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2020-12-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by NN2N1 2020-12-28 07:25|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Oh my, NN2N1 — you are definitely plumbing the depths of the possibilities! But well thought through — it needs to be done, and without emoting on the subject.

My thoughts, worth what you just paid for them:
I think we will see a serious bifurcation in how the states approach things, and which states eagerly comply with the demands of a Democratic federal government versus which states fight tooth and nail or ignore the new laws and mandates as much as possible. As a result, the US Supreme Court will repeatedly have to make public stances on subjects certain of them would no doubt prefer to ignore.

I think those states, numbering 26 after the November election, that have Republican majorities in both houses of the legislature plus a Republican governor will continue to clean up their voter rolls and voting processes. They will redistrict carefully to accommodate their increased number of representatives in the House as a result of the 2020 census — because the US Supreme Court ruled that only citizens can be counted for the purpose of redistricting. If I understand correctly, both New York State and California will lose representatives in the House due to significant population shifts, while Florida and Texas will gain. This will make the 2022 election even riskier for the Democrats than it currently appears, especially if the 2008/2010 pattern is followed.

I expect a bifurcation at the family/community level, too. Home schooling is anticipated to be up significantly in the new semester, though what that means in real numbers I don’t know. But even my sister-in-law, the one married to my computer professor baby brother, has announced that next semester she will be homeschooling their two daughters, aged 11 and 13, though it will mean she has to give up the idea of working for the duration — but as she was not deemed essential, I imagine she has not gone in to the office for quite a while anyway. And as my sister-in-law, despite a Masters in social work, is decidedly conservative, I expect her daughters’ education to move in a different direction than they’ve endured in public school — and as the girls are quite bright, I imagine they’ll move much more quickly and deeply than they had in their public school classes, knowledge and an approach they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

If the economy does indeed crash, a lot of high school kids who had planned to go straight to college will choose work or trade school instead. This will have the two-fold effect of keeping them out of the seething cauldron of Progessivism that so many colleges and universities have become, while forcing them to deal with the economic and social realities of the adult world, a shock of cold water to the little dears which will force unexpected maturation. So those that do go on to college later will be more mature and more sophisticated when they arrive, and therefore considerably less likely to believe the nonsense their professors tell them.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-28 18:00|| 2020-12-28 18:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Great article. I completely agree The USSA is already the solar system's largest national debt holder. What are we going to do when people don't believe in the dollar anymore?

Posted by jpal 2020-12-28 18:46|| 2020-12-28 18:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The Chinese already own a large chunk of California.

Fracking is (was) one of our last best hopes for maintaining some degree of control over our fate.

The best path is the one our globalist elite can't even imagine as a possibility: making our own stuff. Growing our own food. Serving our own communities.

Saving MUCH more and shifting what we do spend toward high value-added goods and services that are NOT cheap, disposable or fungible but of exceptional or enduring quality.

Living healthier lives focused more on building strong families, solid communities and a superior culture.

Could anything be more threatening to our oligarchs than the above vision of a proud, largely self-sufficient, non-consumerist and non-Woke American heartland?

Posted by Lionel Ebbeaper4939 2020-12-28 20:05|| 2020-12-28 20:05|| Front Page Top

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