And not much smarter,
The siren will sound in November and we'll see how many blindly march to their destruction.
Thanks for "getting it."

I have fought this for forty years while hearing that there is a rumbling that is growing and threatens to wake those who have been poisoned to their fate. I have never seen anything but the condition of the patient getting worse. There has never been any arousal and every trigger point that I thought was so obvious that the patient would wake the crowd just continued down the same path asking for more poison. The people are like Gulliver tied down by thousands of threads each seemingly harmless and if we loosen one another hundred have been laid down. The people prefer slavery, they always have and maybe always will. It has been my observation that only about 30% of people will steal small things, the larger the theft the smaller percentage will take part in direct harm to other individuals. Give the same group the opportunity to steal from others with 'legalized theft' and there are almost none who will resist the temptation. Liberty will be cured in my lifetime I fear and it will die with a whimper, slowly poisoned to death.

And our "government" are the Morlocks

Perhaps it is intellectual laziness where, from many whom I know comes, "I have learned and thought as much as I need to" is the mental blank out. Pro lifers see the fetus is alive and stop without considering any other living things. Pro choicers see the mother with a fetus and believe she should have a choice in the continuation of the pregnancy and stop without considering choice in other aspects of life leaving government to continue reducing liberty. Politicians, both liberal and conservative, talk of the democracy that we have and stop thinking and thus allowing the constitutional republic to be thrown to the wayside despite the warnings about democracy given by the founders.
The intellectual laziness is everywhere where a thought goes through a mind and ends with no afterthought, no connection to anything else. I get in trouble with a younger brother when I see connections between things and try to mention them. I usually get a gruff " why do you always do that" or sometimes just a "whatever".
Just today there were politicians making statements on how we need a wall to keep out drugs and cutting off any continuation of thought about it. Could it be the high price of drugs due to prohibition causing a black market which causes the smuggling of drugs and the violence that goes along with black market turf wars. Stop the prohibition and high taxation and maybe there would be a decrease in the number of new drug users, although the blank out of thought might make the lives of some too empty without the use of drugs.

Such a true statement. And somehow it will be blamed on the right.

We have to be careful, as the picture of the complacent, self-indulgent American is fed to us steadily by a powerful propaganda mill funded by a greedy elite. There's a good reason why there's panic in the upper aristocracy over the Trump/Sanders populist rebellion. The rabble have been roused, with torches,pitchforks, tar, and feathers soon to follow.

The presumed murder victim isn't going without a fight. The ego-driven elite had best remember Jefferson's caution that a nation that does not permit peaceful rebellion induces violent rebellion.

The result is...the Eloi
(Nerds ahoy!)

Bring out your dead ... as in Monty Python.

The heinous crime will never be exposed because the bulk of the population will never understand what had happened and the process by which it happened.

Another brilliant article. When I see "Robert Gore" in the title, I know I can click to upvote before I even click through to read the article.

Thanks.

Nice piece as usual. I enjoy your writings. The image I see is President Snow in The Hunger Games trying to cover up his medical demise from years of eliminating his opposition through poisoning. The useful idiots in Congress have no clue that they are in fact poisoning the country and thus themselves.

Yeah, you very well may be right. Sad, isn't it?

Perhaps we've already passed by that "complete" point. The USA does not have to be completely dead yet.
I'm thinking of a dying neighbor who is quite likely "as good as dead" as the saying goes.
Yesterday I was told that "her body is shutting down."
Is that what this once great nation is in the process of doing?
Can a pair of electric paddles even work at this point?

Notice...the entitled are never altruistic...
As for the beginning of our end is concerned, it would seem, a virtuous, benevolent, productive people were ripe for the deceptions of progressivism. With big hearts and righteous concerns, the invisible chains were yanked and we were swept up in the vortex of depravity.

Sure, he's a hero.

Can I be Sam? ;)

It is starting to feel like we are not far from being given last rights. The poisoning is almost complete.

Perhaps on my best days, or Aragorn. At my worst, I'm Boromir.

Does this make you Gandalf the White? ;)

One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,

+1 for the mention of Grima Wormtongue. Today he would be a political campaign adviser.