Posted on 01/03/2019 4:23:55 AM PST by vannrox
Ah. These are exciting times that we live in.
This article discusses a very uncomfortable point in time. That is when local, state and federal government is no longer in substantive control. It’s a transitional period. It is when one government style fails, and another one takes it’s place. Historically, it is a given development that eventually happens to all nations. All of them. Including the (virginal) United States.
We, as Americans, have never been in this situation.
Because, we and our parents have never experienced it, we think that it will never ever happen to us. As such we tend to laugh, make fun of, and disparage those that argue that it might. We call them “radical preppers”, “members of the tin-foil-hat army”, and “uni-bomber wanna-bes”. Other terms that come to mind include “fruit cake” and “bonkers”.
The argument is always like this;
“First of all, America is large, modern, and well managed. Societal collapse only happens to mismanaged tyrannies. It never happens to an advanced “democracy” like the United States.
Second of all, the American people ARE the government. If their elected representatives fall in love with tyranny, the American people will vote them out of office. The American people are far too strong. They have guns. They (the government) will NEVER try to seize them. After all, the argument goes, “When they come to my front porch, I’ll teach them a lesson or two.”
The bravado is laudable.
What is a “Collapse”?
The term “collapse” can mean many things. To some people it might mean [1] a scene out of a science fiction movie where there is a total breakdown in all governmental functions. Sort of like a scene from the television show “The Walking Dead”, so (in other words) a zombie
(Excerpt) Read more at metallicman.com ...
In the transition from reality, reason, individual personal happiness, natural rights, limited government, ordered liberty, and capitalism to irrationality, emotionalism, nihilism, altruism, collectivism, mass dependency, egalitarianism, force, statism, and socialism,
leftards require:
mind control:
censorship
indoctrination
programming
propaganda
groupthink
demagoguery
emotionalism: envy, fear, hatred, anger, defamations, demonizing, ad hominem attacks
gun controls
environmental controls
economic controls
“health” controls
divisiveness and group warfare
He mis-identifies selco’s location and experience. Really taints his whole argument.
Government is not a crucial life system.
I was not conceived from it.
I wake every day without it.
It does not feed me.
I do not breathe it.
It does not pay me a salary.
It definitely does not put me to sleep.
It does not teach me.
It does not nourish my soul.
Yet, government only takes.
Shut it OFF!
You must, like myself, live in California...
Metallicman has a staff?
Metallicman has a staff?
For later.
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I’m in favor of irradiating all Socialists, so they will Glo in the dark.
In a very, very real way Trump's election, and the growth of alternative sources of information, have threatened the political class and those whose careers and stature are derived from it. They won't go quietly, and their responses aren't limited by ethics and morality - in the least.
We went from the first year of Trump's presidency, during which there was widespread optimism about the economy and the future, to now - with people lamenting about the collapse of America as we know it. This is orchestrated. No doubt. We can't give in to an impending sense of doom.
The reality is that all Trump has done to date, including the trade standoff with China, his efforts to end the ‘cheap labor express’, verbalizing that the tech industry has spawned monopolies that may have to be dealt with as antitrust issues, standing up to European governments that criticize us but take our money, AND, fighting the left on our own soil - including standing up strongly against people like Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, etc., all had to be done. None of these things were likely to be easy, and none of them were likely to be painless. But, they had/have to be done.
Misread that as mismanaged trannys. My bad.
***Because, we and our parents have never experienced it,***
It’s fun to set back and watch today’s young fall for scams your parents told you about.
Fun, till those same young people start demanding legislation to “prevent” the “calamities” from taking place. Glo-bull Warming, the coming Ice Age, planet alignment earthquakes, Harmonic Convergences, comet collisions, and many many more.
Long article to say basically that you either submit to tyranny or die fighting. The answer for me is obvious. I bend my knee except He who made me.
Nice in theory but with incumbents returned at a 95% rate, this isn’t the reality.””’
Remove the voter fraud & you have entirely different results.
No one in my voting lifetime has been willing to take on voter fraud to the degree it requires. I don’t expect that to change for the foreseeable future, especially with the Ds in power.
I think the writer is wrong about how the gun confiscation will happen. It will be less violent than his view which seems to predate the AI revolution. We will get China’s Social Credit scoring and eventually find that we cannot buy airplane tickets or maybe gasoline and other stuff becomes progressively more expensive, like food, because our scores are too low. Then we are informed that the only way to raise our scores is to turn in our guns. Possession of guns will be a big hit on the SC scores.
Just wait a bit. The next election will be highly controlled in all the Democrat bastions. Unless Trump and the States take return the election process to honesty the 2020 election will put a Democrat in office. California Vote Harvesting, for one, will become the norm in all Democrat controlled areas.
Agree. All politicians are bad except yours. Incumbents are hard to get rid of
My working theory at the moment is that it may take martial law to restore the republic. The Deep State is just too entrenched to get rid of by normal methods. Martial law will indeed create difficult times. Prepare to exist on your own resources for at least a year. It will not shock me if they push Trump to martial law. Especially if he starts the military tribunals.
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