I intend to write more of them as time goes on, to generate original content for this site.
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Excellent analysis, as usual. The left has been softening up our population for 100 years, and they have successfully disrupted our country to the point of total failure.
"Cats are genetically wired to behave in ways that humans see as insane."
Which is why they're way-cool to have around.
"The financial systems of most of Europe are in near-collapse and the only thing that might have saved them from ruin was fiscal responsibility. Yet the people voted against it....The Europeans....threw off the shackles of reality, and slipped from under the yoke of truth."
The only thing that might save us is the same, which would require us to kick Obama out - but why is that still not a sure thing?
One would think that Zero's exit would be a foregone conclusion, but....
I forsee the French Revolution being re-enacted on a global scale.
I’ve said for some time now “there will be blood.” Not just in Europe but here at home (USA).
I will not be joining in the adulation for this op-piece.
There is no such thing as Europe, not in a sense as a unified economic entity. The unemployment rate in Austria is around 4%. In Spain it’s over 20%. And in Sweden it’s around 8.5%. So where is this Europe that is collapsing? Some countries have serious problems, others are doing well. They all have nationalized health care and government spending at levels far exceeding those in the US. They also have far lower crime rates and higher life expectancy and better overall health statistics. Their economic systems are diverse and so are their problems, no surprise there. I wouldn’t be so blase about calling the people of these countries “crazy”, without understanding their histories and different political and economic systems.
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And remember the words of a wise man:
“In an insane world, the sane man must appear insane.” — Spock, Stardate 4325.4
I was actually thinking about the French election earlier, and for some reason it struck me hard, in a way that didn’t happen when I read about the results yesterday.
Socialism has never worked, can never work-—all it does is ruin lives and nations. And yet people continue to choose it, over and over again. This is the definition of total madness. The French guy says he’s going to tax the rich at a 75% rate. What is that supposed to accomplish, except the same result it’s ALWAYS accomplished?
When people adopt such willful stupidity, and happily sign up for their own ruin, collapse is inevitable.
Malthus predicted that population tended to grow to the point where they outstripped the food supply, leading to famine. We've held this point off for a long while, through agricultural technology like the Green Revolution. The good news is that we've been able to substantially increase the harvest yield per acre. The bad news is that the increased yields rely upon fertilizer, pesticides, and equipment, all of which require oil, and the price of oil has been going up.
Where we are at now is a point where an increasing percentage of the world's population has an economic productivity that is below what it costs to feed them, and the ability of the West's middle class to subsidize them is at an end.
The collapse which will come when the Third World and the underclass of the West find out that the cupboard is bare, will be extremely ugly, and extremely violent.
Can I pick up a French Chateau cheap?
Please add me to your list. Right on brother!
Willing to break whichever way you want, however, I want you guys -- my first 'love' if you will -- to have my work first.
(Humble, the only reason for a ping to you is I want you to see firsthand I'm doing my level best to not be a blogpimp, but to make FR benefit first from my writing. I've been told I should go semi-pro and get into one of the name-brand conservative sites... I want to keep my work here, but I do ask I be considered a true 'editorial'......)
Hey Laz!
You forgot to mention one other thing. With the coming collapse, that will pretty much engulf every nation on Earth within a very short amount of time, there will be the rise of a Leftist, world dictator.
You can see the insanity of how the French people turned further Left with this election because they don’t want to be fiscally responsible. Think of who they’ll vote for when things get really, really tough when there is no money at all and no food on the table.
With the irrational and insane entitlement mentality of the Euro-peons they’ll vote for anyone who promises them more food and circuses and security to quell their fears of having to grow up be responsible.
Well done Laz.
When people are conditioned to vote in only their
own interests the results are not long in coming.
“Tormenting” your prey is a means of tiring it prior to the kill. It will actually make the final throes less likely to injure the predator. Violent struggle will be less likely to result in freedom or escape if one has been well worn down prior to collapse. It is neither insanity nor sadistic to defer the “kill” attack until your “prey” is exhausted. It is also practice and it is more likely to result in a win.
Conservatives and Capitalism are being hunted as we speak in this very manner.
The goal of anarchists is to wear down those who uphold higher values in the same way hyenas will bring down lions and even elephants.
Do not mistake their motivation as insanity.
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
>Ray Bradbury
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They want to self-immolate, and self-immolate they will. Since Europe is now the Euro-zone, they are like climbers on a rock face, all tied together. If only one falls, the others might be able to hold him up. But there are too many falling now. Even the not-so-bad-off countries cannot escape the contagion.
Your solution is the only one that will work; even great and responsbible leaders cannot change a population the majority of which is criminally irresponsible and immoral people. For instance, in Greece people such as rapists, pedophiles, those who expose themselves, kleptomaniacs, arsonists and a few more I can’t remember get “disability” for such “ailments”. Recently an article described a new mayor of a small Greek island found that a huge percentage of the population was receiving welfare benefits for blindness - was it 10%? Can’t remember the exact number. Turns out the vast majority were not blind at all, in fact they pelted him with eggs when he cut them off. Guess they could see well enough to throw stuff at him.
The law of karma is inexorable - aka as “as you sow, so shall you reap”. There have been vast numbers of nasty poisonous weed seeds planted, and they must grow to fruition, by nature’s law.
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