Posted on 01/05/2023 11:54:56 AM PST by Bonemaker
Did someone or something seize control of the United States?
What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?
Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?
When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent of dirty coal? How did prized natural gas that had granted America's wishes of energy self-sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, and which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal?
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I hate articles that are just questions. You learn nothing.
I hate articles that are just questions. You learn nothing.
Yep, lots of people think we’re on a slippery slope but VDH points out correctly that we’re already there at the bottom. If you doubt this, name just one national trend that is going in the right direction. Everythign has gone to sh!t under Brandon.
Who the hell is going to scroll back for hours and dozens of posts? Who cares if there are duplicates?
He gets it .
I do not doubt a coup occurred and the Deep State was behind it.
However, Second Amendment rights are being restored, and it is a trend that has been happening for over 30 years.
Crypto currency is taking it in the pooper. For now.
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Oh America is still recognizable...as it was over 1000 years ago when it was made up of numerous tribes. Us verses them verses them verses them and so on. You don’t look like us...evil. You are too tall for our tribe...evil. You don’t think like us...evil...and so. You get the idea.
Look at some of the terms used here in posts. Troll, noob, traitor, commie, satan worshiper, and on. We divide ourselves by how we perceive ourselves and our views. If your views or mine are not identical then one of us must be evil, a commie, and so forth. You can’t remain in the tribe. So we further separate ourselves.
This has carried over into our daily civil discourse. And it is amplified by the speed of which information, good or bad,can be spread.
We no longer seem to have the ability as a society to discuss anything without it degenerating into a shouting match with threats against someone. And the more outlandish the claims the better it would seem.
So the author of this article is right. We have allowed our system to degrade to the point that it seems we no longer can trust it to do the right thing for everybody. People have become so set in their positions on issues that no amount of proof or evidence to the contrary to those positions will change their minds. Compromise has become a dirty word. Yet we all compromise in our lives everyday.
If anything ever leads to the downfall of this country it will be because we will have separated ourselves into tribes again that we will no longer be the United States of America.
I will be long dead by the time that may or maynot happen. But our progeny will be the one’s suffering because we started down this road.
2nd Amendment matters most if we can use it for the purpose it was created.
Rhetorical
I have a personal repost rule: if it’s slipped beyond this first page, it’s OK to repost..
You don't have to scroll to look for it, you use the search by title and it pops up on a list.
Yep...Hanson at his Socratic best..
All the insane border decisions made by Biden make sense if you see them as an effort to ‘assist the Carteels’ with their ability to recruit and sell American citizenship to illegals.
make trump the speaker of the house.
Methinks the proverbial ball stated rolling on the Coup with William "Office cigar and pizza party for interns" Clinton.
Once it became acceptable for a President to publicly admit to cheating on his wife while on the job, knowingly lie under oath, change administrative rules to sell military secrets to our enemies, and spend tax dollars to relocate American jobs to Canada and Mexico ( Fun Fact: Rush Limbaugh was a very vocal supporter of NAFTA ), the current kleptocracy was inevitable.
VDH is asking rhetorical questions, and you can learn plenty from them.
By asking rhetorically who is making all these decisions that are terrible for Americans - he is making the point that in a self-governing Republic, We the People are supposed to be making the decisions.
If we have to ask who decides things - obviously it’s not us!
There is a joke con artists tell each other: If you walk into a room and you have to ask who the mark is….it’s probably you.
I think this is what VDH is saying: There has been a coup. We the People are no longer the decision makers. The political class has surrounded itself with a permanent bureaucracy - an unelected administrative state - that is completely unaccountable to the voting public.
We don’t even get asked what we think about opening the borders, sending money to Ukraine, debasing the currency, Covid mandates. Decisions get made and we learn about them after the fact - if at all.
You hit the very reason that conservatives will never be able to turn the country back around. They can’t work together. In fact, they are openly hostile toward each other most of the time.
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