Even as I am exploring outside the US for a home away from home, and even as I expect some real hard times and hard choices are directly in front of the US, I DO have some hope for the country.
I was just reading a few other peoples' hopes on this topic and thought I would interrupt my usual programming in order to say a bit about my own perspective: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-07-28/americas-decline-reversible. http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-wrecking-crew-will-be-overcome/
It wasn't that far back in time, less than 20 years, when I felt I was pretty much alone in having major concerns about the US path. One thing which has changed massively, already, is that: I am no longer a very concerned minority, I don't think. Indeed, those who oppose the DemonRat/Globalist agenda, and idiocies like "Critical Race Theory" are quite likely a substantial majority now. What I am not so sure about, however, is how deep their understanding and their willingness to do "whatever it takes" actually goes.
It isn't necessary that the "majority" have exactly my beliefs/understanding about the origins and cures for our ailment. I am not even sure, myself, on the exact origins and cures -- although I do think I'm on the right track and have am more correct than most.
However, it IS necessary for the majority of the majority to be prepared for a long, painful fight. If they are not prepared, resolute in their determination, they will fall away as soon as times get tougher or the usual devils offer their usual faux compromises of "beads and trinket" in return for more power and fewer rights. I am not sure the critical majority of the majority is quite ready to realize just how fundamentally and cleverly they have been betrayed. What do you guys think?
Anyway, after a lot of looking around the world, I hope for humanity's sake that the US critical majority is, or quickly becomes, implacably resolved -- and carries the day. Nowhere else in the world do I see enough of the creativity and, in particular, desire for considerably MORE freedom (from government), as I still see in the US.
What do I think are the primary headwinds / barricades stopping the US from regaining its position as, legititmately, "land of the free and home of the brave"?
-Debt and desire for something for nothing remains strong. Few people WANT the US to face its challenge; too many are still hoping for an easy way out that spares them any personal pain. I don't, personally, hope for that for myself. And I don't think that is a healthy thing for the populace to hope for, either. Consider how the Founders, who were generally quite wealthy, were willing to risk EVERYTHING for the unlikely freedom from Britan, and you realize just how wimpy and unworthy of deliverance most in the US have become.
The US has been living way above its sustainable means for most of the last 50 years. How many are prepared to live BELOW their means for even the next decade or two, in order to work past the mountains of unpayable debt and government entitlements -- which cannot actually be paid?
-The Deep State MUST be absolutely GUTTED. The Deep State will not give up all it has captured without a fight to the death -- they are quite willing to kill; most of the majority of the majority wants to continue holding hands and singing Kumbaya, rather than really getting into the shambles and killing the sacred cows. Along with this, government pensions and other entitlements cannot be paid. How many are willing to take a substantial *voluntary* cut to their entitlements, in preference to continuing the con and the Deep State?
-Corporations need to be addressed. They are NOT people and they should have NO lobbying power, and certainly NO power to "donate" to politicians.
-Teaching that the US is a REPUBLIC, and NOT really a "Democracy" is pretty fundamental to public citizenship. Our schools are a disaster. Stripping federal control of US education is necessary, while requiring understanding of some basic logic and facts of history is also required.
-Peak oil is REAL. Even if it is NOT, via some twisting of definitions, true that it is implacably upon us already, it is fundamental to recognize that energy availability is the primary input to productivity and the US needs to free of energy imports as soon, and as completely, as possible. Autarky is a word...and a very important geo-political reality to grasp and keep hold of if the US is to remain a bastion of comparative freedom from elites.
There is a massive amount which can be PROFITABLY done to make the US energetically, and in terms of other critical resources, vastly more self reliant. The mid-west and west need water, and the water sources are quite likely not going to be even minimally sufficient for much longer. Aquifers are almost dry and rainfall patterns suggest strongly that the US west may be returning to desert, which is how it has been for the majority of the last 10,000 years.
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I have some other concerns, but I'm going to stop my monologue for now. I think those are the points which need to be addressed and ascertained first, in any case.
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