Resignation as a Voter
I stopped voting quite a while ago. It has given me a very different perspective than most people. My son is 15 and I've watched him become obsessed with politics the past few months and realized he's normal. This is promising, because he's growing up with autism. To have him be normal is thrilling. But, it's also a window into the insanity I escaped when I decided to stop participating in the machine. With this election and the obvious fraud (really obvious) I've mentally gotten to a spot where I really don't give a damn anymore. I don't care who's president. This country's going to sh1t anyway. Trump, I used to say, was a speed bump for the globalist agenda. I hoped it was an 8 year speed bump. But, no. The agenda that will choke us to death with taxes and regulations is back in. I'm going to adjust accordingly and we'll be fine. But, when you see what's proposed under a Joe administration it's clear, for starters, we can't afford it. Frankly, we can't afford much anymore, given the debt.
But, I've really at peace with it all. It's strange and somewhat surprising. The US was a grand and unique experiment. But, its citizens don't understand liberty. Its debt is smothering it. The elected and those they appoint are really inept. I have an inside view of that I don't even want to go into. But, I have a front row seat to the circus. And, we're really in trouble. We're in trouble because the American people for the most part have totally surrendered all to whoever is elected. My son's teenage friends talk in social media as though all hinges on the election - we'll either have paradise or we'll all die. Almost everybody has drank the cool aid. I really feel like I'm sitting in Galt's Gulch under the pines, sipping my coffee and watching the wheels come off from a safe distance. It's a strange feeling. But it has taken me over fully. My son and I walked our dog out to the river by our place this morning. I said, "How long has this river been here?" Probably 1000 years or more. "Did this river ever change based on who was President, son? Be like the river." He understood. We are not who is in the White House. We are individuals. We should represent ourselves foremost.
But, I've really at peace with it all. It's strange and somewhat surprising. The US was a grand and unique experiment. But, its citizens don't understand liberty. Its debt is smothering it. The elected and those they appoint are really inept. I have an inside view of that I don't even want to go into. But, I have a front row seat to the circus. And, we're really in trouble. We're in trouble because the American people for the most part have totally surrendered all to whoever is elected. My son's teenage friends talk in social media as though all hinges on the election - we'll either have paradise or we'll all die. Almost everybody has drank the cool aid. I really feel like I'm sitting in Galt's Gulch under the pines, sipping my coffee and watching the wheels come off from a safe distance. It's a strange feeling. But it has taken me over fully. My son and I walked our dog out to the river by our place this morning. I said, "How long has this river been here?" Probably 1000 years or more. "Did this river ever change based on who was President, son? Be like the river." He understood. We are not who is in the White House. We are individuals. We should represent ourselves foremost.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
At least my vote helped to get rid of a white creep Democrat Representative named Doug Joe who pulls a lying race card against any opponent.
I will do nothing that any political body orders me to do unless in my own judgement it is Constitutional.
When the success of a politician is measured by how many things he promises to give the voters, instead of by how much he appeals to patriotism and unity of purpose, the empire is in trouble. We started down that path in the 1930s with Roosevelt, and it just continues to accelerate.
The U.S. is in the final phase of its existence, just like the Ottoman Empire. Just as in the last days of that empire, corruption, bribery, and criminal activities are no longer hidden, because no one cares enough to make any effort to stop and return to a moral society.
Few seem to care about the national debt anymore, with many swallowing the ridiculous "Modern Monetary Theory" that maintains debt doesn't matter, so long as people have faith in the value of a pure fiat currency. Try explaining reality to one of those who believe this crap, and you get turned off.
Maybe they will pull up in time, but the closer we get to this disaster the greater the cost will be to avoid it and the more popular support it will require.
More and more I think the general population understanding liberty is the most important thing.
"as though all hinges on the election - we'll either have paradise or we'll all die. Almost everybody has drank the cool aid. "
The fed gov't is more important than it was intended to be, and the executive branch is more powerful within the government than intended. So the president is way more important than it should be. But it's actually not that important. What's important IMHO is that the government is so important because it's so costly and intrusive.
I can't see the future, but I don't see the wheels coming off. I see America becoming like modern Rome. It's a nice place to visit. People seem very laid back and happy. They were one little city state 2500 years ago that became the center of the world. It became decadent, indebted, and the world moved on. It's like how the colonies in America became a regional power, then a superpower, and then the only superpower. But time marches on.
I'm not resigned to that future. I want more liberty in the US, partnerships with free and open countries... so the whole continent and then the whole world is America, my somewhat radical version of America where citizens participate in regulated minutemen-like militia that can be mobilized in emergencies. I know that's a fantasy, but I really believe in the "concept car", even if it's not practical.