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We have an "entitlement" attitude to understand things.

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I've come to conclude, after decades of Americaning, that we are just as

Sep 18, 2024, 9:19 AM [ in reply to We have an "entitlement" attitude to understand things. ]

brainwashed and gaslit as any communist country or totalitarian state. Different flavor, different means, same result. For a very long time we thought we were free, and the governemnt was open and honest, and we trusted politicians, and we were the greatest country on Earth, and we trusted the news/media, and generally assumed our politicians were good, responsible public servants.

But as time has evolved, so have we. And it's sad how tribal we are now because in all honesty, that's EXACTLY what the bad people leading us want to see. As long as Americans are blaming the other side, other political parties, that means they're NOT SEEING the real problem(s) for what they are. The crux of our problems are in the legislative branch, but we are obsessed by the President and the executive branch. We attribute our spending, our debt, our jobs, our food, our economy, and the weather to the President, among a million other things. And the problem-makers and perpetrators in Congress are MORE THAN HAPPY to have that be the case, as that means they can keep our problems going to get reelected.

We all know, deep down, this doesn't go on forever. We can't have the debt we have, and the spending we have, and the economy we have, and the jobs we have, and the dollars we have, and security we have, etc. last forever. We know we can't keep letting in illegals, and legal aliens, at the rates we have in the past, and remain secure. We know we don't have enough labor for the demand we have as an economy and nation. We know our debt will never be paid. We know what goes up must come down. And yet we see nothing change because nothing can change. Even if Trump wins, nothing will change.

At the end of the day it will have to be the states that clean up the mess. Washington will never give itself an enema. And there is a way the states CAN FIX our federal problems, constitutionally, without a civil war, or an ambitious totalitarian taking control and wrecking the place. And the very same people who want us to concentrate on blaming the President, and/or the "other side", are more than happy to also have the American people be as ignorant as possible to the one, best, constitutional solution to the problems THEY have caused for decades now.

This isn't political. What three things cross party lines? Where is the agreement? Where is the continuity between the parties, where is the common ground? When you identify it, you see the problem clearly. Sex, money, and power are the things that cross party lines. Dems and pubs both want more money. Dems and pubs both want sex. Dems and pubs both want power. Dems and pubs are HUMAN. A nation of citizens can not be free if they can be bought. A nation of citizens can not be free if they can be seduced. A nation of citizens can not be free if they can be controlled.

We were not founded this way. But those who laid our foundation saw a million challenges and knew there would be challenges. They did their best to mitigate the problems they knew would arise. They never knew specifically what problems would or could evolve, but they knew human nature, and governemnt, and politics, and they designed a system to function through all of those HUMAn problems. The fifth amendment to the Constitution holds the key, as did the 10th. Our founders knew any mess that the federal government might become, would have to be remedied by the states. That's why they left all powers NOT enumerated in the Constitution, to the states. That's also why they gave the states the capability of amending the Constitution, in addition to Congress. We know who can police the President. We know who can police the Supreme Court. We don't know who can police Congress. Well, some do, but most are clueless.

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resulted in an Executive Branch whose always expanding, un-elected bureaucratic agencies have gotten way out of control and are now as much or more of the problem as the "do nothing but blame game" Legislative branch.

The Executive regulatory state has more control and writes more de facto laws than Congress and is largely unanswerable to anyone. The courts have allowed their this bureaucratic control to go largely unchecked but hopefully the recent SCOTUS striking down of Chevron deference will start to turn that page.

I fully agree - the States must reassert their powers granted through the 10th Amendment. We have to stop allowing our Federal Government to be the lone arbiter of every societal issue. But in order to stop the Federal Government from doing so will require lots of changes - especially to the Federal budget and Federal tax code. For far too long the Feds have successfully circumvented the 10th Amendment by using their control over the US fiat currency to bring States to heel to Federal dictates. Money has always been the key to the Federal Government's power and making the States dependent on them dishing it out through grants and other means has established a "dealer to addict" relationship and that has to be stopped. With it we would be able to dissolve whole agencies in our Federal Government as they are nothing but redundant, bureaucratic overhead to State level agencies that already exist in every State in the Union.

In essence - we need to get back to our Constitutional moorings where the majority of our governance is done at the local level - not from the "one size fits all" Federal behemoth that could not care less of the differences in cultural, ideological, or citizenry wishes/desires between South Carolinian's and Californian's. We started this nation with the belief that individual rights are sacrosanct and that the best way to protect the individual is through what is also the most responsive governance found at the local and State levels. It is long past time to get back to that ideal...

But... we seem to be a society that has largely bought into the lie that the Federal Government can be our caretaker from cradle to grave. There needs to be an awakening on our part as well and the ideological Federal power grabs being put forth by the Democratic Party, and, to a lessor but just as harming degree, the Republican Party - needs to be utterly rejected by the voters. I know, I know... dream on...

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Trump gunner found wearing an AR-15 rifle pin

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Sounds like the perfect dumb assassin candidate. Voted Trump in 2016,

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We have an "entitlement" attitude to understand things.

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Times were better when most people didn't even know who the

I've come to conclude, after decades of Americaning, that we are just as

Agree with most but I would suggest that Congress' legislative derelicition has

Your swift decline into caccatbirmfbcoach; has saddened me.***

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