A joint Navy SEAL /Green Beret exercise was organised in Texas and ofher States. Texan extremist conspiracy theorists took this to be the long-expected Obama move to put Texas under martial law. Texans have loaded weapons at home to guard against this expected move. Governor Greg Abbott, pandering to these nut-cases, actually ordered the Texas National Guard to monitor the exercise, illustrating the fact that paranoia has infected the Texas government, as well is the most stupid citizens.
Apparently, the crazies spotted that Walmart had closed a number of its stores in West Texas for six months for “renovation”. Egged on by Fox News, the extremists jumped to the conclusion that the closed Walmart stores were about to be military-guerilla staging areas and FEMA processings camps for political prisoners. They further deduced that the prisoners were going to be transported by train cars that have already been fitted with shackles.
It’s really only a matter of time before one of these nuts in these dangerous vigilante groups loses control, shoots someone, and then all hell will break out. To these people Obama is a black, communist moslem, bent on subverting the Constitution. This is the man who, if allowed to by Congress, would do good things for the poor and uneducated, in other words, them. Perverse, isn’t it?
An educated and knowledgable electorate is not in the interests of the modern US Republican Party any more. It used to be, when educated people dominated the party, but no more. Matters are going beyond the normal reasonable differences between political philosophies and into realms last seen in the 1930s. Only good jobs and a thriving economy can help.
The following are comments from multi-millionaire Nick Hanauer eho sees the writing on the wall:
“And what do I see in our future now?
I see pitchforks.
“At the same time that people like you and me are thriving beyond the dreams of any plutocrats in history, the rest of the country—the 99.99 percent—is lagging far behind. The divide between the haves and have-nots is getting worse really, really fast. In 1980, the top 1 percent controlled about 8 percent of U.S. national income. The bottom 50 percent shared about 18 percent. Today the top 1 percent share about 20 percent; the bottom 50 percent, just 12 percent.
“But the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.
“And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.”
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Is it me, or is thinking that the US military is dangerous to your state unpatriotic- and thereby the antithesis of conservatism? It seems like a massive contradiction to me.
I don’t think it’s the military as such that they object to; it’s the Commander- in-Chief, who is plotting to overturn the Constitution, liberty etc, and outlaw God and guns.
It isn’t clear what kids inTexas learn in school, but it has nothing to do with education. The level of “education” is now so dire that there is an argument for scrapping schools altogether in some parts of the US, and putting kids to work to repair the pot- holed roads. At least that is useful to society.