The World According To Herbie
A Little History
The world was changed by a lie put forth by a President. Not so surprising since most of them have been quite adept at the ability to lie convincingly to Americans, throughout history. The Gulf of Tonkin was a lie by LBJ, possibly one of the most lying of all Presidentsand this lie led to the Vietnam way going full scale.But It was all started by the assassinate President, JFKafter he had on very bad advice, Ngo Diem, the Catholic Prime Minister assassinated which was supposed to heal the Buddhist resentment of the Catholic takeove rafter1954.Then, Johnson and McNamara ran the war from the White House instead of the battlefield and didn't seem to care how many civilians were killed and wounded and driven into the arms of the Vietcongand thus the table was set for what became abortion on demand and the 50 to 60 million babies killed so that women could have sex without responsibility and with George Soro's mulri billions funding the growth of the radical left takeover of the Democratic Party.Meanwhile, Republicans not understanding the culture of America, was changing into a hatred of free market capitalism and hatred of the American ideal .
At that time it was still possible for Reagan to rebuild our military because there were still enough Democrats to vote pro-USA but somehow, that got lost through the Clinton years and then Bush made things a bigger mess because he had no understanding of the scope of Muslim terrorism throughout the world and mistook Saddam's secular Sunni dictatorship for the hegemonic growth of Shia Iran tat felt destined to conquer the world for Islam.Then came Obama. His 8 year mission was to terminate the USA as a world power and he succeeded beyond his dreams leaving Trump with a depleted military, and what just passed was a lifting of the squestration by a level of continuing leftist type spending that guaranteed the USA as a 3rd world country. Make America great again? We'll see.
The world was changed by a lie put forth by a President. Not so surprising since most of them have been quite adept at the ability to lie convincingly to Americans, throughout history. The Gulf of Tonkin was a lie by LBJ, possibly one of the most lying of all Presidentsand this lie led to the Vietnam way going full scale.But It was all started by the assassinate President, JFKafter he had on very bad advice, Ngo Diem, the Catholic Prime Minister assassinated which was supposed to heal the Buddhist resentment of the Catholic takeove rafter1954.Then, Johnson and McNamara ran the war from the White House instead of the battlefield and didn't seem to care how many civilians were killed and wounded and driven into the arms of the Vietcongand thus the table was set for what became abortion on demand and the 50 to 60 million babies killed so that women could have sex without responsibility and with George Soro's mulri billions funding the growth of the radical left takeover of the Democratic Party.Meanwhile, Republicans not understanding the culture of America, was changing into a hatred of free market capitalism and hatred of the American ideal .
At that time it was still possible for Reagan to rebuild our military because there were still enough Democrats to vote pro-USA but somehow, that got lost through the Clinton years and then Bush made things a bigger mess because he had no understanding of the scope of Muslim terrorism throughout the world and mistook Saddam's secular Sunni dictatorship for the hegemonic growth of Shia Iran tat felt destined to conquer the world for Islam.Then came Obama. His 8 year mission was to terminate the USA as a world power and he succeeded beyond his dreams leaving Trump with a depleted military, and what just passed was a lifting of the squestration by a level of continuing leftist type spending that guaranteed the USA as a 3rd world country. Make America great again? We'll see.
Unfortunately, I have to object to your term "democratic communism". In my considered opinion it is a clear contradiction of terms.
Early proponents of communism, Marx and Lenin, openly and approvingly called it the "dictatorship of the proletariat". Its name is derived from Paris Commune, an attempt at revolution after the defeat of France in its 1870 war with Prussia. It was bloody and murderous, ending in the "bloody week" and defeat, after it lasted only two months.
I lived for 18 years in one of the communist "democracies" and could spend your lifetime giving you examples after many examples, showing that it is a brutal dictatorship masquerading as democracy and "freedom for the people".
It is now about 58 years since the slide into socialist hell started in America. around 1960. Notice that it was the working class voters that understood and begun the change in 2016 election. But it is like turning a humongous aircraft carrier by 180 degrees. It may take another 58 years to point it to the proper direction, toward individual freedom and prosperity that all working people deserve. On the other hand, it may be just a tremulous variation in course with no bright future as its target. As someone else in this discussion said, it will be up to the American people to decide which way the course will evolve.
As you can tell, communism invokes some emotions in this old guy. I could not refrain from trying to remind everybody within the ear shot of its true nature. I think that it is very important that the people know the truth behind the leftist propaganda. Ask Ayn Rand. She felt it on her own skin!
Stay well.
Sincerely,
Maritimus
I do not feel comfortable writing it here. I will send you the story privately. It is a long story, I need to warn you.
All the best to you.
Sincerely,
Maritimus
Many of the immigrant stories are fascinating and show that luck always plaid a part.
All the best.
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Maritimus
I just sent you the story about my immigration as a private message.
Beef up you patience before you embark on reading it.
All the best.
Sincerely,
Maritimus
Stay well.
Maritimus
I would be very interested in reading your story. if ....... it is not to much trouble and not so personal that you don't want to rehash it.
Warm regards,
DOB
They have hi-jacked that term.
Fortunately, my second favorite organ, my brain, seems to be functioning pretty well, except for remembering names.
Your right to point out the leftest invasion into the democratic party but they were ripe for it...it has taken a long time for that movement to edge it's way into the Republican party as pure progressivism on the part of a few, if not statusism.
No matter which way we look now days...we are out numbered by the inmates of the asylum.
PS...Johnson was just pure evil and the dumbest idiot around at that time...I should change my last name...[itsk embassisking!]
Just following orders, no thinking, no conscience and participating in evil is just as good as being evil in and of itself...complicit. It's not like he was likened to a soldier with no power to disobey orders unless his life be ruined...as president, he had the power to say No...but apparently he had no balls.
But not as good as I imagined it!
It scared the Emperor into realizing he might not be able to raise the men needed for an army.
Delivering it back to us via the Army... That's revenge!
Why are things so out of control and corrupt? I'll tell you why. Law involves the criminal and the corrupt. Eliminate those, and the lawyer is out of a job. The goal of a government controlled by lawyers is to weave so complex a net of laws that it becomes impossible for a sane person not to be in violation of one of those laws at any time. Become an identified enemy of the government, and you find yourself the target of a legal assault that will find you in jail or bankrupt, and most likely both. As one honest lawyer once told me, "It isn't a question of whether or not you've broken the law, but which law you've broken."
The Deep State involves both lawyers and self serving bureaucrats. Trump is a danger to them mostly for his demand that more regulations be rolled back than created. That threatens to create holes in their carefully crafted net, resulting in a truly free populace for the first time in quite a long time.
Britannica.
One of the problems became lobbying and the outright purchase of protectionism (pull).
So, I create a company, do very well, but competition is going to come at me hard. What do I do. I can innovate, adjust, etc. Or, I can buy a lobbyist and get the laws changed so my competitors have to abide by different rules than I do. Lets say that I am a drug maker. And Burzynski has an interesting way to cure brain tumors. We can't let that come to light. So, WE vote that the FEE to the FDA to test ANY cancer drug is now $75 Million. This helps us justify our huge prices on the dugs, and it closes the door on any little guy from even TESTING his drugs.
Play this out, and the government changes from referees to make sure the game is fair, to referees who "protect" the people from "risky small companies, with no ability to absorb lawsuits". And we wonder where the innovation went.
We forced it to die in a foreign country! Technology and Intelligence are the last 2 areas that are hard to attack, but they do, with Patent Books, and INSANE Employment Contracts!
It took down the Sumerians, it will take down EVERY civilization. BECAUSE like Businesses in capitalism, where Bankruptcy is REQUIRED to clean up the old stuff and create new opportunity...
I believe societies must fall to make room for the improved ideas, and to clean out the "crust" that grew within them. We might simply have waited too long, to the point that are people our so dumbed down that they don't see the pressing urgency!
rational persuasion, and showing them the truth by getting them to read Atlas Shrugged and other books by Ayn Rand, we may have a chance. But it will take a long time. (Though we'd
better hurry up; if we don't, we might not have much time left).
You say this without apology, when there are many of us who hold that life does not begin until birth. The time at which a fetus becomes a human is a philosophical issue that cannot be determined by logical reasoning.
I wish that "pro-life" believers would confine their proselitizing to forums that deal with the abortion issue, and stop infusing their beliefs into every discussion.
changed my mind entirely about it. She was having a rough pregnancy with our 2nd child and was advised by the doctor(s) to have an abortion. She stubbornly refused. No religious grounds. Whatever the problem was, we'd cope with it. He was born perfectly normal and was one of the best persons who ever lived.
Part of this is to save money and limit gov't power, but part of it is to underscore that the people grant rights to the gov't, not the other way around. The citizens are responsible for maintaining a republic, not government authorities maintaining an empire.
In this fantasy scenario of mine, US would not be a world power and would not have bases from which to deploy troops, missiles, airstrikes, etc when one country takes over another or gives criminals safe harbor. Americans would hate to hear about tyrants abusing their people Venezuela or Syria but would not be able to do anything more than to serve as a model of what life looks like with pluralism, individualism, very few laws strictly enforced, guaranteed rights, impartial courts, and low taxes.
Regarding enemy nations, I think we're moving slowly toward a world without nation states as we've known them. My desire is to have free places I described above in that future post-national world. My hope is that people are slowly abandoning ancient brother's-keeper values that maybe applied to small agricultural community but don't make sense in an advanced free economy.
Sorry for the block of text to explain why I want USA terminated as a world power.
We have shown an ability to rise above our nature. We created democratic governments with constitutional limits to keep it from becoming a mob. Educated people who have their act together no longer turn to violence to resolve their differences. The foibles won't go away, but people can and hopefully will create freer ways to organize society. (I'm resisting the word state because future structures may not be similar to the nation state.)
I do see the birth of an unpiloted air combat force that, combined with ground based antiaircraft and antimissile batteries could be a dependable element of a militia-manned defense. In theory, the unpiloted interceptors could be minimally guided by ground radar and GPS to their targets, with the actual intercept done autonomously.
A standing naval force, to protect our coasts and ocean commercial activities, is a necessity. Large vessels like aircraft carriers could be mothballed. A submarine fleet of some composition will have to be part of that force.
That would be my approach, probably in tiresome detail in achieving the goals you desire. In reality, I just don't see any scenario where we could go in that direction without inviting existing power brokers to demolish our connections with allies and the broader global commercial market, and possible even invasion. Russian President Putin has frequently "joked" about retaking Alaska, and China is longing to have Hawaii in its grip.
I know, and I'm not imaging relying only on small arms. I know small arms are insufficient, but I think you may underestimate the power of an armed population against a force that wants to invade and control a country.
Plus the regular army's objective may be to make the occupied people do specific things, while the occupied people's objective is just anything to disrupt the aggressor and make them leave. That gives the occupied country an advantage.
In my fantasy, there would be some system of coordination and training. It would be something like what the Founders were thinking of with a "well-regulated militia". It would just aim for being less of an institution, less of a portion of the economy funded by taxes, as big as it needs to be, but no bigger.
My hope is the incentive to take over a country is decreasing. The spoils aren't land or gold anymore. Now it's Google, Amazon, and Apple. It's hard to take over and steal them.
We talk about China invading Hawaii, but what about it invading South Korea or Japan? We talk about Russia invading Alaska, but what about it invading Finland? My thought is they don't because NATO and the UN won't allow it. In theory means groups of countries with pacts to defend each other, but in practice it means the US providing most of the security. It's a thankless job. I don't fully understand the history of how it came to be and why it's not a subject for debate. We're supposedly very divided, but everyone agrees we will spend a trillion dollars a year on war-related programs.
China has backed away from another confrontation with India, even though they were victorious in their earlier border tussle. Despite building up an impressive war machine,, China appears to be using it as an elaborate jobs program.
That is exactly my point. In the modern world investing in a country is more profitable invading it.