I cannot put into words how much I detest this guy and those I detest even more are the 51% who voted for him. His commentary, augmented by those who voted for him, have no clue about how a republic is supposed to function. It is not majority rule. However, my notions supported by over 200 years of domestic history have no basis in this debate now, the king has so ruled.
Heavy artillery has been fired upon the construct known as the “Social Contract” that has sustained this country, in one form or another, since its founding, and probably going back to some very distant past.
Founded in the Judeo-Christian ethic, written out in the Ten Commandments, reinforced by the “Golden Rule”, and expressed in daily life as “charity to all, malice to none”, this social contract has enabled us to care for the poor, reward the ambitious, punish the wicked, and prepare each generation for the tests and havoc to come.
Now, only the designated saviors are authorized to care for the poor, incentive to excel is systematically stripped away, the criminal element goes virtually unscathed, while everyday activies have become objects of scorn, ridicule and prohibitions, and the young are deliberately taught untruths, and doubt in their own native abilities is drummed into them daily.
The culture of much of the country is being destroyed, and the perverse and twisted set of politically correct rules being instituted in its place performs a worse mischief than yet imagined on the potential of the everyday folks to meet and overcome adversity. It is as if adversity itself were to be sought out and applied with equal vigor to persons of every stripe, painting despair on every face.
In some strange way, this translates to “equality of outcome”, a bleak and hopeless vista of life, and one which ends only in a mind-numbed acceptance of defeat and surrender.
All this experimentation with discarding the “old ways”, while unable to create anything even remotely capable of instituting a better way, is to retreat into the “law of the jungle”, where in some kind of Darwinian struggle, only the fittest survive. Blind prohibitions, and not enlightened and intelligent application of lessons learned, become the way of governance, and eventually, anarchy and total breakdown of respect for the rules or of any means of compromise.
Soooo—ledt me get this straight:
We tax more than a TRILLION $$$ from those who create jobs & companies.
Doesn’t that prevent such jobs & companies from happening?
I know a few persons who might be considered wealthy. IF they are paying $$$$ out in taxes, on top of the taxes they already pay, they will NOT be hiring more people or investing in new companies for the future???
So— new jobs and investments go quiet until Barry is gone???