A reader remarks; There will be no revolution

There will be no civil war, at least not in the traditional sense.

Who’s going to do the fighting? An army of middle aged conservatives that can barely bend over to tie their shoes? Lefty soy boys afraid to use a pair of kitchen scissors? Hypomanic urban punks aiming pistols sideways with arms out? The cavalry ain’t coming folks.

Sober

You bring up some interesting points here. Any supposed revolution or civil unrest will not be proactively planned. I look at how far the quality of life for the average American has slid and yet nothing changes. The people tolerate it.

Where did it all begin?

It’s all so very clever, because the change has been so gradual.

I mean we can trace this process all the way back since the advent of the Federal Reserve system in 1913.

Shortly thereafter, the private banking elite chose the United States to be the cudgel for the New World Order. Since 1913, the United States has fought nothing but endless war. And yet, Americans salute the flag and talk about how the United States is fighting for freedom. Talk about brainwashing….

We can trace the cultural changes going back to the emergence of the modern feminist movement in the 1920s as a catalyst to break up the family unit and the rollout of socialism in the 1930s. We became government junkies. We can discuss how cultural Marxism began to flourish in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Deficit spending and immigration beats down the worker

We can discuss how the average worker began to get beaten down in the early to mid-1970s as businesses and industries were offshored and the Federal and state governments began running ever larger budget deficits. The concept of systemically underreporting inflation became the rage as the purchasing power of the dollar plummeted.

At the same time American industries were being dismantled, the federal government began proactively allowing up to 100 million immigrants into the country since 1980. These non-congruent immigrants were willing to work for next to nothing. The concomitant result is that the wage base has been driven down. Workers just don’t make enough money anymore.

And yet the squeeze continues. The only conclusion I can make is that our own government views its citizenry as the enemy. The government’s hidden objectives differ greatly than what’s publicly portrayed.

Despite all this, despite all the lies, despite all of the demoralization techniques, the people take it.

I know firsthand how far things have slid since the early 70s. It’s gradual. It’s so gradual that people don’t know when to say when. It seems they never will.

What about home ownership?

It used to be much less expensive to own a home and maintain it. It used to be much less expensive to raise a family properly.

Over the decades, these basic concepts continue to get more and more expensive every year.

We can just say that things are out of control and ready to collapse or we can conclude that this was the plan all along, since the system’s engineers don’t want us owning anything anyway. They want us to be a nation of renters. They want us to rent our cars, our furniture, and especially our homes. Renters lack stability and that’s what our owners want.

Perhaps in another 20 years, the concept of owning a home will be as alien as a gold backed US dollar. This is why I’ve always maintained that we are to be the landlord, since we can derive a cash flow that grows over the years. Using information technology and economies of scale, private equity firms have run the numbers and are doing the same.

The transformation and wealth consolidation continue

A stupid citizenry is unable to articulate the process of impoverishment

As the deficit spending levels mount, this injected money ends up on the balance sheets of those who can capture it. All of this deficit spending ends up on the balance sheets of the largest and most influential corporations in each sector. It ends up on the balance sheets of the landlords and property owners. Those who own the stock of these corporations benefit the most. It’s a slow motion wealth and power consolidation that most are unable to articulate.

While homeowners may experience a substantial rise in their nominal equity values, their costs continue to spiral higher as well. Higher market values mean higher property taxes and higher maintenance costs.

The only residential real estate market participants who truly profit are those who can charge ever higher rents to offset these costs. SFR investors can take advantage of the tax codes to pay little to nothing in income taxes. Why do you think the private equity firms are quickly cornering the residential real estate market? Although the percentage of properties that they own are small, their effect on the margin is tremendous. Yes, as long as private equity is involved in residential real estate, the concept of affordability will mean nothing.

What’s truly important to my readers?

In terms of what we say on this blog, we don’t get too caught up with much of the things that others fuss about. I’m not going to get wrapped up in the latest assassination, unless it does affect our investing activities.

The readers of this blog also recognize that there is a transformation occurring. It’s not a collapse in the traditional sense. I suspect that the average reader here already has a cursory comprehension of how the financial and economic systems work. Since there’s nothing we can do to change the circumstances of the many, we concentrate on figuring out how to not fall behind, at least financially. Of course, we talk about other things as well.

After all, I don’t see any revolutions taking place. Most people seem to just be like lab rats in an experiment receiving electric shocks. The people make a fuss and vent their frustrations like rats getting zapped, but they seem to take it.

I see a lot of drug use and depression. I see a lot of road rage. I see the people addicted to pornography. I see people getting sicker. I see a lot of YOLO spending. I see a lot of broken homes and miscegenation. I see a lot of gambling, etc. the average person is unable to articulate his circumstances and thus, turns his frustrations inward.

What’s the sense of getting upset with stuff? Does it really matter in the larger picture? Of course, we are to try to help others understand their predicament. This is why I have my blog. It’s why we’re on this planet. However, I suggest we put our noses to the grindstone and figure out ways to overcome the obstacles that overwhelm others. Even if the revolution is televised, most of us will just be sitting in front of the TV passively watching it anyway.