Hypothetically if the
following events etc took place what conclusion would a rational person make
with result to their collective impact on the nation where they
occurred?
If a government refused to
make its borders absolutely secure...
If its general policy
regarding illegal aliens was a pathway to amnesty and
citizenship...
If it sold illegal guns to
drug cartels in another country which were then used to kill innocents in both
countries...
If it fought two hard wars
against terrorists and then walked away leaving the defeated enemy to return and
the blood and treasure sacrifice of their military to be for
nothing...
If it drew a red line
publically to make a foreign government from stop killing it's
citizens and when they didn't ... there was no action
taken...
If it signed a treaty
claiming that it stopped a foreign government that sponsored terrorism from
obtaining nuclear weapons and then it disclosed later that the treaty did no
such thing...
If it allowed an ally to be
overthrown and a terrorist friendly government that was not a friend to be put
in its place...
If it pressured and
threatened the only democratic ally in a volatile region to make
suicidal concessions that would create an existential threat for
them...
If it refused to
acknowledge that former global enemies were rearming and once again making
threatening statements and actions...
If it had
longstanding mutual defense treaties or agreements to protect the borders of
friendly nations and did nothing when when these countries were threatened or
invaded.....
If it refused to provide
security for a critical consulate which then was attacked by terrorists with a
loss of life and no one was caught and punished as it lied about who did it and
what caused it...
If it was confronted
by enemy states with WMDs who were rearming and terrorist networks trying to
obtain WMDs who were growing and it deliberately slashed it's military capacity
to defend the nation while making it vulnerable to attack from either or
both..
If it was the strongest
nation in the world but allowed weaker governments in their sphere of influence
to ally themselves with old and new enemies without
consequences...
If it was the leader of
other free nations and decided not to lead and began instead to appease nations
who were historic enemies who hated freedom and
democracy...
If it deliberately weakened
it's economy by operating with policies that increased its debt
substantially...increased its deficits...increased unemployment...increased the
size of government...increased individual dependency on government and refused
to modify social safety net programs that were going
broke...
If it used unconstitutional
means to alter legislation thereby weakening the rule of law and it's
Constitution...
If it took control of the
nations health care and immediately made millions of people lose their coverage,
their doctors, their medications and their hospitals and offered instead sub
standard coverage that was unaffordable and
inappropriate...
If its leader lied to the
citizens about what major legislation critical to them and their familes really
meant so he could get it passed...
If it used laws,
regulations,policies and the organs of the state to attack freedom of
religion...
If it used its tax
collecting agency to investigate and attack political opposition groups and
individuals...
If a government spied on
its citizens via telephones and the inter net...
If it deliberately caused
the price of energy to increase for ideological reasons causing great
financial hardship to the average citizen re electricity, heating and
transportation...
If it used its regulatory
power to regulate water on private property...dramatically hinder the drilling
and use of oil, gas and coal and the expulsion of.CO2 into the
atmosphere...including by breathing...
If it denied critical water
for crops because a small fish that they deem
endangered...
If it. by the above and
other policies made the cost of food increase...
If it used religious
radicals with links to terrorists to train law enforcement on sensitivity to
their religion...
If it refused to enforce
the laws of the land and the Constitution...
If it refused to guarantee
fair and honest elections and used its powers to make voting fraud
possible...
If a government weakened
the ability of the intelligence agencies to function efficiently and
objectively...
If it, after 11 different
studies that proved the nations electrical grid was woefully vulnerable to
various types of sabotage including complete destruction ... did nothing to
protect it...
If it protected
inferior schools that failed students and tried to shut down alternative schools
and funding for schools that were successful particularly for minority and poor
children...
If it tried to manage the
news and media and intimidate reporters...
If it operated with
policies that rewarded unwed births, not seeking work and dependency on the
state...
If it cut the salaries and
benefits of its military to allegedly reduce the debt while unable or
unwilling to efficiently and effectively help its veterans including wounded
veterans...
If it took over major
aspects of education and made the cost of college prohibitive and the content
of much of the curriculum ...propaganda...
If its leader bowed to
foreign leaders and apologized to other nations for his country past imaginary
sins...
If its economic, budgetary
and regulatory policies made it next to impossible for the economy to
grow...
If it advocated policies to
make drugs legal...
If its leader refused to
talk seriously to his political opposition about joint solutions to critical
national problems...
If it voluntarily
surrendered control of the Internet...
If it attempted to disarm
its citizens...
If all of this happened
...what would you call it...incompetence...coincidence...ideology...bad luck?
Or would you call it for what is is...a take down of a
nation.
ERLANDSSON
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