{"id":27205,"date":"2024-01-22T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=27205"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:35:42","slug":"the-bait-and-switch-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/the-bait-and-switch-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bait and Switch Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American people have been the victims of a generational swindle.\u00a0 For the last hundred years and more we were sold on the idea that America was a contract between its people and those running the federal government.\u00a0 We would follow all the rules and pay our taxes and work the majority of our lives to keep the bureaucracy employed and they would oversee the process of making the colossal manufacturing and industrial capacity of a modern continental power work smoothly and benignly for us and our children.<\/p>\n<p>We were told by the people in charge that ours was a nation of laws and being part of this exceptional place, we were guaranteed by those laws all of the rights and freedoms that the contract specified.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the American people upheld their part of the bargain.\u00a0 We worked and paid our taxes.\u00a0 We and our ancestors and our children have fought their wars.\u00a0 And we believed in the exceptional nature of the American contract.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we don\u2019t believe it anymore.\u00a0 Maybe it used to be true.\u00a0 Maybe someone like Teddy Roosevelt believed in the sanctity of the American contract.\u00a0 But the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and certainly Joe Biden couldn\u2019t give a damn what happens to us or our children.\u00a0 In fact, more or less, they just want us to drop dead.<\/p>\n<p>You see, they don\u2019t think they need us anymore.\u00a0 Who needs soldiers when you have drones and atom bombs?\u00a0 Who needs factory workers when you have China as your factory.\u00a0 Who even needs a professional class when you can import scientists and engineers by the boatload from Asia and at half price?<\/p>\n<p>And so, we\u2019ve reached the point where they\u2019re chloroforming off our children\u2019s generation with joblessness, homelessness, fentanyl and social dysfunction.\u00a0 They\u2019re bringing in the Third World to cut their grass, babysit their kids, fill up the inner cities and contribute to the racial wars that they\u2019re fomenting.\u00a0 And the last piece of the puzzle is the environmental racket where they tell us to turn off the heating and cooling of our homes, drive cars without energy and learn to eat crickets.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a good joke on us.\u00a0 And maybe it\u2019ll go as they hope with the middle class bankrupted and sinking into the underclass before disappearing altogether.\u00a0 And so, the millionaires and billionaires and their managerial class toadies can continue to live like princelings amid the Brazil-like squalor that the rest of us will endure.<\/p>\n<p>But I secretly nurse the hope that they immiserate the country too quickly and it cuts across so many class and racial lines at once that they create a grass roots movement to displace the whole Democrat party, branch and root.\u00a0 And if there are enough smart guys ready to take advantage, maybe they can enact a massive purge of the elites.\u00a0 And I\u2019m not talking about a reign of terror or anything monstrous.\u00a0 Just a populist uprising where the inhabitants of Martha\u2019s Vineyard suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of some comeuppance from the likes of me.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I wouldn\u2019t bet much money that it will happen.\u00a0 Those with all the money get most of the breaks.\u00a0 But look, putting Joe Biden in charge isn\u2019t the work of a super-genius.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that the smarter elites have already died of old age and the ones left are dimwitted.\u00a0 So, who knows?\u00a0 Maybe my wish will come true.\u00a0 Stick around and maybe we\u2019ll see in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American people have been the victims of a generational swindle.\u00a0 For the last hundred years and more we were sold on the idea that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4409,4410,785],"class_list":["post-27205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-bait-and-switch-nation","tag-comeuppance","tag-illegal-immigration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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