Lets assume that this administration and covid all get exposed for the scams they are. Lets assume we win in every possible way, crimes against humanity exposed etc. Gen. Patton was trying to warn everyone of what to do with those who had radical ideology and insisted there were still communists in the USA and they would come back stronger than ever. Well here we are. So I ask you as just someone who is curious. What do you think should be done to keep this from happening again? Do you think the normies have the intestinal fortitude to do the things necessary to keep this from happening again assuming we actually claim a victory over this tyranny.
My biggest fear is that years from now we do win this war and society goes soft on the criminals who have committed these atrocities and in a few decades we get to do this all over again.
Thoughts?
Patton was clearly right, and it's clear as day that if we don't root out the evil instead of letting most of the perps slide, we'll be right back in Hell before we ever get things really fixed.
And here's the heart of it, although this is NOT a popular idea here: COERCION is the root cause of all our troubles. Coercion IS criminal behavior, and it is also the single defining characteristic of government.
America was special (and faint echoes of that still survive) BECAUSE WE SEVERELY LIMITED GOVERNMENT COERCION.
We didn't go far enough. The ember of coercion embedded in the Constitution grew to the continent-sized wildfire we have today. Psychopaths and power-mongers will ALWAYS beaver away at legal restrictions on government power, growing the power "for our safety" or "for the people's benefit" or for whatever excuse they find that the public will accept.
We either find a way to replace all government coercion with civil institutions and civil behavior (we once had far more of both here in America) or we massively cut government as it now exists and put in place draconian penalties that cannot be avoided for those who steal, or even try stealing, our rights.
We tried limited government already; it's what brought us to where we are now. The legal penalties that supposedly protect us from tyranny have failed. You've noticed, surely.
Trump can help us bring back sanity to America (and yes, WE have to do most of the work), but that's only the start. To protect ourselves and future generations, the evil of slavery to government must be ENDED, just as chattel slavery was ended. All the arguments against ending coercive government are the same as those used against ending slavery in the South. They're all bullshit. Initiated coercion by one group against everyone else is NOT necessary for civil society, or for anything else worth having.
It can't be glossed over; it can't be faked; we can't whistle past the topic and just hope it works out. Coercive power-centers are ALWAYS captured and enlarged by psychopaths and well-meaning idiots -- tyrants, in other words. The larger the core of sanctioned initiated coercion left in place, the sooner real evil will return.
This is exactly how I feel about it. I just question if our modern society has the understanding and capacity to truly root this all out or just declare a premature victory and suffer the same consequences in years to come. Very well put response.