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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill.
We are seeing that illustrated with the transition from the Biden to Trump administrations. The Democrats are all-in on socialism, as we have seen the last four years. It was a philosophy of failure. Degrowth and limitation were its hallmarks. They preached envy, setting one group against another, depending on ignorance of history to sell their poisonous message. It seemed to them that inflation and disorder were features not bugs. They made everyone - except the privileged elite, to which their leaders belonged - miserable.
Yet in less than a month, it seemed everything had changed. Optimism has swept the country. The majority of this county showed they want growth, not stagnation; excellence, not equity; achievement, not idleness; and victory, not defeat. We believe energy prices will come down because its production will not be hindered. We believe bureaucratic and regulatory obstacles to business activities will be reduced or eliminated. We now dare hope that the federal government may even shrink in size.
Things now seem possible that were previously unthinkable. Where we spent the last four years seeing the return to the Moon recede like the horizon, it now seems possible we may shoot beyond that over the next four years to reach Mars. This, due to Starship and American private enterprise.
The most remarkable part of all of this? Not that this will be accomplished by the Federal government and the Trump Administration. That it will be accomplished because the Federal government simply gets out of the way, stops being a roadblock, and lets the American people achieve the greatness they are capable of.
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Its amazing that even before Trump is in office, things seem to be turning around. Perhaps if the normals had just been willing to say "NO!" earlier, we could have been spared some of what we have endured. Like Theoden of Tolkein's story, we have been listening to Wormtongue too long.
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Agree, agree. The few times I said "no" to ridiculous mandates during the Biden Administration, I spared myself a lot of grief to very little pain for saying no.
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Something we need to recognize is that the enormous advancements and the effects on living conditions large numbers of individuals in modern societies have experienced has an effect on day-to-day perceptions within the society as a whole. Two generations, Millennials and Gen Z, have had almost no experience of difficult financial times where a direct link to the political leadership could be made until the last four years. Actually, there have been a couple of bad spots previously but the big government/big corporate complex was able to keep the effects hidden with increased government intervention. The Boomers and Gen X had the 1970s and earlier generations had the Great Depression and WWII as good tastes of economic reality. The really sad and inexcusable part of this is the fact that these later generations were not even publicly taught about these difficult financial periods so they have almost no knowledge of bad times, the causes and the remedies.
2020 was an election when the voters got what they asked for good and hard.
We need to work on how to make sure this does not recur.
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I should have also added "education, not indoctrination" to my list of what people wanted.
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i.e., by borrowing from future generations.
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