The Bush Years: Why You Can't Just Blame The Black Guy

THE BURNING BUSH: GB 2

“Some of the biggest men in the US and in commerce and manufacturing know that there is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when condemning it.”

-Woodrow Wilson

George W Bush:

This guy did more coke than Lenny Bruce and got away with it. This guy served in the National Guard, probably went AWOL, all while men of courage fought a fruitless war in Vietnam. This guy got a DWI, and walked away without real penalty.

What follows is a brief family tree, because it is important to know where we come from, whether we be Presidents appointed by the Supreme Court or an actual man on the street-

His family is establishment east coast. He is not a Texan in any sense. Bush's grandfather made his money trading with the Nazis among other things while working for Brown Brothers Harriman. Bush One made his money in oil, and has been implicated in Reagan's October surprise involving trading arms with Iran for holding the hostages until after the election. Bush Uno served as an ambassador to the Communist Chinese after America opened China, and the results of some of his work can be seen in your latest economic predictions projecting China's rise to economic hegemon over the United States in short order, and your latest job loss numbers in manufacturing and textiles, as well as whatever Chinese made electronic device you last used which broke as soon as you opened the package. Quality control in these factories must simply consist of checking for worker's body parts on or in the finished product. Daddy Bush also ran the CIA for about a year, helping it appear to keep its proverbial nose clean after the Church Committee Hearings. It would speculation to blame him for the involvement with Islamic Extremists in Afghanistan, though it is clear the U.S. Was supporting various factions there prior to the Soviet invasion with the goal of destabilizing the Communist Kabul government in typical cold war fashion. Some have also said that Bush 1 worked for the CIA long before running it, but like all things properly secret, this cannot be proven. GWB's father presided over the original Iraq war after building up Saddam through the 80s. This war was properly commanded, but it remains to be answered why the American diplomatic corps told Saddam that we would not interfere if he invaded Kuwait, or why a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family was paraded into Congress to spread false stories involving babies being thrown out of incubators that the small Arab state did not have. This is the family tree of the 43^rd President, and represents his pedigree. George Walker Bush was uneventful and rather normal, except that he chose Yale as his party school instead of lets say LBJ going to Southwest Texas. His fraternal choice, one picked by many in his income bracket, was a society deep in black magic, satanic iconography, and homoerotic hazing practices known as the Skull and Bones. The 'Skulls' by Anthony Sutton is a good account of its origins. If a British Scholar is too conspiratorial for you, you can try the Secrets of the Tomb. Needless to say, allegations of the future anointed president involves cocaine, and large amounts of alcohol by his own admission. His later career included running businesses into the ground by running them as well as any future federal official would and spending business funds like a sober congressman. The election in 2000 was hotly contested, with the ultimate decision going to the Supreme Court, where he was given the Presidency. It was an uneventful start of his term, as uneventful a Presidency as was his Governorship of Texas- that is until 9/11. On this day, three thousand individuals were murdered by a shadowy network of Islamic radicals who spent their time going to strip clubs, drinking and buying round trip tickets for a kamikaze mission.

Dusting off existing pentagon plans for overthrowing the Taliban, the United States military made short work of that government. The culmination of the campaign was the assault on Tora Bora. Using poorly trained militia as proxies, the escape routes were not cut off, and it was said that bin Laden slipped into Pakistan. Then something curious happened in regards to the Taliban, the so-called Airlift of Evil. In short this was a Pakistani airlift of these Taliban fighters out of Afghanistan, also known as the Kunduz airlift, saw many escape the American assault. The planes were chartered by Pakistan, and it is said, officially sanctioned by Cheney who wished for Pakistan to have its way. Musharraf, on his end, made dubious arguments regarding the act. In some diabolical deal, the populations of both nations were sold out by elected leaders who then turned about-face and in Hitler-style proceeded to destroy their respective constitutions. One could speculate that the public relations methods of both leaders were similar. Since foreign policy was the main focus of the Bush Years, more has to be said of this subject before moving on to just how Bush destroyed the American constitution as if the American people were some third world populace with a federal constabulary force occupying it.

This action in Afghanistan was wrought by problems from the beginning. A question to ask of this war would be: Is this response proportional to the deaths inflicted by terrorism?

The statistics are as follows:

1600 a year average casualties in 8 years of the Patterns of Global Terrorism study, most of these non-American, with the big mac clearly coming in first as a weapon of mass destruction ahead of Jihadis following a 7^th century 'prophet's' dictums that many in the Islamic world have chosen to no longer take literally. This against the numbers in the Lancet report, and let us accept the official numbers for civilian death in Afghanistan. This hovers at 17-21 thousand. Then factor in soldiers deaths and the dislocation that this causes for the families at home, and the psychological state of those returning from deployment from the longest war in American history with the longest stretches of continuous combat. Clearly, then, the reaction to terrorism is entirely out of bounds of proportionality, and America would do better to drop Joint Direct Attack Munitions on your food service chain than it would brown people who more often than not are in the wrong place at the wrong time. But Afghanistan was not the end. Osama, free to escape into Pakistan, had failed to launch another large attack. Iraq was next. Clearly, the intelligence failure leading to the Iraq War could be excused as complete stupidity. This conflict has been a great way for professional liars in the CIA to continue collecting government salaries, and creeps in the NSA to continue collecting the largest child pornography cache in the world at tax payer expense. A sane society would ask itself if it would be better off printing money onto toilet paper along with copies of the Constitution onto baby-wipes, and the Declaration on paper towels for use in Federal facilities; since the America Intelligence services are the best funded in the world, and are supposed to have missed both the coming of 9-11 and the Non-existence of the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. The idea that Bush lied is simplistic. However, he is a politician, so it should be assumed that when he engages in the act of speech the contents of his language will be in direct variance to objective truth at all times. The idea that it was all a big mistake, the 2^nd Big Mistake following the fact that 9/11 was not prevented, is also simplistic. But this much we know: the Bush administration paid columnists to put out false stories slanting the lead-up to the war to fit their view of what would happen. This view would cost thousands of people their lives and trillions in funds to wage the war. In hindsight, we know that Saddam was interrogated by an FBI Agent and admitted that he had to create the impression that he still had the weapons in order to deter the Iranians from coming in his country, and creating the very Shia-Crescent which now runs from Iran to Lebanon.

The invasion itself was simple and quick, with Baghdad taken in short order. The second rate third world army which had once been the 4^th Largest in the world now simply melted away, and whatever industry was left after a decade of sanctions was devastated by the near invincible air force of the U.S.

The Saddam Statue came down, it seemed in according to the near Sun Tzu like strategically sage advice given by Dick Cheney. There is a problem with this iconic symbol of victory: The toppling of the Saddam statue by members of the iraqi expat community was staged under the direction of army psychological operations. The occupation that was not supposed to be then ensued with a requisite guerrilla war. What is clear is that low intensity conflicts include a high amount of civilian deaths. This was reflected in the Lancet Report, who estimated the ultimate death toll in Iraq reaching the hundreds of thousands. Of course war is total, and one could argue that the amount of deaths in this conflict was far lower than those previously in sheer numbers if not percentage of combatant to non-combatant. But really- it is hard not to have a moral high ground when the historical antecedents are area bombing, genocide, and nuclear assaults. The fact is that these people died as a result of an invasion which was launched by the United States. The war for oil raised oil prices, and ended with foreign companies making the lion's share of profits.

But this was not the end of the wars during these years. Iran was clearly next-it stirred the pot in Iraq, funding Sadr to fight the Americans, and exporting radical clerics. This led to the next cooperation between America and Sunni Salafist Al-Qaeda elements. Not wanting to risk an all-out war, and perhaps learning from its mistakes, or perhaps under the auspices of local agents who kept their superiors in the dark for the purposes of plausible deniability, a covert War against Iran began and the funding of Al Qaeda in Khuzestan began in order to try to destabilize the Iranian province richest in oil, and the very area in which Saddam and Khomeni fought their most brutal battles.

So much for the foreign policy.

The best summary of the domestic policy of George Bush junior is this: George W Bush was a socialist. This is not surprising given the middle of the road policies of his father, and his grandfathers support for the National Socialist Workers Party even when the United States was at war with that government.

The domestic agenda of George Bush began with No Child Left Behind. This was a national mandate for education. He then passed Medicare Part D, otherwise known as the prescription drug benefit. These policies were both heavily socialistic. His faith based initiatives simple provided Federal Welfare funds to churches and expanded them. His tax cuts were well known an controversial. The battle of the death tax was framed in a way that most people assumed the tax effected the them when it only affected the super rich. But clearly, he rolled back taxes while skyrocketing the deficit.

Defecations on the Constitution became a part of the Bush Years. First, random Muslims were rounded up without due process in response to 9/11 following the PATRIOT Act. This act was already on the shelf, and had been something that the Federal Government was itching for. It was the exact type of legislation sought after Oklahoma City and was not written after the fact to respond to 9/11. The idea of 'free speech zones' became common, with the first amendment being only a variable thing rather than a natural right of free beings. Domestic spying, long practiced by-proxy through ECHELON was instead directly practiced. The 4^th Amendment was destroyed, with many erroneously pointing out there was no right laid out in the constitution for privacy, which clearly ignores the whole point of the 4^th Amendment and the existence of the 9^th Amendment. Posse Commitaus was allowed to die on the vine, and the first stirrings of a North Com were made, establishing a command for the continental US. Drones began to be used for targeted killings abroad with late implications. Homeland Security was established, along with a TSA to screen passengers at airports. No change was made to immigration policy. Lt Col Anthony Schaffer was ignored as he tried to point out that he had identified the hijackers and was providing information to his superiors regarding them before the attacks. Sibel Edmonds, who claimed to have evidence of both traitors within the government and direct links between elements in the U.S. Intelligence community with bin Laden up to 9/10 was put under indictment. No one was fired for the debacle of 6 jets scrambling to intercept the planes. Instead average Americans would be expected to pay for the mistakes via inflation of the currency through massive over-reach overseas and the destruction of their natural rights at home. But Bush, the Socialist, was not done.

The North American Union was a common name given to the plan to merge the security forces of both the United States, Mexico and Canada, three countries already joined by NAFTA in matters of trade. Now, Bush appeared to be setting up NAFTA to be the North American equivalent of the European Community which preceded the actual EU. The name of the agreement was the Security and Prosperity Partnership and would merge the three counties security apparatuses. The Law of the Sea Treaty came next: While on the surface, a good treaty supporting the environment and equal access among nations, it in fact gave the UN permit power and taxing power. It was supported by Bush and later, by Clinton and Obama. Bush favored this. The borders remained open, while Mexico rapidly descended into an undeclared civil war that would costs more lives than America lost in Vietnam. Thus the President who was said to have disregarded the international community to the chagrin of liberals and to the 'Merica chants of NASCAR fans everywhere was actually working to reduce American sovereignty and give defacto amnesty to immigrants who came to America illegally, all while posing as a reincarnation of the near mythical Reagan-Messiah figure the Republican Party pointed to for its claim to be conservative.

George Bush destroyed the Constitution via the Patriot Act. The military was committed in two countries cleaning up messes made by British map makers post Sykes-Picot in the first official chicken-hawk administration where the president was a known deserter and the VP could not even be trusted to aim a shotgun correctly. Two The economy was left on the vine to die by a fed chairman who once championed a gold standard, but promptly forgot his 'Randian Principles' at the first grasp of power. Socialism marched under the banner of the elephant, an animal of native intelligent which is surely insulted by its association with the Republican party. The Jackass still carried its burdens of centrist corporate sponsored fools who mouthed populist motifs while signing bills they never read written by the bipartisan K-Street vipers otherwise known as lobbyists. 'Wall Street Got Drunk'- such were the Bush Years, a bender from which America still struggles to kick the hangover. Despite the claims of hope and change, it was clear from early campaign speeches in 2008 that this would be a hangover that would last for a bit. On the one side was a PTSD case only nationally known because he happened to not know how to fly aircraft, and a man on the other side who was a literal unknown. It was a one party system now- not the Elephant or the Donkey- it was the time of the internationalist-militaristic-march-to the bottom party. It was the time of the new politicians, sweet in speech, acting like marionettes their part of mutual rancorous worldviews but pragmatic every day common ground. This new Republicrat party could best be symbolized by the jackal, or the parasites running in his intestines.

Texas History, Post-7th Grade

Anglos described by one Spanish official:

'Nomadic like Arabs....distinguished only from savages in their color, language and cunning'

New Spain had a five million population with half being Indians. Interesting fact for someone claiming a low number for the native inhabitants of North America.

The Texas Revolution

There was not much that was done in Texas that was revolutionary, though people use the words revolution, rebellion, and separatism to mean the same thing. It was an attempt to break away from a national government, not to remake society.

The myth of the Texas revolution has about as much in common with the reality of the events in 1836 as the movie 300 would with the events described by Herodotus. It event has its basic racial stereotypes (The Persians are black for some reason in the movie; the depiction of Mexicans is decidedly negative in the 'Texas Revolution myth' even though they too rebelled against Santa Anna), Davy Crockett was the subject of several 'dime-novels'(comics can be considered to be descended from these). The idea of an actual race war is implicit in the accounts of the Texas Revolution. There are wider issues of an American populace used to federalism and a legal-system based on common law. But these following quotes will help illuminate the attitudes that led both sides to the conflict.

“A war of barbarism and of despotic principles, waged by the Mongrel Spanish-Indian and negro race against the anglo-american race”

Stephen Austin, quoted pg 134

David Weber Refighting the Alamo: Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution

Major Problems in Texas History

“I looked upon the Mexicans as scarce more than apes”

-Noah Smithwich, pg 135

David Weber Refighting the Alamo: Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution

Major Problems in Texas History

But to be fair the racism stream ran had two banks.

“Just as the Goths, Ostrogoths, Alans and other tribes devastated Rome.....”

-Report of a Mexican Committee on Foreign Relations, pg 135

David Weber Refighting the Alamo: Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution

Major Problems in Texas History

So clearly, during his own life Crockett was a subject of myth. So any battle involving him will be easier to deal with than the complex figure of Sam Houston. The defeat is celebrated because the example of heroic sacrifice is for some reason more powerful. There is a monument at Thermopylae which to paraphrase its actual content says 'O Stranger passing by, Tell Sparta that obedient to her laws here we lie'. The monument at Plataea is just a melted down column made of Persian weapons. It is more entertaining and grand a subject to speak of a battle involving the Persian King himself in a small mountain pass against an outnumbered Greek force than it is to discuss a battle involving more equal numbers being led by Mardonius, a mere general. Romans talked more about Cannae than Zama; more about Teutoberg Wald than Germanicus recovering the standards. Single events like battles, especially ones that involve last stands, are easier to focus on. So in that vein, the Alamo is an oversimplified example of the Texas revolution which lends itself to myth-making due to the self-sacrifice of the defenders involved. San Jacinto was a battle which was chosen by Houston after he had followed a Fabian strategy. Historians generally do not pay attention to battles fought in this manner, not even those of Fabius himself. Historians all wish they were poets; and they speak most eloquently about that which lends itself to myth and couplets more so than prose.

The myth will change with the racial composition of Texas. It will never be an inversion of the White supremacy inherent in its older forms , but it will change to focus on a state rebelling against a tyrannical central government, especially with the emerging crises of the next decade appearing to be controversies over federalism on such issues as Obamacare, Gay Rights, the 2^nd Amendment, Marijuana legalization and such.

A Conversation With My Gender

There was a Clitoris Memo sent out awhile back. Read it.

Cunnilingus- this is a must. If she tastes bad, wash it down with a good drink, or date a woman with a better diet.

Passively watching sports is not manly. Working out to look like the guy in Men's Health is the male equivalent of chicks wanting to look like broads in Sports Illustrated. Get a good workout or participate in some sort of martial arts, especially if you follow individual combat sports. But if you are sitting on your ass watching football which is only grown men in tights playing with balls- we are waiting for you and Tom Cruise to come out of the closet.

Strippers are overrated. If you don't believe me, wait until you get crabs in your eye from an all nude club or take one of these ladies home and get a nice surprise when your hand soap smells like badly aged vag vinegar.

If you missed out on the genetic lottery and don't have enough equipment- well we can't all win.

If you are running around talking about the game, you aren't a player. The ones with the most game are those who claim they are not in the game at all. Then again, you might want to think about romance, which is the core of every person's existence whether they are male or female or something in-between(whether they admit it or not), as a subject you ought not to refer to as a game. After all we all matured past that high school bullshit. Right?

Addendum:

Apparently there are a bunch of people angry about some Coke Commercial saying it is un-'Murican. Right, because companies totally care about countries, and are otherwise patriotic and have never done things like finance the Nazis, built up the Soviet Union, or economically devastated domestic industry. And I'm sure the reason your fatass should stop drinking cokes is that the commercial pissed you off. You can always trust beverages that got their name during the patent medicine era from having cocaine in them. Truth is, carbonated drinks are totally unnecessary for humans to consume.

The Agenda

Sketches of the Way Forward

All of the prisons need to be emptied; in the former prisoner's place we can put the K Street lobbyists who have destroyed the country, the intelligence officers who have cooperated with Al Qaeda since the 80s, the officials responsible for condoning drug smuggling into the U.S., the various corrupt black shirted police officers, members of congress and the Senate currently guilty of treason against the Constitution and the largest organized criminal organization in history known as Internal Revenue.

The military needs to be out of Korea, Germany, Afghanistan, Japan- as a start. These countries either do not need our protection as there are economically stronger than we, or they do not want us there.

Our doctrine to prevent nuclear terrorism should be thus: if you provide or harbor groups that use these weapons against the American homeland, we will retaliate in kind. But we will henceforth not engage in the nation building that we have since September 11^th.

If healthcare is an issue which should be dealt with by the government, the law should not be written by the insurance companies. Something as simple as expanding medicare would suffice. But this as already constituted will bankrupt the US

Get rid of the Fed, establish sound money and stop borrowing.

Since the federal authorities have failed to secure the border, this should be done by local militias raised from these counties under the constitutional mandate in the 2^nd Amendment. The National Security Act of 1947 was a crime against the constitution.

Federal funds for college should stop immediately with debt forgiveness. Federal involvement in education should end,

Foreign aid should end now. In all its forms.

1^st Amendment ends all laws passed against free speech

the 2^nd amendment renders all gun control simply unconstitutional

the 4^th Amendment means the patriot act, NDAA and similar fascist legislation null

The 9^th Amendment alone ends drug prohibition.

We need to establish a panel of experts to bring jobs back to the country. Politicians cannot solve this problem, but they can certainly ask business to do so for them.

Corporate Personhood is insane

The national guard should be devolved to the states.

People should be able to opt out of social security or medicare/medicaid.

The Nanny State is a bad idea. The Police State is a worse one.

Millennials vs. Those That Have Come Before Us

Reflecting on the scorn heaped on the generation of which I am a part, I have the following opinion: that the millennials have been handed a practically destroyed country which long ago parted from its founding principles and is the economic sick man in a rapidly developing Multipolar world. The attitude of previous generations is like handing us a burned down house and then calling us a bum because we have no roof over our heads.

The first major mistake of previous generations was the Cold War.

There was conscious decision to pursue the strategy of containment against our former soviet ally after the Second World War. This may have been wise, considering a joint American, British and Japanese invasion of Russia after the First World War accomplished nothing except to prove that the Soviets were no aggressors in the situation. This had a few consequences: it meant that America was committed to police actions, the first of which was to take place in Korea. This was was pursued in a limited fashion. At a time when America could have used its nuclear weapons against both Russia and China with little retaliation, this was not done. The Baby Boomers betrayed the soldiers twice: once in Korea and again in Vietnam. You elected draft-dodgers but never a Vietnam vet. The ruling class of the Boomers/Generation X made sure it was nowhere near the bush. Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex in a farewell address the likes of which had not been heard since the time of Washington. This was not heeded. The CIA, long-derided as out of control even by its creator, now had a national security state to uphold, and could classify information as such in clear violation of the Constitution. The New Deal was never turned back, and expanded during the great society. Thus, if any Millennials are on welfare, we have you to thank for the crazy system currently operating.

Your diet was/is insane. Any generation that acts surprised when cigarettes turn out to be bad for you are fools indeed.

You still pay taxes to the criminal IRS.

You began the national obsession with TV. The Millennial obsession with media is just an outgrowth of this. Thus if you decry computers, tablets, smartphones, video games, first think of how many hours of your life were wasted in front of a mind control box.

Stupidity is not a market that Millennials have cornered. The decline in compulsory education began with Baby Boomers and have simply continued. You generation did not push to the final frontier.

You are bunch of drug addicts. Pill popping became common, and drugs were scheduled based on their use by groups not towing the state line. Drugs: just because you couldn't handle your mescaline or acid doesn't mean someone else can't with a stronger mind. Just because you smoked dope and laid around doing nothing does not mean that everyone who used cannabis does it as well.

Prisons became a big business, and the multiplication of offenses that will end in incarceration is legion. This reflect the 'law and order' obsession of the boomers and their Gen X children. You also fear violence so much that you were willing to give away your implements for defending yourself against it via gun control.

As for money, and in this I mean the general lack of savings, home-ownership or independence in my generation: there are no jobs left. You made sure they were all shipped overseas, which will benefit your stock plan but not the worker trying to make a living wage. If you think I'm wrong on this- quit your job, move out of your house, attempt to rent with a small income and obtain a decent job with an empty or limited resume. I dare you.

Israel, once capable of battlefield victories only seen in the Panzer forces that were looked at in awe by the incompetent football fan general officers in the US, was locked into a relationship with the United States after the Yom Kippur war. Kissinger is still walking around, somehow not in jail. Thanks. The last President with any balls was Nixon, but he was a crazy asshole. While on the subject of Presidents, thanks for helping cover up the Kennedy Assassination. And King. Thanks for killing the American Prophets.

Government official stories: Violating the Laws of Physics, 11/22/63-9/11/2001.

Then came the 80s, were if you were not on coke you were getting religion to wash away the sins of your youthful years where you confused altered states of consciousness with conscious revolution. Again, thank you.

Thanks for aids too.

Reagan, while admitting guilty in Iran Contra, never atoned for these actions.

Another thing: Ronald Reagan is not the messiah. It is telling that the only half-decent President you helped elect was an actor outright.

The prevailing political climate is that of a choice between equally socialistic bankrupt political parties. The only modern political party which represents the principles of minarchy clearly laid out in the constitution is the libertarian party, and regarded as extremist by the media you lapped up and supported. Don't tell me Faux News is fair and balanced. Don't even try to tell me MSNBC is the answer either: I hope it keeps 'Leaning Forward' until it falls on its face. Most of you probably have no clue who Edward Bernays is. I would tell you to google it, but that would require you using the address bar to navigate to a search engine. This is like rocket science to you people. Also, the next time a member of your generation says 'its all greek to me' I am going to respond with 'Kione or Attic'? Prior to the regimented school system you supported, funded; regard as holier than those Ten Commandment of the bronze age you demand be posted in front of our court system buildings which has more in common with ancient Germanic customs than anything in Leviticus, Greek and Latin were well known by educated people. I digress.

It is not that the millennial generation is alone socialistic- it is that the intellectual groundwork for such socialistic beliefs was laid by the Baby Boomers, whose parents accepted the criminal Roosevelt government which illegally seized gold and dragged the country into the Second World War in 'defense of democracy' at the side of the largest mass-murderer in history until the Rise of Mao in China and fought to 'save the Jewish people' while turning away Jewish Emigration attempts from Nazi Germany when it would have saved many lives, and entire branches of families that perished in the gas chambers.

The purchasing power of the dollar has fallen continuously under the stewardship of the shallow end of our gene pools known as previous generations, and now the millennials face a national debt headed to Greek proportions. It will be great when we pull your Social Security benefits.

Your homoerotic sports are another matter entirely. Content to watch grown men in tights play with balls and tackle one another, you began the decline in American manhood which has simply accelerated. At least many Millennials undergo martial arts training, making them more than passive spectators.

Worse is the fact that your generation actually trusted the government. This makes yours a generation of dupes and idiots.

Now to speak of economics. This is a complicated subject, economists have made sure of that. But for every time I hear a boomer talk about this generation's problem of feeling entitled, I can't help but laugh. Your generation is the last that will ever see cradle to grave private sector jobs. Your generation had a cult of the job. It worshiped the idea of working for someone else and collecting a check. No wonder corporations moved overseas- you felt entitled to vacation and benefits which are a fantasy. You also worshiped college. Instead of telling your kids to take time off, or figure things out, you shipped them over to universities to serve as adult day care. Our infrastructure is destroyed in this country. While America labors forward with rusted bridges, Japan and Germany build maglev lines

The record of those that came before the Millennials is clear: You took the most powerful country in the world, and saw it defeated in two major land wars in Asia. You opened China and armed them. You voted for draft-dodgers, both two term presidents. You 'cured' Vietnam syndrome by again stomping on Latin America. You saw the greatest industrial power of all time gutted by 'free trade' policies, and set in motion globalization. You took the dollar and destroyed it. Your generation took the largest creditor nation and turned it into a debtor. You 'ended racism' by passing civil rights laws and replacing Jim Crow with prisons. You took the vice of cowardice and made it a virtue- everywhere men started depending on black uniformed police and stopped taking care of themselves.

So tell me again how the Millennials are the dumbest generation.

These problems my generation has been handed by you- while you sit on retirement and fiddle, Rome is burning. Each of these problems have been enough to kill many empires. It will be the accomplishment of my generation to happily lose the empire but be lucky enough to keep the Republic.

Slavery

A slave by law is a person unjustly enslaved; a natural slave is a natural slave. Aristotle would view anyone captured in war who does not fight to the death to preserve their liberty as a natural slave. This has no modern analogy, but his idea that men who are no better than beasts mentally are natural slaves does: They exist in large numbers in America. There are a great number of people who through lack of appetite control have failed to maintain their physical form and thereby cannot participate as free-laborers in the mixed economy system that modern democratic republics follow. Compulsory education engenders a state of mind which does not value reason; philosophy is not taught at any level below the university and no high school geometry teacher is going to bother backing up their unit on proofs with one on syllogisms. In a mass-media society where consumption of entertainments equals most peoples use of their free-time, the populace cannot be said to be doing anything but depending on their base appetites to drive them. This would make them barbarians fit to be ruled by Hellenes in Aristotle's view. In addition, there is movement in all democratic republics to overturn that system and replace it with a police state oligarchy. So this would mean that those people who are still aware of their natural rights would be forced to lay them aside in a state of slavery by law, imposed by the greatest number against the interests of this minority. Since the use of reason is regarded by most as something they would rather not do, and actively destroyed in a process of bad diet, entertainments, and narcotic induced fogs, this would mean that a great number of modern citizens are putting themselves in the position of natural slaves.