Remember when you used to watch old western movies and some crooked, scheming grifter came through in his mule-drawn wagon hawking and selling some miracle cure for everything that might ail anyone, be it mental, physical, financial, or other misfortune? And lots of the locals were falling for it?
Remember wondering, HOW? HOW the HECK could those poor souls be so naive, so ignorant as not to be able to see through the obvious BS that doesn't stand up to the slightest test of common sense? How could they not see that they were being taken to the cleaners by a scam artist???
Unfortunately, the same thing is happening to about half of this country, and much of the developed world right now, just on a hugely more gigantic scale.
The difference is that the scam game has gotten waaay more sophisticated than it was back in the western movie setting. Instead of a single con artist with his mule and wagon and slick sales pitch, it's now much of the government, almost all of the media, tech and many other large corporations, and essentially all of the major national and global institutions (we're looking at you, IRS, CDC, FBI, DOJ, EPA, UN, WEF, et. al.). They're selling globalism, multiculturalism, environmentalism (there's probably no bigger scam these days), anti-racism, and anything else that might resonate with the dupes while they simultaneously siphon the Treasury dry and amass power that can't be reclaimed. And all the while doing nothing to actually improve the situations that they are allegedly championing, most often making those situations worse.
It's so disheartening to see how many people are falling for it over and over and over again - how many still foolishly think that someone is looking out for them and working to make things better for them and their families. To see how many believe the media and politicians when they say, "Don't believe your lying eyes and ears, believe us." To see how many people hear the name of some big new scam (e.g., the Inflation Reduction Act) to take a trillion dollars of future taxpayer money and use 100 billion for something near term (and likely dubious), then the other 900 billion mysteriously disappears to corporations, cronies, and who knows where else, and the citizen on-looker just shrugs and then accepts the next identical grift. That trillion dollars amounts to tens of thousands of dollars of principal debt on each federal taxpayer (not to mention the interest debt), yet if the citizen got his $1,400 in "stimulus" check, he's generally ok with the robbery that just took place.
Yep, we're collectively too f'ing stupid, gullible, and lazy to keep our country and our freedom.
Remember wondering, HOW? HOW the HECK could those poor souls be so naive, so ignorant as not to be able to see through the obvious BS that doesn't stand up to the slightest test of common sense? How could they not see that they were being taken to the cleaners by a scam artist???
Unfortunately, the same thing is happening to about half of this country, and much of the developed world right now, just on a hugely more gigantic scale.
The difference is that the scam game has gotten waaay more sophisticated than it was back in the western movie setting. Instead of a single con artist with his mule and wagon and slick sales pitch, it's now much of the government, almost all of the media, tech and many other large corporations, and essentially all of the major national and global institutions (we're looking at you, IRS, CDC, FBI, DOJ, EPA, UN, WEF, et. al.). They're selling globalism, multiculturalism, environmentalism (there's probably no bigger scam these days), anti-racism, and anything else that might resonate with the dupes while they simultaneously siphon the Treasury dry and amass power that can't be reclaimed. And all the while doing nothing to actually improve the situations that they are allegedly championing, most often making those situations worse.
It's so disheartening to see how many people are falling for it over and over and over again - how many still foolishly think that someone is looking out for them and working to make things better for them and their families. To see how many believe the media and politicians when they say, "Don't believe your lying eyes and ears, believe us." To see how many people hear the name of some big new scam (e.g., the Inflation Reduction Act) to take a trillion dollars of future taxpayer money and use 100 billion for something near term (and likely dubious), then the other 900 billion mysteriously disappears to corporations, cronies, and who knows where else, and the citizen on-looker just shrugs and then accepts the next identical grift. That trillion dollars amounts to tens of thousands of dollars of principal debt on each federal taxpayer (not to mention the interest debt), yet if the citizen got his $1,400 in "stimulus" check, he's generally ok with the robbery that just took place.
Yep, we're collectively too f'ing stupid, gullible, and lazy to keep our country and our freedom.
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