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Thank you Bill and Joel.

I actually gave a presentation a few weeks before election 2016 "What were the Founders thinking"? I ended off claiming we do not live in a Capitalist society. If not Socialism, it is Socialistic.

My other idea is to write a book called "Unraveling of a Republic".

5,000 year leap sets forth that the Constitution implements a govt with very limited authority, focused on an economic system that govt stays out of. Constitution lists about 20 things under federal authority. Anything else, says the 10th amendment, is under authority of the States.

All three branches have shredded the Constitution. "Land of the free?" A joke.

Let's say you buy a car and sign to make payments for 3 years. Midway, you get a note from the bank that you have to pay an extra year of payments. Crazy?

The states signed the Constitution. That's our contract. You can't change it afterward, unless you follow the process for change. But the presidents (think Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, etc.), Congress, and the courts have all grabbed power that is not theirs. Time or situation doesn't change the agreement made when the original States signed the Constitution.

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𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧's avatar

Yesterday I received the college of engineering newsletter from my alma mater, the University of Washington. In the newsletter, the college dean states that "Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a critical component of engineering excellence". The newsletter describes a suite of required engineering college courses -- a course on diversity in society, a course on race, a course on justice and DEI in engineering, and finally, a course on sex gender and harassment. The courses were developed by the Associate Dean of DEI, Karen Thomas-Brown (a Karen with a hyphenated last name!), who is also the lead for the college's Office of Inclusive Excellence. These courses will probably replace traditional engineering coursework (like how to build bridges that don't collapse, or planes that don't crash). The "woke" are hard at work destroying the engineering profession! I feel like I am living in the "End Times" described by the Bible preachers. I hope Bill, Joel, Tom, and Dan, and the commenters to Bill's columns, can help me prepare for and survive the coming Crash.

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