes at our expense. We get nothing but misery out of the “bargain.” Biden, Obama, Schumer, the Cortez nitwit, etc. are not misguided or well intentioned they are evil.
Spot on.
That would be an event like Waco. You saw how that turned out.
They are satan’s representatives and yes, pure evil.
Yes there was total apathy. Maybe there will be less apathy and more conservative voting this time.
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