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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Morgan" data-source="post: 2824252" data-attributes="member: 4676"><p>Personally I've never bought into the idea that the government has a goal to intentionally strip the public of all its power and freedoms. I DO however, buy into the idea that many (certianly not all) politicians have grandiose ambitions of affluence, power, and status. You don't hear about the good ones, you hear about the bad ones. Power seeking, self aggrandizing, and usually (and unfortunately), situating themselves in a position to be made the prototypical perception. </p><p>This seems to be the case in many voluntary positions that give the person authority of some type.</p><p></p><p>I do think the loss of freedoms has been perpetuated by the government having been put in a no-win situation of being demanded to fix problems on a central level. Many people have demanded actions based on a narrow set of issues, not contemplating the ramifications it can have throughout the whole system. You see this all the time with people saying "Cut defense spending, blah, blah, blah". Yeah, on paper, it seems so simple to just quit spending that money and viola, surplus. But what about the thousands of people suddenly left jobless. What about the large corporations with military contracts that vanish. Nothing is ever as simple as the generalized America populace seems to believe..</p><p></p><p>The fear for me is that there is not enough economic prosperity anymore to smooth over and cover up the fact that we are spending massive resources to prop up many things that are not sustainable. There are large swaths of people who only see this as a narrow issue. But Donald Trump is giving them a voice, and because he is putting no more intelligent thought into it other than the grievances he knows, you see the raw disdain come out through him. And his growing acceptance only reassures it. Everyone else sees a potential destabilization of a rickety system brought out by people frustrated. Trump WILL NOT fix anything. But he might destabilize everything so much it gets fixed. But trust me, you will not like the fixing part. No one will...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Morgan, post: 2824252, member: 4676"] Personally I've never bought into the idea that the government has a goal to intentionally strip the public of all its power and freedoms. I DO however, buy into the idea that many (certianly not all) politicians have grandiose ambitions of affluence, power, and status. You don't hear about the good ones, you hear about the bad ones. Power seeking, self aggrandizing, and usually (and unfortunately), situating themselves in a position to be made the prototypical perception. This seems to be the case in many voluntary positions that give the person authority of some type. I do think the loss of freedoms has been perpetuated by the government having been put in a no-win situation of being demanded to fix problems on a central level. Many people have demanded actions based on a narrow set of issues, not contemplating the ramifications it can have throughout the whole system. You see this all the time with people saying "Cut defense spending, blah, blah, blah". Yeah, on paper, it seems so simple to just quit spending that money and viola, surplus. But what about the thousands of people suddenly left jobless. What about the large corporations with military contracts that vanish. Nothing is ever as simple as the generalized America populace seems to believe.. The fear for me is that there is not enough economic prosperity anymore to smooth over and cover up the fact that we are spending massive resources to prop up many things that are not sustainable. There are large swaths of people who only see this as a narrow issue. But Donald Trump is giving them a voice, and because he is putting no more intelligent thought into it other than the grievances he knows, you see the raw disdain come out through him. And his growing acceptance only reassures it. Everyone else sees a potential destabilization of a rickety system brought out by people frustrated. Trump WILL NOT fix anything. But he might destabilize everything so much it gets fixed. But trust me, you will not like the fixing part. No one will... [/QUOTE]
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