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Awesome!

DP/PL was a fully bloomed dandelion and MN saw that it was time to scatter the seeds.  

I think the intended idea was to have each of us spread out to other non-liberty forums and even (gasp!) the real world to continue our advocacy of liberty.  I'm not sure the intention was to just have everybody migrate to a new site and carry on as usual - he was challenging us all to leave our comfort zones both online and off. 

Thank you MN!

...he labeled it: "The Age of Powerful Men", and I tend to believe his view on this.

Times of chaos,and/or revolt, and the resultant dysfunctional government lead to a "coup" of sorts, wherein the people will readily accept a "leader" who exhibits a direction and strength that the populace yearn for.....Trump fits the bill.....history is full of these instances....many of them plotted and planned in advance.

And  although one may wonder whether he will "fix" everything and then leave? Hardly the case.

We have an elected body of representatives who are all suckling at the teat of the K-Street Lobbyists. These "representatives" have largely been dormant, inactive, and cruising along while feathering their nests for now and for their future. Trumps election would certainly be a wake up call to them as their bank accounts would certainly be threatened.....that's all they really care about.

 This same legislative body would most likely attempt to "hand-cuff" Trump, perhaps impeach him, or worse yet....assassinate him.

That might lead to open rebellion by the populace, but as Craig Hulet has pointed out....there aren't many "men of action" out there, it's as if everybody has been castrated and made docile. It took a major incident in Ferguson Mo. to eventually get the minority population moving in protest....the police are way too powerful these days, and much more dangerous.  

That's why "they" want to confiscate our weapons...maybe not this generation....but the next generation is being "groomed" towards a "distaste for firearms".

Yes, America, as we once knew it, no longer exists.

It's gonna be Trump or Bush in any case....all else being a sideshow.  And that's not even considering Hillary....we are in deep shit.

I know the guys at the agencies. They aren't worried about Rand Paul or internet forums!

This Really sums up the state of the States:

"Banks were forced, by the government, to save some of the worst lenders in the housing bubble, then the government turned around and pilloried the banks for the crimes of the companies they were forced to acquire. The zero interest-rate policy broke the social contract for generations of hardworking Americans who saved for retirement, only to find their savings are not nearly enough. And the interest the Federal Reserve pays on the excess reserves of lending institutions broke the money multiplier and handcuffed lending to small and midsized enterprises, where the majority of job creation and upward mobility in wages occurs. Government policies and regulations in the postcrisis era have aided the hollowing-out of middle America far more than anything the private sector has done. These changes even expanded the wealth gap by making asset owners richer at the expense of renters."

"We should be teaching our kids to be better citizens through personal responsibility, not by the example of blame."

@TaoistTroll - we can figure it out for oursevers, okay? Don't worry about it!