Thanks. It is the product of a lot of consideration over a long period of time, and I am pretty satisfied that it is a good characterization of the status quo, a.k.a., the mess we’re in.But that leaves me with a problem - what do I do from here? I was disappointed that Dinesh D’Souza pead guilty to the charge of violating campaign finance law; the only way my analysis might be presented to SCOTUS would be for somebody to violate that law, and appeal his conviction all the way to SCOTUS. But who is able to stand up to the pressure of doing that? Will SCOTUS fall back into liberal hands before anyone ever brings such a case to SCOTUS?
It is discouraging, I tell you . . .
A vast number of people in this country have the same problem. The rage is that what is so apparent, what yields so surely after a little honest thought, seems to be something not communicable to the other side.
In my years, I have often wondered how the German people allowed the Nazis to rise? How did the North Koreans allow themselves to be sold into hopelessness? Why would any of the subject populations of brutalized countries accept their fate with seeming timidity?
Nearer to home, figuratively, why does Hollywood always assume that numerous minions are always available to do the bidding of whatever bad guy the plot constructs? Wouldn't you think that they all understand what happens in the last act?
I've come to understand that some tragedies cannot be prevented, and that is the saddest blow to befall me as I near retirement. There will be no magic moment where the dark side suddenly realizes and confesses the error of their ways. No happy ending will occur after the forces of good wipe them out afterward.
And that is because ignorance feels better than understanding. That having someone tell you that someone else caused "all of that", whatever "that" may be, will always appeal more than facing consequences for your choices. For that is what life is- a collection of your choices, and those choices which were made for you by people who just knew what was good for you- often before you were even born. It is those choices which will strictly shape your opportunities.
Yes, there will be blood on the concrete before this long vandalism spree slows. And that is because the cycle of creative destruction among free individuals will always occur. Sometimes the building outpaces the burning down. Sometimes not.
It is only after they sell themselves into chains, that populations realize what the actual cost of "free" is. And by that time it will be a repeat of the soviets, dancing at their victory in 1917, and then never being allowed to dance again for 80 long years, long after the dancers were dead. But long enough for them all first to see 10 million or more of their fellow dancers killed by not just the champion of the people, Stalin, but mainly by those minions he gathered around himself to do his bidding.
Do you want power and wealth- then learn to gather minions around you. But you have to want it really bad.
Do what you can, but don't think that the bill will not be paid. The advantage will lie with those snakey enough to maneuver others into paying the bill. This is what they train for, and always will- this is what our system has been corrupted into.
Just realize that you aren't the only one.
We all have failed. We had no real chance to do otherwise, if we were to provide for our families, rather than enter the zealot ring.