August 9, 2010
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How to destroy a nation in 10 easy steps
Step 1: Plant the idea in the people that Government sucks and can’t do anything right. They are just taking and wasting your money. Taxes are teh evil!!!!!!!
Step 2: Gain power. Cheat. Lie. Spy. Steal. Defame. Rig elections. Or do whatever else is necessary to achieve this. You only have to succeed at this once.
Step 3: Once in power, make government ACTUALLY suck by hiring incompetent, idiot people and contracting out services to corrupt business people whose personal goals are completely contrary to the goals of government. Make sure you cover every branch of government from the lowliest to the highest level position.
Step 4: Start a few wars. Or do something otherwise extremely extremely expensive. (wars on ideas like drugs and terror work just as well as wars on poor countries around the world)
Step 5: Give away all the money so you can’t pay for those wars. Preferably through tax cuts and bailouts. Also cutting programs that help regular people like unemployment insurance and social security and public education are a great source for war funds.
Step 6: Let someone else gain power. Doesn’t matter who just so long as it’s not you.
Step 7: When those other people are in power, do whatever you can to prevent them from doing anything to fix your now increasingly sucky, broke, at war government. Obstruct. Obstruct. Obstruct.
Step 8: Blame everything that goes wrong on the evil GOVERNMENT, hence validating everything you told people in Step 1. Stress that this is the fault of those people you let gain power who don’t realize how much government sucks like you’ve been saying all along.
Step 9: When the poor deluded people gratefully give you power again, REPEAT steps 3 through 8. Continue until the government is totally overextended and out of money.
Step 10: If anyone starts to suspect what you are doing, make sure to refocus their anger on the Gays, Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Atheists, “Illegals”, Poor People, Druggies, Criminals, Unions, ACORN, or Foreigners. Or anyone else who is an easy powerless target and is not you.
There you have it. It’s so easy a child could do it!
Comments (18)
Liberals use step 8 to blame their predecessor, the opposing political party, a powerless radio talk show host and the eeeeevil corporation for all their failures. 2 trillion dollars of stimulus and the economy is getting worse. Liberal response: blame George Bush. Truly pathetic.
When correcting liberal Jimmy Carter’s catastrophic presidency, Ronald Reagan just took the bull by the horns and fixed the nation.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - yay for imaginary history!
WIN!
this sucks.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - I think you meant Ronald McDonald
Allow me to add my solid vote in favor: This piece is in my opinion a perfect characterization of the events and climate of the past decade or so, at the least. Bravo for putting it all together so coherently. I’d re-sub if I could.
In Israel we also suffer from petty ‘each party grabs the other by the nuts’ gridlock. Embarrassing, for anyone with his head above sea-level and the nation’s interests in mind.
@HereLiesNelsontheGreat - Re writing history is what liberals do.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - Texas Board of Education.
This is an excellent post. I do believe this could be applied to the Reagen era as well, but it ultimately seems to reduce to class warfare. The stupidity of conservatives is something tremendous. And to add injury to insult, I’d like to quote Mill who the conservatives love to cite.
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mill“
@schallerbrandon - Basic principles apply all the time regardless of the era. Liberals are in power now. They have been in power since 2006. To acquire that power they did everything in the list posted here.
This post is just an attempt to place blame for the failure of liberalism on others. Liberalism is, was and always will be a complete disaster.
I can do it in fewer
1. gain control of essentials and rig who gets what. Keep the system as top-heavy as possible with lines like, “you dont’ just get things you have to work” after you make it so that there aren’t enough jobs and definitely only a low variety for the herd that you use super abusive language on.
2. lock people into a battle of self-worth when they are hapless. They’ll go insane and die-destroy themselves and everything else. They get religion mixed with the government but only a little and NEVER spirituality and then blame the lowest HOBO for the collapse of civilization.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - Re writing history is what people do.
@HereLiesNelsontheGreat - No! It’s what liberals do. Real Americans seek the truth and then write it down for posterity. For liberals everything is about the agenda, truth, happiness, and human rights be damned.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - Yes yes. We all know liberals eat baby dolphins and slaughter masses of elderly aliens for fun in their spare time.
I’ve already admitted to as much.
So please stop polluting my blog with this stuff.
@nephyo - Liberals don’t eat baby dolphins but they do round up poor minorities and put them in concentration camps euphemistically called “the projects.” It was liberal LBJ who once said, “I’ll have the niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
The truth does indeed pollute liberalism.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - haha…politics is about re-writing history in anybody’s favor, in this holiest of holy age of information it isn’t that hard to do…you can do it by having a made up definition of what a Real American is…as opposed to those fake cardboard looking ones…
I think that it’s more likely that if you made government totally incompetent that people would stop trusting in it and become more independent.
As I saw ants crawl up the wall, I noticed that no matter how busy they are, they still stop and communicate with each other. I hope we can be like them.