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re: Despite Everything You Think You Know, America Is on the Right Track
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:39 pm to 4cubbies
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:39 pm to 4cubbies
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We’re inundated with deviance and corruption. It doesn’t feel like we’re on the right track.
Go look at the tents along the streets of major cities. Its not just LA, its everywhere.
As things crash, people will try desperately to protect what's theirs, that's when it will really get ugly.
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Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:40 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I think the larger message of the piece can be summed up with this
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Societies don’t decline when they are in the midst of disruption and mess; they decline when they lose energy. And creative energy is one thing America has in abundance.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:42 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Go look at the tents along the streets of major cities. Its not just LA, its everywhere.
I live in a city and see this. My son recently asked me why so many people go camping under the interstate.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:42 pm to 4cubbies
Like "prison gerrymandering" 
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:42 pm to 4cubbies
quote:The entire article is pure lies and propaganda.
The American right, for instance, finds itself in a state of perpetual apocalyptic alarm these days. Streeter observes that it’s not the poorer members of the conservative coalition who are pessimistic; it’s the affluent white Republicans who watch Tucker Carlson and believe the nation is on the verge of total destruction. Many of them believe that radical action, even violence, may be necessary to save it.
The American left which is now so far left they are media propagandized, and barely unrecognizable from a marxist dictator regime.
The real fear -mongers, such as the leftist mind-set of the author of this article...
Cited consistent wars and Poseidon -Russian Submarines that will cause a thousand foot tidal wave. And entice and outright goad full on nuclear war with their proxy war in Ukraine.
Has Congress voted for war with anyone or Russia? Isn't a proxy war against the Geneva Convention if not downright criminal & unethical?
As far as the domestic politics in the USA.
We are indeed in a cultural and spiritual war within.
The educated that watch Tucker Carlson fully realize that Biden has said that F-15s and nukes are the only way he stops his inane gas lighting.
People aren't stupid but many were indoctrinated ignorantly. Don't fall for the gaslighting that those that see the REAL danger to so called democracy are bad deplorable people.
This post was edited on 1/14/23 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:44 pm to cajunangelle
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The real fear -mongers, such as the leftist mind-set of the author of this article...
All sides of media are getting clicks by fear mongering. It’s not isolated to one party.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:45 pm to 4cubbies
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My son recently asked me why so many people go camping under the interstate.
Its really pathetic.
I know most are addicts. But our current laws regarding housing are meant to protect property values, not provide affordable homes.
When homes became investments over sacred family places, we started losing our way.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 4:52 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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When homes became investments over sacred family places, we started losing our way.
Everything is becoming so impossibly unaffordable. My house has nearly doubled in worth since we bought it only 6 years ago. It’s not even exciting because so has every other house so it’s not like we’re coming out ahead. I feel sorry for people who are trying to buy their first homes. It’s so unreasonable.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:01 pm to 4cubbies
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Everything is becoming so impossibly unaffordable
Keynesian economics created wealth in great abundance, but made inflation the anchor for the average person.
Debt bearing economics with the ability to freely spend has created an uber wealthy upper 30%. Its the rest that suffer as wages fall below inflation.
Its so bad right now because there are so few options left. We've kicked the can down the road for a hundred years. If a couple of things happen, which did 14 years ago, there may be no real recovery.
Government spending has to decrease, money is going to have to come out of the system. There's no other way.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:01 pm to 4cubbies
Another one of our uneducated teachers in America folks
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:For most families, real estate appreciation and leveraged investment has been a historic boon dating back to the 1940's
When homes became investments over sacred family places
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:06 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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If a couple of things happen, which did 14 years ago,
What happened 14 years ago? The last recession?
This post was edited on 1/14/23 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:09 pm to 4cubbies
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Despite Everything You Think You Know, America Is on the Right Track
quote:So why post America is on the right track and the bad things are because of educated deplorables that watch Tucker Carlson?
I feel for you. If you’re in Louisiana, just wait until you get homeowners insurance quotes. It’s unsustainable. Everything is getting so expensive.
We’re inundated with deviance and corruption. It doesn’t feel like we’re on the right track.
We can all agree fairly reasonably all of DC is broken beyond repair. So why blame the Tucker Carlson watching people?
We aren't on the right track and everything is unsustainable because Biden & Obama are complete marxists that want the great reset. Biden is repeating the green new deal insanity of Obama's Solyndra 2.0 on roids.
Look up the green new deal policies failing already in the U.K. & Germany. Yet Biden did it anyway.
The author of the article has rainbow glasses on. Here is a kind hint: When any author no matter what their political bent is, cites The Brookings Institiute. Houston we have a problem. Stop reading.
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This growth has a healing effect. During the misery years of deindustrialization, factories closed, especially across the Midwest. Towns and cities were decimated, but many of those places have since recovered: Strain writes, citing a 2018 Brookings Institution report, that 62 percent of the most affected counties successfully transitioned to new industries; a further 22 percent of those counties had strong economic performance over the previous two decades while maintaining their old manufacturing sectors.
We seem to be in the middle of a surge in manufacturing employment.
This post was edited on 1/14/23 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:11 pm to 4cubbies
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What happened 14 years ago? The last recession?
Yes.
Or even Coronavirus type shite. All it does is ramp up inflation.
This book is pretty enlightening regarding the trend we're seeing.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:13 pm to cajunangelle
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So why post America is on the right track and the bad things are because of educated deplorables that watch Tucker Carlson?
I posted an article on a discussion board. The title of the post is the title of the article. It was not editorialized by me.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:14 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Or even Coronavirus type shite. All it does is ramp up inflation.
What can be done about it? Kinda seems like we’re on a runaway train at this point.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:19 pm to 4cubbies
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Kinda seems like we’re on a runaway train at this point.
My guess is a major war.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:19 pm to 4cubbies
quote:Then Tyler Cowen is an idiot too.
The economist Tyler Cowen suggests a thought experiment to illustrate this point.
Take out a piece of paper. In one column, list all of the major problems this country faces—inequality, political polarization, social distrust, climate change, and so on. In another column, write seven words: “America has more talent than ever before.”
Cowen’s point is that column B is more important than column A. Societies don’t decline when they are in the midst of disruption and mess; they decline when they lose energy. And creative energy is one thing America has in abundance.
And he frames the bottom line truth of that idiocy - that his "problems list" is composed of actual problems rather than extreme leftist nonsense repeating talking points he was told - and the truth of leftist idiocy.
AND one mans creative energy is another mans pointless activism and nonsense about leftist tendencies to violence; and how their stupidity controls them.
This post was edited on 1/14/23 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 1/14/23 at 5:22 pm to JJJimmyJimJames
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And he frames the bottom line truth of that idiocy - that his "problems list" is composed of actual problems rather than extreme leftist nonsense repeating talking points he was told.
Right. If I had to list America’s major problems it would be inflation, wage stagnation, student loan debt saddling generations of Americans, etc.
Posted on 1/14/23 at 6:54 pm to 4cubbies
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Despite Everything You Think You Know, America Is on the Right Track
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Productivity levels and living standards have increased so dramatically that it takes people less time to earn the money to buy the things they need. During the Middle Ages, an English laborer had to work 80 hours to pay for a pound of sugar.
Well, yeah. Compare anything to when the Black Plague ran rampant and it's going to come out better.
But let's take a look at some past Atlantic pieces...
How America Lots Its Mind: September 2017
Is the American Idea Doomed?: November 2017
America Is Not A Democracy: March 2018
The 3 Reasons the U.S. Health-Care System Is the Worst: June 2018
I wonder what's changed since then?
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