"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
If America Stopped Destroying The World, The Bad Guys Might Win
"America’s constant military interventionism, election interference and other nastiness are painted as Good Things done by Good Guys to fight the Bad Guys. The argument, when you boil it right down, is that if America wasn’t constantly starting wars, invading sovereign nations, staging coups, sponsoring proxy conflicts, arming terrorists, bombing civilians, torturing people, implementing starvation sanctions on impoverished populations, pointing nuclear weapons everywhere, spying on us all with a globe-spanning Orwellian surveillance network, interfering in foreign elections, and patrolling the skies with flying death robots, the Bad Guys might win. Sort of makes you wonder who the Bad Guys really are, huh?"
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I am conflicted. I want to believe in the fairy tale about America being all good that I was taught in grammar school, however, in the course of my life I have seen with my own eyes the truth of George Washington's admonition that government, like fire is a useful servant or a fearful master.
Based on what I have learned in my life, governments are gangs of murderers, thieves, spies, and thugs. It is what they do.
Welfare and "humanitarian" efforts are eyewash and vote buying via forcible taking of productive people's earnings.
I have no answer for the madness that the demoncrats and repugnants have brought to this country. God help us.