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How far down are we?

Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 6 months ago to Philosophy
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How far down the wrong side of the bell-curve is the USA? Can the country turn itself around, and if so, how? Or, is the USA heading for an unrecoverable demise?


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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    First of all I love this country. The only recourse we have as citizens is to remove the current government by force per Thomas Jefferson. In general many citizens are frustrated and angry of the over arching government in our lives. BHO now wants to tone done the media in regards to terrorizism. So, more dumbing down of America. More souls to the slaughter.
    Join me! Secession of the States and Civil War if need be!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Define the difference between a left wing socialist President taken from the Left Wing Of the Left approved list and a left wing socialist President taken from the appproved list and from the Right wing of the LEFT.

    The are both from the Left, both believe in government over people, collectivism, etc etc. ad. nauseum both the last two from the right wing of the left instituted the police state.

    The center - believers in the Constitution and the near right or near left (Libertarians) who believe in Citizens over Government have no candidate and if they did would there candidate appear on the ballot or would it be top two vote getters from the primaries only with the rest excluded.

    Never mind those two categories have no candidate and if they did would be so busy squabbling and debating it wouldn't matter
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    So let's change the question to 'Besides voting for what is in your opinion is the lesser of two evils - two left wing socialist fascist leaning candidates and a flock of similar ones for Congress and by doing doing so putting yourself in the group that supports evil - what other choices do you have?

    A. Write In ballot or possibly third part in some states - Winner takes all will claim them even though the winner was the individual you were voting against. For seven years there are no statistics kept for those candidates no way of measuring them. They have been legally marginalized.

    B. The only choice left besides voting for evil and continuing the slide to the left is do not vote. Being registered and not voting in poly sci terms is called the 'undervote.' It's a measurement of lack of confidence and serves to replace the idea of None Of The Above.

    Even in elections where it causes winner by a plurality not a majority it is not counted under our current rules of elections.

    If you google up the definition of one party elections or the move from multi party to two strong others weak parties to two party it inevitably ends up as one party with two faces, forms, or wings.

    That's where we are now.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

    The danger lies when the two dominant parties become joined at the hip through cross-partisanship or bi-partisan ship or other such marriages of convenience AND espouse similar viewpoints and support the same end goals.

    Republicans as socialist coporatist/statist and Democrats as sociaist statist/corporatists have done exactly that ending up as The Government Party in favor of Government Over People.

    Follow the link to the little chart and pay attention to the section at 11 o'clock that says ' further makes rules to perpetuate itself'

    So is it a Republican Government or is it a Socialist Republican Government?

    The way out of this trap is repudiating the definition of center as center of the Left and return it to the Constitution as the Center of the Country.

    Repudiation of the current voting system does not come from supporting it in any of it's left wing flavors. It comes when the majority refuse to play their game and make their reasons known.

    What good does that do?

    It's a clear signal to the military - remember them? Our Sons and Daughters - to honor their oath of office as they have the legal right and the legal duty and the responsibility of protecting and defending the Constitution and NOTHING else.

    When a majority of the nation has refused to participate in the left wing version of voting that tells the military it's time to conduct what might be called a counter revolution.

    That's the in place system but it takes a clear signal from the public.

    It's also why there is a huge movement to put mandatory voting into law. As it short circuits that final protection.

    Don't vote for either side and ask the military to do their duty.

    You have the balls to do that we get our country back if not welcome to the USSA
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years, 5 months ago
    As a nation it's not going to happen. If we have an election next November this country might have a chance under a Republican President. If Obama continues on his spree of Global Warming and other enviromental regulations, his attack on first and second amendment rights plus and other restriction on personal rights. The Americans will have no other recourse but Civil War. Americans are not like the cowardly Iraqies or Syrians a percentage of the population will take up arms against BHO's leftist government.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Appreciate the information. I see they are building Jeeps in Mexico for export elsewhere with Diesel. I'm partial to real SUV with real off road capability and diesel Looks like I'll have to buy out of the country. Sorry about that UAW snooze you loooze
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Update 31 to 19 translationi 31 states have indicated NO CONFIDENCE in the current administration. Perhaps the Syrians situation is fighting our internal war for us.

    Syrian refugees not welcome in 31 U.S. states - CNN.com
    www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/world/paris-at...
    6 days ago - More than half the nation's governors say Syrian refugees not welcome. ... (CNN)More than half the nation's governors say they oppose letting Syrian refugees into their states, although the final say on this contentious immigration issue will fall to the federal government.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 6 months ago
    I know a co-owner of a Chrysler, Jeep Dodge franchise. He thinks that all the Jeeps suck relative to competition price for price. My son just bought a Ford 250 diesel to haul his camper around. Very happy with it. Not bad mileage either for a big pick-up. I no longer drive enough to care about cars very much. I doubt if I'd put as much as 7,000 a year miles on a car. If I do get one, it'll be a little puddle-jumper to run errands or take in a movie or restaurant.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I knew you were one of the good guys!!!

    Now as for SUVs.......Jeeps without diesel engines whose dumb idea was that? Kinda like the Republican party with out Republicans.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am not, nor ever have been a biker. But waay back when nobody ever knew about the BMW, I was a fan of their cars. I bought them when their little 4 cylinder was called the "Pocket Rocket" and was quite comfortable zipping along at 90 to 100 mph. I bought new ones up until the advent of the 320i which was the first of the all fuel injection lines. Then the dollar price relative to the deutchmark jumped the price from $6k & $8K to $21K. From there it became so ridiculously expensive that I returned to American iron muscle. However, if I were to ever get a bike, it most certainly would have been a Beemer.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Q: I f you find a little round hole in the dirt next to large spot of oil it indicates what?

    A: Harley was here.

    Q: If you here somethng like urrrrrRRRRRRrrrrruuuuuuhhhhhhhh h h h h then nothing it indicates?

    A: Harley at full throttle.

    An old t shirt had the BMW engine as the Starship Enterprise. Twin opposed mounted on a logo'd disc. Busy shooting opposing attack spacecraft with phasers etc. All marked with Kawasaki, Yamaha, Honda and Ducatti logos . The most asked question to it's printed message "Every Star A Sun" was/: Why no Harleys?

    A: How you going to shoot something out of space that can't get off the ground?

    My friends bought two brand new 100th anniversary Harleys. Driving to Seattle to pick them up the son asked where's mine?

    A: "Only room enough in the pick up for two."

    Back when Rogue Valley Road Riders of S. Oregon sponsored a Labor Day weekend rally with guided tours each day for a week. One day all the ride leaders rode Harley's. All the assistants rode Hondas or BMW's. Twelve or so tours not one Harley would start. Something about moisture in the air and in the systems. That is a true story.

    Q: RING A Ding ding ding ding..silence. Like a fan with a bolt tossed in the blades. What is it?

    A: Harley attempting to reach full throttle.

    Shall I go on? The rest is self explanatory

    How far down is down?

    All The Way and then we start building Beemers again.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Aristotle held man could use his senses to determine reality. Plato held reality wasn't real but held secret from man in some mystic place that only a few could divine.

    Plato's chain of followers are Kant, Hegel, Neitsche, and in the political world Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, AND Hitler and in the us the Progressive socialists from Woodrow Wilson to Obama and Hillary supported by secular progressives funded by the billionaires Soros and Lewis ....included is the present day Democrat turned Socialist admittedly group and Republicans in name only and by association their supporters ALL have certain beliefs in common.

    Government the people in a very socialist sense people as part of a group or collective which is the real entity that counts. One leader one party such as the combination of Democrats and Rinos. Plato exempted certain individuals from the collective group philosophers primarily and that's extended to an elitist ruling class. Nutshell version. Hillary is in fact a secular progressive and their poster girl hand maiden at present. Plato's line of thinking led to pragmatism whatever serves the moment and phrases such as the truth is whatever serves the party.

    Aristole's line of thinking led to a country created by an idea..USA...not by force with citizens over government.,...that is what we are losing along with independence, freedom, the right to think and reason and express those thoughts. The right to control government. It also led to objectivist thinking.

    Two types of socialism.. National and International for easy labels. The first allows ownership under State Economics meaning tight control of everything also called fascist economics. The second is the government owns and controls everything using Marxist Leninest economics. Both are heavily fascist meaning any and all means to control everything.

    Three groups make up the elitists under an overall neo aristocracy which is neo feudalistic in it's beliefs..Government or Statists, Big business or corporatists, Union Leaders (not union members) or some other form of controlling labor at the bottom. State Economics here relies on Keynesian principles. Borrow from the future

    Where they are losing control is they forgot one of Keynes requirements in debt economy which was ability to pay the interest. The out - so far - is using a crisis to create inflation, devaluation, and debt repudiation. One form of the latter is devaluing buying power to retirees but not counting the loss in the Cost of Living Allowance instead holding that at or near zero.

    thus as matter of percentage the elitists at the top get richer and the rest of us poorer not so much in terms of cash count but in buying power increases and decreases.

    Short quick and dirty except for ..get rid of the constitution which they are doing WITHOUT amendment the legal way but by court cases with friendly judges. One thing at a time...

    - Same Sex is one
    - replacing 'probable cause' with 'suspicion of' another
    - dumbing down education and ending up with fascist oriented students a third.
    - control of all forms of income was one of the first
    - dismantling checks and balances another-
    - the military draft system
    - laundry list of how it came about

    Do you still have the Charger...my last similar was the Plymouth Police Package version.

    See if you agree.. with all except the make of the auto...

    Conclusions:

    The Center is the Constitution not the Center of the Left.
    If you support any of the systems or candidates of the left you are supporitng the left

    Problem?: The system of selecting candidates and voting is no longer a free and open system but designed to control the eventual outcome where which ever wins is still a left winger. Question: How to regain that and other lost freedoms. I will add voting for anyone else is listed under winner take all as landslide in the opponents favor. no longer an option.

    One possibility is mass defection from the system or a vote of no confidence by not voting. Something they are afraid of as the talk now is mandatory voting or a fine. That group now stands at 35 to 45 percent on and off year elections

    Second possibility destroy them politically at the roots - locally -

    Third possibility - Military upholds their oath of office.

    (Note: I'm sure some of our more experienced Gulchers will polish this short version as needed. For the record it was a BMW900 I don't do Harleys. I like systems that work and work for me. The motorcycle analogy of politics and philosophy)
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  • Posted by 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I bought my '69 Charger with the 440 it cost $6K. Equivalent to probably $60K today. I know who & what Plato was. I refuse to be labeled as a Platonist in any way, shape or form.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks, OA. Also I love the optimism of AK. We all know our history, but sometimes we forget what a radical idea it was. Putting government into the hands of the governed! The only ones who expected it to work at all were the persons who came up with the concept. And even some of them were doubtful. The fact that it has survived this long in spite of being chipped away at for almost 250 years is, in itself, almost a miracle, and shows the power of the idea. I certainly would be the first in line to encourage saving the great old ship of state. Rand's idea of the strike by men of the mind was a device to point out where human progress truly comes from. It was not put forth in order to encourage it to actually happen as some Gulchers seem to think. The idea of creating an Objectivist Atlantis is rather sweet but if the USA goes down in flames so will the world and no place on earth will be a safe haven. In any case, this forum provides me with an intellectual Ping-Pong game that is most enjoyable, so let's keep the game afoot. Who knows what might spring forth.
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  • Posted by AvatarKnight191 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well....to be able to identify the "REAL McCOYS", as it were, they'd have to extoll the virtues of wanting equality, fairness & justice for all, not embracing the stagnant vices that destroy a society/civilization & would have the best interest at heart for the people-at-large; they'd walk & fight SIDE-BY-SIDE with same said people, facing & overcoming any obstacle. J.F. Kennedy & Ronald Reagan were PRIME EXAMPLES of "FEARLESS LEADERS"; we need that type desperately, but with a bonus of honoring the CONSTITUTION in word & deed, limiting the involvement of the government in people's lives & letting the states govern themselves, prohibiting major corporation businesses, financial institutions, special interest groups/lobbyists, & the "Uber-Wealthy" from manipulating resources, commerce & finance that have created this "Debt-Based "FIAT" Society", and lastly---to promote PEACE & defend it when it's challenged by those who seek POWER & OPPRESSION by any means. In the historical version of the movie, "Robin Hood", where Russell Crowe played the title character, the character's father made a monument in their village that had a lasting, but very true, inscription engraved into the steps that spoke volumes of truth: "Rise & Rise Again---Until Lambs Become Lions"; granted...finding such people would be like looking for the proverbial "needle in a haystack", but not impossible---they're out there, and---hopefully soon---they'll come forward & fight to set it right....and in that same moment,,,we'll fight with them to keep it so.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Can we identify them ....those that aren't already co-opted and can withstand that particular beast? Good post.
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  • Posted by AvatarKnight191 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The GOOD men are out there---but if we aren't backing them---or attempt to do so---why should they make the sacrifice? if they intend to face the BEAST to beat it, we should stand with them to support them attempting to change WHAT IS---to what it should've been from square 1. Fighting for what you believe in requires sacrifice---and it's never easy in the beginning; but it does moreso later.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and sometimes the only way to win is don't play. Depends on how much of yourself you are willing to sell and for how much?
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello Herb7734,
    This is a great blog and thread.
    I concur with you. Anarchy is not congruent with human nature right now and may never be. There is always somebody that wants to live off of others and will organize a local gang or small army in order to rule. The Attilas would rise. People of reason could make it work, but the world is populated with too many lunatics and fanatics. Little collective fiefdoms would be constantly popping up and trying to fight their way to the top. I still find Rand's reasoning sound and unassailable.
    http://aynrandlexicon.com/searchresul...

    "[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defence must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." ([1788] n.d., 337 Madison, Federalist 51

    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ha ha I get three long strips of rubber and a nasty chirp out of fourth gear. Couldn't afford the 440 magnum engine at the time.

    Plato was and remains the founder of present day left wing philosophy.....the only thing you are missing is figuring out where the center is. I say not the center of the left but the Constitution. Chirp!
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