Our Schizoid Nation

In the Peter G. Peterson Foundation story: “SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: SHOULD WE REDUCE BENEFITS?”

As a Nation, we are split from the Government on down. We have been, ever since Woodrow Wilson “created” socialism by another name in America — “The Welfare State.” He “created an unconstitutional — Administrative State” to ensure this happened.

This has been further hindered by our “pre-1950s” way of trying to solve problems only through “analysis.”

From senators down to trusted sources like the Peter G. Peterson Foundation perform many analyses to “get to the bottom of the problem.”

The Answer? —

We live in a welfare state! The ROOT of this problem is DEEP.

The Consequence of “Analysis” — It keeps us Blind to the REAL PROBLEM.

I wrote them a message through their “Contact” web form:

“Like this article, similar ones are dealt with as if each was its own universe. This is called analysis. You are NOT studying the “System.” (https://readmedium.com/system-thinking-eedc1b27905a) It is like looking at a low tire in the car and thinking, “this is why the car is not working (flip the coin- If we fix this, the car will run) Will it!? or having a headache and drilling the head to “fix it.” This program is ONE of THOUSAND Progressives Roosevelt and LBJ created. Because of them, my company, for example, cut off our retirement plans (social Security) and health benefits (Medicare) — we now live in a Socialist Country, and WE (the collective) do not know WHO we are yet?

WE need to make up our minds!!!! We want one half to be an apple and the other half to be an orange?”

I may not have made myself clear in the short message I sent. The two halves I was talking about, one side, those who think we still live by the Constitution — the apple color, think, “WHY does this program even exist?” and, HOW was it approved? The other side, the Orange, thinks we need “more money in the budget! Add a monthly paycheck, real healthcare, and pay for my education.”

The article takes Social Security into an isolation room and performs a magnificent analysis of the who, how, what, and why of the Social Security Program. As if it was a low-hanging fruit attached to nothing. I guess in those in the “know,” it is. Why? Because it is a “Trust Fund” managed by a “Board of Trustees?”

Everybody is an “Expert” doing “Analysis.” However, this type of analysis does not stand alone. Analysis never can. Whenever I read the word “Analysis,” the first thought that comes into my mind is, “what is this ‘Part’ attached to?”

This is similar to taking one spark plug out of the car's engine and trying to figure out why the car is not running smoothly. How do we know THAT is the one and only problem? How do we know that is the “root cause” of the problem?

The answer that popped into my head was “the government.” What is that part attached to? “The Constitution” (the Law of the Land), and the “Declaration of Independence” (Our Moral Law).

Who looks back to 1913? THAT is when the problem started. That is when the gigantic pot of water (our growing Nation) was put on a slow burning fire. The programmatic name for this fire is “the process of incremental seduction.” We (the big we) are just now starting to realize the pot is about to boil over, killing us in the process. Similar to the way the Soviet Union was killed. when people do not earn their keep by the sweat of their brow, they give away control of their destiny to the “Politburo.”

That describes our system of government as it was before Roosevelt and LBJ. These two presidents understood exactly that they were executing Woodrow Wilson's plan. After that, we continue to convert the government into an Orange in earnest. (everybody gets a bite). 30 Trillion dollar debt? “somebody will worry about that.” Every government has borrowed money. Once a point a time, we kept it manageable; however, since Woodrow Wilson, who fought WWI by printing money we did not have, every government since has competed to see who can borrow the MOST money. money WE DON’T HAVE! The winner so far is Biden, hands down.

How does the government operate? Short answer? WITH OUR MONEY AND BEYOND IT. All along, promoting more social programs. The government no longer works for us and hasn’t in a long time. We work for the government; we are the “serfs” of old. You can think of us as the first-generation AI because our lives are not ours anymore; call us “Sentient AI.”

Why has Woodrow Wilson’s system of government lasted this long? The Administrative State is autopoietic — look for a future post on this.