(07-31-2022, 12:47 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(07-30-2022, 05:37 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: You seem to have very little faith in the fact that we live in a Democratic Republic.  There's no way they're going to take away our cars.  It's just not gonna happen.  It's stupid to think it's even remotely possible.  

Unless of course you're making money in the outrage industry.  Then of course you take every little stupid thing somebody says and blow it out of proportion in order to get more viewers and more clicks.  

And since you think the media is bought and paid for by giant corporations what in the world makes you think these giant corporations want to take away our cars?  Don't these giant corporations include all the car companies and all the companies that make things for our cars?  Don't these giant corporations include oil companies that produce our gasoline?  

Wake up yourself.  There's a giant industry that exist simply to inflame people and get them all pissed off about things.  And one of their favorite targets is the so-called elites who run the world.  They want you to think you're just a little guy who's completely powerless in the face of this giant cabal who really runs things.  There's no denying that money equals power but there's a limit as you can see by election after election.  In this country our leaders are elected and they're not about to take away cars.  It's just another ridiculous idea by the outrage industry to get you all pissed off.

And as for your attack on corporations, what do you think a corporation is?  A corporation is just a group of people who have pooled their money in order to make an investment.  Corporations are owned by you and me, through pension funds, through 401(k) plans, through individual investments.  Corporations aren't giant evil beings who operate on their own.  But I know, they make a great bogeyman for populist demagogues like Elizabeth Warren or AOC, who want you to think you are powerless and that someone else is responsible for all the problems in the world.  Some people just have a hard time coping with their own bad luck want to blame somebody else.

Go back and try to convince the 2019 version of yourself that the state would eventually lock you in your house, force u to close your business, and cause massive breaks in the supply chain based on mandating an experimental vaccine.  

The fact that we have the tools (democratic republicanism / federalism) doesn't mean that there aren't forces in this country that seek a literal and brutal fulfillment of their religious ideation (climate alarmism.)