A prophet crying in the wilderness. Too late, Harvey, way, way too late.

Grim works for me.

Now that´s a post I´m very pleased to see. Welcome back, OP.

This is long but well worth reading to the end, something I usually do not do. This man is upbeat about the USA and if and when we can get rid of that moron in the WH, we will have a chance to vote for and elect. Someone who loves our country and is not a gimmee country yet but is trending that way. I so agree with that - there should be no permanent welfare - work can be found and those who don´t want work can starve.

A pity these so-called ivy league educated ´people´ can´t understand this is a Republic - and just because the libtards want a democracy so they can destroy the Republic, doesn´t make it so. As a number of these nimrods point out though, you aren´t going to dissuade libtards with soft words or a political process. It´s all about power and they have to be destroyed if the Republic is to survive.

As Rome went so goes our nation.

We wouldn´t have a crisis if we really had loyal Americans in Washington, who revere the Constitution and freedoms.

What is happening to America is what happens to democracies, representative and otherwise. The majority of the people lack the virtue and the wisdom to govern themselves responsibly. It is an old story, known only too well to the ancient Greeks. The demos disorders society, bankrupts the treasury, destroys respect for authority, undermines all forms of legitimacy, and results in chaos and anarchy that requires tyranny to control. Plato discusses this in Book VIII of Republic. Leftist oligarchy fantasies, e.g. rule by an elite, are based upon ignorance or misunderstanding of history, for the elite invariably becomes corrupt, makes a mess of things and is in turn overthrown. In a way, civilization contains its own internal contradictions and seeds of disorder. Recipients of its benefits lose or never acquire the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. They take everything that already exists for granted, as though it were inevitable and necessary and self-sustaining. This is one reason for the gnostic hatred Leftists manifest for everything that actually exists, and why they place their bets on the future, i.e. fantasy.