How much of our current problems as a country are a result of an effective and prolonged war of strategic doctrine executed by our adversaries. Economic warfare, social warfare, psychological warfare... all of this degrades us steadily. Look no further than common sense to identify which areas we are being deliberately and effectively targeted in.
So the last time I essentially tried to suggest the same thing as you, I was widely called a conspiracy theorist. (I was drunk and it took me hours to finish my post...and I probably posted it in the wrong thread anyway)
I would say a bulk of the problems we currently face as a country (I wouldn't label what we have ahead of us as a challenge) I believe are the result of us being effectively targeted in social warfare, psychological warfare, economic warfare, industrial warfare, etc.
I believe the heated and emotional debate around gender issues is definitely something that was introduced deliberately & used to fuel an artificial divide between the citizenry.
Not supporting our oil & gas industry is a deliberate campaign to eliminate jobs & sources of economic prosperity across the country - while at the same time spending the coffers completely bare.
Last week our projected deficit for this upcoming year was $20B, now it is projected at $40B.
Our national debt jumped from $1.1 to $2.1
trillion dollars in just 8 years, and during this 8 years the government has taxed the citizenry more than at any point in our history...and what do we have to show for it?
A
trillion dollars spent above and beyond what the government brought in during that same time period...and again, what do we have to show for it?
Where did all that money go?
A decade ago, these issues weren't what they are today.
Countries looked to develop their industries and resources, not boycott their own industry as much as possible and work against them.
People knew what gender they were through a mastered aspect of their sense of self (maybe not everybody, but everybody knew Bob wasn't multiple genders that changed depending on the moon cycle, including Bob...)
Nobody got violently enraged that there was a black person on the Aunt Jamima box, nor did anybody ask whether Uncle Ben was a real person or not (a question they don't seem to ask about Tony the Tiger, which is kinda racist in and of itself...)
Boys went to the boys washroom. Girls went to the girls washroom. Nobody had to be told why... it just magically seemed to happen on its own.
Most western countries have been infected with a true, tangible retardation of the fabrics of our societies.
This was partially our own doing as we tried to make our workforce more diverse, more inclusive, and resolve long standing social justice issues that had been nagging at our societies - we got a bit too carried away with the destruction of the pillars of our society, thinking we were leading change for the better.
The other part of this was the deliberate hijacking of western world governments by the WEF and their ilk.
You can't have a Prime Minister personally mentioned and introduced in Davos by none other than Klaus Schwab, and not realize that our PM has clearly been trying to make Klaus's book a reality. Fuck the citizenry, seriously, fuck em'...
Democracies tend to have the citizens vote for their leaders, who in turn work on behalf of the citizens to achieve the things they claimed they would when campaigning for those citizen's votes.
Yet in the last few years we have internet censorship legislation that NOBODY wanted and the citizenry weren't even consulted on...
We have firearms legislation that specifically targets law abiding gun owners who haven't violated the law...
We are about to quadruple a carbon tax that not only does the citizenry not want nor ever did, but economists the world over have looked at and seen as an amazingly efficient way to fuck up an economy...
We are taxing our farmers out of work, while big global companies are buying up that land at a record pace...
Etc etc - the list could easily go on, and on, and on...
My thoughts are yes. This modern day minefield of imaginary social issues, compounded by real government spending on nothing at all, the blatant attack on the traditional family, and government pushing ahead on internet censorship, speech censorship, etc etc is very much the result of a clear, sustained, deliberate
effort by someone...
Who that someone is could be open to interpretation I suppose. (China? Russia? My guess is that someone is actually ourselves, knowing the consequences and deliberately pushing for them anyway...)
(KevinB, you aren't wrong about us F**king ourselves in some big ways, as much as we wish we could blame it on someone else. But the US of A is in the canoe right next to us, about 20km up a little known water way called Shit Creek...how's that southern border lookin'?)