{"id":1517,"date":"2015-07-06T19:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2015-07-06T19:38:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:38:01","slug":"thoughts-on-the-death-of-liberalism-part-xviii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Death of Liberalism, Part XVIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I listed some statistics. Of those, it\u2019s the money velocity stat which will ultimately be the real killer.<\/p>\n

Money velocity is the speed at which money flows through a society- it is what its name implies, the velocity of money. A high money velocity keeps money from pooling in the hands of the few, and flowing into the hands of the many. It creates a middle class.<\/p>\n

A low money velocity means that wealth stays in the hands of the wealthy. It creates oligarchy and poverty. It kills capital and destroys the middle class. It exacerbates class conflict and generates anger, envy, and instability. A very low money velocity creates chaos and civil war.<\/p>\n

It was the low money velocity of the thirties that created what we call the \u201cGreat Depression\u201d. See the chart below from the St. Louis Fed, and note how the plunge in money velocity in the early part of the century matches exactly with the years we\u2019ve labelled the Great Depression, and the second World War and its aftermath:<\/p>\n

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And yes, it took the US until the mid- 1950’s to finally crawl out completely from the Great Depression and the chaos, violence, and war it left in its wake. It was then, in the mid-50’s and beyond, that we entered the “Golden Age” of American history, a time of great stability and prosperity for all. That time that ended in 2008, with the horrific and unimaginable plunge in money velocity that kicked off Great Depression II, which is the hell we’re living in now.<\/p>\n

See- note how the money velocity of 2008 to the present is lower<\/i> than it was during the Great Depression and World War II!<\/p>\n

This stat is extremely alarming! Or at least, it would be if anyone in the \u201cintelligentsia\u201d knew what was going on or what they were doing.<\/p>\n

It is insane and incomprehensible that in Obama\u2019s seven years in office, that he has not even attempted, in any way, to address any of the problems I listed, or that the real problems facing the nation seem to not interest him at all. <\/p>\n

It does make one wonder if his goal is in fact the annihilation of the United States.<\/p>\n

The oligarchy doesn\u2019t seem to know or understand what it\u2019s doing on any level. Its messages are always garbled, clumsy, and given out at the wrong times. It\u2019s recent \u201csuccesses\u201d with Obamacare, gay marriage, the Confederate flag, etc. were pushed through at exactly the wrong moment. They don\u2019t seem to understand that this isn\u2019t the 60\u2019s anymore, so that kind of stuff isn\u2019t going to work now and doesn\u2019t fit, at all, with the current zeitgeist. And they don\u2019t seem to get that these \u201csuccesses\u201d can easily be undone at the point of a gun wielded by an angry populous.<\/p>\n

There is no \u201cgive and take\u201d between the wealthy and the rest here anymore. It\u2019s all take, take, take by the wealthy, long term social consequences and global stability be damned.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like they see the rest of society as a playground, and the rest of the population as toys created for their amusement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sick.<\/p>\n

And it can\u2019t last. <\/p>\n

Remember that Gallup poll that showed that a third of Americans believed that Obama didn\u2019t even like this country? Well, they haven\u2019t seen anything since then to change their minds, and these recent matters aren\u2019t going to help any. At what point does that percentage become a crisis scenario in the eyes of the regime? 40%? 50%? 75%?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nuts. What are they doing? We\u2019re deep into an economic depression, and at the threshold of Civil War already, and they\u2019re pressing highly volatile things in the public\u2019s face? WTF?!?!<\/p>\n

Are they intentionally stroking the fires of war? I wonder. Is that what Jade Helm is about? Is that a preparation for Civil War II?<\/p>\n

If it is, there is no reason to think that the regime is going to get anywhere in a war on the American people, and much reason to think that any force against them will fall apart, like their recent offenses everywhere else- you know, in Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s crazy. Do they not realize that the \u201cboots on the ground guys\u201d in the police and the military secretly despise the African in the White House? The minute a shooting war starts, they will defect to the other side. They\u2019re not going to kill their own friends and families to appease \u201cObama\u201d, the Israeli lobby, and the Kardashians. To think that they would is the height of delusion.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, but this B.S. needs to stop and stop now. The oligarchs need to ground themselves back in reality, apologize to the public for their recent actions, and make amends like responsible grownups.<\/p>\n

And if they are<\/i> trying to destroy this country on purpose, I don\u2019t know what to say, except that they all must die. I will not stand for that, and neither will the rest of us. My life is important. My culture is important. My way of life is important, and I will not allow my future to be extinguished by others as long as I can draw breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I listed some statistics. Of those, it\u2019s the money velocity stat which will ultimately be the real killer. Money velocity is the speed at which money flows through a society- it is what its name implies, the velocity of money. A high money velocity keeps money from pooling in the hands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}