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Society can be like an amoeba, it is the stretching of extremes that move it.

Time is the key: events usually take longer than facts imply - inevitable is not the same as immediate. It's like watching opera, the actor may have been stabbed or poisoned, but it will take a lot of singing before they can fall down. Kinda like the frog king dying in the Shreck movie, he just kept being mourned.

Socialism seems to have won, even America has nationalized banks, auto companies, insurers, and perhaps soon energy and other companies. It is getting so the government is the economy.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (don't expect accuracy) has a long range forecast suggesting the federal government will become almost 70% of GDP. Add to that state and local taxes, fees (many times bigger than taxes), and penalties already draining at least 15% of GDP. That leaves less than 15% of GDP from the productive sector, that is not a prescription for continuing prosperity.

Already there are more people getting hand outs from tax payer's pockets than there are tax payers. The ghouls are shrieking in delight.

Soon everyone will be on the handout wagon.

Then there will be no one left to pull the wagon. Socialism requires free enterprise in order to have someone to loot. Without rewarding enterprise, entrepreneurs will disappear. We political prisoners of the elite would descend to equality of results; the only winners the politically connected. America could become just one more, poor, third world despotism - ruled "for the people" of course.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

Happily; the headlines may once again be wrong. Capitalism is not dead, just a perverted economic system of corruption and regulation that socialists called capitalism.

The original independent American States had creative individuals immigrating for freedom to develop natural enterprises. Now jobs and companies are moving off-shore, and only increasingly despotic regulation, or largess financed by other people's money (tax payers and their children), retains some of the dead weight producers -- for now.

Creativity and production have been buried beneath obese taxes, fees, regulations, rules, laws, and so much more.

Perhaps the federal republic of independent United States (plural) are gone, any federalist arguments were settled with the civil war. The democracy of the United States (singular) that replaced them may be dying, as the founders warned, as all democracies have failed, -- from endemic corruption. These things take time.

A1) America as a republic - gone

A2) United States as a democracy - going

A3) Potentially a dictator in our future - "for the children," "for your safety," and "out of fairness" - as "a temporary action," - of course

Compare the Clintons, Bushes, and Obama to the founders of the balanced republic that once existed. If our current presidents and congress seem to cast long shadows it is only because the sun is setting. They are soap bubbles, shiny, but empty.



Almost all that now stand for election are preselected by party bosses. They are more interested in personal benefits and their family's futures, than they are in restoring liberty. They are ill bred puppies from organized crime puppy mills, fetchingly displayed for gullible voters. They will bite.

Change is coming, big change, possibly instantaneous change. Get ready.

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams (1722-1803)