by Jim Quinn on TheBurningPlatform.com:
“All that’s human should retrograde if it doesn’t advance.” – Edward Gibbon
“Woe, destruction, smash, and decay; the worst is demise and demise can have his day.” – William Shakespeare, Richard II
We moved to our nook of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania twenty-seven years in the past. We raised our three boys right here. We spent a whole bunch of hours on native baseball fields, in hockey rinks, in class gyms for basketball video games, concert events, performs and donuts-with-dads. It’s nonetheless a pleasant place to stay, with nearly no crime, respectable roads, and affordable property tax charges. However I must say there was a degradation within the total high quality of life in my group, which is in line with the downward spiral of our society generally. Once we planted our roots on this group it was nonetheless extra farm-like than suburban. Household farms and open area have been extra prevalent than housing tracts, strip malls, quick meals joints and cookie cutter industrial buildings. A lovely farmhouse a number of miles from our residence, freshly painted white, proudly displayed the enduring yellow smiley face. It symbolized good instances.
We’ve been driving on this highway for twenty-seven years on the best way to baseball video games, hockey practices, the automotive supplier for service, and recently to our fitness center, as we attempt to fend off father time. Driving by that barn within the early days would all the time brighten your day. A vibrant yellow smiley face in opposition to a white background represented a optimistic, pleased view of the world.
We moved to this space in 1995 whereas Clinton was president, unemployment was 5.6%, CPI was 2.8%, GDP development was 2.7%, the annual deficit was $164 billion, the nationwide debt was $4.9 trillion, the Fed steadiness sheet was $500 billion, the U.S. inhabitants was 263 million, whole family debt was $4 trillion, you earned 5.5% in your cash market fund, the U.S. bailed out Mexico, the Oklahoma Metropolis bombing occurred, and OJ Simpson was discovered not responsible of killing his ex-wife. The navy industrial advanced was being starved by lack of wars and the inventory market soared by 33% as the start of irrational exuberance started beneath the reign of Greenspan and his Put.
Loads has occurred over the past twenty-seven years and the light, barely seen smiley face, on a now mildew ridden decaying barn, is actually consultant of a society, tradition and financial system dying a gradual torturous demise, as apathy, technological distraction, myopic indolence, and the greed of highly effective elites mix to make sure the eventual collapse of the short-lived American Empire. A lot of this quarter century of decline is borne out within the change in financial numbers famous above.
The unemployment charge is reported as 3.5% at the moment with 158 million out of 264 million working age adults employed. That leaves 106 million not employed, or 40% of working age adults not working. Again in 1995, 125 million out of 199 million working age adults have been employed, leaving 74 million not working. Over 1 / 4 century we’ve added 65 million folks to our inhabitants, however solely 33 million to the employment rolls. Both we’ve devolved right into a nation of freeloaders on welfare/incapacity, or the BLS is mendacity concerning the 3.5% unemployment charge, or each.
The BLS at present tries to persuade the ignorant lots inflation is simply 8.5%, up tremendously from the two.8% in 1995. Because the Fed/Wall Avenue induced monetary crash of 2008, the federal government had been reporting inflation of between 0% to three%, when in actuality, as measured the best way it was measured in 1980, it had been between 7% to 10%. At the moment’s precise inflation charge is 17% in case you have been questioning. Revealing the true value of residing to the peasants may induce a revolting consequence for our overlords. The federal government prefers to deal with the mathematics challenged lots like mushrooms, by conserving them at the hours of darkness.
The corrupt Fed, feckless politicians, media mouthpieces for the empire, and Wall Avenue shysters have been shocked I let you know by skyrocketing inflation after the Fed elevated their steadiness sheet from $3.7 trillion to $8.9 trillion and the D.C. swamp creatures elevated the nationwide debt from $23.2 trillion to $30.7 trillion because the starting of 2020. This generated inflation in monetary property for the worldwide elite and their minions, whereas destroying the funds of the center and decrease courses. The rot grows like a most cancers on this empire of debt.
The annual deficit of $164 billion in 1995 was racked up in 17 days in 2021. We’ve got run annual deficits of $3.1 trillion in 2020 and $2.8 trillion in 2021, and the scumbags in Washington simply maintain passing $700 billion spending payments, writing off scholar mortgage money owed for gender fluidity majors and sending billions in weapons to essentially the most corrupt regime on the planet – Ukraine. The degradation and downward trajectory of this empire of debt, delusion and despair could be most clearly outlined by evaluating our GDP development since 1995 to the expansion of debt by each our authorities and the populace. Complete U.S. GDP in 1995 totaled $7.6 trillion and at the moment checks in at $24.8 trillion. That could be a development of 326% over twenty-seven years. The nationwide debt has grown by 626%. Appears unsustainable, however why query our wonderful leaders.
The Fed steadiness sheet has grown by 1,780%. Family debt has grown by 400%. Median family earnings in 1995 was $34,000. At the moment it’s $73,000. That could be a 214% improve over 27 years. With actual inflation averaging over 10% per yr throughout this time-frame, common working Individuals have seen their way of life methodically decline, changing the earnings with debt. The one beneficiaries of debt are the banking cabal and the mega-corporations promoting their low cost Chinese language crap to clueless dupes who consider driving a leased BMW and residing in a cookie cutter McMansion with an $800,000 mortgage makes them rich.
The selfie era is simply too distracted checking in on Fb, posting footage of their meals on Instagram, doing a dance routine on Tik Tok or counting their likes on Twitter to understand how badly they’ve been screwed over by these pulling the strings of this society. The propaganda and psychology of concern utilized by the highly effective pursuits has reached a degree that will make Edward Bernays burst with delight, as manipulating the lots to consider falsehoods is a key requirement in implementing their Nice Reset agenda.
This complete charade appears to be bursting on the seams, with raging inflation, a recession in course of (regardless of Biden’s lackeys attempting to redefine recession), a Inexperienced New Deal Nice Reset agenda purposely creating power and meals shortages, authorities companies working roughshod over the Structure, and a tyrannical administration trying to crush their political adversaries utilizing any means needed. Smiles are fading as we head into both a hyperinflationary despair or a deflationary despair, with some world conflict blended in.
The financial decay is definitely provable, however our cultural and societal degeneration has exceeded our financial deterioration. Simply because the Roman Empire exhibited specific traits of a dying tradition, the American Empire shows related traits, similar to: concern with displaying affluence as an alternative of constructing wealth; obsession with intercourse and perversions of intercourse; artwork changing into freakish and sensationalistic as an alternative of artistic and authentic; widening disparity between very wealthy and really poor; elevated demand to stay off the state.
After all, our dying tradition has additionally been turbocharged by the local weather cult trying to destroy our fossil fueled financial system by purposely sabotaging our power and meals programs because the driving pressure for his or her Nice Reset. Weaponizing the annual flu as a method to inject billions of individuals with a DNA altering, typically deadly, concoction is a part of Invoice Gates’ depopulation agenda. They’ve taken the intercourse and gender perversion to new ranges of kid abuse, grooming and mutilation. The rampant pedophilia and little one trafficking by the worldwide elitists is essentially the most despicable side of our cultural degeneracy. Anybody with a acutely aware can not be pleased with this nation and needs to be desperately involved about its future.
“A rising sense of unease presently pervades the American consciousness. Individuals are not as assured of their nation and confident as they as soon as have been. A way of frustration and anger underscores American consciousness. Individuals are trying over our shoulder at different rising financial juggernauts and questioning if we are able to nonetheless be world’s social, political, and financial chief when Congress can’t even handle to steadiness the nationwide finances. The thought that we’re diminishing in stature within the eyes of the worldwide group consistently torments Individuals. Pale glory strikes a crippling blow to the American psyche. Analogous to an ageing magnificence queen, America may nonetheless possess a golden crown, however she misplaced her luster. In an eroding empire, Individuals really feel like second-class residents within the union of countries.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster
The phrases trendy and progress have turn into warped and used as an excuse for destroying localization, small companies, what labored, what was good, and what benefitted society, changing it with globalization, mega-corporations, advanced expertise, earnings at any value, and advantages accumulating to the few with struggling borne by the numerous. Two examples come to thoughts inside a number of miles from my residence. Only a couple miles from the fading smile barn is a property that was as soon as a thriving household farm. I snapped an image final week as I used to be driving previous.
The decaying deserted farmhouse, dilapidated barn, and rusting farm equipment are being engulfed by weeds, because the recollections of a productive helpful household farm fade like that yellow smiley face. I don’t know why it was deserted, however I’m positive the company farming conglomerates and the company meat processing crops have been a significant component. When you should buy low cost meat at Wal-Mart produced in China or some industrial farm, why pay a little bit extra for recent non-GMO meat offered by an area farmer?
Gone are the roadside vegetable stands and shopping for recent meat out of your native farmer neighbor. Possibly the patriarch of the homestead obtained too previous, and his sons had been indoctrinated by the federal government colleges to get company jobs in among the industrial workplace campuses which have changed open area and farmland. Regardless of the purpose, it provokes melancholy about a greater easier time each time I move by.
The governmental actions taken within the early 2000s nonetheless irk me to at the present time. The realm across the intersection of Forty Foot Highway and Sumneytown Pike within the late Nineteen Nineties was nonetheless harking back to easier instances, earlier than sensible telephones, hyper-consumerism, and proliferation of huge field retail. Small companies have been necessary and viable. There was a household run diner close to the turnpike entrance the place all of the locals ate breakfast and talked sports activities and politics.
Township police have been pleasant, driving older fundamental autos and housed in a small unassuming one-story township constructing. Properly stored older properties lined one facet of Forty Foot Highway and the opposite facet was an eclectic combination of old-time baseball fields, with no lights and little to no floor’s upkeep, and the previous Henry Sprecht grade faculty, inbuilt 1909 to honor a long-time educator and native historian, which had been changed by newer colleges and creatively repurposed right into a quaint antiques mall.
We spent many a summer time night watching my oldest son play little league baseball on these fields whereas attempting to maintain our four-year-old and three-year-old sons from stepping into hassle. We beloved wandering by means of that antiques mall as particular person distributors promoting all method of antiques, hand crafted woodwork, baseball playing cards, toys, occupied nooks, and crannies on this historical faculty. We purchased a handcrafted cupboard by an area artisan for our kitchen, which we nonetheless make use of at the moment in our storage space.
My fondest reminiscence was at Christmas time when it will turn into a Christmas wonderland and I might take the boys there to see the spectacular miniature prepare present, the place native prepare aficionados would arrange superb shows. The youngsters have been mesmerized. There was additionally a family-owned residence heart in Hatfield known as Snyder’s that offered every thing in your residence and likewise had an important prepare show at Christmas for youths to get pleasure from. All this unpretentious delight ended abruptly within the early 2000s, as progress, commercialization, and greed took maintain of the nation and our little group.
As it’s possible you’ll bear in mind, Greenspan coined the time period irrational exuberance in 1996 to explain monetary markets, then turbocharged shares by reducing charges, inflicting the dot.com bubble and responded to the inventory market crash by reducing charges and inflicting the most important actual property bubble in historical past, till now. These ephemeral paper riches brought about native authorities bureaucrats to make use of phantom tax revenues to check delusions of grandeur by constructing ineffective pointless tasks.
That is precisely what the federal government drones working Towamencin Township did. They produced a grand grasp plan, gave it a elaborate identify, spent tens of tens of millions of our tax {dollars}, and produced an embarrassing mess. They used eminent area to amass properties, pressured the handfuls of small enterprise house owners out of the vintage mall and flattened the constructing, closed off the baseball fields to little children, and closed Forty Foot Highway for over a yr to construct an excellent $13 million bridge to nowhere. This bridge stands as a tribute to all these Chinese language ghost cities, because it serves no objective besides for instance of presidency incompetence, wastefulness, and misuse of taxpayer funds with no penalties for the federal government drones.
Slightly than look ahead to precise retail tenants to signal on to their wonderful mission, the federal government geniuses constructed the bridge realizing they’d come. They by no means got here. The actual property retail bubble popped. It’s now fifteen years later and people 4 baseball fields are nonetheless sitting there, untouched, undeveloped, and unused. They caught a Walgreens the place the charming vintage mall as soon as sat. No pedestrians cross the pedestrian bridge as a result of there’s nothing on both facet. A four- story industrial constructing was constructed on spec a block from the bridge and stood vacant for 5 years.
The family-owned Snyder’s residence retailer was pushed out of enterprise by the Residence Depot and Lowes constructed inside a number of miles. There at the moment are cookie cutter townhouses the place Snyder’s stood. One other profitable retail heart within the Nineteen Nineties up the highway, anchored by a household owned Genuardi grocery store and a Sears {Hardware}, together with a pizza place, drugstore, Blockbuster, and youngsters play heart has been vacant and rotting for over a decade, as bankruptcies, mergers, and the relentless downward financial spiral made it untenable.
Along with losing taxpayer cash on the ghost bridge to nowhere, these monetary authorities geniuses determined their police station inbuilt 1975 not met the wants of their fast-growing police pressure in a township with no crime, as a result of it’s 88% white/Asian. They constructed themselves a fancy thrice the scale of their previous station. Fortunate, as a result of they now have a police pressure of 23 officers, all decked out with souped-up brand-new SUVs.
You want that degree of manpower and firepower for all these velocity traps, fender benders and writing tickets for unlawful basketball nets. There hasn’t been a serious crime in Towamencin in over a decade, however the taxpayers pay over $1 million per yr to be harassed and pay for his or her donut finances This degree of presidency waste is going on in each locality and state in America. And the Feds put all of them to disgrace with their corrupt, wasteful, traitorous spending, bribing, and conflict mongering throughout the globe, to the tune of trillions.
The decline I’ve personally seen in my area people isn’t just a localized most cancers however has metastasized throughout the land and across the globe. As our financial system accelerates in the direction of inevitable implosion, both as a deliberate demolition or as a result of hubris of central bankers, the fraying social cloth of our civilized society is unmistakable, because the ethical state of our nation has deteriorated to a degree seen solely in debauched empires on the point of failure.
The worldwide elite and their ethical depravity have engulfed the world, as their ravenous greed, insatiable urge for food for dominion over the lots, immoral deceit, manipulative use of propaganda, and satanic decadence have created financial, social, political, and navy misery throughout the globe. As Toynbee and Solzhenitsyn observe, the shortage of morality and braveness amongst those that profess to be leaders has permeated all through society, resulting in a dearth of residents taking civic duty for the trail of the nation.
“Of the twenty-two civilizations which have appeared in historical past, nineteen of them collapsed once they reached the ethical state the USA is in now.”
― Arnold Joseph Toynbee
“A decline in braveness often is the most placing characteristic that an outdoor observer notices within the West at the moment. The Western world has misplaced its civic braveness. Such a decline in braveness is especially noticeable among the many ruling and mental elite, inflicting an impression of a lack of braveness by the complete society.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
We’re a misplaced society, dominated by feelings, captured by expertise, misinformed, uneducated, detached, fearful, passively accepting of no matter authorities and media inform them is true, and entranced by materialism funded by debt. We’re a sick dying tradition the place widespread group requirements, self-responsibility, exhausting work, kindness, and manners have been outdated by the worship of abnormality, celebration of degeneracy, residing off the federal government, spreading hatred, and waging undeclared wars the world over.
There may be an empty shallowness to our civilization, with the vacuum stuffed with devices, pathetic shows of faux affluence, minutiae like social media, and superficial shows of advantage signaling relating to the newest woke craze shoved down our throats by these controlling the levers of society. There may be an awesome feeling of hopelessness, concern, and foreboding temper of impending doom, as this Fourth Turning accelerates in the direction of its bloody denouement.
The aura of pessimism concerning the future and concern that our superpower standing, solely in existence since 1946, is rotting from inside permeates the psychology of these really keen to assume critically and see what is de facto taking place. The prevailing social order can be extinguished through the waning years of this Fourth Turning. We’re within the interval between the decay of the previous and formation of the brand new, no matter that could be.
Initially posted by Jim Quinn on The BurningPlatform.com.