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Everything is beginning to appear as a cartoon.

I've been in FreeRepublic for a few years, and in all that time I've read perhaps hundreds of 'after the fact' "reports" of what;

went wrong, went right, could have been, should have been

etc. .... you get the picture.

....and it is always ... after the fact.

The men that initiated the momentum that birthed the United states were sober and wise and really DID have a good idea ... and they really believed men would follow them and produce the greatest land on the planet.

We've apparently devolved from wisdom to mediocrity to cartoon because people supposedly wise ... are not ... supposedly capable ... are not ... supposedly mature ... are not.

Sadly ... men that were supposed to be religious ... are not and THAT is the root of our downfall.

We no longer believe in God (as a nation), for if we did, we would HAVE the spirit of discernment and KNOW whom to elect and whom to eject.

I believe we'd also have the righteousness of God in our hearts as we warred against the enemies of America.

As it is ... we do nothing ... we are dead and don't know it ... or we DO know it ... and don't care.

God have mercy and help us our unbelief.

People like Greenspan come from a specific school of thought and they act it out throughout their careers just coasting on some planning and good or bad market response luck.
They all go with the flow hoping that their interference and market manipulations will do the nation good. It's a gamble.
After so many years of being at the FED with the FED and other agency mentalities, they become their own roles. They get caught up in the hubris and smugness that comes with being in the elite.
Years later they review their journals and diaries, scouring for a few gems upon which they can write a very clear and logical treatise. The treatise will detail what they did and why they maintained certain policies - for posterity name clearing and a nice profit as well. Many of us want the “inside scoop” on A, B and C.
Inevitably they blame others and outside forces for difficult periods but what the heck, they're not in power anymore. Now the Greenspans and Mitchells can attend cocktail parties, give lectures and rub shoulders with the mighty and powerful but with a renewed, clear conscious.

I agree 100%

Libertarian and Objectivist worldviews have a fatal flaw, and that is Pride. Pride and confidence are exalted as virtues in those systems when they are actually hubris and folly.

We are finite and fully understand nothing, and are continually surprised and dismayed. That is why we should conform our decisions to God's directives and principles, even when it is not convenient. We do not have, nor will we ever have, all the data points.

Wisdom comes from God; not from Harvard , Columbia, or Alan Greenspan.

As the maxim says, “All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Most truthful post I’ve read in quite a while.

The people at the founding and first 100 years were different from us. Their faith, their character, and their knowledge of scripture made them very, very different from 99% of today’s American’s. America really cannot function with the level of foolishness, lack of self discipline, lack of faith and lack of grounding in scripture - cartoonishness as you call it is a good description.