Original posting at Monty’s site.
http://www.economicnoise.com/2013/06/12/why-things-will-get-worse-much-worse/
Yawn. What’s on TV tonight? /sarc
Know what I can do about this? Jack sh*t.
Know why? Because no one has the spine to do what needs to be done in sufficient numbers to fix what's wrong. I can go out and do my part, but I am only one man.
With that in mind, and because of that sentiment...
Voting isn't going to change this.
Op-eds aren't going to change this.
Third Parties aren't going to change this.
Law-suites aren't going to change this.
Only a thorough, and bloody, house cleaning will restore the Republic. That whole “tree of liberty” thingie the Founders prattled on about that no one actually believes in any more.
Well, other than throw-back knuckle-draggers like me.
Seems to know what he’s talking about, and it’s not very pleasant.
This article is nothing but whining.
We all know he is right, we all know there is jack we can do about it.
That whole vote them out business is crap, we can vote one out and then by the time we a couple more in, the original ones have been corrupted.
Washington DC is a cesspool of greedy, selfish a-holes and that’s pretty much that.
It is important to remember the lesson of the Nika riot, and how, at its conclusion alone, their nation was preserved for at least another 200 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots *and tyrants*.” — Thomas Jefferson
Often the “and tyrants” is omitted from this quote, and it shouldn’t be. Tyrants cannot be stopped with “crossing the aisle”, committee meetings, bargains or negotiations.
self-ping
-——Western civilization is on a dangerous slide into tyranny.-——
Either the author is a coward or doesn’t get it.
There is no slide to tyranny. The treacherous tyranny is in effect.
Tyrants with no regard for the law and with a fear of disorder are firmly incontrol.
bkmk
A very stark view but not one I can argue with since the evidence is there for anyone who will see. My main hope is that the dark age he predicts can be less than a century.
“Carried to extreme, the US could become a second or third-world nation within a few decades.”
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A few decades? This strikes me about the same way as saying I might need to visit the bathroom sometime in the next six months.
What justifies this level of optimism?
Actually, it and we may not; we may be looking at the end. A free state can exist only on a proper foundation of culture. The author misses the point, the issue is not freedom, but culture.
Our culture is dying as a result of neglect from within and attack from within and without. The attack from without, fostered through mass immigration, legal or illegal, combined with the idea of multiculturalism, is the most dangerous component because it is almost impossible to reverse.
Accordingly, the immigration bill now before the Congress is, in a most serious way, a very real existential threat to this nation.