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Are They Doing This to Us on Purpose?
The globalist left has made its agenda clear. They don’t want us living in comfortable suburban homes, they want us to live in densely packed industrial rabbit warrens like New York and Hong Kong; in 500-square-foot apartments decorated in IKEA furniture. They don’t want us driving cars, they want us dependent on government-run mass transit, operated by unionized government employees, according to government-set schedules. They do not want us to eat meat, they want us to eat soy and bugs. And we are to be continuously monitored by the government for compliance with policy edicts.
Coincidentally or not, due to Biden and Democratic Party policies, the price of homes has skyrocketed and inflation-driven increases in mortgage rates are making them unaffordable (unless you’re a giant hedge fund bent on buying houses and converting them into rental stock because government policies encourage that sort of thing). The price of used cars and gasoline has likewise skyrocketed. Likewise meat of all kinds. Which has led Glenn Reynolds to ask whether the Democrats are inflicting these policies deliberately in order to get the desired result and Dan Greenfield to answer, “Hells yeah, they’re doing it on purpose.”
Reynolds: “$1 out of every $6 that people earn has been lost to inflation in a single year. Or to put it another way, 80 minutes’ earnings out of every eight-hour day have been eaten up. This is predictable, of course. Team Biden took an already bloated federal budget and supersized it with spending last year, printing money hand-over-fist to fund a massive array of pork-filled programs, many if not most of which guided billions of dollars into the pockets of Democratic Party supporters.
So does the Biden administration actually want to see middle-class Americans reduced to poverty and privation? Or is it just too stupid to foresee the obvious consequences of its own actions? At this point, I’m not even sure which is worse.”
But on the plus side, Biden’s tweets have been very not-mean. Usually.
Greenfield. “Inflation isn’t an unintentional accident either. The Left spends like drunken sailors to feed its agenda, but also because spending is an innate good in the Cloward-Piven sense. Devalue money and you wipe out the middle class. Then you can reboot the economy on new terms.
Biden wasted trillions of dollars and is busy blaming “corporate greed” for high prices.
Meanwhile, inflation is doing what it’s meant to do, wiping out savings, and triggering retaliatory interest rate hikes to “cool down” the economy. The middle class ends up poorer and more vulnerable, government dependency rises and social mobility falls. Socialism starts looking better every day. That’s how it worked in the twentieth century and still works today.”
“But Victor, you stallion,” you say. “These policies are driving Biden’s party to electoral disaster. Why would they choose political suicide in service of this unpopular agenda.” Well, thank you, I am a stallion. As for the consequences, is it possible that Democrats don’t think the electoral consequences matter? Have they concluded the game is so rigged in their favor — long-term — that losing a midterm election to a Republican Party profoundly incapable of changing the national trajectory (even if they wanted to) is just a temporary setback; a mere speedbump on the road to our glorious future of us owning nothing and them being happy?
Published in Economics
Our food processing plants are having the same kind of luck that Clinton witnesses have.
. . . Swooon . . .
Clinton witnesses don’t spontaneously combust. Not yet.
They commit suicide, equivalent to spontaneous combustion.
Much of this would not have happened if Trump and much of the public had not bought into the COVID hoax.
Someone Trump knew told him that HCQ would be way to minimize COVID. You actually have to have zinc long with it, but obviously he knew something.
Yet he went long with the game that Fauci, a Bill Gates proxy, and Birx, a Bloomberg proxy, were intent on having played to its logical conclusion of transferring much of the middle class’ income to the Ultra Elite. (Much as he went along and went along ad nauseum with having Jeff Sessions in the top spot at the Justice Department.)
In going along with the game, he declared COVID to be such a life changing event that we needed to consider ourselves locked down under his declared public emergency.
It was this emergency status that allowed the Democrats to insist on having drop boxes for ballots, as well as mail in ballots. Those of us following how the election ended the way it did understand all too well how this all turned out.
What happened to Trump the Leader that he had so rapidly become Trump the Politician? Did Mike Pompeo have an implant inserted in Trump’s brain?
When leaders decide to reverse course as they are scared that the only way to be politically viable is to be more politician-like, they tend to lose.
That is the bad news. So what is the good news?
The good news is that Trump achieving the Oval Office was the result of people being fed up with the status quo. The sentiments and the thinking that brought the Trump generation into a powerful and exciting unity remains alive.
Maybe there will be a Marjorie Taylor Green in the Oval Office in 2024…
I would support that premise just to watch certain heads explode.
Answering honestly, although I admit the appeal of the nuke solution, We have to pursue policies and elect politicians that promote the interests of America and American citizens. We have to hold politicians who don’t do this to account and elect new ones. If political leaders in the US sound too much like the Davos set we should consider voting them out of office. For the moment we need to work against the Democrats and with the Republicans because they are less aligned, though not unaligned, with the Davos set. If the oligarchs are non us citizens we should strictly enforce campaign finance laws against them. If the oligarchs have violated US laws the should be prosecuted. In our personal pursuits we should consider to what extent we support these folks with our own consumer activity and try to limit it if possible.
As policy matters we should develop our own energy resources and become a net exporter of energy. We should probably look at economic incentives to onshore critical industries, even if doing so isn’t as economically efficient. We should adopt a more critical approach to global institutions and be more hostile to multinational corporations who virtue signal anti-Americanism in this country while getting in bed with the worse regimes in the world.
None of this is easy. It will require a lot of work and sacrifice to accomplish but it is probably necessary if we wish to be citizens of a self governing republic and not serfs in a neo-feudalist oligarchy.
The problem is that the very people we trust to hold legitimate elections and/or keep our elected officials accountable are criminals themselves.
We can’t change Washington when Washington works hard to make sure we never get those changes.
I think you have the right perspective at a macro level and I agree with how you say we need to direct our support in order to preserve the republic. What troubles me most is the weak position we appear to be in. The way our system is structured to deal with the principal issue we face, the elected politicians and the established bureaucracy, is fair and legitimate elections under state control. This is the fight that must be won now.
It could be that what our nation now faces is karma.
Or rather Big Time Karma on the most outrageous levels.
Catherine Austin Fitts asked her clients some time ago if in order to ensure a more rational secure and healthier world for their children, would they be willing to forego the extremely pleasant stock portfolio yields their investments in the Military/Industrial/Surveillance state gave them, and the answer was, they’d like to, but it would mean abandoning the tidy profits fueling the good life.
& there is this from Anthony Bourdain:
We no longer tolerate Davos crowd becuz they hurt us. But back when they hurt only others, it was fine.