Everybody blames the gov. for our woes. I blame you and me. Demand more free stuff and you will get it at your own expense. politicians will give away the moon and the stars to get your vote. I cannot believe the founding fathers did not include term limits for all maggots in government. When the voters are standing in the back yard scratching their posterior and screaming what happened tell them to go look in the mirror ; that is where their understanding should start. You do a great service to the country Bill and I appreciate what you do. Thank you.
Khrushchev 60 years ago...."Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.” This is from a Twitter post by Nikki Halley. Fact checkers say it is false, however I can remember my mother repeatedly saying that Khrushchev said that my children would be communists, so it may be that the press interpreted what he said. At another time, Khrushchev actually said “I have already said that the words ‘We will bury capitalism’ should not be taken literally, as is done by ordinary gravediggers who carry a spade and dig graves and bury the dead. What I had in mind was the outlook for the development of human society. Socialism will inevitably succeed capitalism.” Either way, here we are.
We all need to promote every 2nd Tuesday in November for the next 8 to 10 years the election campaign, "Vote for the Other Guy". Throw out every incumbent and keep doing that until those newly elected at a very minimum prohibit any donations to the election campaigns of federal and state government positions. All these elections need to be funded by public money and campaign periods drastically shortened. Best to have numerous debates of candidates with no private funding accepted. Today, it costs over a billion dollars to successfully run a presidential election campaign. Companies giving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to federal and state candidates expect juicy contracts in return. Leads to corruption and waste of taxpayer money. I'm probably dreaming but what exists now is leading our great nation to a really terrible ending in the not-too-distant future.
Our form of government, I fear, has a serious defect. This defect may be our undoing.
To wit, no voter to my knowledge has ever voted for a candidate who promises to reduce spending, to raise taxes and to drain the Federal trough in which so many now frolic.
And no candidate has ever been elected by promising not to bring any government benefit to the electorate.
Democracy is Communism-Lite. Our Founding Father's were rightly leery of Democracy and leaned heavily on Natural Law. The Bill of Rights was essentially a Natural Law Manifesto. We now live in a society where Natural Law is virtually extinct. The only folks left advocating for Natural Law are Libertarians, labeled as Domestic Terrorists by the Statist majority within our society. So now arbitrary law rules the day and we are reaping the sordid consequences. The USSA will have its inglorious ending just like the USSR. I hope I live long enough to see the ending :-)
Oh, Lord. I'm not taking the time to answer everything in your comment. But teachers are quitting in droves because of people like you who attack them verbally. My husband is a retired teacher and you have no idea how hard their jobs are. BTW, I am not Black but have some Black relatives and understand them and what they go through. Black lives do matter and they shouldn't be shot umpteen times in the back.
I'm sure you will write back because you always have to have the last word. I'm not answering you anymore. Good by.
I think it is time that us "Old Timers" got busy writting our so called reps in Washington DC and tell them to put a stop to all this spending and hiring of more fed employees...
The only option that I can come up with is,stand far back and let the economy crash and burn.THan start over rebuilding from the ground up, using" common sense" and the basic concepts with volunteers who are wiling to work.The politicians will have already gone home or to their islands, cause there will be no money to pay them.
the downfall of USA and Argentina , Zimbabwe and others have taken place over fairly lengthy time periods without many people noticing at first. If the downfall is to be reversed this would also need to happen over a long period of time. Bill, what would be your 20 year manifesto to achieve a reversal in these various countries==I think this would be something you could convince voters to support, and then of course you would have to get the power to do it.
I agree with your professor in general that fascism is neither “left” nor “right” (or is both of them) which are, maybe, rather a historical context of competing perversions. In particular both communism and fascism seem to be Western (Judeo-Christian) heresies of a way to organize a society to a belief (mythical?) system of “heaven on earth” for the people.
Obviously there are other examples: The Chinese, Islamic as a caliphate, Japan’s “alliance” with Hilter, etc, not to mention the American political experiment, whose people are mercifully and painfully easily distracted in the attempt at hegemony.
I actually think Henry VIII and Tudor England with the constant mix of religion and heresy, wealth and privileges of the Court, political fiefdoms, and the mercurial personal agendas of the King himself, best describe and predict modern political thought. Not that I’m a personal admirer of Henry as a person.
Yes a Jackassery or as Horace Walpole noted, “life is a comedy for those that think.”
Walpole, like Bill perhaps, is known better for his writing and publishing than his politics. Watching the American and French revolutions from his “dandy” position in the British isles, like Bill does now again, Walpole saw the darker side, “and [life’s] a tragedy for those that feel”.
I’ll avoid the neuroscience view, sense (ha!) that’s not the beat, but I’ll suggest that we don’t choose when and where we are born, but (maybe) mostly our attitude and response toward these things. Indeed our thoughts about how the world works live only in our own minds. We can enjoy the play and go along as best we can living in gratitude for life itself, or blame and punish everyone for the misery, both ours or others, we find our fate.
But as Bernie and others note, most of us disapprove for our own different reasons, Biden and the deep state are not communists…not that communism would be a better form of totalitarianism…but rather fascists that pick the winners and losers for their own benefit and personal narcissism.
Everybody blames the gov. for our woes. I blame you and me. Demand more free stuff and you will get it at your own expense. politicians will give away the moon and the stars to get your vote. I cannot believe the founding fathers did not include term limits for all maggots in government. When the voters are standing in the back yard scratching their posterior and screaming what happened tell them to go look in the mirror ; that is where their understanding should start. You do a great service to the country Bill and I appreciate what you do. Thank you.
Khrushchev 60 years ago...."Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.” This is from a Twitter post by Nikki Halley. Fact checkers say it is false, however I can remember my mother repeatedly saying that Khrushchev said that my children would be communists, so it may be that the press interpreted what he said. At another time, Khrushchev actually said “I have already said that the words ‘We will bury capitalism’ should not be taken literally, as is done by ordinary gravediggers who carry a spade and dig graves and bury the dead. What I had in mind was the outlook for the development of human society. Socialism will inevitably succeed capitalism.” Either way, here we are.
We all need to promote every 2nd Tuesday in November for the next 8 to 10 years the election campaign, "Vote for the Other Guy". Throw out every incumbent and keep doing that until those newly elected at a very minimum prohibit any donations to the election campaigns of federal and state government positions. All these elections need to be funded by public money and campaign periods drastically shortened. Best to have numerous debates of candidates with no private funding accepted. Today, it costs over a billion dollars to successfully run a presidential election campaign. Companies giving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to federal and state candidates expect juicy contracts in return. Leads to corruption and waste of taxpayer money. I'm probably dreaming but what exists now is leading our great nation to a really terrible ending in the not-too-distant future.
Our form of government, I fear, has a serious defect. This defect may be our undoing.
To wit, no voter to my knowledge has ever voted for a candidate who promises to reduce spending, to raise taxes and to drain the Federal trough in which so many now frolic.
And no candidate has ever been elected by promising not to bring any government benefit to the electorate.
Democracy is Communism-Lite. Our Founding Father's were rightly leery of Democracy and leaned heavily on Natural Law. The Bill of Rights was essentially a Natural Law Manifesto. We now live in a society where Natural Law is virtually extinct. The only folks left advocating for Natural Law are Libertarians, labeled as Domestic Terrorists by the Statist majority within our society. So now arbitrary law rules the day and we are reaping the sordid consequences. The USSA will have its inglorious ending just like the USSR. I hope I live long enough to see the ending :-)
Too true and sad! Nothing to laugh about!
Oh, Lord. I'm not taking the time to answer everything in your comment. But teachers are quitting in droves because of people like you who attack them verbally. My husband is a retired teacher and you have no idea how hard their jobs are. BTW, I am not Black but have some Black relatives and understand them and what they go through. Black lives do matter and they shouldn't be shot umpteen times in the back.
I'm sure you will write back because you always have to have the last word. I'm not answering you anymore. Good by.
Kudos to BB + PG V
Ask 10 Black people if they consider it racist. They know.
I think it is time that us "Old Timers" got busy writting our so called reps in Washington DC and tell them to put a stop to all this spending and hiring of more fed employees...
The only option that I can come up with is,stand far back and let the economy crash and burn.THan start over rebuilding from the ground up, using" common sense" and the basic concepts with volunteers who are wiling to work.The politicians will have already gone home or to their islands, cause there will be no money to pay them.
the downfall of USA and Argentina , Zimbabwe and others have taken place over fairly lengthy time periods without many people noticing at first. If the downfall is to be reversed this would also need to happen over a long period of time. Bill, what would be your 20 year manifesto to achieve a reversal in these various countries==I think this would be something you could convince voters to support, and then of course you would have to get the power to do it.
I agree with your professor in general that fascism is neither “left” nor “right” (or is both of them) which are, maybe, rather a historical context of competing perversions. In particular both communism and fascism seem to be Western (Judeo-Christian) heresies of a way to organize a society to a belief (mythical?) system of “heaven on earth” for the people.
Obviously there are other examples: The Chinese, Islamic as a caliphate, Japan’s “alliance” with Hilter, etc, not to mention the American political experiment, whose people are mercifully and painfully easily distracted in the attempt at hegemony.
I actually think Henry VIII and Tudor England with the constant mix of religion and heresy, wealth and privileges of the Court, political fiefdoms, and the mercurial personal agendas of the King himself, best describe and predict modern political thought. Not that I’m a personal admirer of Henry as a person.
Truly, truly sad.
Yes a Jackassery or as Horace Walpole noted, “life is a comedy for those that think.”
Walpole, like Bill perhaps, is known better for his writing and publishing than his politics. Watching the American and French revolutions from his “dandy” position in the British isles, like Bill does now again, Walpole saw the darker side, “and [life’s] a tragedy for those that feel”.
I’ll avoid the neuroscience view, sense (ha!) that’s not the beat, but I’ll suggest that we don’t choose when and where we are born, but (maybe) mostly our attitude and response toward these things. Indeed our thoughts about how the world works live only in our own minds. We can enjoy the play and go along as best we can living in gratitude for life itself, or blame and punish everyone for the misery, both ours or others, we find our fate.
But as Bernie and others note, most of us disapprove for our own different reasons, Biden and the deep state are not communists…not that communism would be a better form of totalitarianism…but rather fascists that pick the winners and losers for their own benefit and personal narcissism.
I apologize to resorting to such soeech: f'ing depressing.