Sir, I appreciate your usually sensible and thought out responses. Reading this one and considering the whole of what I am seeing it feels like a foregone conclusion that perilous times are not only eminent but are here. There is no need for conjecture of a tipping point between have and have not nor an out of control government for whom those who still work slave for. Case in point, my property taxes have gone up 25% to 30% in one year alone as even local governments grab for all they can get. In one jurisdiction taxes NEVER went up for years and years and now they go up regularly these last few.
I made the mistake of going to town this morning. I knew it was a mistake before I left but actual need of something forced it. What I saw pains me. Tens of thousands out buying Chinese junk that they don’t need and should not be able to afford. People who produce little added value buying trash from people who work but also produce little of value for ever higher profits for the few who have taken risk of moving their business to somewhere else.
Endless droves of people who live off of the labor of others fool enough to continue to work are also clearly here and now. The balance is not tipping, it has tipped.
The game is lost and the clock is being played out.
If it is lost it was lost in the trenches, that is in the classrooms, the pews, the jury boxes, and on those TV and computer boxes that shapes the American culture because culture trumps politics and it is clear that culture is breaking down. With it will go the rule law as the devil takes the hindmost.
All of this in the wake of "Thanksgiving." A culture that has abandoned giving thanks for materialism and, ultimately, cynicism is in deep and desperate trouble.
