Yes, it's the perfect template of a typical Western of the era, except that the Bad Guy is conspicuously named "Liberty" and he's killed by the future-Senator Good Guy because Liberty perpetrates gun violence everywhere he goes.
Great post. I think your scenario is very possible, /u/Vapourface.
We all know Trump spent significant time and effort telling Americans about alternatives to the jabs (and got slandered and cancelled for his efforts), said repeatedly that jabs should never be required, and only got Warp Speed going because the jabs were coming no matter what he did but the Cabal's plan was for a devastating multi-year lockdown FIRST, until the jabs were "ready".
It's actually been more than two attempts on Trump's life, and for that matter Trump and JFK (and surely Lincoln and Jackson) made many enemies (much of the "intelligence community", the Deep State, the War Industry, the millions of propaganda victims the MSM has convinced that Trump is a combination of Hitler and Satan, etc) who may have participated in one or more of the assassination attempts.
But yes: the Money Power is the prime suspect and one simply does NOT oppose them without drawing their wrath. Your life -- a billion lives, literally -- mean nothing to them compared to their endless river of money.
Compared to humans, dogs and cats are all feeling and emotion and not much intellectualizing. Dogs (and cats) help open us up to our own feelings and bring our love to the foreground. There is too-little love in the lives of most people -- probably more true of Woke lefties than of well-grounded MAGA types -- so that effect makes us feel strongly bonded to our pets.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of Dogs Never Lie About Love and other books, says that "love is the master emotion of dogs." Any pet owner can FEEL that reality (unless they're seriously closed off to it) and since love is a core need for humans -- see Jesus' words on Love in John: 13:34 - 13:35 -- our dogs (or cats) become far more important to us than many non-pet-owners might think.
The emotional punch of this "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" thing is huge and I suspect the effects will continue to grow. It's a crowbar into the healthy (but often buried or stunted) emotions of millions.
Interesting observations.
I fully agree: deregulation of schooling and industries is necessary, at least if we're talking government "regulation", which always devolves into corrupt control, paid for and orchestrated by the highest bidder or largest bully.
Regulation belongs (and only works well) in the private sector, as with the original Underwriter Labs (now UL) and the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association), both formed in the late 1800s.
Love it, /uPowderRoomPolitics!
Abolitionism, Voluntaryism, call it what you will -- a CIVIL SOCIETY is not and CAN NOT be based on violence and coercion.
The relatively small ember (compared to other nations) of coercion that the Constitution embedded in America grew into the forest fire of tyranny we are now living with.
Here's hoping we can eliminate that ember as we go forward.
Another resource for those concerned that actual FREEDOM isn't practical:
The Market for Liberty (free download) or buy from Amazon.
This is because the states run the elections including the races for President of the United States
No, it's more than that. It's specifically, in so many words, to "guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government . . ."
I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me (and the Constitution) that the Federal government is required to "guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government" or not. Yes, A4S4 DOES mean that the national (Federal) government has the duty to assure election integrity throughout the country (without which "a Republican form of government" is impossible) just as it has the duty to protect every State from invasion -- which, of course, the Feds are ALSO not doing.
Are you saying that those duties can NOT be "lawfully delegatable to a National gov’t"?
Probably true, although as a future-loving science nerd since childhood (along with many others), I can affirm that "building a prison for ourselves" was never part of OUR agenda. But the electronic-communication-everywhere, microchip-in-every-box, GMO, nano-pharma, etc reality of modern society DOES lend itself to a new kind of prison.
Here's an interesting look at psychopathy from a scientist who IS psychopathic, despite being a seemingly-normal and productive member of society and with a wife and children.
He credits his good (or less bad) behavior to having loving parents and exposure to Libertarian ideas, which emphasize respecting the rights of others.
Despite his relative normalcy, I must say I felt chilled by his personality after reading the book.
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain Kindle Edition by James H. Fallon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,267 ratings 3.5 on Goodreads 5,523 ratings
From the Amazon page:
“Compelling, essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy.” — M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath
For his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he’d been raised in a loving family, married his high school sweetheart, and had three kids and lots of friends. Then he learned a shocking truth that would not only disrupt his personal and professional life, but would lead him to question the very nature of his own identity.
While researching serial killers, he uncovered a pattern in their brain scans that helped explain their cold and violent behavior. Astonishingly, his own scan matched that pattern. And a few months later he learned that he was descended from a long line of murderers. Fallon set out to reconcile the truth about his own brain with everything he knew as a scientist about the mind, behavior, and personality.
That's an interesting point of view, and I certainly agree that the relentless push towards soul-crushing careers is something that needs to go.
Work itself, on the other hand, is necessary for any society to function. Nothing makes it to the market without work; medical services (real ones) don't appear out of thin air, and so on. Your house doesn't get built without SOMEONE doing a LOT of work.
Work doesn't need to include regimentation or blinders or abdication of family duties, and while it sometimes means long hours it doesn't have to, depending on one's career path.
Yes, Elon is absolutely top-tier as an influencer, but the only reason for that (as you point out) is that he first became an icon AS a builder of amazing things. "Being an influencer" was never never his goal (and certainly not his primary goal, or so I believe) -- getting humans to Mars, replacing fossil-fuel vehicles with EVs, bypassing the costly credit-card companies, etc seem to be the type of goals he's always had.
Today's kids want skip all that -- all the hard work building something that benefits mankind -- and to straight to the Big Money just telling others what kind of clothes to buy or whatever.
Treatment of children is the key to EVERYTHING important.
EDIT: How does one build strong children? Not by offending them or being harsh with them; children grow strong when given freedom (as every living thing wants, by definition) within the framework of respecting the rights of others.
Matthew: 18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mark: 10:13: And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
10:14: But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
10:15: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
I actually SAW the movie in the 60's and have the song on my iPhone, and have to say that since the beginning I felt the name "Liberty" for the bad guy was a toe in the door, propaganda-wise. But that's just me.