It seems like a week does not go by without some new news of Obama saying some form of FUCK YOU to the American people, our system, and the very idea that there should be any restrictions on his freedom of action.
In the case of SEAL Team 6, my strong suspicion is that they were set up, and that one of the Afghan commandos with them was Taliban, and that he shot off an RPG within the chopper.
We KNOW that the cleric at the funeral for our fallen sailors and airmen CURSED them: http://therightscoop.com/military-leaders-allowed-muslim-cleric-to-pray-at-funeral-for-seal-team-6-members-but-he-cursed-them-instead/
Imagine the mileage the complicit media could have got out of this if this had happened under Bush. If ANY of Obama’s dozens of atrocities against sane and honest governance had happened under Bush. They ran Alberto Gonzalez out of office–and I will remind people Hillary was one of the leaders of that charge–who had done NOTHING. Eric Holder is complicit in MURDER, hundreds of them.
And the fucking idiots in America, the some 40% of people who still support him, fail to know ANY of this. It isn’t reported to them, and they don’t seek it out. They have some vague ideas about him being black, telegenic, and promising all sorts of shiny magical things to the faithful, and that all his failures are the result of nefarious villains who just want the rich to get richer. Comic book stuff. That is where we are at.
And I think our Founders were on solid ground when they only granted the right to vote to men of property. After this requirement was ratified, our economy grew steadily, from 1789 until Jackson in the 1830’s, and we enjoyed, largely, political stability. As far as I read, there were no predations upon the populace as a whole as a result of this system. It was not abused. The rich did not get richer by passing themselves one-sided laws. Not that I have read.
Certainly, with the passage of years, one can see how this could happen, though. That was a quite extraordinary generation, and decay is in the nature of time and being human.
But the principle first stipulated by the Greeks, that democracy can only survive until people figure out they can vote themselves other people’s money, remains quite true. It has crashed Argentina and Greece (or will soon, there: they are incapable of learning; else, they would recall their own maxim), and put massive stress on most of the governments of Latin America, and much of the developing world.
They did not call it Socialism then: it was simply the greed mediocre people have for other people’s stuff. What the Socialists did was put a pseudo-scientific patina on it, and philosophical underpinning based on godlessness.
The thing about demanding other people’s money is there is no end to it. The logical end is an economic collapse, which hurts everyone, and mediocre people are simply not capable of foreseeing these things. Alternatively, they DON’T CARE because even if they poison themselves too, at least they got the bastard on the hill. Socialists rarely speak about making everyone wealthy. They speak about “tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no RICH no more.” They forget that when there are no rich no more, there are ONLY poor. Not for nothing is Socialism called the creed of resentment. There is literally NOTHING life-affirming or positive in it. Charity is necessary as a palliative, but economic health is necessary to raise all boats. Socialism serves neither.
A massive crash is obviously coming to the United States–because as a people we have been extraordinarily remiss in demanding our government act responsibly–but very few see it. It may be 5-10 years, but the longer it takes, the worse it will be. And all the news networks will track every cause but the actual one: the short-sighted stupidity of the American people, and of course their complicity in helping to hide from them the fact of their stupidity.
I continue to believe that only people who pay income taxes should be allowed to vote. You should only get a seat at the table if you have money in the game. This is fair. This is common sense.