Men have become nothing but economic goods for the illuminati of power. Goods to be bought, sold, or cast away at whim’s notice. The illuminati of power are brazen to the point of indifference, scoffing at man’s laws while remaining so far removed that accusation and evidence of dark doing bring no fear and they go about their business completely unconcerned by punishment. Dark and shameful deeds once done in hidden corners are now committed in the light of day. Depravity has reached into the hallowed corners of high government. Presidents and the powerful have openly sinned in the face of all creation safe in the knowledge that they are immune from criticism, prosecution, and removal by an apathetic governed.
Our thoughts are shaped and emotions enflamed by the opinions of intellectuals who by dent of their superior education and intellect must know better and see clearer than the common man. These intellectuals work in concert to foster dissatisfaction with success, good fortune, and personal accomplishment. They subvert our culture and civilization by creating the mindset that we are somehow unworthy. Unworthy of not only our own accomplishments but those of our fathers before us, that we should somehow be ashamed to have more of everything that is good and decent along with a better chance at life than any other people in the history of mankind.
We are told the best path to peace and happiness is through greater tolerance of those who outright seek our destruction. So we have the great blending of multiculturalism, of situational ethics, and a judging of events based solely upon what is the best outcome – for the individual. No longer is there a clear concept of what is right and of wrong. Every situation is judged based upon how it affects us and gives rise to the moral relativism of this depraved day.
Despite having clear technological superiority and a wealth of world class engines of war, we no longer even prevail at war. We no longer prevail because the very concept of war has been subverted and re-cast into a presumed kinder and gentler mindset. Sherman wrote, ‘war is hell.’ This is it should be and so awful to comprehend as to be rightfully avoided at almost any cost. Yet we carve out areas of refuge for our nation’s enemies, areas that cannot be bombed, we avoid civilian casualties to the point of absurdity and I will remark that it is sad to see a hospital or school destroyed by war’s awful face – so our enemies play with that theme and co-locate their arsenals of war within or adjacent to these protected locations secure in the knowledge of their safety.
Sherman knew much of the art of war and from whence come the resources with which to wage war. Each thinking citizen should be familiar with the General’s letter to the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia but of course such cannot be taught in our schools. It is more important to learn about Martin Luther King than one of the men that made his life possible. My father’s generation prosecuted a world war in six years and we cannot prevail in the mid east after a decade of struggle. How that generation must be laughing.
From whence come the mighty engines of war? From whence are vast armies raised? How are those armies fed and clothed? The short answer that General Sherman knew so well – is that these things arise from the civilian population, hence his sack of Atlanta. A thinking man might ponder why there was no extended guerilla war after the fall of the South, or after WWII? The reason is simple; Johnny Rebel and his kinfolks could no longer wage war. Their people were totally demoralized, their industry and their farms destroyed, and army increasingly ill equipped and poorly manned. Likewise for the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese. The civilian populations of those nations were forced to see war’s hard face up close and personal and before long they were no longer interested in war. They were done with war, used up and burned out. I submit, gentle reader, that this country will never again win at war so long as we carve out areas of safety for our enemy, when we fear ‘world opinion’ and fail to take war directly to the civilian population.
Following the US Civil War a new profession came into being, that of the professional politician. I define a professional politician as one who is elected to the same office for more than two terms. Makes no difference whether the elected are town marshals or high sheriffs, mayors or judges, representatives or senators. Once a person runs for the same office more than two times, that person’s interests become focused more upon being re-elected in succeeding terms than in working sincerely for the people. That person has become a ‘professional politician.’ The problem with this exalted class is that having achieved a place at the trough of governmental largess, they will tell any lie, vote any concession, and subvert their office – all in the attempt to be re-elected and remain well fed at that easy trough of the public weal.
Government exists because of taxation. The more tax revenue, the more government. Governments create laws and as governments become wealthier they promulgate more laws. As laws proliferate, our freedom decreases. Controlling taxation is the key to reducing governmental meddling with our private lives. Do you realize, that there is no longer any private property in the United States of America? I own my house, you respond indignantly. Do you really? If you have a mortgage you do not ‘own’ your house. You rent it from the mortgage holder. If you have real estate anywhere in the US it falls within a taxation district. If you think you own that house and are free from the nose of a banker hanging over your fence, try not paying your property taxes and see how long you ‘own’ that house. You in fact, only lease that house from a taxation district. And you must pay and pay and pay over and over again for the privilege of maintaining that lease. This is but one way local government grows fat. A really fair system of property taxation would see a tax levy only when the property changes hands. The concept of repeatedly taxing the same item of property should be really abhorrent to each property owner. So how otherwise could we pay for the high Sheriff and his deputies, the judge and his court? The same way in that I propose property to be taxed. By sales taxes on ‘new items’ not used items, and not repetitively on the same item held by the same ‘owner.’ Think this might shrink local and municipal government?
So what about the federal government? There is a portion of the Internal Revenue ‘Service’ that has as it’s mission, ‘to borrow the money the government needs to operate.’ If that is not a clarion call to wake up, you must be dead. Our federal government is bankrupt. It can only pay interest on the loans that enable its operation by the clever creation of fiat money that is backed by the supposed ‘full faith and credit of the US Government,’ whatever that is. Remember ‘quantitative easing?’ A big term that means that the government is going to print more money that it can back with capital or commodity. What a neat invention to pay interest on the debt. What a neat invention to make the dollar in your pocket worth less. Any idea what a pre-1964 quarter is worth for its silver content? Several dollars I respond. This folks is the real cost of inflation. It erodes your savings to the point of making savings other than in the form of a commodity foolish. This country really needs a balanced budget amendment and it needs it right now. You and I cannot operate our lives or our businesses by repetitively making less than we spend. Think you our government an exception? There will come a day of reckoning I promise, and with that day, will also come great crying and gnashing of teeth.
We need a much more limited federal government and that government needs finances to exist. There is nothing fair about the existing progressive tax schedule. My vote counts the same as yours so why should I have to pay more for an equal share of government – because the wealthy are a fraction of the electorate and hence an easy target for repressive taxation. The only fair tax is a consumer tax. If you purchase an item, pay a sales tax and as we all ‘use’ the federal government for protection from foreign foe and the like, each should pay a flat tax of no more that 10% of our annual income in addition to the sales tax. This is a generous amount of funding – and adequate when the federal government can only operate from a balanced budget. Just imagine a federal government with no department of education, a reduced department of agriculture, no department of health and human services, a government stripped of aid to farmers and free from the burden of SNAP payment; a government much like it was before WWI. And while we’re at it, why not rename the Department of Defense back to what it used to be when we called a spade a spade, the Department of War. So informed citizens, can you name the federal departments deemed necessary in the Constitution? I’ll give you a hint, there were only four.
I submit a few things: term limits of office, local tax reform, and reasonable federal sales tax coupled with a scheme of flat and equal taxation would re-invent and re-invigorate this country. We would become less entangled in foreign war because with a government that operates within a balanced budget, war for the most part is too expensive especially the so called ‘small wars.’ We would once again learn to stand on our own feet, self reliant, and independent from governmental meddling in our private lives.
The illuminati of power and cosmetics industry are alive and well in our society. Both blow a subtle form of smoke in attempt to obfuscate the obvious. Both sell an impossible and unsupportable idea. Slick advertising has convinced women they look better with cosmetics and so they spend hours and hours each day, carefully applying paint and other things I don’t even want to know about, early in the mornings only to remove it at night. What man amongst us can’t spot a fake eyelash, a fake fingernail, a blond head of hair with black roots? Women, ask your men what they really think about such apparent fakery.
What man (or woman) amongst us cannot spot a government on the path to sure and certain destruction? If that is so, what does it say of us if we do nothing while the ship of state sails right on over the edge to destruction? A wise political philosopher once observed that ‘every people have the government they deserve.’ And so we do.
Our overloaded ship of state is sailing straight into stormy weather and troubled seas. The November elections can turn the helm. Now indeed is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
Panhandle Rancher
Very powerfully and perfectly stated PR. I have watched the melt down coming for several decades and now await the Reset. How long will it take and how long will it last. What will America be like? Only time will tell.
– Keep Looking UP
And oh yes, we must all vote for change from the current situation. We must become more involved and aim to replace professional politicians with two term limits.
Thanks JBernDrApt. Interesting times.
So many thoughts pop up when reading this. I’ve said as much myself many times and agree. I think the intellectual elite have moved from the intellectuals to the political and replaced them with political or aristocratic elite. That fits with the bigger and more bloated/powerful government idea. The only real power is political power.
Overall the flattening of government structure, and a reduction of the burden on Federal taxation is definitely needed. Those functions leaving federal control will need to be added to the states, and the burden will still likely be moved to state taxation for the same services. Many of the services leaving Federal Control .. were administered by charitable organizations most of which were “The Church” in it’s several incarnations at that point in time. As as a near Federal mandate the American people have been required to publicly eschewed the church, as a misconstrued meaning of the “Separation of church and state” used by Thomas Jefferson. All derived from the First Amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” I find is curious that such vehement enemies of the Constitution use it to beat us, it’s advocates, so thoroughly with it.
How will the Church respond? As a savior or a tyrant ? (or is it the church)
The crux of the correction is a requirement to go all the way back to the Constitution and begin again with an “American Reformation”.
I don’t think we want to reclaim an earlier kinder version we “used’ to have no matter how fond we are of that time. In that time and before were the seeds for to day, and thereby living through a very hard time, we might only have it back as soon as it has passed from the memories of the people.. It’s what is happening now .. We need look back no further than WWII, and in smaller ways since.
We need to try and repair the tear and use the original rules with faithful interpretations for smaller truer versions of laws.
We must have laws but they need not be 2000 pages of indecipherable exceptions.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.” ― Benjamin Franklin
Finally we have not just given our Enemy kinder treatment, we have given him the perfect safe place. That place is standing next to us on our own streets, where we can be used as shields or hide in plain sight. War should be so bad, that we do not want it. War is not now unthinkable, moreover it is used as a corrupt business policy, disguised as a political exercise. How can war be bad when it is a technical exercise and you never see the havoc it wrecks on the lives affected. I am more and more convinced that the leader of a free nation, to command its resources (CIC) must have served on the battlefield and seen this first hand, as well as have developed the ability to empathize with it’s cost to those they lead.
Carl Von Clausewitz said that “war is merely an extension of diplomacy by other means.” In this case actual diplomacy has been replaced with pseudo or faux diplomacy, so that it will seem reasonable and the majority will accept the idea and not question the cost.
Well done PR.
We have fallen and now, we must rise.
GG58
And from whence arises political power? Chairman Mao, may he rest in Hell, said it best, “Political power comes from the muzzle of a rifle.”
PR
Political power .. hmm .. yes always the tyrants use the gun or lucre or both .. They serve Mammon and themselves.. I’m not sure it is possible to aspire to a power position without becoming some, if not most of what you fought against in the process of becoming a leader.. It seems “Good vs Bad” leaders are only weighed and measured through an historical lens.. and biased from the perspectives of the winners as it were.. What is a Good leader then ? “Any leader that would hold their people in regard, helping them to be prosperous and in control of their own lives, while providing safety and security in a limited sense to external aggression.” .. Off the top of my head. What the majority seems to WANT or ACCEPT is “Any leader that provides for them, makes their decisions, and gives to them safety to do whatever they want regardless of their lack of control over their lives”.. It’s something I don’t understand and a result of a welfare/nanny state I think. The first has never really existed in fact .. but perhaps in practice.. the second exists nearly completely now and in fact and practice, having traded Freedom and Liberty for Safety and Security.
It will be difficult to regain the former from what exits within the latter, until the latter fails utterly of it’s own weight, having consumed itself, leaving only the dross in it’s wake..
Beautiful green grass usually means lots of crap before it … I’m in .. whatever I can do. 🙂
This morning I woke (thankfully) to the smell of hot coffee waiting. I poured a cup and stepped out onto my back porch. The sun was rising and there was a briskness in the air, a hint of another approaching fall. I could hear a cow from my neighbors herd and a tractor. 2 of my dogs spotted a rabbit and gave chase… unsuccessfully.
I stayed away from the news this morning (something I do more often now), it’s always a repeat of yesterday’s anyway. It’s an endlessly. looping repeat and has been for a long time now.
Later on I checked my email and chased the link to your sad yet wonderful post. It’s stark honesty is a rare thing these days. I agree with every word except…it’s already to late.
We vote only on the speed of our decline, a speed bump is all we are left to hope for.
Great post PR! Why can’t Trump articulate these ideas to the American people? It is sad to realize we don’t own any property in this country anymore. With every law passed a little more freedom is taken away. There are so many laws that the government can put us away for almost anything any time they want and bankrupt us in the process. We are 50% slaves already and heading for 100% if we can’t turn this around.
Trump is about Trump and getting his own way – that or taking his football back home. Yet, how can any thinking citizen vote for any candidate of the Giveaway Party of Democratic Socialists? ‘Tis the peril of a strong two party system, to choose between the best of the least qualified.
I think more are already slaves than they realize – all the while going about Thoreau’s, ‘life of quiet desperation.’
PR
PR Indeed the sheep do not recognize the wolves in sheep’s clothing .. heads down feeding the grass and them selves is all they see.. Thank God for the Sheepdogs.. Which, because they are wolf like are feared by the sheep as well .. and receive not only no thanks .. but ridicule as well..
PR, as Matt said, a great post. In 2008 I asked the local office of the congressman we had then since we were borrowing so much money from the Chinese when could I expect some one from China with the deed to my property as we were only paying the intrest and not the principle. A few days later I received a call from his office explaining to me that governments did not have to have collateral as we would if we borrowed money. After obuma got in I again asked that same question and the reply was they no longer could make the same claim, some where, some time the fiddler is going to want his due.
Excellent post-Thank You PR……very alarming, very true. Almost feels like thanking a physician who is telling you you have cancer…appreciation to the doctor is not the only response one has. But, now comes the doing something about the cancer and the treatment requires change since doing the same old thing brings the same old results. We know WHAT changes we desire. HOW do we go about making those changes? The treatments for cancer sometime seem worse than dying, but those who go through it and live are proof it is worth it…..
Both of these candidates are disasters for America and will end up bankrupting us further and perpetuating the warfare welfare State. Keep prepping and ignore them and focus on local elections and what local politicians can do to screw you. You might be able to stop them by voting.