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Posted on 11/28/2005 5:39:36 AM PST by beaureguard
The Drudge Report is reporting this morning that several broadcast television networks are considering a series loosely based on the concept of the end of America. Details on the various programs aren't yet available, but my bet is that the fictional end will come through either terrorism or some sort of a natural disaster.
The networks have part of this right. The end of America as we know it could well be on the horizon. The networks just wouldn't dare present the end as it very well may happen. The death of America will more likely come from the advancement of the American welfare state.
Empires have life expectancies. The history of civilization would tell us that a country based on freedom and economic liberty generally last just a bit over 200 years. If you know of such a society that has lasted well beyond the 200-year mark, let me know. I haven't been able to find one. Our Constitution was ratified on December 15th, 1791. In just a few weeks the United States of America will be 214 years old. That, for those of you who went to government schools, is just a bit over 200 years.
You can trace the decline of American to several different and varied beginning point. Among them:
1. The adoption of a graduated and progressive income tax, as envisioned by Karl Marx.
2. The adoption of a system of government education of our children, again as envisioned by Karl Marx.
3. The movement away from a rule of law to a rule of the majority (Democracy) which really took hold during the days of Franklin Roosevelt.
America, the welfare state, is growing steadily. In the last few weeks we started George Bush's Medicare prescription drug program. The original estimates for this welfare boondoggle ran at about $300 billion for the next ten years. Those estimates doubled before the program even began. The actual tab will probably be closer to one trillion dollars for the first ten years .. and growing after that. Baby boomers will be retiring over the next decade. As they retire they will start drawing down Social Security and Medicare dollars by the bucketful. The cost will be enormous. As presently structured, these income transfer programs can't handle it, but all attempts at reform, at least insofar as Social Security is concerned, have failed.
Back to the main point. Americans are no longer in love with freedom. In fact, the case can be made that Americans are afraid of freedom. Oh, they want to be free to go on vacation and to chose where to live, who to marry and what to wear each day, but that just about covers it. Americans want the government to educate their children, guarantee their jobs, determine their wages, provide them with medical care, pay for their prescriptions, insure their comfort in retirement, regulate their business competitors, and control the actions of their neighbors. If you suggest that the responsibility for any of these factors be placed back into the hands of the individual the screams and howls of outrage and indignation will be heard across the country.
If the networks want to do a series on the end of America, their script has already been written ... .by some Russian named Ayn Rand.
There you go mentioning the M word again.........you know it is not polite in today's society to name those who want to kill us.
The Empire is gone. The United Kingdom as a world power is gone. British subjects endure a sort of "anarcho-tyrany" where criminals are armed and have rights, but the law-abiding do not.
Our politicinas sold us out to the Corporations. The Corporations are selling us out to the world.
Actually, I like the one where an illegal is arrested, counter-sues for representation, and wins. Blue staters and illegal aliens promptly vote the country into a bankrupt third-world hell.
Of course, 'Pubbies are doing a pretty good job on bankruptcy without blue-stater help.
The Roman Republic started in 509 BC with the overthrow of King Tarquin the Proud. It was replaced by Imperial Rome in 27 BC when Octavian claiming title of Augustus. That is 482 years.
Are you seriously claiming that the Roman Republic was based on "freedom and economic liberty?"
In truth, it was much more of a proto-Nazi Republic, totally dedicated to the domination of the Roman master race over the world, and to the domination of the Roman aristocracy over other Romans. The Republic's only real saving grace was that for most of the Republican period it was relatively easy to become a Roman.
The "History Channel" had "The Siege" on yesterday. Did I miss something that really happened in this country?
There were a number of different issues surrounding the Whiskey Rebellion, but the settlers in western Pennsylvania who rose up against the Federal troops had one indisputable argument on their side . . . When a Federal government that was incapable of providing military assistance to the region to ward off attacks from British troops and Indian raiders at the tail end of the Revolutionary War (the last battle of the American Revolution actually took place in late 1782 in southwestern Pennsylvania -- a year after the defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown!) somehow finds the resources to send troops to enforce a Federal tax on whiskey, it's easy to understand why those settlers did not consider the Federal government to be legitimate in any way.
I'm very curious which countries Neal is using to establish this baseline.
I contend that prior to the the establishment of the US there were no countries "based on freedom and economic liberty."
"Many of those things existed before Marx, honestly, Marx, as a political philosopher is WAAAAAY overrated. Most of his ideas were proposed, or at least implimented before, and his original ideas are a combination of assumptions, over generalizations, and over simplifications"
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I must say I'd have to agree with the above. Remember communists and leftie loon liberals rarely have an original thought and never have a solution. The Clinton parasites are proof of that.
Many people are ready to start sniping AT the minorities.
Neal is using the country of "Thin Air", which was located a thousand years ago in the allusive region of "Conventional Wisdom."
America as we know it ended a long time ago, around 1933. It is not too late to save our nation. To do so would require the understanding that the greatest threat to the United States today is liberalism.
Liberal goals in 1933 were as follows:
To make innocuous the institution of family & marriage.
To remove borders and erode sovereignty
To Make government the final artitor of society.
To work toward world government
To remove individual responsibility and replace it with govcare.
To replace Constitutional Rule of Law by arbitrary whim.
To render national currency worthless.
To remove the world from the gold standard.
To require schools to bow to government bureaucrats.
To monitor the movement of citizens from place to place.
To require national ID for each person.
To fremove religion from the popular culture.
To: add your own.
As anyone can see, they have mostly suceeded.
You have that right. Neal's has a point, but he does not make it well here. There are alot of examples, such as Athens and part of Rome's early history. Yet on the other hand all civilizations practised slavery. Also, in 1900 only 5% of the world could vote for their politicians and now over 50% can.
I have felt this way for quite some time now. What with groups trying to take away
It's sickening. And I find a lot of truth in this article. People don't want to believe it, but with "One Nation Under God," and Merry CHRISTmas, and In God We Trust being pulled from our lives, what else are we to think?
The end of America will be traced to hundreds of thousands spending coutless hours on meaningless discussions of repetitive trivial issues on thousands of internet sites.
The End of America. Isn't that what the MSM and Libs want?
This isnt a Democracy, its a Republic. And in a Republic respect for minorities is expected. However it can be carried too far.
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