Indeed. “The powers that put them there” is the aggregated consent of those who believe that being ruled by idiots is preferable to taking responsibility for their own lives.
The desire to have someone else take on the burden of responsibility is evidently so deeply entrenched that We The People are willing to suffer the most egregious levels of corruption, theft, and violation of the rights our rulers purport to protect.
That’s what pegs the irony meter. The clowns in charge retain their stranglehold on legitimized control of our lives because “the powers that put them there” have willingly surrendered their power. The price of freedom is personal responsibility. That is precisely the price that the populace is unwilling to pay.
It is impossible to solve a problem that has not been clearly defined. The principal obstacle to definition of the problem is always unquestioned assumptions.
The entire framework that accepts the political state as a substitute for true self-government is success-proof. Political unity is antithetical to individual freedom, and must ultimately destroy the individual.
The only unity that has real durable power—without any need to resort to the self-destructive artifice of legalized coercion—is shared economic purpose. Integrated, coherent economic purpose is so powerful that it eliminates any need to put any clowns-in-charge on the throne in the first place.
Until We The People mature beyond the infantile addiction to a system based on legalized coercion, nothing will fundamentally change. We will continue to believe in the fallacy that there is anything like coherent purpose in “the powers that put them there”, and the outcome will continue to be political squabbling, fractionation, division, and conflict.
I call the uniparty the Demublicrats.
DC has been doing more harm than good for decades. Maybe 5% Of Congress has any clue what's going on.
Five percent? Really? That much??
I had you down for something of a cynic.
I see now that you’re actually an optimist. 😎
OK, call me a cock-eyed optimist!
And I didn't say that there was even one of them who would stand up against the powers that put them there.
Indeed. “The powers that put them there” is the aggregated consent of those who believe that being ruled by idiots is preferable to taking responsibility for their own lives.
The desire to have someone else take on the burden of responsibility is evidently so deeply entrenched that We The People are willing to suffer the most egregious levels of corruption, theft, and violation of the rights our rulers purport to protect.
That’s what pegs the irony meter. The clowns in charge retain their stranglehold on legitimized control of our lives because “the powers that put them there” have willingly surrendered their power. The price of freedom is personal responsibility. That is precisely the price that the populace is unwilling to pay.
It is impossible to solve a problem that has not been clearly defined. The principal obstacle to definition of the problem is always unquestioned assumptions.
The entire framework that accepts the political state as a substitute for true self-government is success-proof. Political unity is antithetical to individual freedom, and must ultimately destroy the individual.
The only unity that has real durable power—without any need to resort to the self-destructive artifice of legalized coercion—is shared economic purpose. Integrated, coherent economic purpose is so powerful that it eliminates any need to put any clowns-in-charge on the throne in the first place.
Until We The People mature beyond the infantile addiction to a system based on legalized coercion, nothing will fundamentally change. We will continue to believe in the fallacy that there is anything like coherent purpose in “the powers that put them there”, and the outcome will continue to be political squabbling, fractionation, division, and conflict.