By: Joe Buff

Joe Buff — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:30:57 +0000

Personally I have to agree with Steve’s take on the state of American politics. Politicians pander to get votes, promising whatever their PR advisors say will grab headlines and heartstrings — then once elected (if they win) they will quickly diverge from their promises. Most citizens, let alone leading politicos, are rather illiterate about economics, if not innumerate in general. Short-term thinking predominates, as does oversimplification and polarization. In my 50 years as an adult in the Good Ole US of A, I have seen anti-inflation price controls than badly backfired, and huge subsidies that got drained by waste, ineptitude, and downright theft/corruption. If America cannot defend its free way of life against the Axis of Totalitarianism, there is simply no real point in building loads more schools and hospitals — look what Russia did to those in Syria & Ukraine, and what Hamas forced to happen in Gaza. Effective deterrence strength, in real life as opposed to media/political talk-talk, requires overall economic strength. If we don’t get our balancing act together soon, we may well this go-round (Cold War II) go the way the Soviet Union did in Cold War I. Steve is absolutely right: There is NO guarantee that the United States, as we knew it before this mega-divisive/delusional POTUS election, will even continue to exist in ANY sort of democratic form.

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