I am so with you! I struggle every day trying to understand this. It's been shocking to see the progressive left descend into fascism. It's like everyone swapped sides. There's some weird voodoo going on. Seriously.
I am so with you! I struggle every day trying to understand this. It's been shocking to see the progressive left descend into fascism. It's like everyone swapped sides. There's some weird voodoo going on. Seriously.
The progressives have always been fascists, or, as Benito preferred calling it, corporatist.
Woodrow Wilson gave us the Federal Reserve and Income Tax, two of the greatest engines of mass theft in the history of the world, and without which the leviathan progressive State that now afflicts us could not exist.
It is this gigantic river of our stolen money that allows the State to divide us, rule us, reward or punish us, fund legions of court economists, scientists, doctors and other "experts" to validate its depredations, finance concentric circles of crony businesses and media that do its bidding and parrot its propaganda, and continuously and increasingly enrich itself at our expense.
Prior to the Progressive Era (which really has not ended) the US was the most free, prosperous nation in the world, with the highest rates of economic growth in history.
In about a century, the progressives transformed our nation into a gigantic DMV where we are extorted for countless "fees" for "licenses" to engage in the most mundane activities, like owning a dog or cutting other people's hair.
If we are ever to regain our freedoms, the beast must be starved. The window of opportunity before the beast gets too powerful to starve has either already closed or only has a sliver of daylight left.
Yes. The legalization of theft through income taxes and money printing has allowed a bloated leviathan to hold hostage our hospitals, universities, livelihoods, everything. If we are to escape the stranglehold of globalist elites, the centralization of power must end, and sovereignty returned to individuals and their local communities. End the Fed. End all abc departments. Repeal the 16th amendment, or at minimum, convert to a flat tax--no exemptions, no deductions, no subsidies. This would be a start.
The US Federal government is completely bankrupt and far past the point of no return. It is now in a position where the bulk of its expenditures are funded by the central bank, Zimbabwe-style.
This is completely, as our leftist friends like to say, "unsustainable".
Every fiat currency in history, and every empire that fell into the fiat trap, has collapsed, and it is no different now.
It will end. The only question is when, and how bad it will be.
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!"
It has led me to the hypothesis that the base conservative and progressive movements are in a circle chasing each other. Progressives believe that they are in a constant forward trajectory for the betterment of society, but they are really just going in a circle and trying out old values and structures that fell out of favor and were forgotten. The conservatives are just trying to maintain values that were a few decades old. And somehow progressives have returned to global fascism and technocracy as the belief system of the day.
"Political tags, such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth, are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
~ Robert Heinlein
There are those who adhere to the non-aggression principle, and then there is everyone else.
I am so with you! I struggle every day trying to understand this. It's been shocking to see the progressive left descend into fascism. It's like everyone swapped sides. There's some weird voodoo going on. Seriously.
The progressives have always been fascists, or, as Benito preferred calling it, corporatist.
Woodrow Wilson gave us the Federal Reserve and Income Tax, two of the greatest engines of mass theft in the history of the world, and without which the leviathan progressive State that now afflicts us could not exist.
It is this gigantic river of our stolen money that allows the State to divide us, rule us, reward or punish us, fund legions of court economists, scientists, doctors and other "experts" to validate its depredations, finance concentric circles of crony businesses and media that do its bidding and parrot its propaganda, and continuously and increasingly enrich itself at our expense.
Prior to the Progressive Era (which really has not ended) the US was the most free, prosperous nation in the world, with the highest rates of economic growth in history.
In about a century, the progressives transformed our nation into a gigantic DMV where we are extorted for countless "fees" for "licenses" to engage in the most mundane activities, like owning a dog or cutting other people's hair.
If we are ever to regain our freedoms, the beast must be starved. The window of opportunity before the beast gets too powerful to starve has either already closed or only has a sliver of daylight left.
Yes. The legalization of theft through income taxes and money printing has allowed a bloated leviathan to hold hostage our hospitals, universities, livelihoods, everything. If we are to escape the stranglehold of globalist elites, the centralization of power must end, and sovereignty returned to individuals and their local communities. End the Fed. End all abc departments. Repeal the 16th amendment, or at minimum, convert to a flat tax--no exemptions, no deductions, no subsidies. This would be a start.
Sounds like blood would be shed to get to that.
Not necessarily.
The US Federal government is completely bankrupt and far past the point of no return. It is now in a position where the bulk of its expenditures are funded by the central bank, Zimbabwe-style.
This is completely, as our leftist friends like to say, "unsustainable".
Every fiat currency in history, and every empire that fell into the fiat trap, has collapsed, and it is no different now.
It will end. The only question is when, and how bad it will be.
Thank you for the excellent summary. Let's see if we can wedge that window open.
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!"
~ Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
mises.org
It has led me to the hypothesis that the base conservative and progressive movements are in a circle chasing each other. Progressives believe that they are in a constant forward trajectory for the betterment of society, but they are really just going in a circle and trying out old values and structures that fell out of favor and were forgotten. The conservatives are just trying to maintain values that were a few decades old. And somehow progressives have returned to global fascism and technocracy as the belief system of the day.
"Political tags, such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth, are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
~ Robert Heinlein
There are those who adhere to the non-aggression principle, and then there is everyone else.
ThatтАЩs what happens when people rewrite the history books. Good one.
Interesting! This lends credence to the belief all things are cyclical.