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There seems to be very little news anymore as to mass political events in England. Of course, the non-reporting of certain events (and the massive over-reporting of others or simply fake events) is normal operating procedure for the UK, as here. The obvious aim of the ongoing invasion of millions of foreign men of military age - with no allegiance to their hosts and actual hostility in many cases, is to enable them to cast illegal votes; in addition to final nailing down the lid of the coffin containing the shriveled remains of American culture.
As I pointed out here, this has been an ongoing project, a highly successful strategy. There is a strong possibility it led to the âresultâ of the 2020 election and will surely affect the upcoming one in November. No one has yet told me who or what will stop an illegal entrant (they are NOT immigrants) from âregisteringâ and âvotingâ in any city run by democrats, i.e. all of them. The general urban lawlessness (and politically-guided prosecutions of only non-democrats) does not suddenly end when it arrives at city voting officials. So, please tell me who will stop this or even report it after it happens. Even if this were done, it would go un-reported.
The US and UK are proudly assuming their places on the âgreenâ ash heap of history. And we are watching it unfold in real time with hardly a peep.
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Objectively, there are a series of inter-related major issues facing the West, and the US in particular. In no particular order, these issues include:
- Massive influx of unvetted illegals
- Massive unsustainable government borrowing
- Over-regulation driving de-industrialization & job losses
- Dangerously provocative international interventions
- Failing educational systems
- Rising prices at the consumer level
Only the last of those issues receives even modest lip service from the Political Class. Hardly a word escapes most politiciansâ lips about any of the other key issues â and there is a total absence of any constructive proposals on how to fix any of them. Yeah! Democracy!
As a believer in competitive markets once remarked about oil prices â The cure for high oil prices is high oil prices. We will learn that the cure for failed âdemocracyâ is failed âdemocracyâ. Unfortunately, that learning will take place in the School of (Very) Hard Knocks.
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Send Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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Here is a must-see interview of Tommy Robinson with Jordan Peterson. The rot in the UK runs to its core. Listen and weep, as it is the entire westâs sad tale. The US operates by the same corrupt ârulesâ. Better not tarry - this will likely disappear from youtube (and everywhere else) soon.
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Sorry, I couldnât watch more than the first couple of minutes, seeing Jordan Peterson struggling and failing to speak coherently. Just too painful.
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I will re-watch to see this at ânormalâ speed. I watch most Youtube videos, you see, at 1.5X to better allocate my increasingly scarce time. I have long been favorably impressed, amazed at times, at Peterson, because he is often able to speak in compound, complex sentences - or even whole paragraphs, very clearly and precisely. At times, though, he hesitates for considerable moments. I think this is his effort to choose the precise words he wants. Anyway, I will re-check the video at normal speed and see. Iâm sorry this prevented your listening to the whole thing. At the same time, I understand. My wife, Gigi, canât listen to him at all. She finds his style so complicated that she says it takes her too much intense mental focus to follow his thought process.
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Thanks, I may try again. Just not right now, as I have rther a lot of items requiring my full attention.
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This sounds very familiarâŚ
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I have found the podcast Fox and Father to be very enlightening on the fall of the UK.
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Of course, the meaning of âmillionairesâ , like every leftist-mangled word, doesnât mean what it used to. Hell, Weimar Germany has loads of nominal millionaires. You could have observed them with the cash required to buy a loaf of bread. Using todayâs inflated money, anyone hoping for a modestly secure retirement (that is also a concept with little historical precedent and worthy of discussion), had better have a million or more saved. In the US, when Social Security began, life expectancy was 58 for men and 64 for women; retirement age was 65. These facts informed assumptions on which SS was based.
Those facts, too, require some deeper understanding as the low numbers significantly reflect infant mortality, which skews the result. Nonetheless, the number of individuals surviving to full retirement age has markedly increased, thus many more are âentitledâ to benefits (this âentitlementâ, too is ephemeral, as the SC has held that the government is not obliged to pay it!) US âmillionairesâ find it similar to the former USSR when it comes to emigrating - especially if they would like to take much of their savings with them. See âexit taxâ. It was once generally believed that the government served the citizens. Now, any interaction with an apparatchik quickly belies such naive sentiments.
In any case, if we undergo much more progressive âprogressâ, the notion of âserving the citizenryâ will likely acquire new meaning as we are further transmogrified from milkers to beeves; the process is well underway. Ask anyone who has been âinvestigatedâ by the FBI and had their homes ransacked and all their property confiscated. Most recently, this includes Dmitry Simes, a long respected economist and journalist. He was born in the USSR and naturalized in the US long ago
Now, Simes has been excommunicated, mulcted and (so far only) character-assassinated, as he remains in Russia, where he was working as an actual journalist. Some of you who are old enough may remember - here in the âland of the freeâ (free stuff that is - i.e. handouts to politically-favored groups at the expense of politically-disfavored groups) - we used to have such journalists, not the party-line propagandists we have serving us (up) today.
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To be accurate, full retirement age is no longer 65. Granted, the change is not enough to offset the increase in life expectancy but the real issue is demographic. The system was always based on the expectation of a growing population so that the population pyramid would always be in the shape of a⌠well⌠a pyramid instead of a covered trash bin.
Fertility is crashing all over the West and East Asia, messing up the retirement systems of all those countries. Even worse than the retirement pensions is the the Medicare or equivalent system. The joke about Britain is that it is a health-care system with a country attached.
Younger people in the US and elsewhere are rightly angry at the situation that Boomers have left for them: no affordable housing, a soon-to-be-bankrupt pension system, and an empire in decline. Not much of a future to look forward to. Yeah, Iâd be pissed too. (and I donât mean drunk)
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To be fair, I donât see a lot of signs of that anger â as well-justified as it would be. Maybe keeping young people over-medicated, under-educated, and distracted is working OK for Our Betters? Of course, that approach only accelerates the trajectory towards societal melt-down.
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My experience differs. Maybe anger is not the optimum term; the feeling is negative, in any case. If you look around, youâll find plenty of complaints about housing affordability and the expectation that Social Security wonât be there by the time they retire.
Next time you talk to someone under 30, ask 'em if they expect to collect Social Security. Also, ask if they expect to be able to buy a house. The answer to both will almost certainly be no to both. The Social Security question would probably get the same answer for anyone under 50.
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I agree with that wholeheartedly. Yes, young people wisely understand that they will never get any return from the Social Security contributions they are mandated to make. But the mood seems to be more one of resignation than of anger â and lots of them line up to vote for Democrats who are making their situation worse.
âAngerâ seems to imply a feeling of them being mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Instead, it seems the mood is more like that of the Chinese young people who are simply choosing to âlie flatâ.
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Not far off from âgoing Galtâ.
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This would not be civilâŚbut it would definitely be war
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