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America is slowly but surely de-weaning itself back onto the teat. Yes, much of this nation, once the home of "can-do", of rugged individualism and self-determination, seems bound and determined to throw all that, which is the envy of the free world, away, in deference for a permanent place on the end of a wet teat. This time it is not on the chest of their mothers, but on the chest of Uncle Sam. Snowflakes of every variety and kind clamoring for a nice wet one, and they are getting it with ever-greater rates of lactation.
Problem is, that these teats come with strings, and those string are, or will shortly be, connected to jack-boots which will be used to keep the suckers of eternal largess, provided by the hard work of others, toeing the political line. Say the wrong thing, hold the wrong opinion, fail to bow deeply and regularly enough to the Uncle of all largess, and bammo, out goes the teat, and eventually off to the re-education camp or gulag you go.
Democrats, I hope you are happy, because you are the ones bringing about this dead-end for the greatest country every to grace this planet. Your actions are beneath contempt, and you will soon find that out in spades.
America is slowly but surely de-weaning itself back onto the teat. Yes, much of this nation, once the home of "can-do", of rugged individualism and self-determination, seems bound and determined to throw all that, which is the envy of the free world, away, in deference for a permanent place on the end of a wet teat. This time it is not on the chest of their mothers, but on the chest of Uncle Sam. Snowflakes of every variety and kind clamoring for a nice wet one, and they are getting it with ever-greater rates of lactation.
Problem is, that these teats come with strings, and those string are, or will shortly be, connected to jack-boots which will be used to keep the suckers of eternal largess, provided by the hard work of others, toeing the political line. Say the wrong thing, hold the wrong opinion, fail to bow deeply and regularly enough to the Uncle of all largess, and bammo, out goes the teat, and eventually off to the re-education camp or gulag you go.
Democrats, I hope you are happy, because you are the ones bringing about this dead-end for the greatest country every to grace this planet. Your actions are beneath contempt, and you will soon find that out in spades.
Democrats put the capital D in Dependency... You know you want that sweet government sugar, but are you willing to sink down low enough to meet their required standards of worthlessness?
America is slowly but surely de-weaning itself back onto the teat. Yes, much of this nation, once the home of "can-do", of rugged individualism and self-determination, seems bound and determined to throw all that, which is the envy of the free world, away, in deference for a permanent place on the end of a wet teat. This time it is not on the chest of their mothers, but on the chest of Uncle Sam. Snowflakes of every variety and kind clamoring for a nice wet one, and they are getting it with ever-greater rates of lactation.
Problem is, that these teats come with strings, and those string are, or will shortly be, connected to jack-boots which will be used to keep the suckers of eternal largess, provided by the hard work of others, toeing the political line. Say the wrong thing, hold the wrong opinion, fail to bow deeply and regularly enough to the Uncle of all largess, and bammo, out goes the teat, and eventually off to the re-education camp or gulag you go.
Democrats, I hope you are happy, because you are the ones bringing about this dead-end for the greatest country every to grace this planet. Your actions are beneath contempt, and you will soon find that out in spades.
It seems you need to move to a Red State to find a different world. But the problem is hardly anybody wants to move to any of them other than Texas and a couple or so others.
Problem is, that these teats come with strings, and those string are, or will shortly be, connected to jack-boots which will be used to keep the suckers of eternal largess, provided by the hard work of others, toeing the political line. Say the wrong thing, hold the wrong opinion, fail to bow deeply and regularly enough to the Uncle of all largess, and bammo, out goes the teat, and eventually off to the re-education camp or gulag you go.
I have always had the lofty goal of being the Anti Christ that all the Christians are sure is coming...
But I know you realize that the Anti Christ and that vision of the future is a bunch of malarkey.
But if indeed, YOUR predictions actually come to fruition...I hope I can get one of those sweet government jobs hauling people like yourself off to those re-education camps and gulags you are describing.
There are two mega-trends at work here. and they are operating with crossed purposes. On one hand the number of tested, and truly functional democratic systems, which are driven in turn by their open economies, continues to increase. And alarmist thinking to the contrary, it is not necessary that all the participants in the process be fully committed to recognizing this; Marx might have claimed that the capitalist system would permit entrepreneurs to sell the rope with which they would be hanged, but it can just as easily be argued that the tools used to cut chains can find their way into the hands of dissidents seeking liberty from their oppressors.
And the true threat here isn't from a collection of wannabee revolutionaries; it is, as the OP pointed out in anatomical frankness, that of a nation grown soft -- and of the army of bureaucrats and functionaries eager to indulge those spoiled children in order to expand their power and influence. Like most diseases, the process is usually self-limiting, but too many good men and women, and the contributions they make to human progress, are sometimes swept aside when the bill comes due.
I have always had the lofty goal of being the Anti Christ that all the Christians are sure is coming...
But I know you realize that the Anti Christ and that vision of the future is a bunch of malarkey.
But if indeed, YOUR predictions actually come to fruition...I hope I can get one of those sweet government jobs hauling people like yourself off to those re-education camps and gulags you are describing.
Foolish cynicism such as you demonstrate is the stuff of, well, fools.
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