Law as written and enacted by lawmakers has become ad hoc. What was written soon becomes inapplicable unless it remains pertinent to present desires of the the real policy makers: The donor class that buys policies much as it buys politicians and governments. Our President does not take care to support and defend the Constitution and the rule of law. He takes care to promote and enforce the policies of those for whom he puppets. This is why so many old laws tend not to be enforced and why so many new policies are enforced under executive diktat. In main, we have a legally ruled representative republic in name only. This is the syndicated empire that international crony elites will fight to preserve at all costs. This is why their agents Smith, Jones, and Brown will gang pile Trump at every opportunity. This is why the Bush and Clinton crony crime families work against Trump and for their establishment. This farce will continue until the last Prog Cow gets a clue.
Re: "If you take away morality and ethics, which are based in religion as revealed in God's law, eventually a form of arbitrarily blind atheism conceived by those drunk with power will lead us into a perpetual darkness."
The above sets out an eseential truth, even though it is often a stumbling bloc for atheists. It is a stumbling bloc for several reasons. First, what is "revealed" is a way forward, not final answers and "final solutions." Second, too many people presume all meaningful aspects of reality can be seen, measured, and discerned via tools of science, free of flights of religiously metaphorical fancy. Too many fail to realize that, at bottom, every model of scientific hypothesis is a metaphor. What we see and measure are only indirect representations of "reality." Third, they presume mores based in religion must be as dependent on the abusive authoritarianism of priests as are mores based in the diktat of any hierarchy of aristocrats and autocrats (or oligarchs and "auto-garchs").
But little of that need be true. It is possible to use religion as a book of metaphors for fostering assimilative reconciliation of mores among free thinking and free discussing congregants. The book offers a foothold to build on. Not "the" beginning," but the beginning for each new generation. Not the final word, but a shared resource for assimilating shared metaphors upon which to build towards a shared language and purpose.
Unfortunately, most people fail to discern as much. So they fly off in every direction, less towards moral truths than away from them -- but nearly always as grifters farming dupes, as authoritarians presuming to have final answers, and as sidewinders seeking to profit by sidewinding along (deceiving others and themselves).
Indeed, without spiritual like forums for assimilating common values, a people become lost, to be farmed as cattle by a uniparty of cronies shilling with easily bribed dupes. And so, it comes to pass that cronies occupy every institution and use them to confound and drive the people to market. Without churches, gov councils offer only ways to farm the people. Which is why cronies seek to destroy not every church, but only every church that fosters individual spiritual progress. They want to destroy not Islam, but Christianity.
The Bible offered, and continues to offer, Americans a foundation upon which to build their society. Systems for civilized communication require solid foundations. But for the programming of our very cosmos having been adopted as a transitional reference point among its variously inhabiting perspectives of a unifying Consciousness, not even our cosmos would make any sense -- factually, scientifically, logically, or morally. The more we jettison our assimilating foundations, the more we shake our faith in facts, science, logic, and morality. As Obamanites vacuum America to abandon her roots, she abandons herself. As to the kind of a replacement that will start anew from throwing the baby and the bath water into the vacuum, who can say? Nevertheless, arsonists like Obama and Hillary will play and presume theyknowbest. And Prog Cattle will follow.
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To legitimize organized society is to legitimize taxation on income above subsistence ("progressive taxation") and against common challenges. To legitimize taxation on income above subsistence is to beg a process of political disputation regarding how income above subsistence should be defined. Since meaningful social existentiality necessitates the exploration of new and differing perspectives and experiences, forced equality in distribution is not the path to meaningful purposefulness. While there does abide a sharing in opportunities availed within parameters of happenstance, equality does not, and cannot, abide.
This necessitates, so long as peace is valued, that ways be found to legitimize allocations that, above basic civilized subsistence, are unequal. So unequal distributions come to be rationalized based on "merit" -- that is: talent, energy, courage, stedfastness, sexual potency, market forces, inheritance, luck, (pretended?) virtue, and/or godliness. And often based on sociopathic enmity-envy-jealousy disguised as virtue or noblesse oblige.
The point is this: Civilized social order necessitates that ways be invented to legitimize hierarchies in power and wealth as they develop. This means the debate about how income above subsistence should be defined and legitimately taxed is a never ending one. Despite the best laid plans of mice and men (and crybullies and sociopaths), "true" legitimacy will always be buried under base and competing contrivances.
To my worldview, the legitimate goal for a decent society should be to manage competing contrivances under a system of checks and balances that encourages the assimilation of moral values and that defends against central agglomerators of power that want to farm and cannibalize the system. However, so long as a society lacks common agreement regarding legitimizing goals, "progress" remains less likely.
America is at a basic and primitive crossroad: Should our society seek to annihilate the U.S. system of checks and balances in favor of a global field ("open society") of competition and combat among sociopathic and cannibalistic oligarchs operating under pretenses of "free" trade and noblesse oblige? Or should we seek to preserve liberty-literacy within our own system and to reinforce the godly and manly vigor to defend it?
And so we are met at a great crossroad, to test whether we should "progress" under the facade (Hillary) of a NWO sponsored "open society," or whether we should proceed in faith under an American (Trump) -- who is hated by nearly all NWO establishmentarians. Because Americans have been sleeping, the test will be hard.
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I doubt a national sales tax would induce Congress to give up much of its power. Congress would still be lobbied by wealthy mooching oligarchs. To admit of a need to make exemptions in respect of fairness (for food, clothing, medical care, and the elderly) is to admit of the need to define and set layers and levels of such exemptions -- which would flux and expand as society becomes more wealthy.
In bygone years, the essentials were 40 acres and a mule. Now, the essentials would include a cell phone, air conditioning, child care, and mental counseling. If the NWO has its way, the essentials will include robot helpmates, cyber guidance counselors, identity guardians, and final exit planners. To "clear the view."
To restrict psycho-brained rulers to a sales tax would hardly pose a speed bump before they raced on to award "special" exemptions in order to get them to the same place: Worldwide despotic people-farming. Tinkering with formalisms is vain in the absence of spiritual philosophy for assimilating moral decency. There is no formalism that a demon cannot nimbly jump.
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He who would "progress" by replacing a representative republic with the lowest common liberty-illiterate dregs of the world is a corrupt farmer of cheap laborers, but not an American.
Henry Ford paid workers enough to afford to buy his car, but he wanted them to assimilate to American values. Now, his successors disassimilate by exporting his industry, thus replacing jobs for Americans with tax-funded, fiat-printed welfare for Americans.
Despite the lies of Progs, it is not written on the Statue of Liberty: Give me your liberty-illiterate non-assimilables, your incorrigible criminals, your enemies of human freedom and dignity, yearning to forcefeed the commie nightmare and the Muslim hell on earth, in order to extinguish the lamp of liberty for a millenneum.
Which is worse -- the London Mayor or the American President? London has flipped into the incubators of the Matrix. DC has flipped. The question is: Do enough Americans remain unflipped to fix any of this subhuman madness?
Libs are quickest to resort to crime and vandalism by keying cars of their opponents and trashing their yard signs. Would they really resort to voter fraud and restacking of the statistical decks? Would they contrive ways and then lie about it? Do babies crap their drawers? Do jihadis "love" their goats? Well, duh.
Debt is rocketing, health care costs are accelerating, divisiveness is burning, jobs are exporting, factories are roboticizing, enemies are circling, cannibalistic oligarchs are priming, morons are self esteeming, politicians are laundering, Congress is selling out, profs are prostating, police are retreating, criminals are celebrating, jihadis are raging, people are ganging, bankers are printing.
Despite all the regime's efforts, producers are inventing, fracking, and computing. Despite all the regime's efforts, the economy is not (yet) collapsing. For this, Obama coopts for himself many pats on the back. And so his leering, people-farming, supporting oligarchs remain confident they can continue to flip and hoodwink the masses.
As Obama-the-Puppet projected 8 years ago, Vogonish devils are preparing to "clear their view" to make way for a hyperspace bypass. In this way, Neo-Rulers will have fewer problems in the distributing of nukes, wmd, and goods to people whose utility has been replaced by "prime-directed" subhumanized A.I. with "strong backs but weak self-awareness."
The Rainbow Coalition of House Servants that is being farmed by the Neo-Rulers will itself be flipped once it is replaced by A.I. so that it is no longer needed to "clear the view," becasue of its having cleared away all the ordinary, free-thinking Americans.
Hillary is Agent Smith, and she is tired of the smell of ordinary humans (i.e., deplorables). Trump is "the One." Let's help America "hitchhike across the matrix" and take the red pill.
Society ought not be expected to fund police to engage with able bodied adults who walk about being deliberately stupid (i.e., entitlement minded, safe space fixated, looting enabled, grievance baited). Instead, send in the droons to talk with the goons.
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What is "progress"? I don't think it's in matter or forms, per se. Those are just expressions of progress. I think progress comes with the unfoldment of one's soul. Pilgrim's Progress.
Regardless of the election, I'm finding time to commune with the Author by taking in His wondrous creation. I retired, probably just in time, while I still had vigor enough to motorcycle around the country. So far, I've enjoyed the Hill Country of Texas, including taking in some entertainment at Luckenbach. I will be circling next week through Seminole Canyon, Langtry, Big Bend, Marfa, Guadalupe Peak, Balmorhea, Kerrville, and Canyon Lake. After that, to points beyond. I may even make it back to Great Falls and (Pat's) American Bar in Stockett, before turning East.
I've got a Harley Electra Glide Ultra Limited. It carries everything I need to camp and eat comfortably on the trail. Imagine what Lewis and Clark would have done with it! It's pretty cool. But when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I want the Unlimited version. :)
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Anyone who says the U.S. can't build a wall does not want a wall. They don't want a U.S. They don't want free people. They want the masses to be controlled. Divided and diverted. Tripped out.
They like dope. They like to feel superior for being dopey. They don't like to be laughed at for being incompetent or un-adult. They don't want anyone else to be allowed to be "more equal." Unless, that is, they are celebrity lefty pols and funders that speak flawless pc and are adept at making false but inspiring promises of "free stuff."
They like their elite fascist pimps to be well creased. They are like engineers building the bridge over the River Kwai: They don't want to construct a wall, but they DO want to construct the New Plantation. This kind of institutionalized stupidity cannot be fixed. It will have to be defeated and quarantined. To hell with surveying for root causes. Just root anti-American stupidity out wherever it happens to be found.
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The economies that rely on central planning are not likely to flourish. The way for our economy to flourish is to reduce the central regulatory footprint. The central gov should provide for the common defense. It ought not be creating central avenues for graft and influence laundering. I doubt we need multinational trade agreements. Just t for tat tariffs. Apart from that, and perhaps some measures to check against aristocratic-oligarchic laundering of political influence, the central gov needs mainly to get out of the way.
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Hillary is a puppet for collectivizing despotic rulers. That is NOT a republican or a rightest position. That is a leftist, collectivist, fascist position. The right is about individual self rule. More individual freedom and less central control. The left is about collectivist-fascist rule. Less individual freedom and more central planning and control. Don't let the devils confuse you with Orwellianisms.
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I suspect the goal is NOT to raise the world's standard of living for the masses. I suspect the goal is to set up most of the masses for abject dependency, to be followed by massive elimination. As robotics advances, most of the masses will come to be seen by elites as "useless eaters." They will be relabeled as something like deplorables. Then they will be phased out -- except where needed as epsilon servants.
Think about it: Why are our gov policies flipping our demographics towards epsilon level incompetence? I do not believe this is simple elitist incompetence. I suspect, at Soros' level, it is devilish evil.
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Free trade as espoused by advocates for the open society of open borders is about as free as communism is about communalism. Thugs trained on Orwell and Alinsky always lie with elaborate definitions for self-serving rationalizations. Their goal is to consolidate irresistable power and then to monopolize institutions of propaganda in order to train us to believe they are looking out for us. After years and years of "education," students tend to buy their crap. It's a rare person that can twist disinformation addicts' heads away from the cave. Let's hope Trump is that person.
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The NWO knows globalism is poisonous to nationhood. It should tell us something, to know that the NWO knows this, yet it persists. It should tell us that the NWO (like radical commies and jihadis) is not uncomfortable with the idea of burning away 90% of the population.
This is the danger of allowing the rise of a new international aristocratic oligarchy: It begins to see the rest of us as being deplorable, expendable, servile, and subhuman. Moreover, it should tell us two other things: First, a decent society needs a safety net -- that is not a hammock. Second, a decent society needs effective checks to preclude the rise of an oligarchy that can easily corrupt, buy, and sell politicians and governments as if they were mere commodities.
It is for these reasons, among others, that talk of a flat tax, that does NOT check against the evil of the syndicated alliance between oligarchic pimps and unprincipled shills and gangstas, is foolish for a society that wants to function as a representative republic. We have quite enough of unprincipled oligarchs already, without needing to grease the way for their laundering lobbies ("charitable" foundations).
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Deliberate weakness. Planned obsolescence. Useful widgets. For God, it seems to be that all forms, including human bodies, are works towards progress. The spirit may be eternal, but the body is a flux. That may be true for God. But wannabe rulers, whatever their delusions, are not gods.
Our wannabe rulers (pagan oligarchs and international "free" trading corporatists) are no more entitled to treat human beings or their societies as expendable works in progress than their useful idiots are entitled to be supported off the production of individually competent Americans.
So why have good Americans allowed this unholy axis of pagan corporatists and gimme-dat idiots to agglomerate control over every formal institution of persuasion and regulation? This seems to be the consequence of a combination of loss of faith, diversion of attention, and impulse to mindless and immediate gratification.
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He who would "progress" by replacing a representative republic with the lowest common liberty-illiterate dregs of the world is a corrupt farmer of cheap laborers, but not an American.
Henry Ford paid workers enough to afford to buy his car, but he wanted them to assimilate to American values. Now, his successors disassimilate by exporting his industry, thus replacing jobs for Americans with tax-funded, fiat-printed welfare for Americans.
Despite the lies of Progs, it is not written on the Statue of Liberty: Give me your liberty-illiterate non-assimilables, your incorrigible criminals, your enemies of human freedom and dignity, yearning to forcefeed the commie nightmare and the Muslim hell on earth, in order to extinguish the lamp of liberty for a millenneum.
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Libs are quickest to resort to crime and vandalism by keying cars of their opponents and trashing their yard signs. Would they really resort to voter fraud and restacking of the statistical decks? Would they contrive ways and then lie about it? Do babies crap their drawers? Do jihadis "love" their goats? Well, duh.
Debt is rocketing, health care costs are accelerating, divisiveness is burning, jobs are exporting, factories are roboticizing, enemies are circling, cannibalistic oligarchs are priming, morons are self esteeming, politicians are laundering, Congress is selling out, profs are prostating, police are retreating, criminals are celebrating, jihadis are raging, people are ganging, bankers are printing.
Despite all the regime's efforts, producers are inventing, fracking, and computing. Despite all the regime's efforts, the economy is not (yet) collapsing. For this, Obama coopts for himself many pats on the back. And so his leering, people-farming, supporting oligarchs remain confident they can continue to flip and hoodwink the masses.
As Obama-the-Puppet projected 8 years ago, Vogonish devils are preparing to "clear their view" to make way for a hyperspace bypass. In this way, Neo-Rulers will have fewer problems in the distributing of nukes, wmd, and goods to people whose utility has been replaced by "prime-directed" subhumanized A.I. with "strong backs but weak self-awareness."
The Rainbow Coalition of House Servants that is being farmed by the Neo-Rulers will itself be flipped once it is replaced by A.I. so that it is no longer needed to "clear the view," because of its having cleared away all the ordinary, free-thinking Americans.
Hillary is Agent Smith, and she is tired of the smell of ordinary humans (i.e., deplorables). Trump is "the One." Let's help America "hitchhike across the matrix" and take the red pill.
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It's often entertaining to watch as hubristic predictions by "material scientists of psychohistory" come rumbling down. Under all unfolding patterns of matter, there abides an accompanying Source of flux and phase shifts -- the biggest part of which remain dark to our measure. The power of positive, ethereal faith remains strong.
In main, Trump is saying and inspriing a goodly message, bigly. Regardless of his mortal pecadillos, they will not deflate the power of his message if it inspires enough people -- who are more than ready to be inspired. Trump, despite himself, will accomplish many of the important parts of what he says he will do. To get behind him now is much more than to get behind him. It is to get behind his essential message: Restoration of the American Ideal (i.e., opportunity for personal freedom AND responsibility -- hand in glove). A chance to reclaim humanity by escaping from the Uniparty's worldwide people farms and project ghettos. In main, the people that revile him love their farm masters.
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lmost by definition, norms for mores are based on assimilations of traditions. To negate traditions per se is not only to negate norms. It is also to negate the possibility of norms. It ensures division and strife. Which is what those that hedge, tip, and rule (those that farm people) want. Root like pigs, get farmed like pigs.
Evidence of motivation to defeat Tea Partiers, fund Obama, and keep borders porous has been pretty obvious
You seem to be saying Trump is insincere in any desire to restore the republic. So, what is your alternative?
Let Hillary drive, hope to elect real Republicans, hope to survive Hillary's appointments to Scotus, and then in 4 years run someone you have in mind to save us? Whom might that be? Anyone? Anyone?
