The author seems to be forgetting someone
Posted on 07/02/2020 5:46:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I think America has big problems, yes, having due primarily, to our ruinous trade balances with China.
Which incidentally pay China, for the damage they are doing.
Trump seems to understand that.
Don’t really know, whether he is doing anything to fix those yet.
But he seems to get it.
First American in the last thirty years, who seems to understand.
How can America be failing after 8 years of Utopian resident obama.
Oh, that’s right..3 years of Trump.
All in for socialism? Yep.
Biden, I believe, is just a paper mache' facade for the Deep State/Democrat agenda. Biden is a feckless fool, a brainless, amoral sock puppet. His face can be supplanted by any of the plastic-mask politicians that inhabit the cesspool of the Democrat Party.
‘Can we just stop posting their propaganda? What purpose does it serve?’
it affords us the opportunity to study, and maybe respond to countervailing opinions and beliefs...but if you want to live in a bubble, go for it...
‘Everyone here eschews this article because it happens to insult their too-beloved president’
hope you upgraded your fireproof clothing...
Scottish philosopher Alexander Tyler of the University of Edinburg in 1887.
Tyler wrote, “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up to the time the voters discover that they can vote for themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
In 1968, American sociologists and political activists at Columbia University devised the Cloward-Piven Strategy to implement a crisis by overwhelming the U.S. Public Welfare System. This was done so government could gain control of the entire political and social welfare system through its default of financial obligations, and usher in a new aggressive socialist policy.
Increase taxes and regulations of all sorts, and you only exacerbate the problem. Factor in the language engineering of social justice and equality, you have a formula few understand is the agenda of the global elites.
This has been the model used to gain control. By overwhelming the system, there is a new crisis weekly that deserves attention by Congress and policymakers. However, with the constant onslaught of crisis situations thrust upon law-makers in Congress, nothing is able to get accomplished. When the problems are no longer even remotely manageable, legislation will come that will destroy our way of life and bring us to a place we have never been before.
Social unrest will be the norm. Out of chaos will come a New Order—that is the agenda being deliberately and strategically implemented.
‘The author seems to be forgetting someone’
that’s right; imagine the nerve of that Lincoln fella for urging all those states to secede from the Union, knowingly causing social strife and years of warfare...oh, wait...
I wish I could live in a bubble. Just hearing the news about all the atrocities the commies are committing, angers me to no end. I don’t have to seek out their opinions to get mad!
Flynn’s book “The Great Transformation”
lists the stages of the rise and fall of the world’s great civilizations.
1. From bondage to spiritual growth
2. From spiritual growth to great courage
3. From courage to liberty
4. From liberty to abundance
5. From abundance to complacency
6. From complacency to apathy
7. From apathy to dependence
8. From dependence back to bondage
6. From complacency to apathy *– The word apathy comes from the Greek and refers to a lack of interest in, or passion for, the things that once animated and inspired.
Due to the complacency of the previous stage, the growing lack of attention to disturbing trends advances to outright dismissal. Many seldom think or care about the sacrifices of previous generations and lose a sense that they must work for and contribute to the common good. “Civilization” suffers the serious blow of being replaced by personalization and privatization in growing degrees.
Working and sacrificing for others becomes more remote. Growing numbers becoming increasingly willing to live on the carcass of previous sacrifices.
They park on someone else’s dime, but will not fill the parking meter themselves. Hard work and self-discipline continue to erode.
7. From apathy to dependence *– Increasing numbers of people lack the virtues and zeal necessary to work and contribute. The suffering and the sacrifices that built the culture are now a distant memory. As discipline and work increasingly seem “too hard,” dependence grows.
The collective culture now tips in the direction of dependence. Suffering of any sort seems intolerable. But virtue is not seen as the solution. Having lived on the sacrifices of others for years, the civilization now insists that “others” must solve their woes.
This ushers in growing demands for governmental, collective solutions. This in turns deepens dependency as solutions move from personal virtue and local, family, based solutions to central government solutions.
8. From dependence back to bondage – As dependence increases, so does centralized power. Dependent people tend to become increasingly dysfunctional and desperate.
Seeking a savior, they look to strong central leadership. But centralized power corrupts, and tends to usher in increasing intrusion by centralized power. Injustice and intrusion multiplies. But those in bondage know of no other solutions. Family and personal virtue (essential ingredients for any civilization) are now effectively replaced by an increasingly dark and despotic centralized control, hungry for more and more power.
In this way, the civilization is gradually ended, because people in bondage no longer have the virtues necessary to fight.
Another possibility is that a more powerful nation or group is able to enter, by invasion or replacement, and destroy the final vestiges of a decadent civilization and replace it with their own culture.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3861233/posts?page=48#48
Pingin’ y’all to this post.
Short and to the point.
Well, stated T&R.
tired&retired — Excellent summary and analysis. Thank you.
Cletus- ThanQ for the ping.
Every institution in the world, foreign and domestic, has been sowing the seeds of our destruction for well over a century.
The democratic institutions of our government have been usurped by people of weak intellectual capacities. And therefore can no longer effectively serve the people.
Our government, in service to liberty, cannot be restored.
Only through revolution can liberty be restored, as government has become the enemy of the people.
Government protects only the interests of the lawless and the ignorant.
Is not mine.
The summary is from Flynn’s book which it quoting Traylor’s 1887 book.
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
Traylor is supposed to be Tyler.
My typo
This is such obvious propaganda. Trump did more to rebuild opportnity for all kinds of Americans than any other President since Eisenhower, including working class jobs and a better 401K economy for the middle class. He brought businesses back to our shores, got rid of costly and ineffectual treaties and trade pacts, and created a thriving environment for new businesses, including opportunity zones for urban strugglers. His improvements have now been smashed and looted— by design. Wonder who paid for this piece of fluff “journalism”?
Biden is the paper tiger.
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