I watched a movie in the early 80s that showed how America became a totalitarian government in the 2000s. They slowing convinced people that they needed more and more and more assistance from the government. More and more, the people welcome government intervention. It did not take that long for total control of gov over the people became the norm. We are way tooooooooo close to that reality coming to pass.
Americans really need to wake up and see what they are doing. They want everything, and what they don’t have they want government to provide it. That’s how it starts. Then they start demanding government give them what they want and elect anyone who says what they want. Slowly but surely, government becomes less democracy and more of something else. Whatever that something else is, we will find out according to our demands and acceptance.
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it may seem that we are getting what we want, but in reality the government is branding what we want and making us want it. when it comes time to vote, we will side with the mobsters handing out christmas turkeys on the corner. we are slaves.
You are so right, I totally agree with you.
Markets often get blamed for conveying a reality that was not created by the market. … Markets were also blamed for the Great Depression of the 1930s and New Deal politicians were credited with getting us out of it. But increasing numbers of economists and historians have concluded that it was government intervention which prolonged the Great Depression beyond that of other depressions where the government did nothing. The stock market crash of 1987 was at least as big as the stock market crash in 1929. But, instead of being followed by a Great Depression, the 1987 crash was followed by 20 years of economic growth, with low inflation and low unemployment. The Reagan administration did nothing in 1987, despite outrage in the media at the government’s failure to live up to its responsibility, as seen in liberal quarters. But nothing was apparently what needed to be done, so that markets could adjust. The last thing politicians can do in an election year is nothing. So we can look for all sorts of ‘solutions’ by politicians of both parties. Like most political solutions, these are likely to make matters worse.” —Thomas Sowell