03-06-2021, 03:39 PM
(03-05-2021, 10:01 PM)girlmonday Wrote: One of the reasons the US is collapsing now is that Americans think that decay will be stopped by becoming Fascists and Communists
Get this straight: most Americans recognize Communism and fascism (including Ku Kluxism) as pure depravity incapable of solving anything other than to shrink population size. If you think America's wars horrible, then just think of how horrible they would be if the overall leadership were as devoid of moral compass as Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, or Satan Hussein. Concentration camps, purges, massacres, and nuclear devastation? People are scared now. They should be. Life is precious, or life is miserable and unsafe.
Quote:. Americans think the US will be improved by expanding wars, increasing the debt, and adding more tyranny when the reason the USA is crashing is because the US has wars, is in debt, and has a police state.
And what about the pacifist current among Americans? It is difficult to get Americans sympathetic to a military crusade... we have our limits.
Personal debt is more devastating than public debt. Personal debt that does not have a cost-cutting or income-generating asset attached is poverty. We have largely learned that the hard way. Think of all those once-lovely shopping malls that are no more. Many employers that once insisted that their clerks look like executives now offer tee-shirts with a company logo on them as a sort of uniform. Above all, America voted out the most despotic President every... if not decisively enough for my liking, then decisively enough for a practical effect.
Quote:Americans say that they love freedom, but then they turn around and say they need the government to give them free Obamacare, build a wall, protect the US from Yemen, wiretap their phones, arrest people for feeding the homeless, stop farmers from plowing fields, force people to get rid of dogs, ban vaping, and torture suspects.
Maybe if we had full employment with solid wages we would not need so much welfare. People might even be able to afford profits-first medical care for whatever virtue such has.
Quote:Every country has the government it deserves.
https://listverse.com/2016/06/29/10-inst...ly-worked/
Let me suggest countries that have government that the People certainly do not deserve.
North Korea
Syria
Iran
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.