"Well...can’t agree with putting so much of the blame on leftists for today’s insanities."
Please.
What we are currently enduring is the culmination of a century of leftism that has methodically and relentlessly empowered and enriched the State at the direct expense of the population at large.
In the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century, the government was small and inexpensive, which had resulted in the highest period of economic growth in history.
Then the progressives took power. Starting with Woodrow "He Kept Us Out Of War" Wilson, who saddled us with both the income tax and the Federal Reserve, which have become the greatest engines of mass theft the world has ever seen, and which were the fundamental empowering factors for the growth of the leviathan that now afflicts us.
Then came the Mussolini-loving FDR* who instituted the administrative State, which has now largely replaced representative government with bureaucratic diktat.
So, in just over a century, the progressives have inflicted upon us the largest, most powerful, and most expensive State in the history of mankind, and in the process largely inverting the previous individual rights > collective interests paradigm the country was founded upon.
To paraphrase Tricky Dick Nixon, the progressive that gave us the EPA, finished off the gold standard, and broke bread with Mao, the greatest of all leftist genocidal murderers, "we are all progressives now".
Leftists of one stench or another have destroyed every society and economy they've seized control of. After a century of effort, they now control every major institution in the U.S., the U.N. and most of those in the rest of the nations that formerly comprised the free world.
It seems they believe that all the pieces are now in place, and they are going for the brass ring of the left: the complete subjugation of the population to the rulers.
They must not be permitted to prevail, or they will erase all the freedoms gained since the Magna Carta, and the unprecedented standards of living they created with it.
* Both Benito and Adolph were socialists, and therefore leftists, the nonsensical blather of of their communist brethren notwithstanding.
"Well...can’t agree with putting so much of the blame on leftists for today’s insanities."
Please.
What we are currently enduring is the culmination of a century of leftism that has methodically and relentlessly empowered and enriched the State at the direct expense of the population at large.
In the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century, the government was small and inexpensive, which had resulted in the highest period of economic growth in history.
Then the progressives took power. Starting with Woodrow "He Kept Us Out Of War" Wilson, who saddled us with both the income tax and the Federal Reserve, which have become the greatest engines of mass theft the world has ever seen, and which were the fundamental empowering factors for the growth of the leviathan that now afflicts us.
Then came the Mussolini-loving FDR* who instituted the administrative State, which has now largely replaced representative government with bureaucratic diktat.
So, in just over a century, the progressives have inflicted upon us the largest, most powerful, and most expensive State in the history of mankind, and in the process largely inverting the previous individual rights > collective interests paradigm the country was founded upon.
To paraphrase Tricky Dick Nixon, the progressive that gave us the EPA, finished off the gold standard, and broke bread with Mao, the greatest of all leftist genocidal murderers, "we are all progressives now".
Leftists of one stench or another have destroyed every society and economy they've seized control of. After a century of effort, they now control every major institution in the U.S., the U.N. and most of those in the rest of the nations that formerly comprised the free world.
It seems they believe that all the pieces are now in place, and they are going for the brass ring of the left: the complete subjugation of the population to the rulers.
They must not be permitted to prevail, or they will erase all the freedoms gained since the Magna Carta, and the unprecedented standards of living they created with it.
* Both Benito and Adolph were socialists, and therefore leftists, the nonsensical blather of of their communist brethren notwithstanding.