“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times"
We're as subject to the laws of human nature as any other civilization.
Throughout history, Republics last an average of 250-300 years before they decay and fall. Unfortunately, we're proving that the United States isn't going to be the happy exception.
Alexis de Tocqueville observed that in a democracy, those who vote for taxes often escape the obligation to pay them. He argued that when the poor have the power to make laws, public expenditure tends to be high. This is because taxes are levied in a way that does not burden those who impose them, leading to considerable government spending. Tocqueville also believed that the reliance on government for social improvement could undermine individual responsibility.
Hate being a Debbie Downer but this Country has incrementally moved Left ever since the 1960's and the slide is accelerating as more and more public education indoctrinated kids hit voting age.
Countries don’t fall because they hit the spin cycle. They fall when a system lets people vote themselves benefits while someone else gets the bill. Once that becomes normal, spending grows, responsibility shrinks, and the culture adjusts to the incentives.
Tocqueville saw that early. And Venezuela showed where it ends. We are not doomed. But we are also not exempt.
We are heading into the same fate as the Roman Empire. Comfort and success leading to comfort and dependence.
And then we let the enemies inside the gates to suck the life and wealth from the diminishing non reproductive natives. The barbarians will suck us dry while we suicidally empathize. They reproduce cockroaches that infest and diminish the culture while preparing to behead us.
And we will feel the warm embrace of AI controlled narratives to distract us from the failed bureaucratic institutions we permitted to enslave us. God help us. We seem incapable of helping ourselves.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times"
We're as subject to the laws of human nature as any other civilization.
Throughout history, Republics last an average of 250-300 years before they decay and fall. Unfortunately, we're proving that the United States isn't going to be the happy exception.
Alexis de Tocqueville observed that in a democracy, those who vote for taxes often escape the obligation to pay them. He argued that when the poor have the power to make laws, public expenditure tends to be high. This is because taxes are levied in a way that does not burden those who impose them, leading to considerable government spending. Tocqueville also believed that the reliance on government for social improvement could undermine individual responsibility.
Hate being a Debbie Downer but this Country has incrementally moved Left ever since the 1960's and the slide is accelerating as more and more public education indoctrinated kids hit voting age.
Countries don’t fall because they hit the spin cycle. They fall when a system lets people vote themselves benefits while someone else gets the bill. Once that becomes normal, spending grows, responsibility shrinks, and the culture adjusts to the incentives.
Tocqueville saw that early. And Venezuela showed where it ends. We are not doomed. But we are also not exempt.
It's still reversible, I hope.
Me too…
We are heading into the same fate as the Roman Empire. Comfort and success leading to comfort and dependence.
And then we let the enemies inside the gates to suck the life and wealth from the diminishing non reproductive natives. The barbarians will suck us dry while we suicidally empathize. They reproduce cockroaches that infest and diminish the culture while preparing to behead us.
And we will feel the warm embrace of AI controlled narratives to distract us from the failed bureaucratic institutions we permitted to enslave us. God help us. We seem incapable of helping ourselves.
It's simple. Borders, Language, Culture.