Excellent thoughts. Many American adults still believe in, and vote for, Santa Claus. As we just saw in NYC. Thinking Americans though are re-arranging their lives and businesses to avoid the consequences that government meddling in free markets and our lives have created. No wonder that silver prices to continue to surge as thinking Americans shift away from fiat currencies.
"Eschewing vapid indulgences and avoiding personal debt would not only remove the necessity for handouts from government, or any third party, but would ensure a healthy contempt for them."
Devoutly to be wished, but my countymen and women may be too far gone.
Excellent thoughts. Many American adults still believe in, and vote for, Santa Claus. As we just saw in NYC. Thinking Americans though are re-arranging their lives and businesses to avoid the consequences that government meddling in free markets and our lives have created. No wonder that silver prices to continue to surge as thinking Americans shift away from fiat currencies.
"Eschewing vapid indulgences and avoiding personal debt would not only remove the necessity for handouts from government, or any third party, but would ensure a healthy contempt for them."
Devoutly to be wished, but my countymen and women may be too far gone.
Oh, I agree completely. I am not optimistic.
If Democrats retake Congress in 2026 and then win unified power in 2028, “Affordability” becomes the moral pretext for Stage 5 ignition.
Stage 5 = Doubling Down → Moral Ultimatum → Institutional Overrun
Under unified power, the institutional cascade accelerates:
Housing: federal rent control
Healthcare: expansion toward public option
Student loans: cancellation + federalized funding
Energy: punitive pricing restrictions
Tech: compelled regulation under “price fairness”
Banking: forced equity lending
Food & pharma: price caps
Wages: federally mandated floors
This is when playing economics turns into breaking economics.
When the ideology hits the real-world friction point.
When the electorate expects utopia…
and gets scarcity, backlash, inflation, shortages, and collapse.
And collapse + moral certainty = incendiary Stage 5.
Stage 5 is when:
the moral panic spikes
the rhetoric radicalizes
institutions stop hiding the agenda
“emergency powers” come into play
dissent becomes “harmful”
political opposition becomes “anti-democracy”
enforcement shifts from persuasion to compliance
This is where democratic norms go to die.
Not in a war.
Not in a coup.
But in “affordability legislation.”
Truly chilling.