Posted on 11/23/2014 7:14:06 AM PST by nathanbedford
all that verbal mush is worth about 2 short sentances to say every bit of it.
It will only get better after the Mulatto Marxist is replaced with a Menopausal Marxist. (new Tagline)
The Party’s over, it’s time to call it a day. Franklin had it figured out Centuries ago, a Republic if you can keep it.
Re: Soon, Within the Lives of Most of You, the American Dream Will Slip Away.
I would change that from the future to the past tense.
Not sure who you are referring to, both Hillary! and Fauxcahontas have menopause WAY in the rear view mirror LOL.
Republicans will continue to win because most people know corrupt liars are a danger... Third world hellholes are filled with them... Saturday Night Live got a clue... The Daily Show did a piece on Gruber - trashed him. We’re winning.
Saturday Night Live Backs Conservatives Against Executive Action - -
Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_D32LVz_s
That’s different. That’s one state. I’m talking about the whole country. There’s no way I’m recanting, because what I’m saying is that the pattern that got established around the time of the Civil War will continue. That pattern is the way politics in America work, individual zones within America can and do break away from that pattern, but as a whole the pattern holds. And that pattern is why “permanent majority” talk always proves wrong, generally in just a couple of years.
I don’t like what’s happening with the culture as its turning toxic to christians. And at current rates of change will lead to persecution in two generations or so. I don’t like what’s happening with the demographics because the country is being dumbed down in a big way.
However, the economics are a different matter.
The world that we know came into existence when US oil production peaked in 1970 and the period of dam building ended and the desalination went overseas and thorium reactors were abandoned...You see the greatest generation...the generation of our fathers actually understood how to extend out their civilization economically. But I think the change in the immigration laws in 1965, the Viet Nam war and the triumph of the atheists caused a cultural civilization loss of nerve.
so in the end the greatest generation dropped the ball.
However, the world of cheap water and energy will return here in 10 years or so. It will cause a massive explosion of wealth around the world that will include the US middle class. The dollar is on the road to getting much stronger.
On energy, the fracking supply revolution is only the leading edge. What’s behind it is even more significant. This is on the demand side. Low cost natural gas is displacing number 3 & 4 heating oil in big buildings all over the northeast. Testing is underway for natural gas trains. And of course natural gas trucks and buses —especially for local delivery —are displacing gasoline and diesel all over the country. These four areas contribute fully 40% of oil demand. Chop that out of demand and oil prices tumble further down. But even that is not the end of it. Electric cars are going to happen. The big battery factory in Nevada is under construction. Electric cars at 35k will ship in 2018 or there abouts. They will cause an even greater crack heard round the world than the current high end Teslas. By 2025 volumes —not just from Tesla —but also from many other car makers will start to cut into demand for oil in a big way.
The price of oil will crater.
This will cause an explosion in wealth around the world as low oil prices did in the 1990’s.
But even this is not the end to it.
The true 21st century technologies,the ones that collapse the cost of electricity to 1/4-1/10 the current lowest cost coal will start arriving in 2025-30. The most obvious of these are the portable thorium (lftr msr)reactors that will collapse the cost of electricity.
This will lead to another great explosion of wealth.
The last big explosion happens when cheap energy combines with better industrial processes to make desalinated sea water cheap enough for agriculture so that desalinated water can be piped 1000 miles inland from any coast to feed field crops of any variety. This will turn the world’s deserts green and double the size of the habitable planet.
This will in turn create the capital base for space mining and colonization.
Look at how many freepers have fallen into the gossip trap which is the Cosby issue, diverting their anger from the lawless behavior of obamaroid and thus removing the pressure that might otherwise raise a wave for an Article V action! Diversion is the hallmark of evil's work when destroying a people.
CA doesn’t actually lead the way for the whole country very often. They like to think they do, but usually they don’t. “All of New England” is less than half the land mass and population of CA. Jersey is again just one state. On the other side there’s Texas and the Bible Belt and the Farm Belt. Certain areas run different patterns, but they generally counter balance each other. There’s a reason presidential elections are actually fought in the “swing states” and you haven’t mentioned any of them. It’s that 1/3 divide, some states are mostly conservatives, some states are mostly libs, some states are mostly mushy. The mushy states decide elections, sometimes the mush has so much momentum non-swing states flip (like when Dole lost AZ), but most of the time those states don’t move. But the country does, but the country’s change is largely a pendulum, because that mushy middle is primarily defined by being fed up. And as long as one side can be defined as being “in charge” that mushy middle will always be in the process of going the other way.
It’s like clockwork, the pattern is easy to spot. And the pattern gets more solid the closer you move to now in history. Because the closer to now you get the more the 2 party system is entrenched, and the more there’s 1 side “in charge” and 1 side the mushy middle is moving towards.
Post Menopause?
Way post, LOL
The problem from your point of view in talking about swing states is that there are ever fewer of them as more and more states move into the blue column because of demographics.
As to the idea that there is a mushy middle, roughly 1/3, which decides elections and that this has ever been so and ever will be so deserves tight scrutiny. First, you refer to our history going back to the Civil War. I reply that the Irish got off the boats during the Civil War and turned the northern coastal cities Democrat and tended to keep them that way until the next demographic wave, Jews and Italians for the most part, confirmed the Democrat hold on cities. Finally, the demographic wave of African-Americans in World War I and especially in World War II and thereafter nailed the voting booth door shut to Republicans. The lock on those northern cities has occasionally been picked but the trend is indisputable and durable. There is no mushy middle in Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, Maryland etc. These states will occasionally behave eccentrically as Maryland recently did but the pattern holds.
The idea that there will always be a cyclical movement back and forth between Republicans and Democrats has some validity by the nature of our federal system. Where you have a winner take all situation, as you do in the American elections, third parties are discouraged as one of the two parties will move to absorb a burgeoning rival. So that has tended over the centuries to keep America a two-party system as opposed to the experience in Europe with parliamentary democracies. However, a two-party system simply breaks down if the demographics compel it as it has so many times in America. We are now seeing the winner take all election statewide in many American states dominated by the cities. This is purely a demographic result. It may change but there is nothing before us to suggest that it will.
There is, however, plenty of serious data which I sent to you describing the change in the racial makeup of this country by 2050. That can be dismissed with conclusionary language, but I don't find that persuasive.
Best and most well written vanity of 2014.
I cannot judge from a technological point of view whether your predictions will prove out but certainly we agree that the changes brought about by technology, especially in the energy space but also in the digital world will be profound. I have pointed out the analogies to the sweeping changes imposed on the crofters, the tenant farmers of Ireland, the Luddites by the Industrial Revolution.
Changes of some sort of another are coming and they are coming rapidly the question for conservatives is, how do we accommodate this change in liberty? If conservatives are not in the forefront of protecting liberty, the left will exploit the changes to impose tyranny. The model against which we must work is the global warming fraud which the left uses to reshape society entirely. They will try the same when real technological change comes. They are trying to control the Internet now, for example.
I have more confidence in James Madison understanding the digital revolution and the energy revolution and their implications for liberty than I do every bureaucrat in Washington.
"I'm slowing down the tune I never liked it fast You want to get there soon I want to get there last" - SLOW lyrics
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