After the crumbling

After the crumbling

       The title could even have been entitled "after the bad times"

            It could even have been called "picking up the pieces"

         

What did most people expect with bunch of poorly experienced and indoctrinated "lightweight" leaders?  Most of these "leaders" I suspect had their own noble goals, but I really don't know them; though I know lying and propaganda and palace intrigues when I smell it. What astounds me is that it only took five years to become apparent to the masses. I would have predicted longer. And we (the masses) elected many of these leaders, and then they appointed even more people like themselves. That disappoints me, too.  And now I get to suffer, also. Now that really hurts. I don't want to be cold and wet and hungry, which seems like is coming to me and my Family's future because of what our present leaders are doing.

            Now having been a Marine who has gone through Marine-like experiences, I know I can survive. But that idea alone ignores all the wonderful things and political processes in the USA that has gone on in our past. Our ancestors did OK as to what we have to work with in our time. Even I like flush toilets and splinter free toilet paper, for example.

            The moral obligation for those remaining is to pick up the pieces, with charity and time and suffering of many people along the way. Now by  suffering I simply mean being cold and wet and hungry and sick, with many often dying, too . But never-the-less, we the people have to do what our leaders should have been doing all along during this already difficult time. So be it. Most importantly, the coming often miserable deaths did not have to happen.

            Some obvious examples follow.

                        1) When present leaders want to unilaterally disarm America, conventional wisdom suggests that will eventually prompt war (or surrender to like China or Iran); and even abandoning the all volunteer force idea (which has worked for 40 years), and go back to a military draft when we are in a hurry to rearm, like happened in WWII,  and will just happen again.

                        2) When we have to live on our own taxes, which are considerable, and not borrowing, then major changes will come to our lives. That idea includes practical things, like stagflation and its effects on us all.

                        3)  When our children and grandchildren can't afford a house loan because they already have to work months every year just to pay the interests on the loans the baby boomers incurred (often a code word for hippies trying to get more "free" stuff), then much friction will come, including probable defaults if we get that far in time.

                        4) When our present leaders want to change our Government in order to suit their political objectives, time tables,  and ways to rule, then much friction will ensue. Many still think the USA Constitution is a fair idea for we humans governing ourselves, including how to improve it.

                          5) Dumbing down and indoctrinating a population has consequences we now get to live.
                             

          My observations are that a century of progressivism and thought and noble ideas and vast spending are coming to an end, with all the normal ensuing frictions we observe today, and now often happening to us. Even Margaret Thatcher said something like liberalism is a wonderful idea until it runs out of other people's money. Dinosaurs don't go down easily. Some would even suggest a change in the status quo of the last century of time is already going on, with much the same resistance to change as the dinosaurs exhibited. Even I thought I had left "high school cliques" decades ago, but now I am not so sure given the present circumstances in 2013.

            Now the good news is the new world USA is still a good place to be when  going through the recovery steps and frictions, which will take time, of course. Many even suspect the arise of a new third party based on ideas to lead this change, vice some individual with money as has often happened in our past. And we, presently the people in the new world USA, are just the right people to do it, whatever "it" means. So that is more good news, in my opinion.