Posted on 09/23/2020 2:01:34 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
Understanding what drives the revolution that is destroying the American republic gives insight into how the 2020 election’s results may impact its course. Its practical question—who rules?—is historically familiar. But any revolution’s quarrels and stakes obscure the question: to what end? Our revolution is by the ruling class—a revolution from above. Crushing obstacles to its growing oligarchic rule is the proximate purpose. But the logic that drives the revolution aims at civilization itself. What follows describes how far along its path that logic has taken America, and where it might take us in the future depending on the election’s outcome.
Aristotle, in Book 5 of the Politics, describes how revolutions kill regimes (such as America’s) that balance the contrasting interests of ordinary people with those of the wealthy, of officials, and of other prominent persons. As the balance between any complex regime’s components shifts over time, the system may seamlessly transform into unmixed democracy, oligarchy, or some kind of monarchy. The revolution may be barely perceptible—providing that those who impose themselves, whether from above or below, do so without adding insult to injury. But, if the party that takes power thereby destroys the friendship that had bound the several parts, even trifling incidents can spiral into all-consuming violence. Thucydides’ account of the revolution that destroyed Corcyra during the Peloponnesian War is prototypical. The French revolution, the Spanish civil war, and countless others echo it.
Today, the oligarchic transformation of America’s republic is turning violent. Aristotle, however, points out that oligarchies born of violent revolution tend to succumb to the very violence that births them, quickly degenerating into some kind of tyranny or one-man rule. Restoration of anything like the original constitutional regime is most unlikely.
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330 MILLION vs. ???
HOORAY FF 2A
It’s a BIG CLUB out here...and they are not in it.
ARM UP Patriots.
That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
READY - AIM - VOTE
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> The deep state is AI?
AI is definitely not that good. Yet. I’d put it at least 10-15 years out. Even if I were Elon Musk skeptical and all with his brain chip interface just being released.
Thanks for the ping. Prepare for the worst and pray for the best—and don’t bet against The Trump!
I will abide and respect a legitimate election though it be stupidity in the extreme. If such election is by fraud my constitution says I must resist. My nation has been good to me in great excess. I am an old man of 72 years of age.
I will pick up my rifle of which I have extreme skill out to 300 yards, past that I need a better scope, I will defend my constitution.
Do not F with an old man. He has been there and done that. We really just want to be left alone. But some of us are marksman. We would really rather just be left alone.
My last group was one inch at 100 yards on my range. That is normal if using my sled for holding my rifle. If firing without the sled the real group would be about three inches all of which are kill shots.
In the past I was an avid hunter. I just got tired of killing. I have zero problems with ethical hunters. I allow one to hunt my land that is most abundant with deer. We share the deer and process it together with most exact standards.
It is delicious. I just no longer had the joy of killing. I also realized the need of rational control of the deer herd least we go to to much and then starvation.
I will abide and respect a legitimate election though it be stupidity in the extreme. If such election is by fraud my constitution says I must resist. My nation has been good to me in great excess. I am an old man of 72 years of age.
I will pick up my rifle of which I have extreme skill out to 300 yards, past that I need a better scope, I will defend my constitution.
Do not F with an old man. He has been there and done that. We really just want to be left alone. But some of us are marksman. We would really rather just be left alone.
An essential read, FRiends!
bookmarking, thanks for posting
Bttt
For later.
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