What shall we do, we American people, holders of the temporary promises of freedom and individual sovereignty, with our new gift, the year of our Lord, 2020? What will be our direction? Toward greater wisdom and enlightenment, growing nearer to God as we know Him… or Her? Or, as this millennium has presented, toward firmer rejection of God, morality, purpose and humanity; toward greater animalism and destruction of the Constitution? Big choices, either way.
We err terribly if we devote ourselves to any politician, thinking, dreaming, hoping or wishing that that one person will “fix” our own lives, our uncomfortable feelings or our deep concerns about the future of America. A terrible mistake, that. The only true value of a political leader is that he or she might cause large segments of the constituent population to develop a new sense of hope, of good expectations and of a belief in their social abilities to solve problems. Unified purpose – not coordinated, necessarily, but unified – is the most powerful force on Earth.
Unified purpose can ignore the pain of sacrifice, as it has during times of war, for example, or during the 8 years that created the Apollo space program. Tyrants create a form of unity by instilling fear. Dominated subjects believe they will suffer if they act on contrary thoughts. Free people, unified in purpose and hope, will overturn the dominator every time. Nothing can resist the power of free people who believe in freedom.
The only way a free and sovereign people can be defeated is to render them less and less free over time – even it takes 4 – or 20 – generations. Those who are threatened by freedom, who fear it, never stop trying to destroy it. They, too, have a unified purpose. When they are the only unity on the playing field, freedom cannot survive. When young citizens are at an intellectual point where socialism appears preferable to “capitalism,” several of the methods of rendering a free people less free are revealed.
First is re-education. Naturally conservative people, enjoying freedom and responsible for themselves, have to be taught to rely on “the government” when ill fortune finds them. That purchase of philosophy might not have worked if the “government” hadn’t created a misfortune, like the Great Depression, that seemed too difficult and complex for individuals to withstand on their own. Social Security easily became law and was tiny, a mere minimum for old widows. Today Republicans defend it as if part of the granite of Mount Rushmore. Older former conservatives speak up for “their” Medicare, now that the government has made health care so costly and complex that individuals cannot contend with it on their own. A little socialism goes a long way.
Second is education, itself. The best plan would be to populate the education licensing bureaucracy with unified liberals/leftists who could guide education degree programs such that new teachers would tend toward socialist ideals of equality, fairness, anti-racism, anti-discrimination of all sorts, feminism, bi-lingualism and multi-culturalism. Pretty soon they’ll be teaching youth that our Constitution fails to defend these important principles and needs to be changed or supplanted with new thinking. Pretty soon a proto-communist can be elected president, and the long march to the end of this democratic republic will be underway.
Thirdly, enough rope, in the form of creature comforts, new cars, easy credit and wide-screen TVs, must be provided for erstwhile Americans to hang themselves while their heritage is forgotten and their freedoms swept away. Let illegal entrants have the country – we don’t seem to want it any longer.
Lastly, promote new “rights” that no one ever heard of, but the lack of which can be made to appear oppressive. Link the denial of such rights to the constantly re-boiled slavery-guilt/systemic racism civil rights struggle, and soon these new rights gain the power of civil rights that once nearly split the nation… politicians must respond. Shortly after, laws are proposed, agitated for and passed to, perhaps, force boys and girls to bathe or perform their toilet together. What, “never,” you say? Or, as a fantastic example, licensed, educated teachers could actually lose their jobs for failing to call a boy a girl. “Impossible.”
We have contributed mightily to our “mis”-education and “mal”-economics. The worst of our economics has two parts: Unconstrained debt creation, and incredible inflation. You’re objecting, now, that “inflation” is only at 2%, or some such low number. You’re talking about price increases, which are not what inflation is. Prices go up and down for reasons of supply of goods, demands (desires) of consumers, including competitive products, and availability of spendable cash (or credit, nowadays). “Inflation” affects only the last factor: spendable, or “excess” cash and credit. “Inflation” is inflation of, or artificial expansion of, the money supply, something individuals cannot control. Politicians do that or allow it to happen by government agents.
Don’t confuse inflation with a rise in the cost of goods. Inflation is tolerated or actively promoted when government needs more money and is politically unwilling to raise taxes. Foolishly, we have converted our money system to a debt-based system whereby the federal government borrows every new dollar it wants to balance the federal budget with. As it does so, it infuses added dollars into the economy as a whole. This will increase sales of thousands of products as companies that do business with the government get new contracts and, presumably, hire more people or raise wages. Increasingly, more of those products are imported, sending a lot of those “excess,” “new” dollars to other countries. This increases domestic profits, but not domestic, widespread, individual wealth. Consumer prices don’t experience much upward pressure because the actual inflation of the money supply is siphoned into the hands of multi-billion dollar companies, or concentrated in the hands of external multi-billion dollar companies or government-run companies, which is to say, in the hands of foreign governments. What does this mud puddle of excessive profits and concentrations of wealth have to do with most people?
It diverts their freedom and personal sovereignty, and… it so corrupts free enterprise that socialism, despite its total history of failure – history little known by today’s youth – can be made to appear attractive. Step by step, the never-ending plan to destroy freedom and independence (non-globalism) is being carried out. Our government education systems, including “private” universities and colleges made wealthy by government-promoted student loans, are almost the last places to depend upon to correct this historic ignorance.
And all of those inflated dollars? Since our prices haven’t risen too, too badly, can we pretend they are no concern of ours? Every dollar “bill” is a bill America must eventually pay. If the rest of the world no longer wanted (thank you, Saudi Arabia) U. S. dollars, our economy, and those of several other countries, would collapse. Along the way every dollar, printed or electronic, would drop in value like a stone. How’s $50 or $80 gas sound? At those prices the “national debt” will be manageable, won’t it?
Meanwhile, we, who should be totally pissed-off, are comfortable enough that we worry about climate change, UFOs and the NFL standings, rather than what should be job-one for American citizens.
