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American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We're Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone
• https://www.rutherford.org by John W WhiteheadHave you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone?
Only instead of Rod Serling's imaginary "land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas," we're trapped in a topsy-turvy, all-too-real land of corruption, brutality and lies, where freedom, justice and integrity play second fiddle to political ambition, corporate greed, and bureaucratic tyranny.
It's not merely that life in the American Police State is more brutal, or more unjust, or even more corrupt. It's getting more idiotic, more perverse, and more outlandish by the day.
Somewhere over the course of the past 240-plus years, democracy has given way to idiocracy, and representative government has given way to a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens).
Examples abound.
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2 Comments in Response to American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We're Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone
John Whitehead is NOT differentiating btwn private property owners specifying tenants' behavior & Gov/State laws/regs/mandates etc. "In Virginia, landlords are requiring dog-owning tenants to submit their pets’ DNA to a database that will be used to track down (and fine) owners who fail to clean up after their dogs poop in public." This is a great idea & I've forwarded to apartment manager where I've lived since selling own house in Nov 2017. Tech has made this possible to nudge those irresponsible pet owners who do not clean up after their pets. This apt complex has multiple pet waste disposal stations on the large grounds, but still some owners just don't bother. It's NOT pleasant. We're on a lake here & can't do anything about the migrating ducks' poops, tho :)
If people understood the difference between legal and lawful, a person and a man/woman, a complaint in court and a claim, they would be able to put down a lot of the stupidity that government and big corporations are using to enslave them. For example. Fight an IRS complaint by filing claims against the IRS men/women using their IRS authority against you. Don't get into the IRS organization by filing a complaint against their processes. You don't have the authority to get in and then contradict. You'll lose.