“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.”― Piet Hein, Grooks 1

“Theproblems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arrangingwhat we have known since long.”― LudwigWittgenstein, PhilosophicalInvestigations

Problems are something people like toavoid. It’s a rare person that will leap headfirst into a problemwithout being prodded to do so by others like a stubborn mule. It’srarer that the person will find a simple solution without a greatdeal of self investigation and the stripping away of preconceivednotions. Solutions to any real problem do not come easily, andsolutions are much harder to find when fouled knowledge andpsychological defense mechanisms are between the person and solution.Right now, the United States has an abundance of problems that aren’tbeing addressed due to denial and excuse making.

Propaganda News- News organizationshave become fully untrustable. When they aren’t pushing news aboutpeople dying, they’re pushing their political stance and trying toget people to ‘see it their way’. Opinion has therefore replaced realnews coverage. This includes hyperbole and blatant lies combined withthe will to cover up crimes, such as the Epstein story that was cutand the leaking of which that got a reporter fired without anyevidence she was even a part of the leak. They willfully push pollswith questionable results such as the ones leading up to the ’16election that showed Hillary with a large lead, and also pushNeo-McCarthyism by fueling the Russophobia that has taken hold ofpeople who don’t actually stop and think about our own problems: thecountry has an increasing obesity rate, increasing overdose rate,increasing suicide rate, increasing prescription drug use, increasinghomelessness, declining educational standards, colleges bloated withideology instead of learning, increasing debt load, a government thatbarely functions between taking money from lobbyists, all whileexporting our manufacturing and along with it our real economy. (Seesome of my other essays for more information on those subjects.) Andpeople think Russians could do something worse to us. Yeah, theycould do worse, they could nuke us, which is the only thing remotelyworse than what we’re doing to ourselves.

Strategic Overstretch- The UnitedStates has ~800 military bases spread throughout ~80 countries,depending on the source and what people want to call a ‘base’. Nonation has ever survived such strategic overstretch. The ability tobe strong on all fronts does not exist. Ask the English. The Spanish.Portuguese. The Dutch. Rome. All their empires fell due to not havingthe resources to properly defend the territory they set up shop on,combined with confrontations with all the enemies that went afterthem that were created from them carving pieces of influence out ofthe world around them. This is made even more troublesome with thefact that even many of our allies have problems with us. South Koreais tiring of the whole ‘Korean War’ fiasco. Europe is tiring of ouroutdated thinking that says the ‘USSR’, which hasn’t existed fordecades, is still a problem. Iraq wants us kicked out of thatcountry. Japan is weary of our undisciplined troops killing theircitizens. We don’t have the means to maintain the status quo as it isfor much longer with a military that can’t win a war against peoplein Toyotas. Not to mention the questionable dealings with militantswhich always end with them turned against us and trying to bomb us.Americans have a notion that WW3 would be us and our allies againstsome ‘bad guy’, when in reality, it’s shaping up to be us and acouple satellite nations like the United Kingdom against the world,with us being the ‘bad guy’. And we will lose spectacularly if thathappens, because we’ve turned out too many people who are soemotionally weak they’re hurt by words alone and will fold like papermache in the face of an actual fight.

Calcified Government- So many of thepeople in our Federal government have been there so long it’s nowonder they still talk like the USSR is a thing, because it was whenthey first entered office. Our governments, both at the state andFederal levels, are full of people bloated on lobbyist money due topandering to special interest groups for decades. They’re sodisconnected from the world and the country in general that theydon’t even realize that trying to say something like in Bolivia isn’ta ‘coup’ is like someone trying to say Epstein killed himself. Onlypeople that habitually buy such nonsense on a regular basis withoutany thought believe it anymore. The Deep State gave up trying to besecret and essentially made itself fully visible, which is the bestthing about the Trump Presidency that would never have happened ifHillary or Bernie had won ’16: Hillary pandered to the Deep State andBernie pandered to people for votes. Our government still thinkspeople believe what they say, rather than rolling their eyes. Thegovernment still thinks we have a network of allies across the globe,rather than a few nations being bullied into being allies. They stillthink people think they’ll be able to retire one day. Of course, somepeople in the country still think those things, especially those whoare older who want to deny the situation we’re in and those who arebarely adults that swallow propaganda like it’s breakfast cereal.

Social Security fund- Some people under50 still think they’ll retire. I assure you that is a joke of cosmicproportions for everyone that isn’t disciplined enough to save moneyand pay everything they have off. And the joke is on almost everyone.The Social Security fund is running out of money. Meanwhile, we’respending billions on war machines while sending billions more toother countries to buy them as allies for a short amount of time.There’s your retirement and disability: up in smoke because of somebullshit ‘Commie’ threat that doesn’t exist (except for Marxistprofessors on campuses). Chances are those that think they’ll retirewill really join the ranks of the homeless or those that work untilthe day they drop dead on the job, while those entirely dependent ondisability will end up eating pet food like some of those alreadyliving entirely off SS payments, which isn’t a pretty sight. I’veseen it for myself in Florida.

Failed ‘Education’ System- I won’t getinto how the rest of the world is ahead of us in math and science.That’s so old news it’s not funny. But I will point out that manycolleges have reduced themselves to bastions of hooliganism andignorance based on ideology. I won’t get into the ‘professors’ thatwant to push Marxism or those that want to claim there’s nobiological difference between males and females (even though theseare evidence of what I’ve said for a while now: the entire‘education’ system needs revamped, except I don’t think people reallyunderstand what I mean: I mean the entire system needs reduced tofundamental basics, all ideology removed, and then rebuilt intosomething that benefits society instead of working against society asit’s currently doing) but we certainly have hooligans running rampanton campuses because of the ignorance they’re swallowing. (I won’tdigress to how I refuse to go to college due to not wanting to riskcoming out stupider and with a narrower view than when I entered,because as Aleksandr Solzhenitsynsaid, ‘Education doesn’t makeyou smarter.’ and what we see on these campuses is proof of that.)The latest demonstration of this is the ‘protesters’ at Ann Coulter’sBerkeley appearance yesterday. Protesting is one thing, physicallybarring people from entering a building is another. That’soppression. Pure and simple. Protest all you want against who youwant, I could care less, but you’re actively oppressing people onceyou try to keep them from something they have the right to go to.That falls back to the essay I wrote the other day, ‘Freedom: A GreatLie’, in which I point out the moment you say you can make the rulesyou’re saying someone else can’t, which means you become theoppressor. Argue with circle talk all day long about how ‘they’restanding up for bigotry and it’s their right’: it doesn’t matter,because they’re making themselves the bigots, and if I accept theirview that Coulter is a bigot for the sake of argument, it’s bigotsagainst bigots, which is called ‘even’, meaning neither has a rightto claim having ‘a higher moral ground’. Not only that, but usingyour free speech to try taking away another person’s free speechbreaks the ninth amendment that says you can’t use your rights totake away another person’s rights. So forcibly keeping someone fromspeaking or others from hearing them speak is bigotry, oppression,and a violation of the constitution.

None of these problems can be sortedout and fixed until people stop denying them and pushing the blame onothers. We’re not special. No one is ‘after us’. No one is screwingup our society except ourselves. Why these problems have gotten tothe point they have gotten is because of denial and sticking of thehead in the sand so far only toes show. The ‘Russophobia’ is aperfect example of it: let’s blame some other country for messingwith our elections instead of admitting the person that lost laughedat a man’s brutal murder and made decisions that lead to the brutaldeath of one of our diplomats in response to Gaddafi’s death. Thismentality is pure denial and excuse making, and denial and excusemaking always lead to catastrophic failures (just go ask Boeing howit worked out for them). The only way to start turning this around isto take responsibility for our own bad decisions and the baddecisions of our government and the people that are part of it.Nonsensical excuses aren’t going to work much longer. Pushing blameon others isn’t going to work much longer. Circle talkrationalization that doesn’t really say anything isn’t going to workmuch longer. Shrugging and saying ‘it’ll be okay, something will getfigured out’ isn’t going to work much longer. Until we takeresponsibility, I stand by the answer I gave to a direct question twoyears ago: ‘Do you think Trump will be our last President?’ ‘No, butI think the one after him could be.’

Further reading:

Factsvs. Opinion and FoxNews-https://community.aarp.org/t5/Politics-Current-Events/FACTS-VS-OPINION-AND-FOX-NEWS/td-p/2017676

RussianFederation: Official Analysis of AmericanRussophobia-https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/04/21/russian-federation-official-analysis-of-american-russophobia/

CBSNews Fires Staffer Over Leaked Amy Robach and Jeffrey EpsteinAudio-https://www.thewrap.com/cbs-news-fires-staffer-over-leaked-amy-robach-and-jeffrey-epstein-audio/

TheUS Has Military Bases in 80 Countries. All of Them MustClose.-https://www.thenation.com/article/the-us-has-military-bases-in-172-countries-all-of-them-must-close/

TheDanger of ImperialOverstretch-https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/07/15/the-danger-of-imperial-overstretch/

IfNorth Korea and Japan went to war, South Koreans would support KimJong-un, says newsurvey-https://www.rt.com/news/472834-south-korea-kim-versus-japan/

NATOexperiencing ‘brain death’, France’s Macronsays-https://in.reuters.com/article/uk-nato-france-idINKBN1XH1H9

Iraqidefense minister gives US troops 4 weeks to leaveIraq-https://nypost.com/2019/10/23/iraqi-defense-minister-gives-us-troops-4-weeks-to-leave-iraq/

UStroops in Japan banned from drinking after fatalcrash-https://apnews.com/5026201eca474b1cbda3aa8560255d72

79Members Of Congress Have Been In Office For At Least 20Years-https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-18/79-members-congress-have-been-office-least-20-years

DeepState Admits They’ve Finally “Gotten a Grip on Trump” Liken Himto George W.Bush-https://thedailycoin.org/2017/09/22/deep-state-admits-theyve-finally-gotten-grip-trump-liken-george-w-bush/

SocialSecurity is running out of money, with benefits on track to bereduced by2035-https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/social-security-running-money-benefits-track-reduced-2035/story?id=62557507

Congresswoman:Some of My Constituents ‘Eat Dog Food When Their Food Stamps RunOut’-https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/congresswoman-some-my-constituents-eat-dog-food-when-their-food-stamps-run-out

HomelessnessAmong the Elderly Expected to Triple in 10Years-https://invisiblepeople.tv/homelessness-among-the-elderly-expected-to-triple-in-10-years/

Don’tcelebrate Karl Marx. His Communism has a death count in themillions.-https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/05/karl-marx-communism-death-column/578000002/

Wharton’sAdam Grant eviscerates viral Google memo: Differences between men andwomen are slim tonone-https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/adam-grant-on-google-memo-differences-between-sexes-are-slim-to-none.html

UCBerkeley P.D. release names of people arrested at Coulterevent-

NinthAmendment-https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/ninth_amendment

Benghazivictims’ families file suit againstClinton-https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-benghazi-families-sue-hillary-clinton-20160809-story.html

Hillaryon Gaddafi – “we came, we saw, hedied.”-https://youtu.be/UtH7iv4ip1U

HowAirbus finally seized the Boeing 737’s title as the world’s mostpopularplane-https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/a320-more-popular-than-737-most-orders/