Baker’s Dozen™ Signs of American Collapse

Posted on December 16, 2012 by TPOL Nathan
  1. Increasingly military-style law enforcement at all levels: arrests and search warrants executed with violent, intimidating assaults, use of combat weapons, equipment, and tactics, and abandoning the idea of “peace officers.”
  2. The conversion of our military defense forces into a world occupation force which is also increasingly used as a method of reengineering society and as a testbed for domestic control, meaning that morality and fundamental principles of liberty are increasingly rejected as the military is increasingly politicized.
  3. Increasing gang-initiated attacks on homes, businesses and community facilities in urban areas.
  4. The continued failure of the housing industry to recover, while foreclosures and other actions continue at record levels or even increase.
  5. More and more lies about actual unemployment and underemployment levels, coupled with more and more laws, regulations, and taxes which encourage less employment and more underemployment.
  6. The ever-increasing promotion, love for, glorification, and importance of sporting and athletic events, including professional and college sports, the Olympics, and even high school sports, and similarly, the ever-greater idolization of “celebrities” including media stars, sports stars, and even politicians and their family members, filling the airwaves and internet with mindless retellings of their doings.
  7. The replacement of basic education: reading, writing, mathematics, science, reasoning, and history with propaganda; and further elimination of all moral teaching, even the most basic, in primary and secondary education, even in private and home schooling.
  8. The “anything goes” attitude towards sex and related matters found in both public and private universities, in which anything, however demeaning or degrading or even harmful, is permitted provided it is “consensual.”
  9. The ever-changing definition of “marriage” by government as something other than a man and a women: itself a product of the widespread promotion and practice of divorce and remarriage (serial polygamy) and homosexual behavior: destroying family ties and eroding the very foundation of society.
  10. The growing incidents of racial-motivated violence and attacks (mostly black on other races), even while overall crime rates are declining, increasing distrust and furthering “group” politics.
  11. The increasing surveillance and micromanagement of government at all levels of business, education (even non-“public”), and our daily lives, from black boxes in automobiles and trucks, to light bulbs and flush toilets and deodorants and prohibited ingredients in food, infantilizing more of the population.
  12. The ever-growing tens of thousands of pages of laws and regulations, costing businesses and consumers trillions of dollars (compliance costs, fees, and taxes), draining the economy dry, and preventing establishment of new businesses, creation of new jobs, and investment.
  13. The fact that millions of acres of productive land is idle and unavailable for most productive uses, thanks to government ownership, legal restrictions, and welfare programs, limiting economic development across the board while increasing government costs.
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Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.
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