Actually, I am feeling rather optimistic.
Socialism always fails because it is fiscally unsustainable long-term. If you look at France's recent history, you will see that the government has tried to pull back on entitlements. Those efforts have failed because they have had those benefits for generations.
I think it's a good thing that we are rapidly going broke. A healthy American economy could have dragged out socialism for hundreds of years.
Rather, things are bad now, will continue to decline, and will not improve as government takes over more and more. People will see over the course of a few years that the government programs are not making anything better. But they will remember prosperity. They will remember having choices at the grocery store. They will remember all the goodies they bought with their credit while the economy was healthier.
They will be begging for change. Remember how upset people were with $4 per gallon gas? Remember the complaining about $4 per gallon milk? Double the price of most basic goods through inflation and people will be pissed.
The next dozen or so years won't be pleasant, but the change will be so rapid that I think it will work in our favor.
“...the change will be so rapid that I think it will work in our favor.”
This is what most on the right are soothing themselves with but it will not turn out this way.
This is the hard-left, not liberals.
They are presently setting us up to have no options.
The “inexplicable” spending is your first clue.
Freedom will not be an option, folks.
They are strapping us down with so much debt that only their solutions will make sense—or suffer a collapse.
The demographics are changing in such a way that there won’t be the “right-wing” voting block that there is today.
While you are all applying this “optimistic” (and foolish) salve to your inner world, your freedom is being stolen right before your glazed-over eyes.
The people won’t be “begging for change”. They will be begging for more “help” from the government.
There will be no undoing what they are currently doing. This is not just another Democrat era, people! Wake up!
I can’t believe how many people, after all we’ve witnessed lately, believe it can’t happen here.
And I am blown away at how many at FR don’t get it.
The time to fight is now.
America is too big to fail, right? To big to bring down, correct?
The moment they achieve national health care, and they will, you will know that America has run her race—the great experiment will be over.
The rest of the rights you have enjoyed will follow shortly thereafter.
There simply aren’t enough people around anymore that understand this threat.
Americans are fat, dumb and happy. Too spoiled, too naive, and too ignorant to see what is happening to them.
From the time I was a teenager I dreaded the loss of the WWII generation. I feared what might happen once they were gone—now I know.
No fight, no freedom, FReepers.