Starting back in 2008 I realized that the problems facing the world and the US were going to be of historically significant magnitude. I realized that the problems were not the result of 1 or 2 or 5 years of mismanagement of the nation but rather of many decades. In fact, the problems actually began in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve even though few people understand the full truth of this matter. I wrote very clearly and many times to family and friends that the whole world was going to roll over and it would start with the marginal players in the Middle East and in Europe but that it would eventually reach our shores. I wrote that at times like these one could not even discount deunification of the United States and I pointed out that the #2 power in the world had already similarly deunified in the early 1990s when the USSR fell apart and became Russia and a bunch of 'stahns.
All of this writing seemed like crazy talk to many people at the time even though all I was doing was applying the lessons of history to the present situation. And while deunification is still no serious threat to the US, the people of this nation have never been more deeply divided. Wives are running over husbands for not voting, people are committing suicide because Obama won and his policies are attacking their livelihood and people are submitting petitions and talking about state secession from the United States as I have never before seen.
What all of this tells me mainly is that the herd is nervous. The problem with a nervous herd is that it begins to become unpredictable. The herd stands there when it should be walking or running away from predators and it panics when it should be ignoring the loud noise from a car backfire. Ask any cowboy what happens to people who fail to respect the nervousness of the herd. Better still, go on YouTube and watch videos from an incredible number of people who are preparing for civil war. Yes, right now it still sounds like crazy talk - the ramblings of wild eyed southern boys or warnings from combat veterans who have returned home and brought with them the only thing they were ever any good at: combat sense. And in fact, the odds still favor a nonviolent outcome to all this economic unfairness. But those odds are very unstable and even something seemingly small like a federal bail out of California or Illinois could whip the herd into a real frenzy.
Yet every day the government plods along doing the same ole, same ole. They make more laws and rules every day which apply to everyone except themselves. They are even beginning to use force of taxation and law to regulate whether or not we use tanning salons or buy large sugary soft drinks. These things sound like they might be from The Onion; some parody of life. But they are not a parody, they have become real life. We are living in a surreal world, one that few could have imagined was possible only 10 years ago.
I see a lot of people planning their "bug out" even though I really don't think they have a clue. Where, exactly do they think they will go? Some other country? Trust me, however bad it gets in the US it will be much worse in other places. Running out of the US will be, for the most part, out of the frying pan and into the fire. The solution is not to panic and run away. The solution is to band together and to decrapify this nation.
As a career software engineer and computer expert I am often called upon by people when their computers don't run as quickly as they used to. Many people in fact believe that their computers are actually "wearing out" and thus the slowness must mean it is time for a new PC. Of course, the truth is that their computers simply need to be decrapified. In the vast majority of cases, computers either work at full speed or they don't work at all. They don't slowly get tired and in fact they don't ever get tired. They simply break one day and you either replace the dead component (which brings the computer back up to the exact same performance it had when it was brand new) or you toss it in the trash and get a new one. In other words, the painful slowdown that people experience has nothing to do with the system and everything to do with the way they have been using it. Computers slow down when they are loaded down with crapware.
People just love to add more software to their systems without considering the fact that the computer only has so much processing power. If you piss all that power away doing useless background tasks and adding bloatware then there will be little horsepower remaining for the things you really want to accomplish. People need to stop and consider how their computer got like that. It generally happens bit by bit (no pun intended). Perhaps on one given day the owner installs some new software that he wants. In the process of clicking "I agree" to everything without reading anything, he also agrees to install the Ask Toolbar or the Bing or Google toolbars. I've seen more than one computer infected with ALL of these bloatware add ons. And "infected" is exactly the right word for them. They are in your face all the time and they slow the heck out of your computer making you think you might have a virus. So you then install McAfee and Norton and all other manner of cancerous crapware in order to try to speed the computer up from the previous crapware installation. By the time the user is finished the computer runs dog slow and the whole thing is so complicated that they don't have any idea of what to do about it. For $125 they could take it down to the local computer shop and have someone look at it but then they will have access to all the private data and they might not even fix the problem.
And so it is with our government. It keeps offering new services and laws and rules and restrictions and protections. We keep clicking "I agree" next to their names at the ballot box. We keep voting for more regulations and more debt. And of course we read nothing before clicking "agree". We are now at the point where a very good system - capitalism - is completely bogged down with crapware like fiat currency and fractional reserve banking, endless debt, endless war, endless nanny state, endless bail outs of the rich and too big to jail, etc. And as usual it is so complex that people are talking about throwing it all in the trash and starting from scratch instead of just decrapifying our system and restoring it to the high performance that it has always been capable of sans the wet blanket of too much government. Let me tell you: building a new system from scratch is a big job. You have to assemble all the components and then reinstall all of the software that you know you need and then migrate all of your data and you have to do all of this without falling into the same traps that made the original system unusable. Worse yet, when you don't even know what was wrong with the original system, you don't have the insight to avoid it on the new one.
As I said, I am a software engineer and a computer expert. If I sit down at your computer I can decrapify it in less than 1 hour as long as you are standing there with me telling me which programs you definitely want to keep and which ones you never use. I know what should be running in the background and what is just bloatware. I can easily double or even triple the performance of your bogged down system simply by removing crap from it and in fact there is not a single living member of my family who has not benefitted from my decrapification services on at least one occasion. The US needs decrapification services whether the people understand it or not. Unfortunately, the people do not know who the experts are even when they stare them in the face. Ron Paul is clearly the leading authority on Nation Decrapification even if few people recognize that fact. If you want to know what a real expert says we need to do to decrapify this country, please read the full transcript of Ron Paul's final address to congress which he recently gave. Ron Paul is an American hero whether the herd knows it or not.
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I'd say that in order for the Fed to come about was not the turning point, but the culmination of a process that had taken decades to end in its creation, which, indeed, set America firmly in the way to oblivion, much like other empires before it.
I'd say that America lost its rudder firstly with not freeing the slaves at the independence. The same gist was reaffirmed when America displaced entire Indian populations, or what was left of them after a genocidal campaign. As if all this wasn't enough, America then waged a war of conquest against Mexico and annexed about half of it (CA, NV, AZ, UH, TX). And, ironically, not to be outdone by other imperialistic powers, America went about the world, near and far away, to conquer lands, like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
And yet, most Americans look without for enemies, when its worst enemy is within, right in the mirror, reflected in its choices of leaders. The only leader who was pointing these sins in America's soul, Ron Paul, was mocked tirelessly and finally by 94% of the voting population, exactly because he dared to point the crap out to them, which scandalized their puerile notions about America spewed at them in schools run by the American government, so they firstly booed him and then they, a village of idiots, ignored him as if he was the village idiot.
Historically, empires have seldom died from without with a bang, but more often from within with a pathetic whimper.
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