Americans say that they hate the elites and love freedom, but then Americans turn around and embrace every idea the ruling powers are pushing.
The ruling class uses their control of the media and Hollywood to play Americans like a fiddle. The ruling class and the media have studied history well and have slowly chipped away freedom over the past 50 years. The elites can manipulate Americans to give up their freedom easily.
The elites create a problem and then offer a solution.
If the ruling class wants Americans to demand regulations, the press runs stories about how workers cannot afford rents because of low minimum wages.
When regulations kill off businesses, the media plays endless stories about why bailouts are needed.
When the 1% wants Americans to love wars, reporters write stories about how brutal a dictator is in a foreign country.
When US wars lead to refugees, the media plays sympathetic reports about why poor and pitiful refugees are just victims.
When US wars lead to terrorism, the news runs stories calling for more laws that enlarge the police state.
When the ruling powers want to lock the US down, the media runs constant stories about why the USA needs a wall.
When the ruling class want Americans to accept illegal immigrants, the media will run articles about how studies show that every white person has Asian DNA.
When the 1% wants to fill their private prisons, the press shows stories about why saggy pants or plastic bags need to be illegal.
When the police shoot unarmed Americans in the back for vaping, the media reports that the victim was just an innocent teen, grandpa, veteran, or single mother.
When the ruling class wants Americans to be immoral, the press runs stories about how homosexuality is normal.
When the ruling powers wants Americans to dependent on welfare, the press changes history and say that George Washington would have supported Obamacare.
When the 1% wants Americans to give up their guns, the media runs stories about a black person who shot someone.
When the elites wants Americans to embrace laws banning protesting, the media runs stories about protesters who broke windows.
When the ruling class wants Americans to forget history, the press runs articles calling for statues to be removed because Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.
When the ruling powers want Americans to accept police militarization, journalists report on the dangers of drugs.
When the 1% wants Americans to accept censorship, the media plays stories about racist hate speech or Russian propaganda.
When the elites want Americans to accept banning home schools, the press runs articles about dirty houses.
When the ruling class wants Americans to be distracted, the media will play stories about celebrities or sports.
If the 1% wants all men to register as sex offenders, the media will use a horrifying story about a white man who raped and killed a 7 year old girl.
All the government needs to do to get Americans to give up their guns is to use a real or staged shooting and non-stop 24/7 news coverage about the dangers of guns and play slanted stories about the success of gun laws in Australia or Japan to get Americans to register their guns this year and then use another shooting next year to convince Americans to accept gun confiscation and microchip implants.
If the elites want to make Americans give up their freedom then they take the worst case and use endless stories maximizing the dangers of a tragedy and minimizing and ignoring the arguments for liberty.
The elites ensure that nothing will ever change by saying that anyone who supports immorality, war, debt, welfare, tyranny, and illegal aliens is normal, but anyone who defends morals, peace, a balanced budget, personal responsibility, freedom, and reduced immigration is a spy, racist, junkie, retard, or nutjob.
Think.
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You almost need a degree in Collapse Science to study all the angles of collapse.
The elites want to kill off the 99% and no one cares. The US is a bankrupt warmongering police state now and Americans walk around like everything is normal.
There is no rule of law now, but Americans are so distracted, depraved, degraded, divided, immoral, and ignorant that they celebrate every abuse and praise every new decree.
Americans don't need to be forced to buy the phones and anti-depressants that enslave them.
The ruling class turned the USA into a police state 1000 ways slowly by arresting farmers for plowing fields and photographers for taking pictures and suddenly by constructing NSA wiretapping.
The elites didn't suddenly ban guns. The ruling powers took guns from criminals, the homeless, teens, the mentally ill, blacks, the elderly, sex offenders, drunks, potheads, illegal immigrants, and Muslims gradually.
When you live in an environment like this, freedom-loving patriots might think that they must leave since changing the system is difficult.
Who would patriots attack if there was a revolution? Government buildings? Who are the elites? Zuckerberg? Buffet? Bezos?
Americans scream that the border could never be closed because the USA is too big, but size didn't stop the USSR from being locked down.
How do people in North Korea and Cuba live in police states?
Americans need to be like the Japanese soldiers in WWII who escaped and lived in the jungles in the Philippines for 30 years.
The ruling class just needs to tighten the screws a little more.
Soon the US will have national ID cards, passports will be revoked, and domestic travel permits will be required.
Every American will be required to submit a DNA sample, give fingerprints, get microchip implants, and be registered in a facial scan database.
Internet filters will first be required on all computers, mobile phones will be banned, and then the Internet will be shut down.
Free speech and protests will be illegal.
Reporters will be arrested.
Government loudspeakers will be installed on street corners to broadcast propaganda.
Newspapers, magazines, and TV and radio stations will be closed.
Churches will be shut.
Books will be burned.
All guns will be required to be registered and then banned.
Wiretapping will increase.
Neighborhood watch groups will be set up, undercover police will be everywhere, and warrantless home searches will become routine.
Taxes will be raised.
Cash will be banned, there will be negative interest rates, bank fees, bail-ins, capital controls, and gold will be outlawed.
Torture and extra-judicial assassinations will become routine. Government drones and robots will patrol everywhere.
Lawyers will be arrested.
Elections will be cancelled, juries will be banned, courts will have show trials, and congress will be eliminated.
Private property will be banned.
Americans will be required to wear uniforms and attend study sessions.
Concentration camps will be opened and Americans will be starved and killed.
Since everything was illegal in the Soviet Union, Russians just gave up and the USSR collapsed.
Those who fail to learn history will be doomed to repeat it.
The US will look like North Korea does today.
Some Americans may have thought that tyranny would never come to the US because the rich, celebrities, media, politicians, and American people would resist.
Who would have thought that the rich would loot the country by getting bailouts and subsidies while being the ones conspiring and building the police state by paying actors, singers, and atheletes to distract Americans with bread and circuses, using reporters to push propaganda, real crises, and false flags, and buying off and corrupting politicians with campaign donations and cushy job promises to start wars, import refugees that weaken and divide the US, drive up the debt, make laws that enslave Americans, and throw crumbs to pacify the 99% in the form of food stamps, Obamacare, Obamaphones, and public housing?
The destruction of the USA is nearly complete.
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How did the US manage to be free for 200 years?
Maybe no one should be surprised that the whole world is a police state now.
If the rich pay off politicians with campaign donations, politicians can make any law, hire soldiers and police, give bailouts to the rich, give crumbs to the 99% in the form of Obamacare, food stamps, and Section 8, and the wealthy can brainwash the population with media propaganda while distracting the people with bread and circuses, movies, music, immorality, and sports.
Obeying the law was easy when just murder and stealing were illegal, but obeying the law is a joke now that everything is illegal and the US is no longer a democracy.
Why obey the law at all when you are legally required to buy insurance, free speech is illegal, protesting is illegal, reporters are arrested, guns are illegal, staying silent is illegal, the NSA unconstitutionally wiretaps you, the government can steal your money, you can be tortured, you can be indefinitely detained without trial, and the government can extrajudicially assassinate you?
There is no reason to stay in the US now. Every country is a police state, but in a foreign country you can say that you don't speak the language or know the law. When everything becomes illegal, the only way to live is to bribe people.
The future looks very dark.
How did the US manage to be free for 200 years?
Maybe no one should be surprised that the whole world is a police state now.
If the rich pay off politicians with campaign donations, politicians can make any law, hire soldiers and police, give bailouts to the rich, give crumbs to the 99% in the form of Obamacare, food stamps, and Section 8, and the wealthy can brainwash the population with media propaganda while distracting the people with bread and circuses, movies, music, immorality, and sports.
Obeying the law was easy when just murder and stealing were illegal, but obeying the law is a joke now that everything is illegal and the US is no longer a democracy.
Why obey the law at all when you are legally required to buy insurance, free speech is illegal, protesting is illegal, reporters are arrested, guns are illegal, staying silent is illegal, the NSA unconstitutionally wiretaps you, the government can steal your money, you can be tortured, you can be indefinitely detained without trial, and the government can extrajudicially assassinate you?
There is no reason to stay in the US now. Every country is a police state, but in a foreign country you can say that you don't speak the language or know the law. When everything becomes illegal, the only way to live is to bribe people.
The future looks very dark.
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In theory, the $22 trillion US debt could be paid off in 6 years if 100% of US tax revenues from the $4 trillion annual budget went toward the debt and Social Security was ended.
This will not happen because the elites have paid off the politicians and too many people make money from welfare and the wars.
The only end to the debt will be a a total collapse of the economy like the USSR.
No one knows, but a stock market crash could happen in the next 10 years. Social Security will be bankrupt in 2034.
Leaving now would be the best bet.
Consider moving to Chile or New Zealand.
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Why not set the minimum wage at $1000 per hour and rents at $10 per month? Free money!
Everyone knows that the USSR was such a huge success. What could go wrong?
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@dcjogger Its unsubstanable, you and I can see it.. As well as some others... The sheep can not nor do they care to so long as they can get their Mickey D' cheeseburgers and smoke a little pot before bed and heading to work in the AM.... Such is life in America today... When did we start to settle on fuckery?
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Bernie Sandersâ presidential campaign was disrupted by campaign workers demanding the same $15 per hour Sanders demands government force all employers to pay. It serves him right.
Years ago, the activist group ACORN faced the same problem. After fighting for a higher minimum wage, they tried to convince a judge they should be granted an exception when paying their own workers, since they were involved in such important and productive work.
Government telling employers what to pay people creates nasty side effects.
Five years ago, Seattle won fame by becoming the first American city to mandate a $15 per hour minimum.
âFifteen in Seattle is just a beginning. We have an entire world to win! Solidarity!â vowed City Councilmember Kshama Sawant.
New York state and many cities followed in Seattleâs footsteps.
But now the results from Seattle are in. Some people who already had jobs are being paid more. Theyâre the winnersunder the new law. But the losers are needier people â people who are looking for jobs.
After Seattle raised its minimum wage to $15, entry-level job growth stalled. Job growth continued in the rest of Washington state but not in Seattle.
The $15 minimum helped some people while hurting even poorer people.
âItâs presented by minimum wage advocates as a win-win ⦠no negatives,â says a skeptical Erin Shannon of the Washington Policy Center.
Shannon points out the negatives. For example, stores that once hired inexperienced kids and trained them, giving them valuable starter experience, stopped doing so once Seattle raised its minimum wage.
âPoliticians,â one store owner said, âhave no sense whatsoever about what it means to small businesses like us.â
Today, for companies with more than 500 workers, Seattleâs minimum wage is $16 per hour.
Itâs as if the politicians never learned about supply and demand. They think prices can be set wherever government decrees, with no consequences.
But there are many bad consequences.
Twenty-year-old Dillon Hodes understands that. Heâs a winner of the video-making contest run by my charity, Stossel in the Classroom. Hodes saw what happened to his friend when the Kroger she worked at raised its minimum wage to $12 an hour.
âShe was getting paid $12 an hour, but slowly, they started cutting her days, her hours. She was (eventually) regulated to only working on Sundays,â explains Hodes. âSheâs worth the world to me, but she wasnât worth $12 to Kroger.â
The $12 minimum wage took away her job. How much more damage will a $15 minimum do?
Esther Rhodes won our high school essay contest, pointing out that Americaâs first minimum wage laws were racist. At the time they were passed, blacks were more likely to be employed than whites. Blacks were paid less â but they had jobs.
Congressman Miles Clayton Allgood, D-Ala., then said he hoped a minimum wage law would stop âcheap colored labor in competition with white labor.â
So, explains Rhodes, although Americans now think a minimum wage was meant to help the neediest people, âit was meant for the opposite: to keep the poor and the minorities from getting jobs!â
She also understands that the law now makes it harder for her to get a job.
âIâm 14,â says Rhodes. âMy labor wouldnât be worth $15 an hour!â
All governmentâs workplace rules have nasty unintended consequences.
If only the politicians were as smart as the sitc.org kids.
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@dcjogger Death by 1000 tiny cuts...
You almost need a degree in Collapse Science to study all the angles of collapse.
The elites want to kill off the 99% and no one cares. The US is a bankrupt warmongering police state now and Americans walk around like everything is normal.
There is no rule of law now, but Americans are so distracted, depraved, degraded, divided, immoral, and ignorant that they celebrate every abuse and praise every new decree.
Americans don't need to be forced to buy the phones and anti-depressants that enslave them.
The ruling class turned the USA into a police state 1000 ways slowly by arresting farmers for plowing fields and photographers for taking pictures and suddenly by constructing NSA wiretapping.
The elites didn't suddenly ban guns. The ruling powers took guns from criminals, the homeless, teens, the mentally ill, blacks, the elderly, sex offenders, drunks, potheads, illegal immigrants, and Muslims gradually.
When you live in an environment like this, freedom-loving patriots might think that they must leave since changing the system is difficult.
Who would patriots attack if there was a revolution? Government buildings? Who are the elites? Zuckerberg? Buffet? Bezos?
Americans scream that the border could never be closed because the USA is too big, but size didn't stop the USSR from being locked down.
How do people in North Korea and Cuba live in police states?
Americans need to be like the Japanese soldiers in WWII who escaped and lived in the jungles in the Philippines for 30 years.
The ruling class just needs to tighten the screws a little more.
Soon the US will have national ID cards, passports will be revoked, and domestic travel permits will be required.
Every American will be required to submit a DNA sample, give fingerprints, get microchip implants, and be registered in a facial scan database.
Internet filters will first be required on all computers, mobile phones will be banned, and then the Internet will be shut down.
Free speech and protests will be illegal.
Reporters will be arrested.
Government loudspeakers will be installed on street corners to broadcast propaganda.
Newspapers, magazines, and TV and radio stations will be closed.
Churches will be shut.
Books will be burned.
All guns will be required to be registered and then banned.
Wiretapping will increase.
Neighborhood watch groups will be set up, undercover police will be everywhere, and warrantless home searches will become routine.
Taxes will be raised.
Cash will be banned, there will be negative interest rates, bank fees, bail-ins, capital controls, and gold will be outlawed.
Torture and extra-judicial assassinations will become routine. Government drones and robots will patrol everywhere.
Lawyers will be arrested.
Elections will be cancelled, juries will be banned, courts will have show trials, and congress will be eliminated.
Private property will be banned.
Americans will be required to wear uniforms and attend study sessions.
Concentration camps will be opened and Americans will be starved and killed.
Since everything was illegal in the Soviet Union, Russians just gave up and the USSR collapsed.
Those who fail to learn history will be doomed to repeat it.
The US will look like North Korea does today.
Some Americans may have thought that tyranny would never come to the US because the rich, celebrities, media, politicians, and American people would resist.
Who would have thought that the rich would loot the country by getting bailouts and subsidies while being the ones conspiring and building the police state by paying actors, singers, and atheletes to distract Americans with bread and circuses, using reporters to push propaganda, real crises, and false flags, and buying off and corrupting politicians with campaign donations and cushy job promises to start wars, import refugees that weaken and divide the US, drive up the debt, make laws that enslave Americans, and throw crumbs to pacify the 99% in the form of food stamps, Obamacare, Obamaphones, and public housing?
The destruction of the USA is nearly complete.
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If the rate of new laws grows every year by 10% and only 1% of Americans become Libertarians, you could say that tyranny is winning.
Looks like Americans need to up their game.
Americans don't care about freedom, but things are getting serious. Tyranny just increases constantly.
Couldn't Americans get out of their echo chambers and wake people up?
Who would have thought in 1980 that the USA would soon have nanny state laws, regulations, security cameras, license plate readers, checkpoints, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, curfews, gun bans, searches without warrants, mandatory minimums, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, IMBRA, private prison quotas, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, 3 strikes laws, kill switches, National Security Letters, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, police militarization, NSA wiretapping, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, private prisons, FOSTA, TSA groping, and Jade Helm?
Maybe Americans might be a little safer in Chile when the USA starts WWIII with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
https://ideapod.com/top-10-safest-countries-world-war-3-breaks/
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