Current US Military

[Smitty-48]

The reason why the center has not bothered to break out the jackboots, is that it doesn't really feel threatened at all, buncha LARPing Millennial crybabies, pepper spray is more than adequate, no need for the grape shot here.

[Martin Hash]

Capitalism is such an engine of productivity that only a tiny fraction of the population need to be on top of things to keep bread in the stores and gas in the tanks. The Politics of Envy seemed to be winning for a time, and they will continue to win skirmishes, but eventually a backlash will occur and that particular attack, the #metoo campaign for example, will be cauterized. I think even the nests of undesirables in the university system will be rooted out eventually.

Liberty Nation will end in an aristocracy, if not in name then in effect, and it will still champion and support liberty, but it will be Most-Liberty-to-Whoever-Gets-There-First rather than Most-Liberty-to-Most-People.

p.s. Since I personally made up the Most-Liberty-to-Most-People ideal, and seeing as how it got zero reception here, and I mean "0" with a big "0," it seems likely people will revel in the new Class system.

[Smitty-48]

Pampered bourgeois brats, does not a miners strike make, the Evergreen College Bolshies? Who would give them their bottles and change their diapers, if not the Empire of Liberty? Romp about in your academic playpens as you like, kiddies, it's not the real world and never will be.

[Smitty-48]

And as for the miners? They actually make good money and are proud to do the job, $62,000 to be a hardhat for America First? Nothing to strike about there.

If the Evergreen College Bolshies come out of their playpens to try to rock the boat? It will be the hardhats themselves, who will lay a beat down on them.

[Smitty-48]

I mean, the reality is, Return to Normalcy 2.0 is in the drivers seat here, the Empire of Liberty is not imperiled from within, that's just the wishful blather of Copperheads and Doughfaces conflating war weariness with a revolt.

SIFCLFs gonna SIFCLF, who knew?

SIFLCLF's gonna SIFCLF, they were SIFCLFing back in the 1920's too, but then the proverbial Collapse came, was a pain in the ass, but turned out not to be the end of the world after all, World Socialist Revolution misfire, and America First simply picked itself up, dusted itself off, and redoubled its efforts, stronger than ever from the crucible of it.

The Collapse not an end, but rather a renewal. America is a phoenix, the ashes, merely a launchpad to the stars.

[ssu]

Capitalism is such an engine of productivity that only a tiny fraction of the population need to be on top of things to keep bread in the stores and gas in the tanks. The Politics of Envy seemed to be winning for a time, and they will continue to win skirmishes, but eventually a backlash will occur and that particular attack, the #metoo campaign for example, will be cauterized. I think even the nests of undesirables in the university system will be rooted out eventually.

Liberty Nation will end in an aristocracy, if not in name then in effect, and it will still champion and support liberty, but it will be Most-Liberty-to-Whoever-Gets-There-First rather than Most-Liberty-to-Most-People.

p.s. Since I personally made up the Most-Liberty-to-Most-People ideal, and seeing as how it got zero reception here, and I mean "0" with a big "0," it seems likely people will revel in the new Class system.

The problem is that anything that is done only by a fraction of the population, that thing will not be at all understood by the population. Hence prejudices and simply falsehoods can prospers. And as there's no punishment for the voter to vote into power politicians that make detrimental politics, nothing will change. As the politicians can easily say that the reason everything got worse surely wasn't in their policies. But when enough people of the population are engaged in capitalism, there is the "common sense" among people that they understand how capitalism works. They have to understand that. It's right in their face every day. That's very crucial.

The Politics of Envy seemed to be winning for a time, and they will continue to win skirmishes, but eventually a backlash

Why? Why would there be a backlash? People can be totally illogical in their views. I don't believe a bit in the idea that you can "educate" people into being reasonable. They have to feel it in their life to believe something and make the cause-effect relationship themselves.

And the truth is that "the nest of undesirables in the university system" won't be rooted out. There isn't again any reason why the education system truly would need to produce the people with the abilities that the Private sector needs. Young people will choose what they like. And if they have a fun time studying poetry and Women's history, enjoy then that time. And the society/capitalism? You see if you don't have the talent, you just outresourced the production or service to where those people are what a Company needs. Or simply hire talented foreigners. If you can.

[Martin Hash]

No one was fighting back before.

[Smitty-48]

History rhymes, but it doesn't repeat itself, America remains the same, it all comes around again on a cycle, but that doesn't mean it comes around again in the same order, or that anything is preordained beyond America being America. Thus, just because we are at Return to Normalcy again, that doesn't mean that next up is the Dirty Thirties, doesn't work that way.

[Smitty-48]

I believe it was Marty Hash himself who once said he didn't believe in predictions of the future.

[Smitty-48]

It's like, Nine Eleven was a Remember the Maine moment which incited a Spanish-American War 2.0, but then San Juan Hill was aborted, so it off ramped into Post Vietnam Syndrome, then that has incited Return to Normalcy, so the Two America's remain the same, the themes are the same, but the sequence is not preordained.