[ExI] I see pitchforks.

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 22:34:10 UTC 2019


Every thing that is being said here seems to promote one idea for me:

Find a way or ways to keep gridlock alive in Congress.
bill w

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:15 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >>…  When they are gone, there is a new 1%!  When does your number come
> up, John?  Is it sooner?  Or is it later?
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> >…It comes up after they run out of prison space - which they are already
> short on - so they can't do the cycle you postulate more than a few times,
> if even once.  Most people would be confident enough that it would stop
> long before it got to them.
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> Prison space?  Once that process starts of giving government arbitrary
> power, any government, the whole prison thing is unnecessary.  All they
> need is a place to dump the ashes of those once-wealthy.
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> France did it in the late 1700s.  The Soviet Union went there in the early
> 1900s.  Germany did it in the 1940s.  China, 1960s.  I am hoping the USA
> learned something from their experience: any government given arbitrary
> power will eventually devour its own.
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> If we give away our constitution, you and I won’t be the first ones in
> that furnace.  But we will be there eventually.
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> spike
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