Like Brokor's 'Descent Into Madness' thread, I don't think I can watch this without a shot of booze first, but this guy nails it. And he even sounds like Rod Serling.
Got on an airplane in Rochester Minn in July of 1956 to go for my physical and such to join the USAF. Had some papers that the recruiter had given to me and walked out to the airplane, handed them to the pilot and got onto the plane. He was also selling tickets and the copilot was unloading mail and loading luggage. The terminal wasn't open at the time. No TSA, no ID checks, no huge infrastructure and the DC-3 had probably been a C-47 at sometime in its history. My grandad told of going to Germany about 1900 and with a letter from his senator going into the State Department building in Washington DC and talking to the Secretary of State and getting a passport in about 20 minutes. We lived in much simpler times then. The house we lived in as a kid had been built in the 1870's and had never had locks put on its doors. Now we have people stabbed at random in a train and the rest of the riders may not even call 911 and if a man is beaten nearly to death by a mob, its OK because he dissed a man and deserved a "beat down", whatever that is. We no longer even speak the same language even when it is English and many don't speak English. We have places where it is no longer really part of the USA, even though it is in the USA. Places where the mayor tells a Christian that he is not welcome to live in their Muslin community and where a member of congress states that is ok to steal if you have no money and need something. And that you have to let people commit crimes and not be punished as it was due to mental problems or a poor upbringing.
The narrator of this video nails it in that we all are actors in some weird, distorted, insane scene that we are forced to play out not knowing how it will end...but we do know, it will not end well. I must admit that the thought of a crazy brutally murdering a young woman on a subway train for no reason whatsoever scares the hell out of me. Furthermore, it tells me that things are getting worse, not better. I will add this... This does not seem to be happening worldwide, at least, not to the extent it is happening in the Western nations. So, if that is true, then perhaps we can change it by recognizing it...if they allow us to do so. The question is if we have the faith in God and the moral fiber to do so.
The conundrum is, one can get depressed keeping up with the insanity happening all around us and wish we never knew what's going on, except that we need to know what's going on to keep our heads above water. I think back on what I thought were happier times however times have always been hard because we tend to forget them. Due to the internet and news we are more informed than our parents, but worldwide tragedy has always been going on and we lived in blind ignorance for the most part. Hiding in the woods sounds romantic until you are informed that agenda 21 determines that no one will be living in the woods when they are done. Drones are being made by the millions replacing ground troops some with AI . Horror movies are coming to life.,
@arleigh You have a good point. We tend to remember the good times and tend to forget about the bad, or at least, we tend to forget how bad it really was. This week I had my first real run in with an AI. I was stunned as I couldn't tell it wasn't human for about the first 2 minutes! Quite the shock. BTW the AI name was Joy...
As much as I reminisce about the early 80’s while in high school. I was simply a teenager that did not have to work as the primary bread winner, that was my parents job. Now that I am much older, now I know why they were always complaining about how bad the inflation was back then, 14.8% in March of 1980. The drastic rate increases that Fed chairman Paul Volker employed to fight that era of high inflation hit a high of 21.5% in 1981, and to think we are bitching about the rates at 4.5% rate today. Those rates caused the double dip recessions of 80’-81’ Those extreme rates also brought that 14.8% inflation down to well under 3% by 1983. Doing so today would simply crash our economy today due to the near $60 trillion dollar national debt and the massive use of credit today by the average American household. Now then, crime was not as bad nor as brutal as it is today, but when you look at how different the Justice system treats all crime today is much different than the early 80’s. Back then, even the most liberal judges and DA’s back then were much more harsh compared to today. Today’s liberal elements are not liberal, but all out Communists and Socialists that believe their implementation of Karl Marx’s dream will work. You simply cannot change how you stick your wet finger into a live light socket. It will take some drastic changes which I do believe will have to be done by a “States Convention” that will put this nation and the leader of the Western World back on track, but that is a whole different discussion altogether.
Most of the states are already ideologically balkanized. A good example is CA where most of the northern (where I live) and eastern counties are clearly not liberal.. Look at the country.... and one can see it pretty clearly I think this is a pretty good indicator what the aftermath will look like...
I could never understand this also...it goes against how I perceive the Lefties to be, which is not a good thing and one that I intend to correct. They are the enemy and should not be underestimated in any regard.
We too often think of them as stupid, which many of the rank&file are. But the leaders and their flunkies are cunning and conniving. When they are quiet, they are plotting. And they've proven many times they are willing to go to any length, criminally included, to get their way. We must remain vigilant.
It is, perhaps...but the problem is the whole damn State only has two major population centers. It's literally 96 percent wilderness. (Petersburg, Juneau area and the Fairbanks, Anchorage area.)
Yeah great info @Steverino. I remember back in the early '90s I moved to Northern Nevada after losing my job in southeastern Arizona. Went to work in a radio repair shop in a gold mining operation there. Got on the subject of lib vs conservative with my boss and we were both pretty conservative, as was the town of Elko, NV. I really liked the place but I just couldn't get used to the cold weather. Anyway, we got on the discussion as to whether Nevada was conservative or liberal and he explained that Vegas had a lot of power and it was basically a bunch of Southern California transplants. He claimed that some in the immediate area were talking that southern Nevada should be joined in statehood with southern California because they were ideologically similar, and that northern Nevada and northern California should also become a state for the same reason. Since then (1993) the idea of Greater Idaho was launched, with some in eastern Oregon wanting to join up with Idaho. None of it will probably never happen, unfortunately, because it would be extremely complicated to pull off. But it just goes to show that even over 30 years ago, there was quite the ideological split between southern and northern California. Feel badly for those who live there, having to put up with living under the idiotic laws generated in the southern part of the state. But they can always move, or find ways to skirt them without getting caught.
