Posted on 12/01/2021 5:15:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
Russia waits, no longer ideological, but moving slowly and gingerly toward the Christian heritage that once made her a nation, even as we stupidly toss our own culture away.
Is the United States becoming like the old Soviet Union in a way that people fail to see because of the noise and the distractions of electoral politics, mass entertainment masking as news, and mass indoctrination masking as entertainment?
We are becoming a meritocracy that punishes merit and rewards folly. We have all the disutility of a meritocracy—the snobbishness, the restless ambition, the inclination to see merit only in what can be measured or paid for; even the tendency to pull intelligent people out of their native regions and set them down, like gilded tumbleweeds, in places without memory or character. But we get none of the benefits. We punish truth-telling and intelligence, and reward stupidity.
We are an idiocracy.
Perhaps I am being a bit unfair to the Soviets. They still had the Bolshoi Ballet. The Soviets did not bury all their great novelists: you would not win any points sneering at Tolstoy, as you might now in the United States if you sneered at Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, or Mark Twain. I am looking at a photograph of a Russian sports parade in Moscow. In front are some hundreds of skinny teenage boys, stripped to the waist, wearing boxing gloves, and looking as if they are ready to take on the world for Mother Russia and beat it to a pulp. They want to win.
The Soviet system was stupid because it was untrue to the world and to the nature of man. Therefore, it did often punish merit and reward the dull, according to its own woke ideology.
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It isn’t us” doing it to ourselves. It is the DemocRat party doing it to us.
With a lot of help from the RINOs
Leftist lives are..chaotic..
Psychotic.
The Rhinos are doing their best to bring down the American Way of Life because of political ignorance.
It isn’t us” doing it to ourselves. It is the DemocRat party doing it to us.
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That’s how divide and conquer works.
I suspect more lefties actually know we are all being intentionally divided and slowly destroyed. The problem is that they subscribe to it. They don’t love this country. So as far as they are concerned, “we” (capitalists, freedom lovers, originalists) are the problem and may as well stay divided as long as “we” don’t start subscribing to their values. If not, then may it all be damned as far as they are concerned.
I think most people in the middle and toward the right still naively think they can go to work and school and support their family, pay their taxes and keep their head down and the fray will stay away from them.
Globalist Free Traitors GAVE AWAY THE STORE...
“ “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” - Sun Tzu
We did it. Now we’re going to pay. We abandoned public schools and let the left indoctrinate our young. We allowed the political class to emerge. The political class is filled with self interest, and contempt for the public. One of the things the political class doesn’t have is love for America. We talked of term limits and stopping the lobby system. Neither change happened.
We did it, and I’m afraid it’s too late now.
It’s very much like the Risk version of international trick-or-treat. Communist China is filling their treat bag with country after country. They already have a significant portion of Europe and, of course, the “lost colonies” of Australia and New Zealand.
We did it. Now we’re going to pay. We abandoned public schools and let the left indoctrinate our young
You are so right, and now with this BUILD BACK CRAP they want us to give our children to them from birth!
They are saying...”Free Child Care” and what they mean is
GIVE US YOUR CHILDREN SO WE CAN MAKE NAZIS OUT OF THEM.
PS. I don’t believe it is too late.
NONE of what the Democrats have done, from the Kenyanesian Usurpation to the Big Steal was possible without the assistance of the GOP.
They are not ignorant, they are Assistant Democrats.
They agree with the goals of stealing the country from the citizens and subsuming it to the UN in a New World Order.
I believe you are correct. Many still believe that politics doesn’t affect them if they don’t pay attention to it.
“I think most people in the middle and toward the right still naively think they can go to work and school and support their family, pay their taxes and keep their head down and the fray will stay away from them.”
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I agree. The declining culture, eroding morality and national dysfunction are all around us yet many people believe they are somehow immune to its consequences. The toxic milieu affects all of us and our quality of life.
We are a nation in serious decline. Some are opting to escape the blue cities and states in hopes of seeking normalcy and avoiding the fray, but it’s only a temporary sanctuary. The rot will spread if it continues growing.
Not ignorance. It's deliberate march to globalism, and they each get their position and their cut.
——because of political ignorance-—
I will argue that to the contrary, political ignorance is not a motivator. The American Left longs to create here the utopis ateh perceive to be the UK/Europe.
The left has no intellectual basis. All that is the American Left is derivative of Europe
“I believe you are correct. Many still believe that politics doesn’t affect them if they don’t pay attention to it.“
I get what you guys are saying, but I think it’s less - “don’t pay attention and it’ll go away..” , rather - “it’ll take MUCH more than living all worked up about it and venting to our neighbors, friends and family all the time.” - which does nothing.
Now that our ability to change things through the voting process has been taken from us, there’s really only one thing our forefathers gave us in the Constitution to do…. And I can’t even write it here.. (so much for DEMOCRACY!..)
We can discuss and debate here online until the end of time. No matter HOW right we are, this isn’t gonna change anything.
In today’s world, one can’t avoid hearing about what’s going on in politics- it’s EVERYWHERE. My leftist relatives and co-workers all “stay informed” by worshipping at the altar of CNN faithfully for 10 hours every single day. They believe that this makes them “informed” people/ SMARTER people.
We on the right can do the same thing. Truth is, it doesn’t make us either more informed or smarter. It gates we average citizens divided - which is EXACTLY what our politicians want.
It’s how they’ve gained the stranglehold of power against us.
There is only one way out of this by now. And it ain’t the voting booth or shouting at each other here online..
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