This guy sounds like my wife we await the coming apocalypse...... On Oct 30, 2016 8:07 AM, "MJ" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > October 20, 2016 > > *Ronald McDonald or Lucretia Borgia?: In the Long Run, We Are all Dead *by > Fred Reed > > More fun in the Indispensable Nation: As we have all heard by now, > according to Hillary, ardent of becoming National Basilisk, half of Trump’s > supporters are evil and the other half losers, deplorables all. That is, > she holds half of Americans in contempt. Unsurprisingly she said this in > New York, which is barely America, and to a convention of sexual > curiosities. > > I frankly think her admirable. As she coughs, staggers, convulses, lies, > pilfers, sells favors and lapses into intermittent confusion, she still has > the courage to tell America that she loathes half of it. That´s candor. > > Give her credit for consistency. She is always mendacious, firmly in the > pockets of Wall Street, Israel, the Neocon hawks, and the arms industry, > never having accomplished anything on her own, always riding Bill’s > coattails, having a disastrous record as SecState, always for sale. With > her, we know what we will get. With Trump, it’s a roll of very weird dice. > > Ah, the Donald. While he unmistakably displays various presidential > qualities–he can walk up stairs by himself, and his eyes usually point in > the same direction–there is indeed a certain aleatory quality to the man. > God knows what he might do. He shoots from the hip, saying all sorts of > loopy but interesting things. Interesting if you live somewhere else. He > talks unflatteringly about the other sex near open mikes, instead of away > from them like everybody else. > > The Donald merely makes me nervous, while Hillary makes me want to take > poison. It is the difference between an acid trip and death by sinus > drainage. His truly great strength is that he is not Hillary. The election > is really a contest between placeholders for conflicting interests, for > different views of the world. Few would want either if there were another > choice. > > Hillary’s attitude toward America has for years been implicit in our > ruling class in New York. Having little in common with the rest of the > country, they speak of most of it as Flyover Land, a realm of intellectual > darkness and barbarism separating Manhattan and Hollywood. So far as I > know, this is the first time the elites have had the confidence, if not > necessarily the judgement, to say it plainly. > > Let’s not delude ourselves. America is ruled by the Five Cities, Boston, > New York, Washington, Tel Aviv, and Hollywood. The rest of us just pay > taxes. The heart of the beast is New York, the Ivies being its nursery and > Washington its storefront. > > To a practicing curmudgeon, the presidential contest is amusing but > unimportant. Hillary will win, whether she wins or not. She is just the > wave front of deep and fast-flowing currents of decay that cannot be > stopped. Trump may try, but he cannot succeed. We live in a dying culture > and, soon, a diminished country. It cannot be saved. > > Not true? Add up the bits and pieces. We laugh in horror, some of us, > primarily the older, at the decline of schooling, the courses like Batman > and the Struggle for Gender Equity. Comic, yes. Yet in aggregate these > constitute an academic and civilizational collapse both profound and > irreversible. Enstupidation does not happen in a healthy country. Who even > wants to reverse this onrushing night? Not the universities, nor the > teachers unions, nor a professoriat gone as daft as the “students,” nor the > banks battening on student loans. > > It is over. Hillary may start wars in her six months before going into a > sanatorium. Trump may build walls. But the rot will go on. Tell me why it > won’t. > > American culture now drinks deeply from the ghetto, and there is no > turning this around either. The country has achieved the dictatorship of > the sub-proletariat. Someone said that when the lower orders found that > they could vote themselves the treasury, they would. They can also vote > themselves the culture, and have. > > There is no solution. Complaining about degraded music, semi-literacy, and > barnyard taste accomplishes nothing. Soon there will be none left who > remember what has been lost. Once broken, the chain cannot be repaired. > > It is over. Putrefaction is irreversible, either by Ronald or Lucretia. > > The shift to the economic pattern of the Third World, the concentration of > wealth in the hands of a few, proceeds apace and there is nothing to do > about it. Impunity, normal in Guatemala, allows corruption to go > unpunished. Think sub-prime. Hillary is as crooked as any president in > Latin America, everyone knows it, and nothing happens to her. The > extremely rich, the famous one percent, control Wall Street, the media, > Congress, banking, the social media. The well-being of all but the rich > declines. It will go on. There is no way to change it. Who will do it? How? > > It is over. Ronald can’t stop it. Lucretia doesn’t want to. > > It goes rapidly now. Perhaps worst, because it paralyzes resolution, in a > few short decades the country has lost all cohesion, whether cultural, > racial, linguistic, or religious. In 1955, America was overwhelmingly > white, Anglophone, Christian, and European, which provided enough unity to > hold it together, and poor communications provided enough separation to > maintain peace among groups that detested each other: Massachusetts and > Alabama, West Virginia and California. > > The US, once a nation, is now a group of angry minorities in the same > place. Things that seem insane to half the country, such as making girls of > twelve years share public bathrooms with any man interested in girls of > twelve, are promoted by the other half as requisite for equality. Blacks > are in open insurrection. The borders barely exist. The government cannot > or will not enforce the laws. How can this change, other than to worsen? > > Further, America is rapidly becoming a hive of narcissistic milquetoasts > in extended adolescence, of delicates and Fauntleroys unable to care for > themselves. Those who read speak with reason of Eloi and Morlocks, but few > read. We elders read agape of the microaggressions and safe spaces, of > cry-baby co-eds who sob in fear at seeing a mouse. Snowflakes they are > called, and snowflakes they are. > > The potential consequences of this are not easily grasped by those under > fifty. The United States has been remarkably protected for decades. > America’s wars are fought in other people’s countries. Except for 9/11 the > public has never been subjected to the horrors routinely inflicted by > America in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and so on. Ever fewer Americans have > been in a schoolyard fight, baited a hook, fired a gun, or lived a week in > the woods. We are a coddled nation. > > My saying this will bring forth much squeaking and gibbering to the effect > that I am insecure and fantasizing about Marlboro Man, remembering a macho > world that never was, a latent transgender, and that I hate everybody. Only > the last comes close. > > But America is more fragile than it looks. Its people cannot feed > themselves. The economy really can collapse. If civil unrest broke the link > from farm to cities, in two weeks New Yorkers would be eating each other. > Soft white urbanites eeeeking and squealing about guns cannot defend > themselves. > It is over. Watch. Trump if elected will be more interesting, Hillary a > boring but more certain civilizational mortician, but both are chips > floating on a fetid tide. > > http://fredoneverything.org/ready-ronald-mcdonald-or- > lucretia-borgia-in-the-long-run-we-are-all-dead/ > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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