I'm here to gather information and get informed, Don, not to join a cult. In fact, i don't know anything about a cult worshipping Kunstler as you suggest. The reason I am encouraged reading this essay is that the Biden Administration and the Obama Administration before it went out of their way to promote an unbalanced view of American life. Celebrating transgenderism, mandating experimental injections, vilifying those who refused the shotds, ignoring the debacle at the southern border, and soaring inflation drove me away from the left and toward the right. To read and become informed here is an independent decision made by this former and lifelong Democrat who was appalled by the choices and priorities of the Biden Administration. I might add I was also repelled by Nancy Pelosi's plan to invade private homes, remove persons testing positive for covid, and inter them in quarantine camps. All of this drove me straight to the Republican side of the discussion. I arrived here not in cultlike obedience but out of my own free will. I want to see the other side of what I'd been hearing for decades.
As an anarchist, though, I could suggest that the nation-state is a cult, Don, and way worse than cults in general. I've also come across some folks online who think, and have argued, that the nation-state is even a religion.
If we would abide the Constitution as it was originally intended, get the Senate back to what it was designed to do (represent the states, not the people) and stop using the "commerce clause" or "health and welfare clause" to do any fucking thing the Federal want, and then get a SCOTUS that actually does its job and relegate them back to the basement of the Capitol. We'd never be in this mess. George Washington basically told us to have open trade with foreign nations but to avoid all foreign entanglements. Boy did our forefathers screw that one up.
So a question: do you feel that fairly extensive abuses of power are being exposed? Is USAID what we all hoped it was all these years?
For that particular my wildass guess is maybe half of those monies went to genuinely useful things. Is it half went to just hideous graft and corruption? What a mess.
Would you prefer we just close our eyes and go back to the good old days? What would YOU do?
EDIT BTW I and many here reject entirely the libs vs conservatives binomial. Its a tool to keep us from talking and understanding what is going on.
OK those are valid suppositions. Trump is acting outside of the law? Is that your view of it?
I agree the Maga folk need to operate within the law. I ALSO have a long standing beef with (in my case) the Canadian judiciary ruling in congruence with an interpretation of the law and clearly in opposition to that nebulous but real construct of 'justice'. My cousin the judge says you have to make rulings in accordance with precedent and the specific wording of XYZ law, justice ain't part of that. And here we are.
I'm here to gather information and get informed, Don, not to join a cult. In fact, i don't know anything about a cult worshipping Kunstler as you suggest. The reason I am encouraged reading this essay is that the Biden Administration and the Obama Administration before it went out of their way to promote an unbalanced view of American life. Celebrating transgenderism, mandating experimental injections, vilifying those who refused the shotds, ignoring the debacle at the southern border, and soaring inflation drove me away from the left and toward the right. To read and become informed here is an independent decision made by this former and lifelong Democrat who was appalled by the choices and priorities of the Biden Administration. I might add I was also repelled by Nancy Pelosi's plan to invade private homes, remove persons testing positive for covid, and inter them in quarantine camps. All of this drove me straight to the Republican side of the discussion. I arrived here not in cultlike obedience but out of my own free will. I want to see the other side of what I'd been hearing for decades.
Well said Maureen! Excellent! Bravo!
Bravo! Well said!
I thought an overthrow of a government took weapons. Hmmm
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As an anarchist, though, I could suggest that the nation-state is a cult, Don, and way worse than cults in general. I've also come across some folks online who think, and have argued, that the nation-state is even a religion.
"We tortured some folks." ~ President Obama
youtu.be/5YBinnWqABQ?si=WoIZO4GwZNtp_26T
If we would abide the Constitution as it was originally intended, get the Senate back to what it was designed to do (represent the states, not the people) and stop using the "commerce clause" or "health and welfare clause" to do any fucking thing the Federal want, and then get a SCOTUS that actually does its job and relegate them back to the basement of the Capitol. We'd never be in this mess. George Washington basically told us to have open trade with foreign nations but to avoid all foreign entanglements. Boy did our forefathers screw that one up.
For the record, China already HAS access to the US Treasury database:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-hackers-us-department-of-treasury/
Do they have classified info? Would they admit that China has classified info? Is our personal info considered classified?
So a question: do you feel that fairly extensive abuses of power are being exposed? Is USAID what we all hoped it was all these years?
For that particular my wildass guess is maybe half of those monies went to genuinely useful things. Is it half went to just hideous graft and corruption? What a mess.
Would you prefer we just close our eyes and go back to the good old days? What would YOU do?
EDIT BTW I and many here reject entirely the libs vs conservatives binomial. Its a tool to keep us from talking and understanding what is going on.
OK those are valid suppositions. Trump is acting outside of the law? Is that your view of it?
I agree the Maga folk need to operate within the law. I ALSO have a long standing beef with (in my case) the Canadian judiciary ruling in congruence with an interpretation of the law and clearly in opposition to that nebulous but real construct of 'justice'. My cousin the judge says you have to make rulings in accordance with precedent and the specific wording of XYZ law, justice ain't part of that. And here we are.
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