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Originally Posted by
David A. Rowe
How do you guys not get it, yet? So, we snap our fingers, and all illegal immigrants are teleported home, the borders are instantly fortified, an army of robots whose power supplies last just long enough for them to be replaced after a few years by humans fill all the labor gaps, and not one red cent leaves the coffers. No one dies. No one starves. No one loses their job or home.
What are you going to do about the federal government, which only exists as an orifice by which those with influence, money and power extricate wealth and dictate control?
It doesn't matter if you remove a piece from the board. They're breaking the rules while they invent new ones, and they're literally in all sectors of society and industry. Agriculture. Finance. Defense. Logistics. Transportation. Energy. Communication. Law. Politics.
And it isn't some hive mind or secret cabal. It's just a collective of greedy individuals dipping into each other's orbits whenever their interests align. It is tyranny and greed, same as it ever was, across every era and nation.
Until that situation is resolved, either by scattering the focus of power or by collapse, literally nothing else matters. It's rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and it does nothing for the real people who will face the very real consequences of either the continued status quo or the collapse of the system, horribly corrupt as it is, which feeds us all.
You have to build something new to replace the old, but more importantly to *displace* the old, and for each of us that starts with answering the higher calling of striving to live the virtues out, eliminating vices, and paying very close attention to the reality right in front of your face. Build up yourself, then your family and then your community. If you make it halfway there, well... congratulations. You lived well, and can die knowing you played your small part towards building a legacy that lives beyond you.