The End of America

The Book of Mormon? the word mormon means "more good"
So it is the Book of More Good!
Its pages are filled with principles that all lovers of liberty could find beneficial. Many accounts of an ancient people struggling with freedom; their losing it to their pride and wickedness; and defending it from invaders without and traitors within.

Here is a chapter where one of their own countrymen sought to destroy their liberty and replace it with kings. What is best is the attitude and mindset of General Moroni. You see if it doesn't inspire you and if you don't feel the same way as Moroni:... See More
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/46

There are som many more. Mormons are some of Freedoms best men. They will play a great part in preserving the Constitution.
Freedom will be preserved though by a thread. This government no longer codifies the Constitution and they are now almost finished with a new government to replace it altogether.

What? Republicans have a completely different idea of what threats pose the biggest risks to America? I'm shocked! And stunned! I never would have predicted that . . .

. . . from the approval polls that consistently show Republicans in general and Southern Republicans in particular as being totally out of step with the entire rest of the nation.

It is the worm in the apple that rots it not the worm outside.

WTG Джош! :D

Glad to hear you're a serious boy and not some infantile geek-father!

And forget about opening a small business legally. The maze of permits, inspections, applications and fees are so complicated that you CANNOT ever be sure you're legal unless you can afford a full-time staff lawyer.

All those things which exist under Natural Law.

Actually, while some Christians may believe (and act on) the idea that they can do anything and only need to say "I believe" to get away with it, that is not actually what the gospel teaches - we are guaranteed eternal life, but first we have a conversation and some consequences to work things out.

Another make believe religion will save nothing!

@Joel: as a person who was personally affected by Katrina, you might like to read this. It's a treatment of the lessons we failed to learn, from someone who was working on the inside. (link follows)

http://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com/nl/crisis-manager-080831.html#cmu

totalitarianism took root under Bush and those roots are quietly growing under Obama. read Naiomi Wolf's book The End of America for a good summary on the Bush admin's attack on our civil liberties and the constitution, and from there take note that not much has been done by the Obama admin to reverse the atrocious violations of the constitution in the previous admin. same federal power grab, different mask.

the answer to your question is yes...

all it takes is getting all the current senators and congressmen out of office. Have people write in their chosen members. Get together, state by state and reconstitute how people are voted in. We need to go back to voting in Senators not by popular election, but by the State Houses as it used to be. The prevention of totalitarianism, socialism... See More, comunism and so forth comes from US...the citizens. It is our duty...as well as a constitutional right, to remove the president from office, dissolve the congress and begin again. That is OUR responsibility, not whomever was elected. We can then go about, by stating that all current laws and policies remain in effect....we can go about electing proper people, reworking aspects of the election process and revamping laws. We can stop the insanity...instead of whining that they won't listen to us in Congress. Totalitarianism happens when the people ignore it machinations by those they have given power. Take that power away. Congress as a collective no longer represents the people in the manner which we demand. Our government must be reduced to its original parameters.

Anyone know the reasons for these? http://bit.ly/b3FNy

Interestingly there is little to no mention of the 2nd Amendment or private firearms ownership or their potential impact on any of the case scenarios.

It's the combination of American Exceptionalism, plus the apathy that accompanies the (relative) comfort in which we've lived for generations now...

...when those comforts are gone, and the reality hits that It Can Happen Here, people will remember how to get angry again. My principal fear is that, by that time, it will be far too late -- the frog is boiled.

a confederacy as part of the process for bigger changes

None!

All of the Americas are being formed into zone two.

Instead of an outright breakup, a currency breakup might not be a bad thing. We have 12 Federal Reserve banks. Why not allow each to publish its own separately floating currency, providing finer-grained response to economic conditions in its own region? We finally have the computing power to make tracking each currency's value against the others a ... See Morecinch. With separately floating currencies, you wouldn't have a recovery in one part of the country (say, Silicon Valley) fortifying the dollar and increasing prices and wages before another part of the country (say, Utica) gets to catch up.

I know it swims against the monetary union tide, but let's face it: This is a ridiculously big country whose various regions have very different economies as well as different interests. Some places boom while others perpetually languish. It doesn't make sense to have only one monetary feedback control governing all of them at once when conditions are so wildly disparate.

Tangible currency makes up such a piddling little fraction of the dollars in circulation, that I can't see how breaking up the Fed could make any difference.

You surely know that the vast, HUGE majority of the dollars in circulation are electronic -- they're just credit that is backed up by more credit.

@Connor: Oh no, New Brunswick has seceded!

Looks like Puerto Rico will return to spanish rule in the same way China did with Hong Kong back in 1997

My predictions: peak oil, suburban slums, rising sea levels, climate migration and isolation of elites. Not that a dozen other possibilities aren't also likely.

The Scenario Engine, for want of a better term, seems to fail to take into account the inter-connected nature of the different scenarios.

For instance, our pending economic *and* ecological collapse have the same root causes -- overpopulation and overconsumption -- and will manifest in many of the same effects, such as severe shortages of food, fuel, and especially water.

David: People in Canada would want places to live. Even if the Great White North has more arable land than the U.S., America will have more urban areas with the infrastructure to support large populations.

No it won't be climate change think of all the other choices we have to end the world today. It's a sorry mess that does not have to be wish we would all get it together.