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.
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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.)
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.
Britannica.
But not as good as I imagined it!
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).
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
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.
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