tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post801067234555230117..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The Party’s Over...?Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-28625512096971104492015-12-22T19:34:09.229-05:002015-12-22T19:34:09.229-05:00Mark Levin advocates an Article V convention of th...Mark Levin advocates an Article V convention of the states to get the fed gov back in a box. Obviously a long shot. As you will notice, all the guvmints of the EU are exactly the same progressive coalition that we now have. So it appears to be a natural evolution of progressive-ism. What used to be undercover is now above board. Perhaps by short-circuiting democratic change our leaders can begin making realistic and sane policy decisions without fear of losing power.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03688647747392318324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-66433758657548183062015-12-21T14:13:57.298-05:002015-12-21T14:13:57.298-05:00Amen as to the Dems. I had a v. liberal g/f at on...Amen as to the Dems. I had a v. liberal g/f at one point who voted for Obama AND thought that the Democrat Party is "the party of the little guy." If, at this late stage in the declining republic, that's the basis for your support of the Dems, you are just barely sentient. People who shake with fury at being stopped by a cop on the road will cheerfully hand all kinds of power to bureaucrats who are untouchable and arrogant.<br /><br />Reason isn't going to reach people so we're back to the inevitable dynamics of the laws of arithmetic. With the budget that Paul Ryan and his Democrat masters have in mind we know that there will be a massive fiscal contribution yet again to the inevitable collapse. This just can't go on.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-87911718408831584032015-12-20T20:47:03.692-05:002015-12-20T20:47:03.692-05:00"I still think the Mandate of Heaven idea wil..."I still think the Mandate of Heaven idea will come to the forefront sooner rather than later." Col. Bunny, I hope you're right, but the distrust in HRC's honesty expressed by a large minority of Democrat respondents in a recent poll juxtaposed with her continuing support (in other words, mandate) among that party's voters convinces me that DP voters are, with few exceptions, <b>completely</b> corrupted. I guess that the Mandate of Heaven will hold; barring natural disasters, the collapse will begin economically, when, for example, some financial institution somewhere "bolts", refusing to extend some critical loan or make a critical investment.daniel_dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18399665251275194585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-1475477791741754512015-12-20T13:36:54.400-05:002015-12-20T13:36:54.400-05:00By the way, if you coined the phrase "nightma...By the way, if you coined the phrase "nightmare century" that's just excellent. The "end of history" silliness seemed to envision that we've arrived at something permanent and inexpressibly wonderful. Hardly. It's more accurate that the nightmare century taught no lessons whatsoever and that it's reaching its final flowering.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-34747335893626742862015-12-20T13:32:43.828-05:002015-12-20T13:32:43.828-05:00>> Granted that there’s clarity in being rul...>> Granted that there’s clarity in being ruled by criminals who make no pretense of being anything else. However, the practical aspects of the situation differ little from more orthodox arrangements. <<<br /><br />My, we are into understatement today.<br /><br />A masterful essay, Fran. Just something that you dashed off, no doubt.<br /><br />I still think the Mandate of Heaven idea will come to the forefront sooner rather than later. I fret at the slowness with which voters waste opportunities to remedy the abuses but that's human time I'm on and maybe Apple will market a watch that keeps cosmic time. The sickness is manifesting itself in the fiscal realm most urgently. The boil has been festering for a long time and any graph of the rise in public debt adequately represents the pace and direction of catastrophe. All the vote fraud, media bullshit, crony capitalism, GOP capitulation, betrayal by immigration, the subsidies, the special privileges, minority arrogance and parasitism, and the clever constitutional fiddling will be as though it never was when the 18-wheelers don't roll in the customary numbers and pension fund and municipal bankruptcies flourish like kudzu. There will be a reset and anyone interested can look up what Solzhenitsyn said about "the pitiless crowbar of events." Slightly different context but what's not to love about what he had to say about self delusions:<br /><br />"There is, for instance, a self-deluding interpretation of the contemporary world situation. It works as a sort of a petrified armor around people's minds."Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.com