(03-29-2024, 10:53 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: What is sad is that we have watched this deterioration unfold. We saw what is it was, where it was headed, and were it will one day land. I may be dead when it lands on my door step, some days I hope that I am, but we all know something wicked this way comes.
I put the descent down to plain old greed. As the Bible says, "the love of money is the root of all evil". Combined with the observation of some other smart guy that "once the poor figure out they can vote themselves raises at the expense of everyone else, democracy dies and totalitarianism marches in", it's really all the explanation I need for what happened and how.
Yes, we watched it happen, but we were powerless to prevent it - "democracy" killed off our ability to thwart the evils marching towards us as our fellow citizens opened their arms to embrace it.
In the end, greed is a parasite that inevitably kills it's own hosts.
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