If Trump wins the election we will escape certain doom. If he loses, well … we are all f***ed big time. And in that case the current crazy times will seem like a vacation in comparison to what awaits us.
The upcoming U.S. elections is probably the most crucial election in the history of the world.
Thank you @Blackduck, Your posts have exactly captured the spirit of what I was trying to say, with perhaps one important addition, that men and boys are beginning to realise the problem and simply starting to withdraw their cooperation from their own sacrifice ! 
The name given to the process is “The Long March” - I have seen it alluded to but have yet to find out about it in any detail.
The thing is “teachers” can do anything they want with young minds - “Educate” them with ANY set of beliefs they choose !
However here is an extract from “Atlas Shrugged” - Ayn Rand - published 1957 ! reference “Education” and “Indoctrination” - Boy I wish I could write like that ! - It had me in tears - just copy typing it !
- He walked as if this were his form of last tribute and funeral procession for the young life that had ended in his arms. He felt an anger too intense to identify except as a pressure within him. It was a desire to kill.
- The desire was not directed at the unknown thug who had sent a bullet through the boy’s body, or at the looting bureaucrats who had hired the thug do it, but at the boy’s teachers who had delivered him, disarmed , to the thug’s gun – at the soft safe assassins of college classrooms who, incompetent to answer the queries of a quest for reason, took pleasure in crippling the young minds entrusted to their care.
- Somewhere, he thought, there was this boy’s mother, who had trembled with protective concern over his groping steps, while teaching him to walk, who had measured his baby formulas with a jeweller’s caution, who hd obeyed with a zealot’s fervour the latest words of science on his diet and hygiene, protected his unhardened body from germs—then had sent him to be turned into a tortured neurotic by the men who had taught him that he had no mind and must never attempt to think. Had she fed him tainted refuse, he thought, had she mixed poison into his food, it would have been more kind and less fatal.
- He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who train their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly – yet man whose tool of survival is the the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but the child’s education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of teaching him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.
- From the first catch phrases flung at a child to the last, it is like a series of shocks to freeze the motor, to un “dercut the power of consciousness . “Don’t ask so many questions – little children should be seen and not heard!”—“Who are you to think ?” “It’s so, because I say so” – “Don’t argue, obey” –“Don’t try to understand, believe!” –“Don’t rebel, adjust” –“Don’t stand out, belong” –“Don’t struggle, compromise” —“Your heart is more important than your mind”……………
You have to bear in mind it was written in the early 1950’s - but the lessons and analysis do parallel some of our current predicaments, where they are raking us and what we might do about it — and also form a valuable resource if we are looking for a valuable and workable system under which to live our lives.
In view of the relevance to our current predicament - I’d advise buying a copy - even if for future reading -( It is a great book in it’s own right - as fiction) Just in case it gets “cancelled”
To quote Ben Shapiro - "The word JUSTICE does not need any modifier !"
Those Postmodernist neo-Marxists - string two random words together - to try to make a new concept ;
There are many many more
WE YOUR VICTIMS BEGIN TO sAY NO !!!
It is brilliantly written.
Cheers
Blackduck
All designed to dehumanise shame bully intimidate in order to gain a psychological advantage so that they can control. It’s all about power and believe it or not (there are many on this site that don’t believe) that is what they crave and that is the ultimate goal. POWER CONTROL.
Cheers
Blackduck
Excellent analysis of the likelihood of contracting covid-19 in the UK from Tim Harford on the FT website this am.
"The typical English resident, then, has a 44 in a million chance each day of being infected…
…for someone in his early sixties the chance of death, given infection, is similar to the population as a whole, at about 1 per cent. Lasting symptoms also seem to affect around 1 per cent of people. Two per cent of 44 in a million is about one in a million.
For my friend [who is in his early 60’s], Covid-19 therefore currently presents a background risk of a one in a million chance of death or lasting harm, every day. The risk of death alone is one in 2m…
…on average it [the risk of dying from covid-19] …is similar to taking a bath, going skiing, or a short motorbike ride, and considerably less risky than a scuba dive or a skydive."
Every other person is going through such emotional stress these days. It is kinda normal amidst the ongoing situations. It is best that we try to stay calm and handle the current situation safely.
If Trump wins the election we will escape certain doom
Will the chaos stop though ?
The dnc had the vibe “we are abandoning this plan” -in my humble not in the U.S. opinion-
If the government want people to throng our the town and city centres they could actually put some money behind this campaign and reduce commuting costs. Until then its just hot air.
No, it won’t. This isn’t about Trump.
it seems to be unreal already((
That is correct. Until the last couple of years I had never heard the word “socialism” referenced in mainstream US politics. It now appears to be socially acceptable that this proven failed and inhumane political theory of bastardised Marxism is bandied about by “regular” American politicians. Trump certainly did not bring socialism to the front line of political ambitions for US Democrats.
Just an excuse to further their agenda.
@Falstaff
Wow, that is a very powerful passage. Thank you for sharing. I tell the younger generation to be careful not to be abused by believing all the education system teaches them. After all, I believe the education system was set up in the West not to more broadly educate the masses out of social philanthropy, but to produce “sheeple” - people who behave like sheep - to serve the unlimited wealth aspirations of the rich and powerful who control the world (modern day military industrial complex referred to be Eisenhower).
Before you think this is conspiracy theory, look at it this way. If this approach turns out to be wrong, what have you got to lose. If it turns out the be right, it’s God help us all.
Whether you think you are right or you think you are wrong, you are right.
Still, regarding going back to normal, most banks and finance analysts predicted a return to normalcy by the end of that year, or Q1 2021. I don’t know for the USA, as coronavirus seems to be the least of the issues on that side of the Atlantic, but for Europe, there’s a 2nd wave that’s weaker than the 1st one, and that won’t bring a return to total lockdown.
I think, personally, that this is going to be like an earthquake: the first shock is powerful and destructive, and then, you’ve got some follow-up earthquakes in the next days and weeks, but they’re weaker and weaker until they get unnoticeable, and stop happening altogether. That’s, at least, how I see the future of the COVID pandemic.