Dr. Michael Savage: "It's over."
will the U.S.A. be gone in 50 years? . are the leaders
here and in Germany, etc. invading their countries
with aliens which will doom those countries? -- j
p.s. Michael Alan Weiner, PhD Nutritional Ethnomedicine,
UCBerkeley, hosts a talk show as Michael Savage.
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here and in Germany, etc. invading their countries
with aliens which will doom those countries? -- j
p.s. Michael Alan Weiner, PhD Nutritional Ethnomedicine,
UCBerkeley, hosts a talk show as Michael Savage.
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And, it brings me no joy to say this. Very sad about it.
you are not alone by any stretch.
In my 72 years, all I have seen the flywheel do is increase in speed. What stops a flywheel? A change in the "transmission" (government) gear to reverse it or a big wrench. I suggest a revolution, which has been, historically, the "wrench," is needed because there will be no shifting done by the powers that be.
(Pardon the scrambled metaphore, I was up late last night)
Human society seems cursed to oscillate between the extremes of tyranny and liberty. Each oscillation promises greater individual liberty on one swing, and a closer brush with human extinction on the other.
All Utopian visions collapse under the force of reality, and when they do, either enlightenment or destruction result. The best we can do is try to direct the collapse toward enlightenment.
To quote two most eloquent responses.
"I have not yet begun to fight." John Paul Jones
"Nuts" Anthony McAuliffe
There are still patriots like these men.
I almost told a soccer mom "friend" of mine the other day that I wasn't scared of violent criminals. They are few and getting less. The real reason for somebody to own guns is because somebody like her can vote.
Molon labe
following the sun. . you run across all sorts of strange
obstacles, yet you do make it through, laughing. . the truth
can take what seems like forever to gel in your mind,
after you connect the dots between Rush and Levin
and Fox and Savage. . but the truth is there for the searching. -- j
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the right to a house with a white picket fence ..... but
it really began with Teddy and Woodrow and the big government
stuff like the Fed. . progressives have been working this
for more than a century. . like a boa constrictor,
squeezing the life out of the producers whose attention
has been on work and family and hard-earned rest. -- j
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tianity can ultimately save us. Instead, we should
rely on Objectivism.
-----We can't just rely on luck, and what people al-
ready believe, to save us. Perhaps we should
start up privately-funded Objectivist centers to
teach true, authentic Americanism to the new
immigrants who do get in. Individual rights and
real American history, not FDR's "Four Free-
doms" and New Deal platitudes.
---And, lest they think we're patronizing them,
it wouldn't hurt to stress that Ayn Rand was her-
self an immigrant.
---I didn't know that Michael Savage's original
name was Weiner; I thought his real name was
Michael Savage.
Mr. Savage, meet the Gulch.
Which USA. The original lasted a hundred years if that. Part Two another hundred. now we are having it re-invented for us.
On the other hand no system ever lasts over a two hundred years.
The only time he really missed the mark with me was his rant on autism. Much to my surprise, he was way off.
http://bayarearadio.org/people/john-s...
must've been like the WLS breakfast show which I heard
on AM radio in the 50s ... taught me how to speak. -- j
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Human societies are complex organisms and as such they will die one of two ways; fall victim to a predator or succumb to senescence. Immortality is not an option.
when a practical joker jumped on my back, years ago,
I just ... shrugged. -- j
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I am dino--
Hear me ROAR!
The big problem I have with talk radio is that no one could write or script everything they are going to say over three hours, every day. So they ad-lib, and when they do, otherwise rational men say stuff like this, if for no other reason than to fill up air time.
I do not disagree with his views that there are major problems with uncontrolled immigration. I do disagree that nothing can be done to mitigate those problems.
I actually like Michael Savage, when he isn't ranting. To paraphrase, "When he is good, he is very very good, but when he is bad he is horrid".
Unless you were alive pre 1915 you have never seen a free society. Since that time it has ever moved closer and closer to tyranny.
Today we lease our property we paid for from the state. We have no right to half hour income as it is taken from us. We do not even have the right to decide for ourselves if a seat belt is something we want to wear, and we are not far away from no longer having the right to decide what we eat.
We are all slaves to the state to some degree.
Unless you believe there is hope to remove property tax so we can truly own our property, to remove income tax so we can own the sweat of our own labor and to return to only consumption and excise taxes. Unless you think we can role back the and return that power to the state, it is over.
I argue it has been past the point of no return since 1915. By then we had removed the idea that voting is a privilege, remove the idea of state representation in the federal government, removed the idea that that the highest power was the individual. All replaced with the idea that the greater good was the highest principle.
Ultimately if you cannot remove the idea of the greater good from our society. The idea that "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one." you cannot bring America back.
It is over, and will be until a society understands that the only thing a government exists for is to protect the rights of the individual. That no collective rights exists and there is no greater good than the individual.
The Greeks started with this basic idea, the Romans built an empire on it. IN 570 AD Muhammad had more respect for the individual than the feudal system in the areas that were once Rome, and that is why they succeeded where the later muslims failed to expand and contracted. The side closest to individualism wins, I have seen no case where this is not true, but I am sure there is one or two so I cannot say it is completely true.
Only a revolution, economic failure, major plague or massive natural disaster will change this course we are on. Without one of these, it is over and has been for 100 years.
We have a chance to make something that is better than our old culture - a society that is not hidebound by crippling social standards and which embraces free enterprise. I say this because I do not want to "throw out the baby with the bathwater". I want to retain the liberal social values, but I want to adopt the conservative economic platform...and then move forward from that point to a nation that has no property tax and only a standard flat rate income tax.
If we can get that far, we can decide where to go from there, but I think that is the first step.
Jan
I do have to add that a society needs to have belief in a God of some sort. Simple reason is that if there is no God that means that all rights come from man, and if they come from Man that means there is no justification for individual rights unless the majority whish to grant them. That is a very dangerous position to be in...yet has always been exactly where communist countries wanted to be.
My opinion: Individual rights are neither god given (there may be a god; probably not) nor innate (such rights are generally taken away). We create the concept of personal freedoms, the same way we create the concept of justice...and we have to fight for such concepts all the time, and every single step of the way. There is no 'give'; there is only 'do'.
Jan
of your compatriots in their do-ing in their self-interest
gives you more positive results than pessimism. . that is
what I have found, and it tends to confirm the idea that
there is a natural set of human deservednesses, or rights. -- j
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Jan
Jan
the human being, and we must acknowledge them or we will
suffer from our misjudgement. . we might call them "natural" or
"God-given," but they are essential. . deny them and, in the long run,
we are doomed. . and I contend that they do not include equality
in outcomes, but equality in opportunity and justice. -- j
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a noisy voter who tries to get our representatives in D.C.
to do their jobs. . they don't herd easily. -- j
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It's odd really, he ran for office as a conservative republican...
Not at all odd. That has been the GOP for 50 years.
a conservative and then votes like a liberal. . disgusting.
we are losing the language as a result. -- j
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to watch the kardashians instead. -- j
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Many have the potential to "Be" but have inadvertently chosen "Not to Be".
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Leonard Peikoff
The DIM Hypothesis
http://www.peikoff.com/books/the-dim-...
one of whom I am (67 in 42 days), who think that the changes
which "we" dreamed about, back then, are due us.
we were spoiled by hard-working parents who kept us
free by winning ww2, who wanted the best for us.
but they didn't maintain discipline like they got, and we
grew up smoking dope and protesting the military and
pushing for reverse racial discrimination as retribution
for slavery. . the goose who lays the golden eggs has
become an orphan in the process. . imho. -- j
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