“How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.” – John Adams
Hemingway’s famous quote about going bankrupt connects with so many because it is true on a personal basis and a civilization basis. It applies to individuals and empires in decline – like the American democracy. John Adams realized two centuries ago democracy was no better than monarchy or aristocracy over the long haul. We were handed a Republic by Franklin and his fellow revolutionaries, but we failed to keep it almost from the very birth of this nation.
As we rush towards our World War 3 rendezvous with destiny, aided and abetted by politicians placed in power by globalist billionaires hellbent on the destruction of our way of life, so they own everything and you own nothing, I can’t help but ponder who is to blame and could we have avoided this dystopian outcome.
The United States has been going bankrupt gradually for the last fifty years, both financially, intellectually, and morally. Nixon closing the gold window in 1971 and opening the debt door to morally bankrupt bankers and politicians set in motion a downward spiral accelerating at hyper-speed as we speak. The American Empire was born in the shattered global debris of World War II with the Bretton Woods agreement, which left the USD as the dominant currency in world trade, specifically as the settlement currency for all oil transactions.
The empire has been sustained by currency supremacy, military might, and until 1980, manufacturing superiority. Once the most highly educated nation on the planet, decades of lowering the bar, less than mediocre union teachers, and replacing education with indoctrination, has created generations of ignorant zombies incapable and uninterested in critical thought.
The road to bankruptcy was very gradual at the outset of empire, with the national debt topping out at $269 billion, 119% of GDP, in 1946. In 1960 it had only grown to $286 billion but had dropped to 54% of GDP. Rebuilding the world and being the dominant economic power paid huge dividends. After a decade of guns, butter and welfare programs, the debt grew to $398 billion, but continued to drop as a percentage of GDP to 35% in 1971. After decoupling from gold, the national debt soared to $908 billion by 1980, inflation surged to 15%, and Volcker had to raise interest rates to 20% to avert disaster. What happened over the next forty years was mind boggling in its recklessness, shortsightedness, and acquiescence to the Wall Street cabal. These decade-by-decade increases were obscene:
Freedom and liberty are offensive to these psychopaths that have been hard at work trying to destroy a people who love freedom and liberty. They are a vile bunch of vipers and we need to start fighting back at some point and kill every last one of them. We need to start stacking bodies of all that have supported this evil regime, we can worry about disposal of such later. Every federal, state and local statist and all their supporting agency and LEOS are dead men walking as far as I am concerned.
Sorry, only the military has the means hunt down and arrest these criminals. No one is coming to save us. The generals don’t want to give up their invitations to billionaire bikini clad yacht parties. They even have the Air Force being used to spray the skies with aluminum, barium and recently proven graphite.
If any state gets to threatening, they’ll freeze them out, flood them out or drought them out. Weather warfare is the crown jewel of the military industrial complex.
You are sorry, the military is not on your side they will be hunting you down, as far as having the means to hunt these criminals down it is our duty! So you think we are helpless? Maybe you are there are more of us than you and your military.
I agree, the military is not on our side. I think I make that clear. I look forward to the day that you are right and somehow brave men like you arrest folks like the Rothchilds. Exactly how do you see that playing out? Do we get to look up their address online?
This is why I mentioned weather warfare. They can attack a city, state or country and no one knows. It gets blamed on climate change. The crops fail and there’s no food. No food equals no people. The don’t fight fair.
Sorry misunderstood what you were saying, the consequences of our in-action, apathy and just plain old fear are what is going to kill us. Yes we can find out where they live, we do not need to fight fair either. By any and all means necessary bring the fight to them.
Tom, thank you for taking the time to respond. Proud to stand with you in this fight for freedom and against tyranny.