Michigan - Saginaw County | The good thing is we have a system where we can go vent our frustrations at our elected congress critters.
Currently the majority (very small majority) of Congress critters believes we can spend our way out of debt and that we don't have a spending problem, rather those nasty rich people are not paying enough.
Lunacy tends to run in cycles and that is the current cycle in DC.
Yeah, there are those who tend to believe there will be blood in the streets. They do tend to be a bit uptight (shrug). But they are uptight over defending their family and possessions. They are never going to be out in the street trying to take from others. Yet they are the very ones the radical left are targeting. Interesting to contemplate: they demand to punish those who are the law abiding for the actions of the law breakers.
They ignore the fact that Europe which has a history that is twenty times as long as the USA, has since the end of the Middle Ages, has only had blood in the streets when ending the reign of kings and tyrants - The American Revolution, French revolution, 1918 Russian Revolution.
OTOH, the history of the collapse of socialist societies have been far more of a whimper than a bang - change the government, print new currency, and business as usual again until the next collapse.
When our government runs out of money there will be unrest when the dependent, Democrat voting, class of citizens do not get their monthly check.
The Treasury is currently raping the government employees retirement fund to pay the mob - this could get interesting - perhaps it will be the employees of the government who become restless and take to the streets rather than the inner cities, eh?
That we have a 100 million gun owners with an average of 3 guns apiece tends to dampen the enthusiasm of those who would try to overthrow our society by force.
This simple fact caused both Nazi Germany and the USSR to turn away from ideas of invading North America. Had the jews of nazi Germany been comparably armed, the history of that era would have been far different. Had the citizens of Belgium/Netherlands/France been comparably armed history would be different.
The Founding Fathers did not trust any government to have ultimate power, including the one they were forming.
They codified that mistrust in the Amendments to the Constitution. In current generations it has been the third branch of the government, the Courts, that have been taking the peoples rights from them in direct contravention of The Constitution. So while it is the Administrative and Legislative branches of the government we have been worrying about taking our freedoms, we have been totally blind to the depredations of the nine people on the high bench who believe they are above The Constitution..
It is way past time to change that. A single ten year term for Supreme Justices; and State Governors to appoint the Senators to once again level the playing field in DC.
The Founders were smart men to leave us armed.
And just as the mere existence of guns in the hands of the common citizen turned away the covetous eyes of would be Emperors of the world, so does it turn away any real thought of confiscation by the radical leftists of this society. So we are left squabbling over the number of shells in a magazine. I will take that over civil war any day. |
Hypothetical end of the nation
