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Notwithstanding the awesome resiliency of the republic our founders built, I believe the answer is: "Not much longer."
And, sadly, the ignorance is willful. This generation has more information available to it at its fingertips than any generation that went before. We as a nation have no excuse.
All they know to do when a Bush fails is to vote for a Clinton. They just can’t figure out what is happening.
I can’t remember when wasn’t run by an ignorant electorate!
Robert Heinlein had a point in his book “Starship Troopers” (?), recently a movie, part of which is: Those who’ve personally invested in a society will work to see it go. If it’s open to quite literally everyone, especially illegals, its demise is immanent.
“Vote for the liar. He promises more!”
or a tagline I’ve seen here: “Cthulu for President. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?”
This is a powerful piece and one that needs to be trumpeted far and wide.
It is not the electorate that’s ignorant, it’s those elected officials who are ..... which I guess does make us some what suspect ....
I assume that govt is about 1/2 of the economy conceptually, of the half that are left, half, conceptually can read and write at least at the fifth grade level...a minority at a higher level. There are no longer enough literate, educated voters to sustain us with a true, informed educated vote...or, are there? The next election is the last election where there might be hope for a potential beginning turnaround from the precupice we find ourselves at. ALL educated voters must vote and play an activist role. I can make no prediction. A lot can happen in the next year and a half.
The beginning of the end was when we began to allow non-property owners to vote.
Just as taxation without representation is wrong. Representation without taxation is wrong.
Unless you bear a portion of the cost of something you shouldn’t get a voice in its creation.
Though many may disagree, I’ve often thought that an IQ test should be a pre-requisite for voter registration.
Not to be unkind, but we need to face facts here. So long as a republic represents the will of the brave, it will remain the home of the free. When it’s run by the productive members of society, it will remain prosperous. When it’s governed by the independent minded, it will not be dependent upon anyone. When run by those with a healthy respect for individual rights, special interests will no longer need special consideration.Inspiration, I tell you. Pure inspiration.
The question is how long can a welfare society survive with open borders?
"Idiots!"
No. So if I were a leftist bent on the destruction of this republic, I would do my utmost to raise generations of increasingly stupid children, subjected to irrelevant classes and deprived of their cultural heritage by a lot of lies, revisionism, and propaganda. Then I would commandeer a prostitute media machine and use it to scare the bejeezus out of them on a daily basis. I would lobby for increased government power, fewer guns, and higher taxes ... all in the name of "protection" of course. And within a few generations, I would have a nation of vapid sheep who would willingly go to the slaughter.
GRRRRREAT post! OUTSTANDING article by JB Williams!
The problem would be trusting the people directing things. Average citizens can barely do their taxes, let alone follow something like Malthusian limits.
A most excellent article and directly on point!
“So strong and pervasive is envy, that you cannot have a political system that doesn’t accommodate or find some way to manage envy.
You might say that one party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious.
Guess which ones.”
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2006/04/united-93-no-heroic-deed-goes.html