Reader John McCall, who writes John’s Substack, left an excellent comment yesterday. He said, “Has it escaped anybody's attention that this nation is un-governable? A columnist, yesterday or so, wrote the first of a series on how to fix things. His first post made a cogent case for elimination of Civil Service so that unelected bureaucrats would be much less able to make policy according to their own agenda, rather than carry out the policies agreed to by elected officials.
Glitter is not a one-way street. My darling departed sister used to glitter-bomb my birthday cards, which I would open in glee--unmindful of the tiny flecks of her humor that would start falling all over the floor. About an 8th of a teaspoon would drop what looked like a ton.
That'll probably be the item that the dude gets caught smuggling when Hollywood remakes the 1970's film Midnight Express. Except the guy will be transgender.
Unfortunately, our country is now filled with soy boys, crazed liberal white women, and miscreants who support the rape, burning and beheading of women and children in the Middle East. We are country without a rudder God at her back. We have no common language no common religious base, and no consideration for each other. Educational system has created a group of uneducated halfwits, who have hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to institutions that could not teach them the difference between right and wrong. We are being led by a ship of fools who would even make, the evil LBJ seem kind.
We have created the mess for our children and grandchildren through a combination of indifference and hubris. Like all of us, when we were growing up, the future looked bright. For our children, all they can look forward to is a world that may be a combination of the walking dead, and Skynet rolled into one. Thank you for this beautiful essay.
" It is time for all of us to leave the monster we created.".
When The United States sends a senile child molester into a war zone such as Israel is to do what, exactly?? Biden drools all over himself when he eats, so why is he going out into the public and into a war zone, no less. It is a sure sign that the powers that be really want to get rid of him.
As far as the way today's article started with the picture, I was reminded of the 1960's song "SIGN SIGN EVERYWHERE A SIGN, BLOCKING UP THE SCENERY, BREAKING MY MIND, DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN............"
We were talking about this last night. “Someone” decides what Joe does and says - every single day. Everything that’s in his “note cards” is written by someone not him. We decided “someone” is pushing his and his physical limits and seeks some dramatic event that incapacitates him. What they expect to do then (aside from KAMALA?!?) is a mystery. Fill in your own “they wouldn’t do that, would they? “ Except I assume “they” would do anything they want. I also assume the goal is civil chaos and a suspended election in 2024, with who knows who as acting_____.
Well, when you consider how someone as stupid as barry obama was and is, I have NO answer, except to say that (s)he had eight different speechwriters. obama couldn't finish a sentence without his teleprompters. Biden's mind is gone and if obama doesn't stop tooting his daily ration of coke, his mind will be gone as well--not that he ever had one
The 16th amendment must be the first to go. It gives the federal government the right to tax your earnings. The Founding Fathers warned NEVER to allow this. Progressives thought they knew better. Now the government gets your wages before you do --- and you have no recourse.
I blame the Military School of South Carolina for the income tax. (aka The Citadel) They fired the shots that started the war and the income tax was passed to pay for the war, eventually prompting the 16th.
I'm still expressing anger 😠🤬 over Prohibition. That's when progressive tax and Catie Hatchet Nation wore out her welcome with the saloon keepers of America and the Charleston dance was invented.
This comment is going to come across as very pessimistic and cynical, but I think it is reality. As a country, we are ungovernable. I fear we have passed the point of being able to right the ship of state, so the ship must crash into the rocks before anything constructive is accomplished.
1. The fiscal problem is Medicare/Medicaid. It will take in ~$400 billion in taxes, and spend over $2 trillion. That's the $1.6 trillion deficit. Medicare taxes need to at least triple, and possibly quintuple, if Big Pharma is not broken up. No politician can get elected/re-elected on tripling a payroll tax, so it's not going to happen.
2. Cut all benefits for illegal immigrants and start sending them back to where they came from. I think public sentiment is starting to grow in favor of this, but the optics to accomplish it will be horrible.
3. We need an FTC free of regulatory capture by multinational corporations in every sector of the economy--defense, healthcare, Big Pharma, technology, banking and finance, consumer goods, agriculture, manufacturing, etc. The American consumer is subsidizing consumers around the world, and the American labor force is being undercut by cheap illegal immigration and jobs shipped overseas. Surprisingly, Biden's FTC is the most aggressive in fifty years in targeting monopolization and breaking up Mega Cap companies like Google and Amazon, and stopping mergers like Kroger and Albertson's that create monopolies, b ut it is not enough. This is the stumbling block behind the curtain for the battle for the speaker of the house. The conservative caucus is trying to break the control that megacap companies have over Congress. This is why the press, the Dems and the GOPe are all screaming from the same page that the multiple failed votes for a speaker is because "there are no adults in the room" and "this is embarrassing the U.S. on the world stage." No it's not. It's our Constitution in action. As we all know, the swamp doesn't give a damn about the Constitution if it stands between them and unaccountable power.
We will probably crash into the rocks. Then the battle begins to determine what the next government will look like.
China is not immune from the same problems. Its housing market (a mainstay of its economy) is collapsing and taking banks, local government and the peoples money with it.
The country is also experiencing huge deflation as US and Europe industries pull out of the country with no local market to fill the vacuum.
From a different perspective, just yesterday I had a meeting with two gentlemen with extensive business interests in China. They painted a very different, and very bullish picture.
It seems to me the only thing that keeps our country afloat is that every other country in the world is worse off than we are.
My recent little trip to Europe plus Egypt and Turkey illustrates this well. In Italy and Greece they use the euro. Now I really don’t know what supports the euro as it is a conglomeration of countries with a currency for all. It goes for about $1.11 for a dollar. What it is backed by is a mystery to me because you can buy a lot more in Greece with a Euro than you can in Italy with a Euro. Vendors in both countries really don’t want to take dollars when you buy something. In Egypt the Egyptian puns is worth very little. It exchanges at around 1.00 for 28-30 Egyptian pounds and you need a lot of Egyptian pounds to buy anything. The vendors there want US dollars. In Turkey the lira there is junk. Dollars are widely accepted.
Anyone want Russian rubles? How about Chinese yuan? Nope.
These other countries are more broke than we are. That is what keeps us afloat in my opinion.
Oh, and they have just as stupid leaders and governments as we do.
Yes perhaps even more insane in the European Union, because they follow the US lead in foreign policies which often the US is mistaken to take in the first place. The European Union has done more harm to the individual countries than two world wars. You can't homogenize a rich collection of languages, cultures and people. Just doesn't work and frankly, it hasn't.
You can't buy a Pizza in Greece as good as the ones made in Italy. Neither can you buy a vindaloo curry in Britain as good as what you'll get in India //(. )( .)\\.
Great column Don. Divorce from DC is the only strategy that gives any possibility of success. It will never happen, of course, because of the love of power over others that the denizens of DC seem to have. It’s hard to tell where the stupid (LGBTQIAEIEIO, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity - DIE, doing away with cheap and reliable energy to solve the non-existent Globull Hot Cold Wet Dry Crisis, etc) and the evil cross over, but it doesn’t much matter now. So many sheeple sincerely believe and fight for things that aren’t close to being true that there doesn’t appear to be a way to untangle this mess. Not as long as all the institutions of the nation feed nonsense to the masses (latest example: “THE EVIL JOOS KILLED 500+ INNOCENT GAZANS BY BLOWING UP THE HOSPITAL”) that don’t want to know anything more than what the dead tree press or the idiot box tells them. Don’t know how it went down at the end of the Roman Empire, but I suspect we’ll see it play out in real-time on the InterWebz. Sigh... It’d be so much easier to be a sheeple...
I'm Ivory soap certain that FJB will be unwatchable for me. Time for a hilarious Don Lee martial artist movie, the Korean version of Planet Tyrus, no swearing or kissing. 99.9 % pure.
When unelected bureauocrats are making the rules up on the fly and elected officials allow enforcement without a challenge we are doomed.Todays pols are too busy entertaining deep pocket lobbyists to hear the voters screams of indignation and the justice system appears to have lost the scales.Thank the good Lord for Don Surber and like-minded writers for speaking out for Patriots across the fruited plains.Great eye opener again but the poll needed aota.
"The Uniparty is busy with destruction of this nation for the rest of us in order to gain it for themselves (and buy time to accomplish such by throwing the rest of us minimal scraps)."
Truth that cuts as sharply as a brain surgeon's scalpel. This nation's Political Class is bent on burning it to the ground to rule over the ashes.
"That depends on what the meaning of cut is because only in government do people believe that you increase spending and call it a decrease."
Wasn't that President Bubba's forte? Parsing and manipulating the language and definitions of words to suit his ends - and doing the same with his administration's budgets?
"Expecting Congress or a president to fix this problem is like expecting Lizzo to lose weight."
True - but it can't be fixed - it needs to be disassembled, destroyed, and rebuilt from the ground, up.
I submit that is what most of us mean when we say that returning Trump to the office of POTUS is this nation's last best hope. Trump cannot fix what has become the monster - but he can effectively blow it up.
We are seeing that having no SotH is of no consequence - that could never be demonstrated had Gaetz not won that concession in January, and had it not worked as intended. Just breaking the destructive cycle has been of tremendous benefit.
My preference is to slay the monster first, then leave it. Leaving the abuser is just the first step - unless it is killed, it will always be the abuser.
Given blue states' affinity for Islam and its adherents, Absurdistan is the clear winner.
Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Don Surber
Except for her atheism, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged makes the most sense to me. We need to take our best and disappear so the Rich Men North of Richmond can fail together while wondering what happened.
The only way we can execute a national divorce is to leave the existing system and start a new one (i.e. get out of the GOP so they can fail). The next best thing is to have someplace to go to build our own country
I’m not sure there is actually or feasibly a physical place to go to anymore on this earth. (If I recall, did Ayn Rand call such a place “Galt’s Gulch”? And I think it was in Colorado?).
But “the place” may be metaphorical now—as an alert and prepared observant state of mind; and already people are settling in to “shelter in place” as events run their course. Then ultimately a time will come to rebuild, which we will happily participate in.
Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Don Surber
As to permanent employment in government, here in Chicago we had an all patronage hiring system for city and Cook County employees. Everyone was a temporary employee and could be fired at will. Government employees understood that if their elected official sponsor was turned out of office, they'd be history too. The upside was accountability. The rude clerk at the Department of Vital Statistics cost votes. The guys leaning on a shovel instead of filling potholes helped form an overall impression of the quality of service. Ward Aldermen got that and saw to it that things got done in their wards and that constituents' concerns were addressed.
It was the city that worked in more ways than one.
Except those same workers were expected to knock on doors and pass out flyers at election time. Some of this took place on the city's time. And the idea that everyone could just be fired because they were hired (effectively) by a pol who later lost re-election seemed unfair in the mind of the Federal judiciary so we got a consent decree called the Shakman Decree.
Now practically nobody can be fired unless convicted of a felony requiring incarceration. Even that takes years. Unsuprisingly, city and county employees couldn't care less about service to constituents and see their elected bosses as temporary employees to be ignored. Now the city is a mess - broke, violent and with a downtown business district that is collapsing, taking the tax base with it. Circling the drain.
There is a growing Texit movement here. If Trump is prevented from winning next year, I am all in. The logic is straightforward and unimpeachable. If Texas were independent today, and was invited to join the Union, would it make sense to anyone? Sam Houston put it this way 177 years ago: "The United States needs Texas more than Texas needs the United States."
Yes, the Western world -- so rich in everything -- has mostly abandoned God. We are living in a post-Christian world. I fear that a new Dark Ages will come.
Agreed. Our society has eroded any concept of honor. As mentioned above, we have created soy boys -weak male children. Compare them to the teenagers who fought in Normandy and the Huertgen Forest and Solomon Islands and Iwo Jima. And then worry about our immediate future.
When top men in government publicly condone sodomy and lesbians along with the torture, mutilation and destruction of infants and children for profit and pleasure then it is no longer a government. It is a Satanic instrument of evil that flies into the Face of God's Providence. Hammertime.
My wife floats the best idea yet: Break up the DC block party. Make the congress rule from their home cities where they are immediately accountable to the people who elect them. Hell, put them in store fronts with no back rooms so the voters have access to the creeps they elect...24/7, day and night.
Yes, and pay them and control their benefits AT THE STATE LEVEL (and maybe each congressional district should pay their reps salary and bennies...).
Their local constituents set their salary and benefits (which should be FEW) - no more Washington slush funds for them to play with! Local control is the only real, effective control!
Sir Don's brilliant comment of the day: "Name a human activity that the government does not have its nose in."
The EU has just banned glitter, so enjoy glitter while you can.
If they banned Gary Glitter, I’m fine with that.
Rock On!
Too bad "Rock and Roll Part Two" had to be written and performed by a pedo.
Glitter is not a one-way street. My darling departed sister used to glitter-bomb my birthday cards, which I would open in glee--unmindful of the tiny flecks of her humor that would start falling all over the floor. About an 8th of a teaspoon would drop what looked like a ton.
That'll probably be the item that the dude gets caught smuggling when Hollywood remakes the 1970's film Midnight Express. Except the guy will be transgender.
They have a lot to teach our second rate bureaucrats
Farting. But so far they're only interested in cows.
Unfortunately, our country is now filled with soy boys, crazed liberal white women, and miscreants who support the rape, burning and beheading of women and children in the Middle East. We are country without a rudder God at her back. We have no common language no common religious base, and no consideration for each other. Educational system has created a group of uneducated halfwits, who have hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to institutions that could not teach them the difference between right and wrong. We are being led by a ship of fools who would even make, the evil LBJ seem kind.
We have created the mess for our children and grandchildren through a combination of indifference and hubris. Like all of us, when we were growing up, the future looked bright. For our children, all they can look forward to is a world that may be a combination of the walking dead, and Skynet rolled into one. Thank you for this beautiful essay.
But..But... Diversity is our Strength!
Hah, hah, hah! Hah, hah, hah! THAT has to be the first lie to be taken down.
An ADULT IN THE ROOM would be "our strength".
Boomers created nothing. They only destroyed.
And the soy boys and bra less women will be gorging on insect protein ala Soylent Green courtesy of Profix & Tyson.
" It is time for all of us to leave the monster we created.".
When The United States sends a senile child molester into a war zone such as Israel is to do what, exactly?? Biden drools all over himself when he eats, so why is he going out into the public and into a war zone, no less. It is a sure sign that the powers that be really want to get rid of him.
As far as the way today's article started with the picture, I was reminded of the 1960's song "SIGN SIGN EVERYWHERE A SIGN, BLOCKING UP THE SCENERY, BREAKING MY MIND, DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN............"
We were talking about this last night. “Someone” decides what Joe does and says - every single day. Everything that’s in his “note cards” is written by someone not him. We decided “someone” is pushing his and his physical limits and seeks some dramatic event that incapacitates him. What they expect to do then (aside from KAMALA?!?) is a mystery. Fill in your own “they wouldn’t do that, would they? “ Except I assume “they” would do anything they want. I also assume the goal is civil chaos and a suspended election in 2024, with who knows who as acting_____.
Well, when you consider how someone as stupid as barry obama was and is, I have NO answer, except to say that (s)he had eight different speechwriters. obama couldn't finish a sentence without his teleprompters. Biden's mind is gone and if obama doesn't stop tooting his daily ration of coke, his mind will be gone as well--not that he ever had one
They’re stuck with Kamala unless they ______?
The 'Big Guy' was sent there by Obama because they couldn't use the normal bagman, Hunter.
Last time that was tried, ( leaving the Union) was 1861
Repeal the 17th
The 16th amendment must be the first to go. It gives the federal government the right to tax your earnings. The Founding Fathers warned NEVER to allow this. Progressives thought they knew better. Now the government gets your wages before you do --- and you have no recourse.
I blame the Military School of South Carolina for the income tax. (aka The Citadel) They fired the shots that started the war and the income tax was passed to pay for the war, eventually prompting the 16th.
I'm still expressing anger 😠🤬 over Prohibition. That's when progressive tax and Catie Hatchet Nation wore out her welcome with the saloon keepers of America and the Charleston dance was invented.
The 26th needs to repealed first. The average Americans lifespan in 1789 was 38. And yet the Founders set the voting age at 21. Think about that.
That and term limits.
We already have term limits. WE can decide NOT to re-elect someone.
That they get re-elected time and again is on us.
If you have term limits the bureaucrats run everything and know they only have to wait out a good guy.
True, assuming elections are not corrupt.
There is no practical evidence term limits help much of anything. California has them.
Bingo!
And the 13th and 19th. Sorry ladies, the toughest person I have ever known - my single mother - is screaming from the grave to repeal the 19th.
You’re right about the 19th. Toxic feminist has driven this country off the cliff.
Great comment - I have four sisters and they're always astounded that most women make one issue the only reason that they'll vote for a person.
Exactly. I was at a dinner party in 2000 and the women were like "This guy just looks presidential." I just stared at them...
Current government will never do it!
Sadly you vote your way into socialism, or through stolen elections, but you have to shoot your way out.
Best, most truthful comment of the day.
When do we begin? 'Cuz I'm really done with this B.S. we're living through.
This comment is going to come across as very pessimistic and cynical, but I think it is reality. As a country, we are ungovernable. I fear we have passed the point of being able to right the ship of state, so the ship must crash into the rocks before anything constructive is accomplished.
1. The fiscal problem is Medicare/Medicaid. It will take in ~$400 billion in taxes, and spend over $2 trillion. That's the $1.6 trillion deficit. Medicare taxes need to at least triple, and possibly quintuple, if Big Pharma is not broken up. No politician can get elected/re-elected on tripling a payroll tax, so it's not going to happen.
2. Cut all benefits for illegal immigrants and start sending them back to where they came from. I think public sentiment is starting to grow in favor of this, but the optics to accomplish it will be horrible.
3. We need an FTC free of regulatory capture by multinational corporations in every sector of the economy--defense, healthcare, Big Pharma, technology, banking and finance, consumer goods, agriculture, manufacturing, etc. The American consumer is subsidizing consumers around the world, and the American labor force is being undercut by cheap illegal immigration and jobs shipped overseas. Surprisingly, Biden's FTC is the most aggressive in fifty years in targeting monopolization and breaking up Mega Cap companies like Google and Amazon, and stopping mergers like Kroger and Albertson's that create monopolies, b ut it is not enough. This is the stumbling block behind the curtain for the battle for the speaker of the house. The conservative caucus is trying to break the control that megacap companies have over Congress. This is why the press, the Dems and the GOPe are all screaming from the same page that the multiple failed votes for a speaker is because "there are no adults in the room" and "this is embarrassing the U.S. on the world stage." No it's not. It's our Constitution in action. As we all know, the swamp doesn't give a damn about the Constitution if it stands between them and unaccountable power.
We will probably crash into the rocks. Then the battle begins to determine what the next government will look like.
Good points, Alan.
As most who care have tuned out the mainstream media (and seems like Fox too), the optics will not matter if and when the illegals are deported.
Good point.
China is not immune from the same problems. Its housing market (a mainstay of its economy) is collapsing and taking banks, local government and the peoples money with it.
The country is also experiencing huge deflation as US and Europe industries pull out of the country with no local market to fill the vacuum.
I’ll check out the video you posted from YouTube.
From a different perspective, just yesterday I had a meeting with two gentlemen with extensive business interests in China. They painted a very different, and very bullish picture.
also known as "pump and dump"... careful
It seems to me the only thing that keeps our country afloat is that every other country in the world is worse off than we are.
My recent little trip to Europe plus Egypt and Turkey illustrates this well. In Italy and Greece they use the euro. Now I really don’t know what supports the euro as it is a conglomeration of countries with a currency for all. It goes for about $1.11 for a dollar. What it is backed by is a mystery to me because you can buy a lot more in Greece with a Euro than you can in Italy with a Euro. Vendors in both countries really don’t want to take dollars when you buy something. In Egypt the Egyptian puns is worth very little. It exchanges at around 1.00 for 28-30 Egyptian pounds and you need a lot of Egyptian pounds to buy anything. The vendors there want US dollars. In Turkey the lira there is junk. Dollars are widely accepted.
Anyone want Russian rubles? How about Chinese yuan? Nope.
These other countries are more broke than we are. That is what keeps us afloat in my opinion.
Oh, and they have just as stupid leaders and governments as we do.
Yes perhaps even more insane in the European Union, because they follow the US lead in foreign policies which often the US is mistaken to take in the first place. The European Union has done more harm to the individual countries than two world wars. You can't homogenize a rich collection of languages, cultures and people. Just doesn't work and frankly, it hasn't.
The whole world has become dumbed down and appallingly stupid.
Only the mis-informed vocal msm consumers.
You can't buy a Pizza in Greece as good as the ones made in Italy. Neither can you buy a vindaloo curry in Britain as good as what you'll get in India //(. )( .)\\.
Great column Don. Divorce from DC is the only strategy that gives any possibility of success. It will never happen, of course, because of the love of power over others that the denizens of DC seem to have. It’s hard to tell where the stupid (LGBTQIAEIEIO, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity - DIE, doing away with cheap and reliable energy to solve the non-existent Globull Hot Cold Wet Dry Crisis, etc) and the evil cross over, but it doesn’t much matter now. So many sheeple sincerely believe and fight for things that aren’t close to being true that there doesn’t appear to be a way to untangle this mess. Not as long as all the institutions of the nation feed nonsense to the masses (latest example: “THE EVIL JOOS KILLED 500+ INNOCENT GAZANS BY BLOWING UP THE HOSPITAL”) that don’t want to know anything more than what the dead tree press or the idiot box tells them. Don’t know how it went down at the end of the Roman Empire, but I suspect we’ll see it play out in real-time on the InterWebz. Sigh... It’d be so much easier to be a sheeple...
“ Globull Hot Cold Wet Dry Crisis”
- that is hilarious and perfect!
Would have been proud to come up with it, but I think I first saw it at The Pirate’s Cove blog.
It’s a keeper! 😉
1032pm. One super loud HA!!! Thanks Suzie.
Marty.... excellent word creation.
I'm Ivory soap certain that FJB will be unwatchable for me. Time for a hilarious Don Lee martial artist movie, the Korean version of Planet Tyrus, no swearing or kissing. 99.9 % pure.
Random thoughts as the President???? prepares to speak.... Newt G.. The GReAt Society of LBJ of Ukraine???
Thanks Rev.
Sheeples are letting this happen.
When unelected bureauocrats are making the rules up on the fly and elected officials allow enforcement without a challenge we are doomed.Todays pols are too busy entertaining deep pocket lobbyists to hear the voters screams of indignation and the justice system appears to have lost the scales.Thank the good Lord for Don Surber and like-minded writers for speaking out for Patriots across the fruited plains.Great eye opener again but the poll needed aota.
"We need a divorce — from Washington."
Well, it would be a start.
"The Uniparty is busy with destruction of this nation for the rest of us in order to gain it for themselves (and buy time to accomplish such by throwing the rest of us minimal scraps)."
Truth that cuts as sharply as a brain surgeon's scalpel. This nation's Political Class is bent on burning it to the ground to rule over the ashes.
"That depends on what the meaning of cut is because only in government do people believe that you increase spending and call it a decrease."
Wasn't that President Bubba's forte? Parsing and manipulating the language and definitions of words to suit his ends - and doing the same with his administration's budgets?
"Expecting Congress or a president to fix this problem is like expecting Lizzo to lose weight."
True - but it can't be fixed - it needs to be disassembled, destroyed, and rebuilt from the ground, up.
I submit that is what most of us mean when we say that returning Trump to the office of POTUS is this nation's last best hope. Trump cannot fix what has become the monster - but he can effectively blow it up.
We are seeing that having no SotH is of no consequence - that could never be demonstrated had Gaetz not won that concession in January, and had it not worked as intended. Just breaking the destructive cycle has been of tremendous benefit.
My preference is to slay the monster first, then leave it. Leaving the abuser is just the first step - unless it is killed, it will always be the abuser.
Given blue states' affinity for Islam and its adherents, Absurdistan is the clear winner.
I hope the house is speaker-less until after the 2024 elections.
Well, we’re stuck with the Bow tie until January so let’s see how much the swamp can spend now. My calculator won’t enter that many digits.
A bow tie is only acceptable under the following circumstances:
- a formal occasion or event
- a Christmas or New Year's Eve party
- teaching at the university level, and then only if one is a professor as indicated by 'Ph.D.' following his name
- performing as a clown in a circus
McHenry is a clown - in every sense of the word.
or as pasta
I think almost every country needs a divorce from its bloated, civil service capitals. I include Ottawa, Canada.
Agree. I thought Absurdistan was a no brainer for the answer.
Except for her atheism, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged makes the most sense to me. We need to take our best and disappear so the Rich Men North of Richmond can fail together while wondering what happened.
The only way we can execute a national divorce is to leave the existing system and start a new one (i.e. get out of the GOP so they can fail). The next best thing is to have someplace to go to build our own country
I believe that they are failing.......
That would be great if they do but it seems they keep coming up with ways to "steal" their way to win.
I think had Rand not grown up under commie rule, she would have been a Christian or Jew.
I’m not sure there is actually or feasibly a physical place to go to anymore on this earth. (If I recall, did Ayn Rand call such a place “Galt’s Gulch”? And I think it was in Colorado?).
But “the place” may be metaphorical now—as an alert and prepared observant state of mind; and already people are settling in to “shelter in place” as events run their course. Then ultimately a time will come to rebuild, which we will happily participate in.
Yes, it was Galt’s Gulch. Antarctica may have the last hidden valley that may work but I hear the weather isn’t the best.
As to permanent employment in government, here in Chicago we had an all patronage hiring system for city and Cook County employees. Everyone was a temporary employee and could be fired at will. Government employees understood that if their elected official sponsor was turned out of office, they'd be history too. The upside was accountability. The rude clerk at the Department of Vital Statistics cost votes. The guys leaning on a shovel instead of filling potholes helped form an overall impression of the quality of service. Ward Aldermen got that and saw to it that things got done in their wards and that constituents' concerns were addressed.
It was the city that worked in more ways than one.
Except those same workers were expected to knock on doors and pass out flyers at election time. Some of this took place on the city's time. And the idea that everyone could just be fired because they were hired (effectively) by a pol who later lost re-election seemed unfair in the mind of the Federal judiciary so we got a consent decree called the Shakman Decree.
Now practically nobody can be fired unless convicted of a felony requiring incarceration. Even that takes years. Unsuprisingly, city and county employees couldn't care less about service to constituents and see their elected bosses as temporary employees to be ignored. Now the city is a mess - broke, violent and with a downtown business district that is collapsing, taking the tax base with it. Circling the drain.
Patronage hiring didn't just survive in spite of the Shakman Decree, it became even more pervasive.
There is a growing Texit movement here. If Trump is prevented from winning next year, I am all in. The logic is straightforward and unimpeachable. If Texas were independent today, and was invited to join the Union, would it make sense to anyone? Sam Houston put it this way 177 years ago: "The United States needs Texas more than Texas needs the United States."
Once my divorce was legal, working for Texas independence was the main reason I relocated here as soon as I could get the hell out of Illinois.
Wondered from whence you came. I suspect hell would be a preference over Chi.
Illinois, entirely...Chicago is merely a microcosm of Illinois.
We don’t need a divorce. Our country suffers from a lack of honorable men.
There are fewer problems when men are honorable. Name a problem in our country where an honorable man involved wouldn’t make it better or near zero.
Crime
Politics
Abortion
Divorce
Broken families
Homelessness
Mental illness
Business
Wall Street and wealth building
Sports and entertainment
Your workplace
You name it. Honorable men fix it.
Including feminism. There would be no need for “pink pussy hats” if men were honorable.
Including racism. There would be no need for BLM if men were honorable.
I’m calling for all men to be men of honor.
Lack of honor is a byproduct of Godlessness.
Yes, the Western world -- so rich in everything -- has mostly abandoned God. We are living in a post-Christian world. I fear that a new Dark Ages will come.
Agreed. Our society has eroded any concept of honor. As mentioned above, we have created soy boys -weak male children. Compare them to the teenagers who fought in Normandy and the Huertgen Forest and Solomon Islands and Iwo Jima. And then worry about our immediate future.
When top men in government publicly condone sodomy and lesbians along with the torture, mutilation and destruction of infants and children for profit and pleasure then it is no longer a government. It is a Satanic instrument of evil that flies into the Face of God's Providence. Hammertime.
My wife floats the best idea yet: Break up the DC block party. Make the congress rule from their home cities where they are immediately accountable to the people who elect them. Hell, put them in store fronts with no back rooms so the voters have access to the creeps they elect...24/7, day and night.
Yes, and pay them and control their benefits AT THE STATE LEVEL (and maybe each congressional district should pay their reps salary and bennies...).
Their local constituents set their salary and benefits (which should be FEW) - no more Washington slush funds for them to play with! Local control is the only real, effective control!
Is he accurate, Rev/-"You will KNOW THEM by their fruits",.... Matthew 7:15-16
Mc Carthy LIED,....Gaetz tried, and LIARS are fried!
Would it be constitutional for each county to require $2 million net worth before you get on the ballot?