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What he is describing is the reaction by the managerial class to their diminishing legitimacy as described by James Burnham in 1941. It's not "Soros" or "the media." It's all of it. The entire class of managers with their boutique moral code is becoming too incompetent to rule and people are noticing.

I think that’s part of it.

But the economic system we know is simply not sustainable and is thus very dependent on certain things not just being sustained, but expanded for the ride to continue.

Things like war.
Things like our IC operating in ways Americans don’t like to know or think about to soak up the tsunami of dollars we’ve printed in the last decade.

Anyone not yet willing to internalize that just the interest owed on our existing debt is not supportable within the next decade hasn’t yet processed the realities of what we face in the near term future and that’s assuming BRICS doesn’t abandon the dollar.

Trump could be elected, the swamp drained and regs lifted from industry.

Doesn’t matter. We’ve already borrowed far too much and have far too many unfunded commitments to balance our budget through increasing domestic output.

A reset is coming, it’s a question of what that entails and who is driving the ship when it happens.

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Posted by WhiskeyThrottle

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Posted on 2/8/24 at 12:45 pm to tide06

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Trump could be elected, the swamp drained and regs lifted from industry.

There is a lot of criticism of Trump mostly from the Desantis superfans. It's unrealistic for one man, one person, or even one term of the house and senate and presidency to unravel the web of crap that the swamp has created. Politicians ALL say unrealistic things to get elected. But not one of them accomplish even a fraction of their "first day" promises.

Also, I believe there is a concept of entropy in physics/science and the definition I'm referencing is:

lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

My opinion is that liberals represent the gradual decline in our country (entropy). Once the decline has began, it is overwhelmingly and increasingly difficult to get back to a moral and prosperous place as far as politics are concerned. More originally conservative politicians adopt liberal stances than liberals adopt conservative opinions with money at the root of those adaptations. The founding fathers laid the groundwork for what they thought would be successful long term for America, but clearly the one item they didn't get particularly right in terms of the constitution is limiting how the public servants in this country can make money, or under which terms they can accept it. Either that, or it's gotten so bastardized it is far from their original intent. All of this to say, I believe that all we need in this country, is some very harsh income limiting laws for politicians, and the rest will eventually sort itself out. Term limits would also solve for a lot of issues, but I believe money would net more results than term limits.

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