How do you know my liberalism? Yesterday's "classical liberal" is a "conservative" in today's US, isn't that so?
"ΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΥΔΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ"
"The one thing I know is that I know nothing"--Socrates (the original, not me)
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not really know.... I learn one thing and feel that there are one or two things that I don't know that are relevant. Probably why my posts are so long here...
Still, I do know a few things.
One saying I like: good fences make good neighbors.
That seems to me to be the best prescription for getting along, with less fuss or bloodshed. A more humane way.
Liquidating your enemies does not work as well as it appears to. Nations, like people, need boundaries and limits. Absent that, when nations (or people) think they can get away with anything, their greed for "more" in the end leads to their demise.
I believe that is the destiny of the USA, as it hits 250 years, give or take a few.
Since Lincoln, even more so after 1913, and completely since WW2, the US government has been directed by the nefarious forces of big money from behind the scenes. A veneer of a republic under the control of big capital and big business and their agents known as "special interests".
War, debt, depravity, the dumbing down of the public, all reflect the wishes of the globalists to impose one-world government, and to be "God" (the biggest sin). Now, as they enter the final straightaway, the globalists have "floored it" and added wokeism, then the plandemic and mRNA injections, and now in an effort to subordinate Russia and increase economic control over China, TWO wars with Apocalyptic WW3 potential, one a pure proxy play against Russia using Ukraine, the other an unholy alliance joining hard-core Zionists and the US government against Iran in an effort to keep China and Russia out of the Middle East.
I can see the hazy outlines of those two conflicts merging, or shifting south, across the Black Sea (with all of Turkey's intrigues, plans against Greece, trying to upstage Iran, barking at Israel), and maybe China blockading Taiwan, and perhaps Egypt/Somalia fighting Ethiopia over the most valuable resource for life--water, the Nile.
We can endlessly debate the root causes of America's, impending, or for that matter, ROME's actual demise.
In the case of Rome, was it imperial overreach? Debasement of the currency? Corruption? The absorption of "non-Roman" subjects into the Empire in general, and important positions, like officers or officials in particular? Bloody conflicts between warring factions at the top? The blood of all the Christians?
Probably all of the above. Was one or two of these ills the main reason(s)? People who have studied Roman history (and that is not me) can intelligently debate this. I think they all fed on each other. I personally used to be a big proponent of "currency debasement", but who knows.
"Lugh", it appears to me that you and I agree on more things than we disagree.
Thank you for your succinct comment and giving me the opportunity to respond here.
How do you know my liberalism? Yesterday's "classical liberal" is a "conservative" in today's US, isn't that so?
"ΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΥΔΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ"
"The one thing I know is that I know nothing"--Socrates (the original, not me)
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not really know.... I learn one thing and feel that there are one or two things that I don't know that are relevant. Probably why my posts are so long here...
Still, I do know a few things.
One saying I like: good fences make good neighbors.
That seems to me to be the best prescription for getting along, with less fuss or bloodshed. A more humane way.
Liquidating your enemies does not work as well as it appears to. Nations, like people, need boundaries and limits. Absent that, when nations (or people) think they can get away with anything, their greed for "more" in the end leads to their demise.
I believe that is the destiny of the USA, as it hits 250 years, give or take a few.
Since Lincoln, even more so after 1913, and completely since WW2, the US government has been directed by the nefarious forces of big money from behind the scenes. A veneer of a republic under the control of big capital and big business and their agents known as "special interests".
War, debt, depravity, the dumbing down of the public, all reflect the wishes of the globalists to impose one-world government, and to be "God" (the biggest sin). Now, as they enter the final straightaway, the globalists have "floored it" and added wokeism, then the plandemic and mRNA injections, and now in an effort to subordinate Russia and increase economic control over China, TWO wars with Apocalyptic WW3 potential, one a pure proxy play against Russia using Ukraine, the other an unholy alliance joining hard-core Zionists and the US government against Iran in an effort to keep China and Russia out of the Middle East.
I can see the hazy outlines of those two conflicts merging, or shifting south, across the Black Sea (with all of Turkey's intrigues, plans against Greece, trying to upstage Iran, barking at Israel), and maybe China blockading Taiwan, and perhaps Egypt/Somalia fighting Ethiopia over the most valuable resource for life--water, the Nile.
We can endlessly debate the root causes of America's, impending, or for that matter, ROME's actual demise.
In the case of Rome, was it imperial overreach? Debasement of the currency? Corruption? The absorption of "non-Roman" subjects into the Empire in general, and important positions, like officers or officials in particular? Bloody conflicts between warring factions at the top? The blood of all the Christians?
Probably all of the above. Was one or two of these ills the main reason(s)? People who have studied Roman history (and that is not me) can intelligently debate this. I think they all fed on each other. I personally used to be a big proponent of "currency debasement", but who knows.
"Lugh", it appears to me that you and I agree on more things than we disagree.
Thank you for your succinct comment and giving me the opportunity to respond here.