American Revolution II
Posted by BambiB 11 years, 4 months ago to Government
The economy is a mess. Obama stirs the pot, creates disaster, claims success and moves on. A new entitlements program in the form of "Obamacare" has just been dumped on the American People. The Federales are $17 trillion in debt, facing $211 trillion in unfunded mandates over the next 50 years. 25 cents of ever Federal dollar spent is borrowed - and China has just begun making noises that sound a lot like, "We're not loaning you any more money."
American police forces - from the local units to the Federal level are more militarized, aggressive and violent than any time in history. At the same time, Americans (many perceiving a threat from the government) are arming themselves in record numbers.
The split between rich and poor has never been greater. Jobs are hard to come by. The government is pumping out propaganda by the boat load. The adminstration is lying to us, the NSA is spying on us, the TSA is groping us, the IRS is harassing and taxing us, Congress is ignoring us.
Will it all break? If so, when? And how? Will Americans rebel? Will it be peaceful or violent? What will come afterwards? How much of the dreck that is American "law" will remain? Will the Constitution be tossed aside? Will we continue to allow morons to vote? Will there be any voting? How will things change?
Will Americans meekly accept whatever their "leaders" tell them to accept?
And most of all: WHEN do you think changes will occur?
I'd say we have 0 to 10 years before the dollar crashes. Hard. I expect the Chinese to shorten our "line of credit" and push for the establishment of the Yuan as the international currency. When they do that, the dollar will crash - dropping by more than 90% in value in a single year. The prices of everything (as valued in dollars) will soar. The government-created "dependent class" won't have enough money to eat. Crime will explode in the dependent neighborhoods and merchants, unable to withstand the stress, will withdraw, making life even more difficult. There will be riots (think "Rodney King riots in L.A.) in every major city - but food riots. People will begin to organize themselves into self-protection groups. The government will react to it all with martial law.
Then the grease really hits the fire.
Gun confiscation.
Resistance.
Counter-offensive.
Civil war.
Military suppression and insurrection.
Assassinations.
Anarchy.
A new beginning. But what kind?
So there's my prediction. What's yours?
American police forces - from the local units to the Federal level are more militarized, aggressive and violent than any time in history. At the same time, Americans (many perceiving a threat from the government) are arming themselves in record numbers.
The split between rich and poor has never been greater. Jobs are hard to come by. The government is pumping out propaganda by the boat load. The adminstration is lying to us, the NSA is spying on us, the TSA is groping us, the IRS is harassing and taxing us, Congress is ignoring us.
Will it all break? If so, when? And how? Will Americans rebel? Will it be peaceful or violent? What will come afterwards? How much of the dreck that is American "law" will remain? Will the Constitution be tossed aside? Will we continue to allow morons to vote? Will there be any voting? How will things change?
Will Americans meekly accept whatever their "leaders" tell them to accept?
And most of all: WHEN do you think changes will occur?
I'd say we have 0 to 10 years before the dollar crashes. Hard. I expect the Chinese to shorten our "line of credit" and push for the establishment of the Yuan as the international currency. When they do that, the dollar will crash - dropping by more than 90% in value in a single year. The prices of everything (as valued in dollars) will soar. The government-created "dependent class" won't have enough money to eat. Crime will explode in the dependent neighborhoods and merchants, unable to withstand the stress, will withdraw, making life even more difficult. There will be riots (think "Rodney King riots in L.A.) in every major city - but food riots. People will begin to organize themselves into self-protection groups. The government will react to it all with martial law.
Then the grease really hits the fire.
Gun confiscation.
Resistance.
Counter-offensive.
Civil war.
Military suppression and insurrection.
Assassinations.
Anarchy.
A new beginning. But what kind?
So there's my prediction. What's yours?
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Ayn Rand predicted this in Atlas Shrugged. You'd think that would have been a wake up call. But who's paying attention?
"The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men." Capitalism the Unknown Ideal
She said the 4th foundation of philosophy was politics.
She wrote the book, "The New Left" -all about politics.
She read Goldwater's book, "The Conscience of a Conservative" and included extensive notes in it. If you upgrade to producer, you can read her notes in the margins of the actual pages.
Don't focus on politics. Focus on your own life, your own prosperity, your own fitness. If you are properly fit, you will be able to survive and likely thrive in any crisis scenario. Sure, being prepared is a key to fitness. Get some guns, gold, and a good network of good reliable friends, but focus on your success now. That success will translate into your success in the event of a crash, if one happens. Look, the train is headed toward the cliff. We can all see it. There is only one pedal in the locomotive that politicians will acknowledge, the accelerator pedal. When will it happen? Timing is tough. It took the Soviet Union 60 years to finally crash, and it was broke from the start.
really? don't focus on philosophy, don't focus on realities in this world. The people who "thrived" in the soviet union were the people who were the most brutal, the most immoral. because that is what that system rewarded. Pushing death. there is no guarantee when the US crashes that on the other side will be freedom. Ignoring politics, therefore ignoring US reality will ensure what will come out of this will be even more oppressive, more brutal, lots of wars. Should Rand have focused on her physical fitness, her prosperity, and remained in the Soviet Union? Should Locke have focused on accumulating gold and fitness and ignored ideas and politics? What of our founding fathers?
Ignoring politics in your nation is ignoring reality in the world. Speaking out now is key to winning the battle of ideas, which politics is very certainly a part of. By all means stay fit and pursue your financial goals and prepare for the worst-but do NOT ignore what is happening in front of your eyes.
If you find that you fear to speak up (or publish) except in allegorical form, then censorship is upon you. I think it's a barometer--we see the Republicans currently acting as if they dare not oppose Obama too sharply, for fear of being blamed for the next crisis. Still, there is, at this point, no crime in writing an anti-government blog, or in going to see a screening of We the Living, The Fountainhead, or Atlas Shrugged.
A "kill switch" for the Internet would shut down the avenue of free speech we are using right here, but it would also shut down a tremendous amount of commerce.
Governments and businesses rely on the Internet. Anonymity is still possible. And I still have a couple of 9600-baud modems that can use dial-up or hard-wired connections.
My point was that A) the communists used infighting to gain control and B) even though they lost, Vietnam still ended up a People's state.
It is hard for me to believe that the founders, if they stepped through a time capsule and saw our current state of government, would not be reaching for their muskets pretty quickly.
As for supply lines. Consider this. Most major cities in the US have 3 days or less of food in the city. That includes DC although if I had to guess, I would guess DC would even be lower. All of that food has to travel by truck through areas that would likely be dominated by folks unhappy with the central government.
They will then gain control of the rebellion, and if victorious, we will have given ourselves a glorious People's state. As happened to the Viet Cong and South Vietnam.
(originally, the communists were a minority among the many diverse political factions in the Viet Cong; the communists played one against another until they were left in charge... per one of the founders of the Viet Cong)
Additionally, there is no reasonable method of organizing without the government able to observe nearly everything. I personally would support a movement right this moment if I believed there was any hope of success. Sadly I do not and will therefore continue to try to work within the system even though I know it is destined to failure.
http://www.TheSocietyProject.org
This, in my opinion, is the best line in the entirety of the Declaration of Independence. It highlights our current predicament. Life, as it stands, is easy. It's easy to accept all of life's wrongs when you know little else.
The founding fathers had courage to know this, and to fight for what they knew was right, even if the odds were severely against them.
In We the Living, the heroine not only risks her life but gives up her child-because the situation was so intolerable. She did not suggest that Kira find inner peace or surround herself with "heroic art" and ignore the oppression around her.
In The Fountainhead, the destruction of one man's creation is so important, he chose to destroy a building. Do you suggest the American Revolution was a mistake?
In Atlas Shrugged, Dagny kills someone for not making a decision fast enough. Yes, all fiction- yet powerful enough for Men to consider action-of many kinds. She did say as long as you still have the freedom of speech, you should use it as a primary action- but the noose on that has been tightening as well (see recent AP reporter scandals)
The situation in the US is much worse today than at the time of the Revolution, as far as liberties are concerned.
Whether you agree or not with this post, your assertion that:
"Atlas Shrugged" has been seized by religious fundamentalists who dream of immanentizing the eschaton" ignores American History.
And so you confirm Mike's premise that happiness is integrated with reason. The fact that earned success gives you pleasure, but unearned does not means that you have used your rational judgement and have a reaction based upon important...no, essential...differentia. All emotional responses are simply instantaneous responses made by your subconscious, that massively parallel processing part of your brain that can sum up and compare inputs against your own code of ethics (which is the operating code, so to speak for that parallel processor). You feel anger, or joy, or sadness, or disdain quickly and powerfully. Your reactions are sometimes at odds with your conscious logic because the serial processor can only consider one bit at a time. The subconscious detects errors and contradictions not visible, or purposefully obfuscated by a logical argument.
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