"And, right on queue after Biden’s inauguration, the media that hated Trump with the heat of a thousand suns traded the boxing gloves for velvet gloves. No story was too big to suppress, no lie was too big to repeat. The media continued to act as an extension of the Democratic party, which was now in control of the federal government."
No single media event was more nauseating and shameless than when, during Biden's inauguration, David Chalian of CNN equated the lights set up around the National Mall Reflecting Pool to “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.” It was like listening to North Korean propagandists describing Kim Il-Sung as the product of a divine birth on Mount Paektu.
I knew immediately that our nation was in deep trouble.
Please note, this is a prediction, not an endorsement.
If she goes as heavy handed as the creation of this office a week after the Twitter news broke suggests it might, I'd honestly be surprised if she survives to the election.
**Someone** out there is going to be both sufficiently angry and low on fucks. This is... **Every single person** I have told about this thought I was joking at first. This is **incredibly** contrary to the spirit of this country. There are a lot of people who think Biden shouldn't be in office in the first place, let alone setting up offices like this. And frankly, the general tone of the country is just vastly antagonistic.
And as you say, this isn't someone who is even vaguely non-partisan. She's going to make decisions (assuming she makes any at all) that fall perfectly in line with one side, and use DHS to push it, and she's going to be the one people are seeing all the time as the one who is doing this. Biden might as well have painted a target on her back.
For some reason (🤔) I read it as ‘feral government’. It is much more appropriate as government has gone wild and uncontrollable…. and not just in the USA.
The Company has controled the exec branch for decades. First with politcos favorable to the Company then with those recruited by the Company long before they became prez.
The election of 2016 was an anomalie. Trump was not expected to win. For all of his faults of which there are many -- huge ego, naivete, selecting poor hires, etc -- he was not a Company man.
The Company went in to full mode to try to get him gone and if that wasn't possible to at least insure that he did not win the next election. The Company plotted, schemed, and used their media for 4 years. Their media censored info about Sniffy and his son. There was a massive effort to "win" the election at any cost.
Then there was the "insurrection" that was orchestrated and planned by the Company and carried out by agent provacateurs. The purpose of which was to prevent the Senate and the public from hearing of evidence of election fraud.
And now openly promoting censorship under the cover of calling it preventing dis and misinformation when the largest purveyor of misinformation is the Company and their MSM apparatus.
Many people who before did not see the blatant corruption now see it. The mid term elections will be key. There is a lot for Company tools to lose. Unfavorable results for them could lead to hearings and perhaps conviction and imprisonment. Like cornered rats they will do whatever it takes to stay in power including 'fixing' elections, canceling elections, a false flag emergency, declaring foriegn hacking, whatever it takes.
And the Disinfo Gov Board will be right their at the forefront -- promoting lies, labeling any questioning of the narrative as disinfo, calling anything that smells of truth foriegn propaganda.
Many of the party loyalists will lap up the lies because rank and file party loyalty usually goes hand in hand with low information and regularly guzzling MSM.
The biggest hope seems to be in individual states where a sizeable number of the population to varying degrees see the blatant corrupt shit show and are fed up with it.
I also think "stealing the money of those evil Russians" will turn into "stealing the money of those evil disinformation spreaders" -- which will of course be anybody who runs afoul of the DGB.
Now think how Biden's (handlers') ratings will soar before the next presidential election when he fires this woman and some others, and on the surface rolls back the more obnoxious rules and decisions.
That why they hated Trump* in power: the man is a businessman, and knows that when negotiating, start by demanding as self-evident much much more than you are really after. That way you can appear as reasonable and as conceding in the interest of a mutually beneficial deal if the rube buys your spiel.
Or just listen to Eddie Murphy's 'Raw': "I waaant half Eddieee!", is what the woman says when divorcing. That is shrew(d) negotiating: ask for half of what you never earned, threaten court and scandal, and walk away with lots more than you have any right to.
Lots of birds, especially seagulls of all kinds, have perfected this tactic. Don't know what the modern day colloquialism for women such as the "Who do I have to F*ck to be rich, powerful and famous"-woman of the clip is, but here we actually call those 40+, divorced, single mothers, attempting to build a civil service career on having a vagina - for seagulls, due to they shit on everything, scream and screech and mob everyone else.
*Though imagine if Roy Cohn had ever tried to go the political route. Trumps and Cohns and Helmsleys, oh my.
No doubt the DNC will try to frame Biden as uniquely bad once he's gone, but his whole agenda is the progressive wishlist, and it will long outlive him.
Tha's the way they run the carousels over here: the old guy tries and fails to push through the latest idiocy, and then it's 'exit: stage left' (sadly no bear) for him, while the new broom under the guise of fixing the old problems is actually the one who was always supposed to get it done.
And it works again and again, because as I never tire of pointing out: average intelligence does not mean intelligent, just average - i.e. about as smart and thinking in the same way as most everyone.
Meanwhile, us perennial grumblers and Abbie Normal's at the tails of the normal distribution, can just shake our heads at the average voter behaving like someone repeatedly sticking their gentials in a beehive.
I talk to people all over America every day. From giant "blue" cities, to small Midwest towns. Although I can't talk "politics", when someone does bring them up I can kind of comment. And I am amazed at the amount of people who aren't buying all of this! It's very exciting. We can't let the corporate media fool us into thinking that most people are on board with what's been going on the last couple years. I even talked to an 80 yr old woman in NY today who proudly said (in so many words) that she'd like to tell "them" where to stick their "covid" "vaccine". It feels really hopeless at times, and there's definitely a lot of very sick and *dangerous* "Bidenization" going on, but I really believe people are starting to get it. I'm still of the belief that things are not going to go the way they are desperately planning and hoping they will. Great post! :-)
I'm proud of Americans for being scrappy, and I'm proud of all the lawsuits brought against the administration, and I'm proud of the Supreme Court for striking the Vax mandates down. Say what you will about the U.S. and it's stupid war machine, but Ingsoc is a tough sell here because our origin story states that we sent a king packing.
Let's face it. Huge numbers of Americans no longer want freedom, not for themselves and certainly not for others. Freedom is messy, scary, and annoying. Freedom threatens feelings of safety and security. And freedom, if exercised by those OTHER people might threaten the status or privilege of vested interests, including left-leaning (or left screaming) "elites".
And as long as people wish to cede freedom, plenty of statists and ideologues are ready to provide whatever the sheeple wish for, from proscribed behaviors to fictionalized information.
And this attitude is nurtured by the Democrats and their proxies in education and the media, precisely because that is the kind of population they need to go along with their plans for an everlasting socialist utopia.
We're screwed because they are all wretched, on both sides. Trump was a miserable fleabag from the get-go--and I don't mean from when he stepped into politics. The over-the-top adulation by his fans--and I don't mean those who pragmatically decided to vote for him, but his actual enthusiastic fans--is utterly baffling to me.
But yeah--not in my worst--or let's say really really bad--nightmares could I have imagined what we have right now. I mean, Dolores Umbridge for real in an actual Ministry of Truth being paid from our tax dollars? A political party that represents hysterics?
Conservatives who are revolted by what the Republican party has become are people I'd like to meet, if anyone can point me to a nice backyard gathering.
The GOP only polls well because they are the only option. Nearly every 'conservative' article I read, the comments are bagging on the GOP with the exception of like 5 people.
Controlling the White House ? Why... Blackrock & the Vanguard Group. They control all industries by owning a majority of their companies shares. And they control politics as well.
Quietly... over time, power and control has been amassed by a select group. This group includes the Rothschilds. Their economic engines are Blackrock & Vanguard Group. Sadly, it seems that the worst is yet to come. Microchipping in hands is underway in Sweden. More to come ?
I'd like to note that a lot of this stuff didn't start with Biden, a lot of it kicked into high gear under Obama. But Obamainzation doesn't sound as similar to Balkanization. This is what we call artistic license. 😉
Or revert to the original plan for the USA, a confederation not a federation. In the early days, there were 13 Colonies with a mostly homogenous population by language, culture, tradition, politics, religion, Nationality (British) and natural affinity and so it was at Independence: 3 million in number.
Now, 50 States with a heterogenous population of 327 million is an artificial construct with no natural affinity as a Body Politic. The EU is trying to recreate a United States, by converging diverse societies into one. I guess the USA is making the reverse journey, the one society diverging into many. Neither will survive in my view.
When does a Country so diverse cease to be a Nation and become an empire, and ultimately ungovernable except by tyranny? Look at India, China, Pakistan. Look at Britain, there’s an artificial construct for you. Why do some people there cling to Union as being an absolute for all time - it’s a very recent creation after all?
It is a truism, the further away Government is from the People both geographically, culturally and politically, the less able it is to serve their interests and the less it will serve their interests. This is why all empires become preoccupied with the core and ultimately collapse, from outside in.
Given the extreme polarisation, might not a split into Red States and Blue States be best solution for USA? In fact given the rate the population of the USA is decanting into Florida, the rest may end up near empty anyway.
I mean... except for William Penn, the Quaker. And all the Germans and Dutch who were there so early on that Pennsylvania actually had to pass language laws. (Well, "felt they had to" at any rate.)
I think we could do it. Easily. Because there's nothing Americans can't do.
But that's the problem. The thing all those early colonists had in common is they wanted to be free, and they wanted to be Americans. *That's* what's killing us. Half of America doesn't want to *be* "America", as what the Founders envisioned and (very imperfectly) implemented, even if it were done right.
They don't *want* that limited government. The don't want that honestly rather radical commitment to free expression of early America built into the culture. They don't want a culture of independent people who work for themselves towards their own goals.
And that makes it really hard to hold a country together.
Since WWII, there has been a gradual transfer of power, independence, responsibility, self-reliance from the individual to the State. What drove the late 18th Century Industrial Revolution in Britain (in a time of very limited Government) and is the basis of the ‘American Dream’ was ‘social equality’. Social equality (nothing to do with Socialism) means that everyone in society, irrespective of their sex, religion, race, social status has an equality of opportunity to use their labour and endeavours to create and accumulate wealth and use it as they decide.
Social equality is best understood in context of the alternative, which is a system of guilds, permits, charters, licences, and membership of certain organisations, and class. In modern day US, you need a permit to braid hair, for example. This immediately takes away equality of opportunity, because it is easy to exclude ‘the wrong sort’ from this activity; it is easy to limit the number of permits, thereby preventing competition and keeping earnings up. Trades Unions, often claimed to be the worker’s friend, is exclusive by nature. Only it’s members get jobs, privileges, wage rates, and people prepared to work for less are kept out. Look at what has happened to Uber - kept out or restricted in cities because licensed taxi-drivers connive with local politicians to protect themselves at the expense of others who want to work, and expense of consumers.
It’s a long list. Government at all levels has insinuated itself into the economy, making people willingly dependent on it in order to be protected: no surprise unions and politicians are constant bedfellows. For everyone whose job is protected in these ways, there is another who can’t get work because of it, and consumers are made poorer too.
Of course you are right, a large population cohort wants it that way, not least because the pernicious message of the Left is success is a sin, and scorn those who work hard and make themselves wealthier (You didn’t build that!) which of course results in the current big sin ‘inequality’, so successful Jones should be taxed and his money given to unsuccessful Smith.
Thomas Sowell said that he couldn’t understand why it was greedy to want to keep the money you had earned, but not greedy to take somebody else’s money to use for yourself.
Somehow, it had never really clicked (or at least I don't remember it) how much the modern credentialism movement resembles the practical effects of the medieval guild system.
You make an excellent point. There are certainly more problems than the one I mentioned, but, ultimately, I think that one may be the most insurmountable. How do you get people who don't really want to be citizens at all to be good ones?
Under our system, people can join together and be as socialist as they want.
The problem is that socialists are really really bad at actually doing or making stuff, so they need EVERYBODY to pitch in. That's why freedom can't exist under socialist policies.
It's not even so much "red state/blue state" as it is "city/rural". Even in blue-dominated Washington, once you go 20 miles off the freeway you're in red country.
"And, right on queue after Biden’s inauguration, the media that hated Trump with the heat of a thousand suns traded the boxing gloves for velvet gloves. No story was too big to suppress, no lie was too big to repeat. The media continued to act as an extension of the Democratic party, which was now in control of the federal government."
No single media event was more nauseating and shameless than when, during Biden's inauguration, David Chalian of CNN equated the lights set up around the National Mall Reflecting Pool to “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.” It was like listening to North Korean propagandists describing Kim Il-Sung as the product of a divine birth on Mount Paektu.
I knew immediately that our nation was in deep trouble.
Please note, this is a prediction, not an endorsement.
If she goes as heavy handed as the creation of this office a week after the Twitter news broke suggests it might, I'd honestly be surprised if she survives to the election.
**Someone** out there is going to be both sufficiently angry and low on fucks. This is... **Every single person** I have told about this thought I was joking at first. This is **incredibly** contrary to the spirit of this country. There are a lot of people who think Biden shouldn't be in office in the first place, let alone setting up offices like this. And frankly, the general tone of the country is just vastly antagonistic.
And as you say, this isn't someone who is even vaguely non-partisan. She's going to make decisions (assuming she makes any at all) that fall perfectly in line with one side, and use DHS to push it, and she's going to be the one people are seeing all the time as the one who is doing this. Biden might as well have painted a target on her back.
Biden and his DGB can kiss Mayorkas!
A minor quibble.
The press traded boxing gloves for anal lube.
‘… the link between the federal government and…’
For some reason (🤔) I read it as ‘feral government’. It is much more appropriate as government has gone wild and uncontrollable…. and not just in the USA.
The Company has controled the exec branch for decades. First with politcos favorable to the Company then with those recruited by the Company long before they became prez.
The election of 2016 was an anomalie. Trump was not expected to win. For all of his faults of which there are many -- huge ego, naivete, selecting poor hires, etc -- he was not a Company man.
The Company went in to full mode to try to get him gone and if that wasn't possible to at least insure that he did not win the next election. The Company plotted, schemed, and used their media for 4 years. Their media censored info about Sniffy and his son. There was a massive effort to "win" the election at any cost.
Then there was the "insurrection" that was orchestrated and planned by the Company and carried out by agent provacateurs. The purpose of which was to prevent the Senate and the public from hearing of evidence of election fraud.
And now openly promoting censorship under the cover of calling it preventing dis and misinformation when the largest purveyor of misinformation is the Company and their MSM apparatus.
Many people who before did not see the blatant corruption now see it. The mid term elections will be key. There is a lot for Company tools to lose. Unfavorable results for them could lead to hearings and perhaps conviction and imprisonment. Like cornered rats they will do whatever it takes to stay in power including 'fixing' elections, canceling elections, a false flag emergency, declaring foriegn hacking, whatever it takes.
And the Disinfo Gov Board will be right their at the forefront -- promoting lies, labeling any questioning of the narrative as disinfo, calling anything that smells of truth foriegn propaganda.
Many of the party loyalists will lap up the lies because rank and file party loyalty usually goes hand in hand with low information and regularly guzzling MSM.
The biggest hope seems to be in individual states where a sizeable number of the population to varying degrees see the blatant corrupt shit show and are fed up with it.
Completely agreed, great post.
I also think "stealing the money of those evil Russians" will turn into "stealing the money of those evil disinformation spreaders" -- which will of course be anybody who runs afoul of the DGB.
Now think how Biden's (handlers') ratings will soar before the next presidential election when he fires this woman and some others, and on the surface rolls back the more obnoxious rules and decisions.
That why they hated Trump* in power: the man is a businessman, and knows that when negotiating, start by demanding as self-evident much much more than you are really after. That way you can appear as reasonable and as conceding in the interest of a mutually beneficial deal if the rube buys your spiel.
Or just listen to Eddie Murphy's 'Raw': "I waaant half Eddieee!", is what the woman says when divorcing. That is shrew(d) negotiating: ask for half of what you never earned, threaten court and scandal, and walk away with lots more than you have any right to.
Lots of birds, especially seagulls of all kinds, have perfected this tactic. Don't know what the modern day colloquialism for women such as the "Who do I have to F*ck to be rich, powerful and famous"-woman of the clip is, but here we actually call those 40+, divorced, single mothers, attempting to build a civil service career on having a vagina - for seagulls, due to they shit on everything, scream and screech and mob everyone else.
*Though imagine if Roy Cohn had ever tried to go the political route. Trumps and Cohns and Helmsleys, oh my.
No doubt the DNC will try to frame Biden as uniquely bad once he's gone, but his whole agenda is the progressive wishlist, and it will long outlive him.
Tha's the way they run the carousels over here: the old guy tries and fails to push through the latest idiocy, and then it's 'exit: stage left' (sadly no bear) for him, while the new broom under the guise of fixing the old problems is actually the one who was always supposed to get it done.
And it works again and again, because as I never tire of pointing out: average intelligence does not mean intelligent, just average - i.e. about as smart and thinking in the same way as most everyone.
Meanwhile, us perennial grumblers and Abbie Normal's at the tails of the normal distribution, can just shake our heads at the average voter behaving like someone repeatedly sticking their gentials in a beehive.
Yours is one of the better commentaries on what I'm coming to think of as The Great Abomination, or Destruction as its own Purpose.
It's the Endarkenment.
That's the word I was seeking. Bravo!
I can't take credit, that was my friend Billy Beck who came up with that one.
KGB….DGB….never put that together before…..<shivers>
I talk to people all over America every day. From giant "blue" cities, to small Midwest towns. Although I can't talk "politics", when someone does bring them up I can kind of comment. And I am amazed at the amount of people who aren't buying all of this! It's very exciting. We can't let the corporate media fool us into thinking that most people are on board with what's been going on the last couple years. I even talked to an 80 yr old woman in NY today who proudly said (in so many words) that she'd like to tell "them" where to stick their "covid" "vaccine". It feels really hopeless at times, and there's definitely a lot of very sick and *dangerous* "Bidenization" going on, but I really believe people are starting to get it. I'm still of the belief that things are not going to go the way they are desperately planning and hoping they will. Great post! :-)
i find a lot of agreement on things with random people but then they go and vote the same way they always have, especially the elderly
I'm proud of Americans for being scrappy, and I'm proud of all the lawsuits brought against the administration, and I'm proud of the Supreme Court for striking the Vax mandates down. Say what you will about the U.S. and it's stupid war machine, but Ingsoc is a tough sell here because our origin story states that we sent a king packing.
Let's face it. Huge numbers of Americans no longer want freedom, not for themselves and certainly not for others. Freedom is messy, scary, and annoying. Freedom threatens feelings of safety and security. And freedom, if exercised by those OTHER people might threaten the status or privilege of vested interests, including left-leaning (or left screaming) "elites".
And as long as people wish to cede freedom, plenty of statists and ideologues are ready to provide whatever the sheeple wish for, from proscribed behaviors to fictionalized information.
And this attitude is nurtured by the Democrats and their proxies in education and the media, precisely because that is the kind of population they need to go along with their plans for an everlasting socialist utopia.
We're screwed because they are all wretched, on both sides. Trump was a miserable fleabag from the get-go--and I don't mean from when he stepped into politics. The over-the-top adulation by his fans--and I don't mean those who pragmatically decided to vote for him, but his actual enthusiastic fans--is utterly baffling to me.
But yeah--not in my worst--or let's say really really bad--nightmares could I have imagined what we have right now. I mean, Dolores Umbridge for real in an actual Ministry of Truth being paid from our tax dollars? A political party that represents hysterics?
Conservatives who are revolted by what the Republican party has become are people I'd like to meet, if anyone can point me to a nice backyard gathering.
The GOP only polls well because they are the only option. Nearly every 'conservative' article I read, the comments are bagging on the GOP with the exception of like 5 people.
Biden us playing a role, as did Trump.
Who are people controlling White House?
Controlling the White House ? Why... Blackrock & the Vanguard Group. They control all industries by owning a majority of their companies shares. And they control politics as well.
Try buying a house right now in Florida. Big boys are paying cash, 20-50% above asking price - without even looking at the property. This is fact.
Conspiracy theorists are needed...
I personally think this is more along lines of mass depopulation folks, satanic people who want Georgia Guidestones, but ...
I think my people control your people.
Makes LeCarre look like 3 little 🐖
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You misunderstood.
I know they are in the game, fir sure.
But we don't exactly have an org chart.
Question is who are top 2,3 levels? Rothschilds?
These are secret societies.
Btw, I believe in 2 major conspiracy theories... 2nd being covid depopulation scheme.
Quietly... over time, power and control has been amassed by a select group. This group includes the Rothschilds. Their economic engines are Blackrock & Vanguard Group. Sadly, it seems that the worst is yet to come. Microchipping in hands is underway in Sweden. More to come ?
So, we are in essential agreement.
My point is we don't have org chart...
Is CEO of Blackrock in charge of this massiveworld wide group? I highly doubt it , but I have no idea
Georgia Guidestones, family friendly!
Will anyone get satire. Some real idiots on here. It's so comforting here. THEY WANT US DEAAAAD
https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/@30.5982327,-97.6740697,12z/data=!4m5!14m4!1m3!1m2!1s105113304647241861511!2s0x88f7d4b9bd589791:0x46db3257cdff59b1?hl=en-US
Will anyone
The engraving on the 'Georgia Guidestones' says that the Human population should be limited to 500 million worldwide.
Yes. I know it well.
My post was bitter, bitter satire
Right now it feels like the old Obama team, now with more neocons!
The deep state and globalist plutocrats, same as ever.
There's a recent video of people treating him as orphan,like scum.
Obama, all of them.
Looks like little child, they ignore him. Contemptuously.
Obama has quote on this, aligns perfectly w your comment
I'd like to note that a lot of this stuff didn't start with Biden, a lot of it kicked into high gear under Obama. But Obamainzation doesn't sound as similar to Balkanization. This is what we call artistic license. 😉
Obeeziation. You’re welcome.
Obamanization sure does sound a lot like abomination though.
What an Obamination.
WMD says hello
Exactly.
Maybe that's the goal. Breakup the USA like the USSR did and take control of the resources when it happens?
Or revert to the original plan for the USA, a confederation not a federation. In the early days, there were 13 Colonies with a mostly homogenous population by language, culture, tradition, politics, religion, Nationality (British) and natural affinity and so it was at Independence: 3 million in number.
Now, 50 States with a heterogenous population of 327 million is an artificial construct with no natural affinity as a Body Politic. The EU is trying to recreate a United States, by converging diverse societies into one. I guess the USA is making the reverse journey, the one society diverging into many. Neither will survive in my view.
When does a Country so diverse cease to be a Nation and become an empire, and ultimately ungovernable except by tyranny? Look at India, China, Pakistan. Look at Britain, there’s an artificial construct for you. Why do some people there cling to Union as being an absolute for all time - it’s a very recent creation after all?
It is a truism, the further away Government is from the People both geographically, culturally and politically, the less able it is to serve their interests and the less it will serve their interests. This is why all empires become preoccupied with the core and ultimately collapse, from outside in.
Given the extreme polarisation, might not a split into Red States and Blue States be best solution for USA? In fact given the rate the population of the USA is decanting into Florida, the rest may end up near empty anyway.
I mean... except for William Penn, the Quaker. And all the Germans and Dutch who were there so early on that Pennsylvania actually had to pass language laws. (Well, "felt they had to" at any rate.)
I think we could do it. Easily. Because there's nothing Americans can't do.
But that's the problem. The thing all those early colonists had in common is they wanted to be free, and they wanted to be Americans. *That's* what's killing us. Half of America doesn't want to *be* "America", as what the Founders envisioned and (very imperfectly) implemented, even if it were done right.
They don't *want* that limited government. The don't want that honestly rather radical commitment to free expression of early America built into the culture. They don't want a culture of independent people who work for themselves towards their own goals.
And that makes it really hard to hold a country together.
Since WWII, there has been a gradual transfer of power, independence, responsibility, self-reliance from the individual to the State. What drove the late 18th Century Industrial Revolution in Britain (in a time of very limited Government) and is the basis of the ‘American Dream’ was ‘social equality’. Social equality (nothing to do with Socialism) means that everyone in society, irrespective of their sex, religion, race, social status has an equality of opportunity to use their labour and endeavours to create and accumulate wealth and use it as they decide.
Social equality is best understood in context of the alternative, which is a system of guilds, permits, charters, licences, and membership of certain organisations, and class. In modern day US, you need a permit to braid hair, for example. This immediately takes away equality of opportunity, because it is easy to exclude ‘the wrong sort’ from this activity; it is easy to limit the number of permits, thereby preventing competition and keeping earnings up. Trades Unions, often claimed to be the worker’s friend, is exclusive by nature. Only it’s members get jobs, privileges, wage rates, and people prepared to work for less are kept out. Look at what has happened to Uber - kept out or restricted in cities because licensed taxi-drivers connive with local politicians to protect themselves at the expense of others who want to work, and expense of consumers.
It’s a long list. Government at all levels has insinuated itself into the economy, making people willingly dependent on it in order to be protected: no surprise unions and politicians are constant bedfellows. For everyone whose job is protected in these ways, there is another who can’t get work because of it, and consumers are made poorer too.
Of course you are right, a large population cohort wants it that way, not least because the pernicious message of the Left is success is a sin, and scorn those who work hard and make themselves wealthier (You didn’t build that!) which of course results in the current big sin ‘inequality’, so successful Jones should be taxed and his money given to unsuccessful Smith.
Thomas Sowell said that he couldn’t understand why it was greedy to want to keep the money you had earned, but not greedy to take somebody else’s money to use for yourself.
Somehow, it had never really clicked (or at least I don't remember it) how much the modern credentialism movement resembles the practical effects of the medieval guild system.
You make an excellent point. There are certainly more problems than the one I mentioned, but, ultimately, I think that one may be the most insurmountable. How do you get people who don't really want to be citizens at all to be good ones?
I *do* so love that Sowell Quote, though.
Under our system, people can join together and be as socialist as they want.
The problem is that socialists are really really bad at actually doing or making stuff, so they need EVERYBODY to pitch in. That's why freedom can't exist under socialist policies.
It's not even so much "red state/blue state" as it is "city/rural". Even in blue-dominated Washington, once you go 20 miles off the freeway you're in red country.