In case you missed any of this week’s articles, here is a round-up of some of the most read pieces written by the Economic Collapse News staff:
PENCE EFFECT: New Wall Street rule is to avoid women
Ron Paul: Trump’s foreign policy insanity – doing the same thing and expecting different results
$21 TRILLION: Math is, like, totally hard for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
‘TARIFF MAN’: Trump tweets support of tariffs if US-China trade truce fails
WATCH: Elizabeth Warren bashes former Soviet states for adopting private property rights
Will 2019 Bring a Free and Fair Gold & Silver Market?
Uh, Trump? Dow Jones wipes out 2018 gains
Trump on looming U.S. debt crisis: ‘Yeah, but I won’t be here’
LOL: CNN claims Obama had no scandals – here’s a brief list
Random Friday: November jobs, yield-curve inversion, Jennifer Rubin
The USA is a bankrupt warmongering police state today.
There are many reasons why Americans are not resisting tyranny.
Part of the reason Americans are not resisting now is that they are defeated, degraded, divided, and distracted. Why go out and risk getting arrested and killed fighting tyranny when they have weed, sex, beer, food stamps, A/C, TV, and bread and circuses? Young people don’t care about freedom because they think living in a police state is normal and old people don’t care because they will be dead soon. Only middle-aged people who know what freedom was like and might be still alive for another 30-40 years seem to care.
Instead of waking up and resisting, Americans seem to have given up by embracing drugs, alcohol, sex, and suicide.
Another reason Americans are accepting tyranny is because they do not realize that the US used to be a free country. How can Americans stand up for freedom when they do not know what the Bill of Rights is? Americans don’t know that tyranny killed millions of people in Nazi Germany, the USSR, and Cambodia.
Americans feel that tyranny only affects other people and freedom only benefits others.
Americans believe the police state has no downsides and do not realize decrees have unintended consequences. Americans scream that they need the government to have regulations to force airlines to provide large seats and neck massages, but they do not know that regulations raise prices and kill jobs.
Americans are completely ignorant about the slippery slope dangers of rising tyranny. No one cares if saggy pants are illegal, leaf blowers are against the law, cows are illegal, teen driving is illegal, or smoking is illegal. The problem is what happens when your job is banned, the government steals your house, tortures your family, or sends you to the concentration camps.
Americans think curfews, gun bans, NSA wiretapping, checkpoints, forfeiture, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, torture, kill lists, no fly lists, searches without warrants, private prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, NDAA, IMBRA, FBAR, FATCA, TSA groping, secret FISA courts, and Jade Helm only apply to blacks, illegal immigrants, Jews, and Muslims.
The US is collapsing today because Americans are lazy and dependent cowards. Americans may think deep down inside that immorality, debt, endless wars, and tyranny are wrong, but there are perverse incentives that encourage people to remain silent. Anyone who is quiet and compliant is rewarded with food stamps, a campaign donation, a paycheck, or a sale. Anyone who questions the status quo is called a racist, nutjob, gets an IRS audit, is arrested, or killed. No one became a billionaire by promoting liberty.
The Gestapo, TSA agents, government workers, and welfare bums are not going to stand up to fight for freedom because they have a vested interest in supporting tyranny.
Clean-cut, moral Americans who were taught to hate Communism, be hard-working, be responsible, respect free speech, support religious freedom, defend gun rights, oppose warrantless searches, seizures, and torture must be in a state of shock to watch the USA become Socialist and not regret speaking up earlier. How could Americans go to the same schools and have such different beliefs?
Disgusting.
The US deserves everything coming to it.