Everyone is entitled to MY own opinion
The political strife in the 1960s was not the same from my perspective. We did think the country was coming apart, but we didn’t have the level of lies and fraud on the part of the media that we see today.
A young acquaintance asked the following question. ” How is today’s climate in America any different than the 1960s when people were running around rioting, bombing buildings, shooting the president and other important figures as well as draft dodging and holding mass protest? There were Democrats and Republicans then that are just as divided over segregation, civil rights and the war in Vietnam. It to me seems the country was at way more of a tipping point then than now. Can you point out some of the differences?”
I was alive then, and AFAIK, still alive now.
The level of hate is sooooooo much worse now than it was then. Hate of what is good permeates every walk of American life, and people embrace what is bad and call it good.
What we fought against in the USSR/ Eastern Bloc during the Cold War (propaganda instead of truth, political correctness/toe the party line, persecution of Christians and Jews, etc.) is now here.
What happened?!!!
The biggest change between than and now is the level of Judeo-Christian faith and values. Then, they were reflected in every facet of American life… people attended church regularly, intact, functional families, and clergy and parents were respected/sought out for advice. Now, the faithful/observant are reviled, churches and synagogues are burned, Pastors are arrested for the content of their sermons, Christian students and teachers/professors cannot say/write what they really think in school, and greetings, such as “Merry Christmas” are prohibited by employers
I experienced the before and after of prayer being removed from schools. Huge difference, and not for the better.
People and society were not perfect then, but society now can only described as a cesspool.
The political strife in the 1960s was not the same from my perspective. We did think the country was coming apart, but we didn’t have the level of lies and fraud on the part of the media that we see today.
The media was much more impartial. It was not considered fake news. But it was the media that turned people against the Vietnam War. The media back in the 60’s was much more restrained and civil than it is today.
You had three national TV networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC). All highly respected and generally scrupulous on what was reported. You had 30 minutes of national news in the early evening. Followed by 30 minutes of local news, weather, and sports.
News on TV and in the print media focused on what the average Joe needed to know to be a good citizen. TV news especially was considered by the networks as a public duty. Ratings were secondary.
Just to set the record straight, the segregationists in the 1960s and early 1970s were the Democrats. The segregationists fought against the Equal Rights Amendment. When it was enacted, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for it than did Democrats. Bull Connor, George Wallace, and the other people demonized as segregationists were all Democrats. Martin Luther King was a Republican.
The protests against the war in Vietnam were originally against LBJ’s policies. That was transferred to Nixon when he took office. I was living in Chicago during the anti-war protests when Democrat mayor Richard “The Boss” Daley gave his infamous shoot-to-kill order against anti-war protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. That really enraged people and helped get Richard Nixon elected.
I’m pretty sure little, if any of the truth is being taught in the schools today.
One thing to note about the plague of the Black Death – most of the deaths came from pneumonic plague, not plague from flea bites. Pneumonia from the plague is almost as bad as Anthrax pneumonia, in that you can be well past treatment when the Docs figure out what it is you have.
I had an ugly thought recently regarding the homeless problem in California. There were Typhus outbreaks this past summer, and I am not sure if that is still ongoing.
The homeless population is defecating in the streets and on the sidewalks. These are similar conditions to the open sewers that were common during the Black Plague. We know there are plenty of rats and fleas from the Typhus.
Plague is endemic to prairie dog populations in the Southwest. It is not a great leap to think that plague can get started in the CA homeless population. There are always a few cases of plague each year. If the homeless and sanitation problems in CA continue or get worse it is only a matter of time.
There have been
some recent plague in China too. Much higher population. Ditto in the Congo. It is rather ‘common’ worldwide but only in small case numbers.
Rats and fleas [which will move to other animals and humans, though fleas prefer their own variety of mammal]. Pnuemonic spread is the most dangerous.
China will just order the slaughter of all pets [since pretty much everything else has been eaten/non-existent]. Congo doesn’t have the ability to do more than set up antibiotic clinics — to much wild space.
California won’t order animal slaughter in the cities. Probably will put rat traps up. [if they haven’t]. They will just treat the homeless as they get sick. Some of the homeless will functioning brain cells will go somewhere else — which could spread it further from the outbreak point.
One thing to note about the plague of the Black Death – most of the deaths came from pneumonic plague, not plague from flea bites. Pneumonia from the plague is almost as bad as Anthrax pneumonia, in that you can be well past treatment when the Docs figure out what it is you have.
Y. pestis can be misidentified by some (if not most) automated bacterial ID systems, which means that the patient might not be isolated rapidly, the microbiology staff might not take the correct precautions in the lab, the nursing staff or family members might become secondary victims.
Just like the measles, chicken pox, mumps and other childhood diseases that have become rare (or should have become rare) a lot of young doctors are unable to recognize Y. pestis infections rapidly. Doctors aren’t taught to see things the way they once were. There is, instead, always a test or an image or something that can be ordered, instead of using a good patient history and common sense.
Cities historically had always been disease and population sinks. They had negative population growth and required regular emigration from the surrounding agricultural countryside. With that emigration and trade which also carried disease folks were dying all the time. Perhaps we are returning to that standard.
In the Middle Ages, wealthier people in England would move to their country estates when there was an outbreak. The millionaire Libs in Cali can tolerate the homeless, but if they start spreading the Black Death they’ll all probably end up quarantined in an old military base. Plague epidemics mainly affected areas with high population densities and areas that depended on grain for food. When the rats exhausted the grain stores, they’d die and the fleas would move to humans. There is a reason why the rich in the Middle Ages had country homes to raise their families.
Some might sat; “Its treatable with antibiotics.. not an issue unless it outpaces antibiotics.”
There is a problem with that thinking relative to treating viruses. We are outpacing antibiotics. At some point, there will be something that kicks off that is antibiotic-resistant, (think MERSA). It is only a matter of time.
It is a commonly held opinion by the Deep Staters and the Democratic Socialists that the angry electorate knows the secret to thwarting the New World Order. This is not true. It doesn’t have any remotely classified information, so involuntarily holding it over your bathtub while your spouse empties the Brita pitcher on its face will get you nowhere.
Operation Mockingbird is a program launched by the CIA in the 1950s to manipulate media to spread propaganda. Writer Deborah Davis reported that Operation Mockingbird recruited prominent American journalists and oversaw front groups.
Operation Mockingbird is alive and well today. We have learned that the FBI and CIA played major roles in spreading the lie that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary.
Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid for a lie-filled dossier written about Trump. The smarmy dossier even claimed that Trump paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed slept in by Obama. Operatives in the FBI used the dossier to illegally acquire warrants to investigate whether or not Trump stole the election. The absurd investigation lasted three years, costing taxpayers $32 million.
CNN and MSNBC victimized their audiences 24/7 for the three-year bogus investigation. They promised Trump’s guilt would be confirmed and he would be humiliatingly booted out of office. The Trump resistance movement was devastated when the investigation concluded that Trump won the election fair and square.
Moving on to their next treasonous scheme to remove Trump, Democrats launched a news narrative claiming Trump committed impeachable crimes during a phone call with the president of Ukraine. Democrat Adam Schiff read Trump’s extreme bullying outrageous demands on national TV. I watched it on TV and thought, “Oh my gosh. Trump said that?” Schiff assumed he could get away with lying about the content of the phone call because presidents do not release the content of conversations with foreign leaders. Trump blew Schiff’s scheme by releasing the transcript of the phone call. But here is where it gets really crazy and unbelievably arrogant.
Democrats and fake news media simply ignored the transcript. Based on Schiff’s lying version of the phone call, Schiff held impeachment hearings on national TV for two weeks. In essence, Schiff and fake news media told the American people, you are too stupid and unsophisticated to detect Trump’s obvious crimes during the phone call.
After each day of Schiff’s hearings, fake news media excitedly reported that “bombshell” testimony confirmed Trump’s guilt. In truth, none of Schiff’s witnesses could name a crime committed by Trump.
Displaying their off-the-chain arrogance, everything fake news media reported about the impeachment hearings were lies… and the beat goes on.
It is a commonly held opinion by the Deep Staters and the Democratic Socialists that the angry electorate knows the secret to thwarting the New World Order. This is not true. It doesn’t have any remotely classified information, so involuntarily holding it over your bathtub while your spouse empties the Brita pitcher on its face will get you nowhere.
Just keep telling the same old and tired lies about free healthcare, free college and free Willy. Enough of the sheep still believe these fabrications, (especially when they are repeated by the media), that they will go back to sleep and leave you alone.
As the training manual stated; “War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength!”
The thing to remember is these rebate companies don’t get much money for running the rebate. They basically get paid on the degree of rebate failure by the consumers.
Mail-In Rebates (MIRs) are a noxious scam that have infested the tech and software markets, and it is time we put an end to them by refusing to buy products based on a MIR.
Forget about boycotting businesses because you disagree with their politics, or because you think their corporate logo shows they are in league with Satan. Let’s boycott the truly evil companies that use rebates to entice you to buy their product when their plan is to cheat you out of some of your money.
Mail-In Rebates are a scam, and not just for the obvious reasons. You already know that the manufacturers do everything they can to reduce how much they have to pay out, a practice known in the industry as “breakage.” It’s not that they are intending to commit fraud – they just know that if they make the process difficult in the slightest possible way, only about half of the people who buy the products will even bother.
No, that’s not the fraud part. This is the fraud part:
Companies commit fraud with their consumers when they deliberately complicate the submission rules, including overly restrictive times to mail in the rebates or arbitrary reasons to deny rebate requests. In fact, companies that manage rebates on behalf of manufacturing companies compete with one another to see who can achieve the highest rejection rates – and use these rates to pitch their services.
Hardware and software companies don’t start out wanting to defraud their own customers. They just want to market their products. But sooner or later, the allure of saving money gets to them, and they hire the companies that get the lowest rebate rates. Usually by making it nearly impossible to meet all of the requirements stated on the rebate form.
Top of the list: requiring an original copy of the purchase receipt, copies not acceptable. You know. The same original receipt you have to save for the IRS and submit to your company to get reimbursement. They know you can’t give them an original…and that’s fraud.
There are ways around all of this. You can get five or six copies of the receipt for every purchase, follow the rules to the letter, send everything by certified mail, and have an attorney on hand to sue if you need to. But is it really worth your time and money to do this?
If you do get ripped off by a MIR scheme, you can always complain to the Federal Trade Commission. It’s not as if this is something new for them, as they have successfully forced dozens of companies to halt this deceptive practice.
But a far better approach is to refuse to do business with companies that sell their products through mail-in rebates, and let them know why you think their fraud is an unacceptable business practice.
The thing to remember is these rebate companies don’t get much money for running the rebate. They basically get paid on the degree of rebate failure by the consumers. They sweeten the pot to the manufacturer by offering to sell them the buyer metrics they obtain for a low additional fee. Then they turn around and sell that same info to various info gathering outfits.
That money you try to save is aggressively fought against in any way that avoids a fraud charge against them and they sell your personal residence and shopping data to anyone that will pay for it to boot.
As Robert Heinlein said; “There is no such thing as a free lunch.
So it is obvious to me that the New Testament life was not going to succeed by imposing or encouraging a new set of laws even if they were sanctioned by someone who rose from the dead.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
The meaning of the verses look so clear it seems to be a loaded question. It means exactly what it says, but as with everything, some context will clarify some issues.
Paul is very explicit in chapter 6 that unrighteousness will not inherit the kingdom of God. He then gives some very explicit examples, which I am sure are representative and not a complete list, of the type of lifestyle or behavior typical of unrighteousness.
The good news is he says in vs 11
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
You were like this and now you are not. How did they change? They appeared to be out of a very hedonistic community which seem to regard such actions as normal and every man for himself, anything goes. How could they possibly transform?
The question goes to the heart of becoming a believer. Since God first began nurturing his relationship with man, it was obvious that man could not keep a law no matter how good its intention was. The nature of mankind was against the law. This is well spoken about in both Galatians and Romans.
So it is obvious to me that the New Testament life was not going to succeed by imposing or encouraging a new set of laws even if they were sanctioned by someone who rose from the dead.
The only way a believer could live a righteous life especially coming out of such a hedonistic society was to have a complete change of heart or nature.
That is the gospel. Paul wrote as stated above
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
What happened to them?
They were washed, they were sanctified, separated by God, for God. Accepting the blood of Jesus and the work of God to wash away their sins, their nature was changed. They were like that but no more.
Were they accepted even though they had a sordid (normal!) history? Absolutely!
Why accepted? Because their heart change gave them a different nature. They were no longer the same.
The question posed brings me to the issue of how many people view salvation. They have no faith in the power of the blood. They have no respect for the cross and its power.
All they see is what they feel or what they have done or what they are labelled. The focus is on them and what they feel powerless to change.
So the focus shifts to a fight for tolerance instead of faith in the blood. The church becomes challenged to be inclusive by those who are unwilling to exercise faith in the blood. The message of the cross is watered down so it becomes a symbol only instead the doorway to the power of God.
Paul wrote in chapter 1 of 1 Corinthians
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
So what does 1Cor 6:9–11 mean?
It means that the power of God is both necessary and sufficient to change a life no matter what their past. The change that ensues in a life makes one a new creation, able to inherit the kingdom of God.
Even though belief is a choice, choosing opens one to the power of God for change. One is not left with self motivation or will power to effect a change. It is God who makes the difference and it is entirely supernatural.
Tell the bleeding hearts, until we cant find a hungry or homeless child in America, until we have provided for our damaged or indigent war fighters, until we have addressed the influx of criminals and criminal enterprises across our borders, not a penny should be spent on foreign aid. It is time for US taxpayers to stop paying the tab for the entire world.
SOURCE: https://results.usaid.gov/results
” On behalf of the American people, we promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad, and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world. In support of America’s foreign policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development leads the U.S. Government’s international development and disaster assistance through partnerships and investments that save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance, and help people emerge from humanitarian crises and progress beyond assistance.”
Handing out money to countries that honestly hate us must stop this year.
Our VETERANS and HOMELESS here at home could use ever penny of that money.
Sample US Foreign Aid 2000-16:
Nigeria: $6.2 billion
Ethiopia: $11.7 billion
Jordan: $15.9 billion
Egypt: $33.3 billion
Lebanon: $3.6 billion
Pakistan: $17.9 billion
Colombia: $13.6 billion
South Africa: $6.2 billion
Countries with nuclear militaries, oil wells, space programs, propaganda/lobbying offices, holocaust monuments & museums in every major city all over the world don’t need handouts from American taxpayers.
How much of that goes into the pockets of people like Hunter Biden or their own crooked politicians? I’d go even further. We should stop all payment to the UN and tell them they have 1 yr. to find another place for their headquarters. That would destroy the nest of spies and save us more money.
I love how the Deep Staters use the word “invests” when they mean bribe. And it’s less than 1% of the federal budget as if that makes it Ok. Using that logic, building the domestic wall should have been simple.
I would demand that we have a complete an audit of all foreign aid.
And to those who constantly cry about saving the children in these countries I respond;
Tell the bleeding hearts, until we cant find a hungry or homeless child in America, until we have provided for our damaged or indigent war fighters, until we have addressed the influx of criminals and criminal enterprises across our borders, not a penny should be spent on foreign aid. It is time for US taxpayers to stop paying the tab for the entire world.
The laergest shareowners of the New York Fed are the following five Wall Street banks: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of New York Mellon.
The New York Fed has now pumped out upwards of $3 trillion in a period of 63 days to unnamed trading houses on Wall Street to ease a liquidity crisis that has yet to be credibly explained. In addition, it has launched a new asset purchase program, buying up $60 billion each month in U.S. Treasury bills. Based on the continuing escalation of its plans, it appears to be testing the limits of what the public will tolerate. We thought it was time to answer the question: who exactly owns the New York Fed and its magical money spigot that can pump trillions of dollars into Wall Street at the press of a button.
The largest shareowners of the New York Fed are the following five Wall Street banks: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of New York Mellon. Those five banks represent two-thirds of the eight Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) in the United States. The other three G-SIBs are Bank of America, a shareowner in the Richmond Fed; Wells Fargo, a shareowner of the San Francisco Fed; and State Street, a shareowner in the Boston Fed.
G-SIBs have the ability to inflict systemic contagion on the entire global banking system (as happened in 2008) and thus must be monitored closely for financial stability. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley are also four of the five largest holders of high-risk derivatives. (Bank of America is the fifth.)
The five mega banks that are the major shareowners of the New York Fed are also supervised by the New York Fed, despite participating in the election of two-thirds of its Board of Directors. James Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, currently sits on the New York Fed Board. Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, previously served two three-year terms on the Board.
These same Wall Street banks also participate in various advisory groups with the New York Fed where they hash out “best practices” for their industry. Those “best practices” were not sufficient to prevent JPMorgan Chase from becoming a three-count felon, Citigroup a one-count felon, and four of the banks (all but Bank of New York Mellon) from actively engaging in creating and selling subprime investments that blew up the U.S. financial system, the nation’s economy and a good swath of Wall Street in 2008.
There are 12 regional Federal Reserve banks of which the New York Fed is only one. But during the financial crisis, the New York Fed was given unprecedented powers by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. to create over $29 trillion in electronically-engineered money to bail out Wall Street. A significant portion of the $29 trillion went to loans that were collateralized by stocks and junk bonds – an unprecedented action for the Federal Reserve. In some instances, the Fed threw its rule book under the bus and didn’t make loans at all, opting instead to buy up toxic assets outright through Special Purpose Vehicles it created. And despite its mandate to make properly collateralized loans to only solvent banks, it made over $2.5 trillion in loans to Citigroup, much of that after the bank was clearly insolvent.
The $29 trillion created electronically by the New York Fed from 2007 to the middle of 2010 is astronomical compared to the loans made by the Federal Reserve following the 1929 financial crash and early years of the Great Depression. Those Fed loans aggregated to only $1.5 million or approximately $25.5 million in today’s dollars.
Consider that $25.5 million in today’s dollars that was distributed by the Fed from 1932 to 1936 to just one day in 2008. On September 24, 2008 the New York Fed pounded away on its money button to pump out $110 billion to the miscreants of Wall Street. (See chart below: where Bank of New York Mellon and JPMorgan Chase are listed in capitalized letters, they were acting as intermediaries for the New York Fed to disburse Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) money to the securities firms listed directly below each entry.) The $25.3 billion that Morgan Stanley received on just that one day is 1,000 times all the money the Fed disbursed during the 1930s.
The listing below came directly from the Federal Reserve when it was forced to hand over its Discount Window documents on March 31, 2011 after losing a multi-year court battle with the media to keep its money spigot secret.
A Sampling of Loans Made on Just One Day, September 24, 2008, by the New York Fed (Source: Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
The banks of New York and their foreign derivatives counterparties were the largest beneficiaries of the $29 trillion bailout and yet Congress has allowed the New York Fed to continue to supervise these Wall Street banking behemoths just as if the collapse in 2008 never occurred.
Unlike the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., which is considered an independent federal agency, the regional Federal Reserve banks are owned by their members banks. They are private institutions.
According to the December 31, 2018 financial statement for the New York Fed, the banks in its region owned 205,202,792 shares of stock in the New York Fed, which represented $10.26 billion of paid-in capital. This is how the New York Fed explains who its largest shareholders are:
“The Federal Reserve Act requires that each member bank subscribe to the capital stock of the Reserve Bank in an amount equal to 6 percent of the capital and surplus of the member bank. These shares are nonvoting, with a par value of $100, and may not be transferred or hypothecated. As a member bank’s capital and surplus changes, its holdings of Reserve Bank stock must be adjusted. Currently, only one-half of the subscription is paid in, and the remainder is subject to call. A member bank is liable for Reserve Bank liabilities up to twice the par value of stock subscribed by it.”
While the shares are non-voting in terms of quantity of shares held, the banks do get a vote in electing the Board of Directors of their regional Fed bank. Each regional Fed board has nine members. Six of the directors are elected by member banks. Three of the directors are appointed by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C.. From among these three, the Board of Governors selects a chairman and a deputy chairman of the given Bank’s board.
That might help to explain why Tim Geithner, when he was President of the New York Fed, was wining and dining Sandy Weill, the Chairman and CEO of Citigroup, who had sat on his Board, instead of reining in Citigroup’s wild gambles before it blew itself up. (Geithner failed up to become U.S. Treasury Secretary, where he continued to coddle the Wall Street banks.) Or it might help to explain why Jamie Dimon, the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, hasn’t been booted out of the bank despite presiding over three criminal felony charges, to which the bank pleaded guilty, and the current, ongoing prosecutions of its traders for turning the JPMorgan Chase precious metals trading desk into a racketeering enterprise according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (While Dimon was defending his bank against losing $6.2 billion of its depositors’ money in derivative gambles in London in 2012, he was actually sitting as a member of the Board of Directors at the New York Fed, his regulator.)
It’s long past the time to remove the money button from the New York Fed along with its Wall Street cop badge. As it is currently structured, it’s more dangerous than the banks in its district.
“If you take just one piece of what they are going to have to bail out, which is going to start with the State of Illinois, which is probably going to be the first state that is going to collapse. It will renege on its pension obligations.
On the first day of Christmas the Deep State gave to me…
Financial writer and professional trader Rick Ackerman says don’t expect a replay of the 2008-2009 financial crisis where the Federal Reserve bailed out almost everything in sight. Ackerman explains, “It ended up Lehman Brothers went under, and they needed a couple of sacrificial lambs, along with Bear Stearns. It could have just as easily been, and it might be the next time, Goldman Sachs. So, in that way, the Fed is kind of out of bailout bullets. We’ve already been through a bailout where it took a big hunk of the financial system. Each one takes more bailing out to get to that critical threshold of credibility where the bailout itself works.”
Ackerman sees bailout needs everywhere and gives the example of underwater state pensions across the country. Ackerman points out, “If you take just one piece of what they are going to have to bail out, which is going to start with the State of Illinois, which is probably going to be the first state that is going to collapse. It will renege on its pension obligations. So, if you picture the federal government riding to the rescue, the minute they bail out the Illinois pension system, California is there, along with New Jersey, Kentucky and a lot of other states, maybe 19 or 20 of them that have pension systems almost as insolvent as Illinois. . . . This means they are going to have to mail out checks to Illinois and then expand it to California, and all the other states that go under is to court hyperinflation. Of course, hyperinflation, in that sense, you can see where it has to collapse into deflation because . . . printing so much money that it is not going to buy the pensioner anything close to what it would have bought before the bailout. . . . So, a bailout is really self-defeating. . . . We can never inflate our way out of this abyss. . . .So, there is no bailout coming. . . . The debts will always be paid by either the borrower or the lender.”
Some people see a “Mad Max” scenario might be coming because of the enormous unpayable global debt. Ackerman contends, “I am a little more bearish than that. I see a Mad Max scenario as inevitable. . . . I try not to think about it because we’ve all got lives to live and kids to raise. . . . When you go back to the calculous of deflation and that every penny of every debt must be paid, if not by the borrower then by the lender, we have already put ourselves into a condition where Social Security is going to fail. Medicare is going to fail. All the ‘just-in-time’ deliveries are going to be in jeopardy. Food from the grocery stores, one day shipping from Amazon, I don’t see how all these thing s can continue to operate in a condition other than in the false prosperity that we have now. We are at the pinnacle of affluence.”
All of these things were generally dismissed as “conspiracy theory” until very recently
The long-term outlook for the USA really started getting depressing in the late 80’s, and continued until the gigantic Dem meltdown in 2016. Why?
Because all of these things:
* export of US wealth to other countries
*control of our media and politics by foreign and domestic enemies of freedom
* transformation of the US Government bureaucracy into an army of unaccountable activist criminals
* subversion of our public education system
* debt-financed investment in welfare at a massive scale
* perversion of the Justice Industry from courts to prisons
*perfection of mechanisms to heavily interfere with true local and state level representation
* personal enrichment by a significant percentage of politicians using manipulation of “non-profits”, law enforcement, the “drug war”, and pay-to-play
have been accelerating at the catastrophic expense of the Working American, the Working American’s family, and the Working American’s future.
All of these things were generally dismissed as “conspiracy theory” until very recently, because if accepted as possible/likely……then collective faith is massively shaken in national financial/political/legal/media/military/justice systems. As long as you have good credit, new car, a travel trailer, and a great vacation, everything must be OK, right?
These treasonous acts and policies have always been done opaquely, such that folks at all levels of government “service” could participate and rarely be directly associated in the public eye. Because information was highly controlled, and the system took care of its own. Mavericks ended up with concrete shoes, figuratively or literally. The United States government had fully morphed into the world’s richest/largest Mafia organization, and the Don’s are generally not U.S. citizens.
Except these things are no longer “conspiracy theory”, they are “conspiracy fact”. Nobody can point to any of those bullet points above, and say “that’s not true”, or “that’s not the case” anymore. Too many single facts are out in the open now, and people who cannot connect the dots to see the larger picture are either willfully ignorant or flat out lying.
The “slow roll” since election 2016 of exposing these facts at the national scale has certainly forced everyone in the public eye (media individuals, politicians, corporate marketing, CEOs, judges) to take a position that cannot be easily concealed.
The more that the media personalities, true believers, and political heads melt down in public, are exposed in their blatant lies, and are forced to make increasingly outlandish and extreme statements, the better.
The really difficult choices for all of you (us) are going to be whether or not we are willing to associate local organizations and politicians with the national corruption. Corruption doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and significant resources have been used in your hometown/state over decades to destroy the democratic process and balance of republic representation, without you realizing it, in order to assume control of your life and resources under false color of national consensus.
Bottom line, the facts are now in the open. We know, in general, what has been happening to our country and who has been funding it. We know how our politicians enrich themselves in office. We know that the media are 100% complicit and part of the organization.
We know that our local processes have been subverted and corrupted. Problem is, this doesn’t get immediately exposed at the local level, because the evidence for such is part of process/results, not individual names being tied to national investigations (unless there is a helluva lot more to the indictments). The longer this drags out, the more that our local politicians, agencies, and bureaucrats will be forced to take a public position by their actions. Mayors, sheriffs, judges, reps, and agents. They prefer to operate in the grey, it protects them and provides plausible deniability.
To those chomping at the bit and demanding “something” be done:
Let the national game continue until there is serious definition from a watching public perspective that there is a black-and-white struggle going on, and personal freedom (and revitalization of the Republic enterprise) or government control (and fundamental national transformation to de facto oligarchy) are the options. Then you can demand that your local rulers take a position, however you interact with them. The legal foundations of our country provide plenty of guidance for your response.