Rejecting Institutions

[SuburbanFarmer]

I’m still comfortable with my ongoing strategy. Third Party, or Challenger (if not available).

[Smitty-48]

everything is downstream from culture, that's why its a culture war

I don't think the culture is shaped by parties nor politicians

Canada has three parties, it doesn't make any difference whatsoever, all parties are easily co-opted by the elites

[DBTrek]

The USSR collapsed.
I'm not sure what they have now.

What's the government time where the ex-KGB guy, the oligarchs, and the Russian mod become the new government and re-elect the same guy over and over. Or sometimes shuffle him between president and prime minister?

You can wait them out ... but what's on the other side?

[Smitty-48]

You can wait them out ... but what's on the other side?

entropy is the nature of the universe

assuming that things will get better is a leftist paradigm

the Hegelian myth of human progress, I don't subscribe to it

so I don't see a revival on the horizon, I don't think the heydays are coming back

what is on the other side for me is the next world to come, I'm not going to live to see the end of America

[Smitty-48]

when I look to public intellectuals who share my values

be that Tom Sowell or Niall Ferguson or Jordan Peterson, what have you

none of them have any positive news, it's all pretty bleak in terms of the Enlightenment at this point

it's like Thomas Sowell just says he is glad he is going to die soon, so he doesn't watch the catastrophes to come

[Smitty-48]

at the end of the day, it is my faith which sustains me

God has smiled on me, I have had a great life already

and I believe the universe is actually a simulation with a purpose

there is a next world to come

so when I get up in the morning, I am happy, I enjoy life, every day is a gift

[Fife]

2014 Malice:

Why I won't vote this year – or any year

State action proceeds independently of any democratic justification. The purest example of this could be seen during the 2012 Democratic Convention. Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sought to amend the party platform to include a reference to God and to acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He put the edit to the convention floor, seeking to approve the change via acclamation. Having failed to receive the outcome he sought, he asked for a revote. Then he tried again. Finally, he simply pretended that those in the audience – unanimously Democrats and democrats – had agreed with him.

George W Bush did the same thing when he sought United Nations authority to invade Iraq in 2003. Having seen that the votes were not there, he simply grounded his invasion in earlier resolutions.

A party platform is a minor matter. War – solely government’s purview – is far more serious. Yet in both cases the vote was a formality; an ex-post-facto justification for an organization to do whatever it intended to do anyway.

[DBTrek]

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/c ... oll-fraud/

Lies. Damn lies and statistics ... or biased polls.
Whatever.

[C-Mag]

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/c ... oll-fraud/

Lies. Damn lies and statistics ... or biased polls.
Whatever.

It's all engineered brother. Gotta reassure the echo chamber it was as wonderful as they thought.

[doc_loliday]

2014 Malice:

Why I won't vote this year – or any year

State action proceeds independently of any democratic justification. The purest example of this could be seen during the 2012 Democratic Convention. Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sought to amend the party platform to include a reference to God and to acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He put the edit to the convention floor, seeking to approve the change via acclamation. Having failed to receive the outcome he sought, he asked for a revote. Then he tried again. Finally, he simply pretended that those in the audience – unanimously Democrats and democrats – had agreed with him.

George W Bush did the same thing when he sought United Nations authority to invade Iraq in 2003. Having seen that the votes were not there, he simply grounded his invasion in earlier resolutions.

A party platform is a minor matter. War – solely government’s purview – is far more serious. Yet in both cases the vote was a formality; an ex-post-facto justification for an organization to do whatever it intended to do anyway.

Obama: I'm not a king.

Enact reform via executive action.