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I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
Posted on 07/25/2015 5:39:37 PM PDT by moneyrunner
The Federalist's Robert Tracinski examines the question: Why are we suddenly having a full-blown culture war right now?
The answer is that the vital political issues are no longer under the control of the American people. He says that the President and Congress stymie each other.
This implies that just about everything that’s actually going to happen in national-level politics is going to be happening by executive Fiat. ...[and]What doesn’t get done by executive fiat will be done by the courts, as in the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on ObamaCare and gay marriage.
Foreign policy decisions are made by one man: Barack Obama. Our markets and what we earn on our savings are under the control of the Federal Reserve. Our core cultural issues - abortion, infanticide, gay rights, the definition of marriage, even the definition of gender - are determined by the Supreme Court and once they tell you how to live you have to obey.
Republican politicians campaign to bring the beast to heel but when they get to Washington, they cut deals with the Big Money boys who have a vested interest in the status quo.
This is very dangerous over the long term. One of the things Alexis de Tocqueville liked to point out about the difference between the American and European systems of government is that the American viewed himself as a participant in the political arena, while the subjects of Europe’s monarchical regimes tended to view themselves merely as interested observers. Watching politics, for them, was like watching the weather. The outcome affected you, but there was nothing you could do about it.
Under the old American system the government didn't intrude into your life much, and when it did you could vote them out of office and life went on. Under the European system, when things got to a certain point the remedy was a bloody rebellion. The old order could not be voted out of office, so it was dragged through the streets and hung from the lamp-posts.
I think that Donald Trump's standing in the polls is a manifestation of the belief that government is out of control. In times of cultural or economic stress, an opportunity presents itself of someone becoming the proverbial "man on a white horse" riding to the rescue. When polled, 63% of the American people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. When times are good, when people are satisfied and happy, the politician speaking in muted tones promising more of the same is popular. When people are unhappy and feel threatened they listen to the man who cries out for change in stentorian tones. That's Trump. And that's a wake-up call to all the politicians in Washington and especially to those who want to replace Obama.
I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
Well, if that was the case, Duh-1 would be digging through the couch cushions for spare change to meet his agenda instead of being amply funded by the Fools on the Hill.
It is all just theater.
…Up To Here In BS - BIG SOCIALISM…BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
DEFUND/DISMANTLE
long live the republic
Here is a snapshot that tells you why the country is in the shape that it is in....
Friend of mine of Facebook was having a conversation about Iran policy. Here is an excerpt of the conversation:
Greg Lee: The truth is that Shane is very much in the true conservative category. Today’s GOP is so far to the right that Saint Ronald himself wouldn’t make it past the second primary. Hell by most historical standards Obama is almost a centrist
(I read that and had to jump in the conversation.)
Bryan Alexander: Greg Lee, this is not a personal attack. I’m just using figures of speech to make a point..... You are out of your mind. Most of the political spectrum (ultra-liberal, Liberal, Centrist, Moderate, Conservative, Ultra-conservative) have pretty much all been moving steadily Left the past 30-40 years. The media/entertainment industry has been the “millstone” hanging to the left and dragging the country left........ Nate Pipkin, John F Kennedy was a Democrat. He invaded Cuba and faced the Russians down over missiles in Cuba. He also had fiscal policy that was pretty close to Reagan. We now have a president who has managed to get the government to take over our healthcare system. He has sunk us over 5 TRILLION more in debt in just 6 years. His “go to” economic policy is pure Marxist/Socialist class warfare. Tax the rich, income equality, etc....
Greg Lee: Not a personal attack, but that is exactly the response I have come to expect from those who drink the GOP Kool aide. I could go line by line but I can tell it wouldn’t be worth the effort. But thanks for dropping by.
Bryan Alexander: Like I said, Greg, that was not personal. I don’t know you and I assume you are a great person. Before your “GOP Kool aide”, I had no idea what your actual political leanings were. FYI, I don’t drink the GOP Kool Aide. I am extremely conservative on most issues, but I don’t consider myself a Republican and I am not a member of the GOP. I consider the GOP leadership part of the problem in this country. ——— Looking back at the post I responded to, I am just shaking my head at the “Obama is almost a centrist” comment. Let’s just say we are WORLDS apart on our views on Obama’s political leanings and leave it at that. Hope you have a great day.
Greg Lee: Actually I’m a true centrist. But don’t let the truth about today’s GOP cloud your judgement or anything..... wink emoticon
John Newell: Today’s GOP is indeed very far right. So far that anything centrist looks to them like left wing. Because the actual left wing is out of view.
The issues are (1) the parallel universe they live in where they create their own “facts” and (2) the belief that any form of compromise is weakness.
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I don’t know John Newell or Greg Lee. But their response is pretty typical of how poorly people understand what is going on politically in this country today.
Those guys don’t have a clue.
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I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
“YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE, MR. TRUMP!”
A MSM newswoman told Trump that people are looking to elect a politician who can create jobs.
Trump told her simply, “Politicians can’t do that.”
That’s right. I see it over and over again: that the left has become, or always was, what they have been complaining about for all these years.
The best Government can do is foster an environment for job creation and get out of the way.
Between Obamacare and ridiculous environmental regulations and restrictions this government has done exactly the wrong thing.
They do? Seem to be working hand in hand to me.
I have tried. Liberals make it up and then bug out when you post facts they cannot deny.
Every time.
Politicians so old they have dementia. Add in drug addiction, alcoholism, hypersexuality, lust for power and a sense of entitlement. Some estimates of the numbers of Congressmen and Senators who party like Steven Tyler and Cosby at 70%.
Let's see those words again.
Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. ,P. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'
Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'
Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
(Since many won’t get your reference, I’m providing it because every should read it or see the movie,,,,again.)
Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it! Is that clear?
You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today!
And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE!
Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.
That is just devastating. Really is. Devastating. How can they possibly think they are centrist or obongo is centrist?
I’m mystified. Speechless... haven’t a clue what to say to them or about them.
‘’.....And whenever any form of government becomes detructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter it or abolish it and institute new government...’’. Very important choice of words. To my way of looking at ‘’alter’’ means an election. “Abolish’’, well, to me that means a revolution.
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