Liz Cheney and the Death of the “Expert”

 

Let me begin by congratulating Harriet Hageman for her victory yesterday. I hope she wins in November and represents Wyoming and America well during her tenure in Congress.

The best thing to come out of our two years with COVID is a general and growing skepticism of “experts.” We’ve been lied to, ineptly led, treated like children, ignored, censored, and told what’s good for us by people who think they know better than we do what’s good for us.

Liz Cheney is one of those people, her “expertise” being her superior morality and her knowledge of what’s good for Republicans and good for conservatives — despite the vast majority of Republicans and conservatives thinking otherwise.

It would be good if more “experts” could be removed from office as easily by the people over whom they hold sway by virtue of their ersatz superiority of intellect, morality, and credentials.

One down.

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  1. RufusRJones Member
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    Raxxalan (View Comment):

    This is all part of the neo-feudalism. I think though Ms. Cheney represents the hereditary power structure a.k.a the nobility and Fauci and the rest of the expert class represent the clerisy. We are just the serfs of course in this little drama.

    That’s what I think. 

    We made a ton of policy mistakes. They don’t want to admit it. They make money off of it. Then they bitch about socialism and populism.

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  2. RufusRJones Member
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    Stad (View Comment):
    How about “French/Cheney 2024: Because being mediocre is what America needs.”

    David French was featured at the latest Aspen Ideas thing. 

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  3. RufusRJones Member
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    I Walton (View Comment):

    There is a tendency to think their experts are wrong about a lot but our experts are not. The issue isn’t expertise its power and narrowness. The US is unfathomably complicated and intricate. It cannot be known from the top, the middle or the bottom. The reason the bottom worked so well is that folks there dealt with what was in front of them, what they were responsible for. The top worried about defense, borders and the very few things that pertained to the US as a country that had to deal with other countries. Our political system has given the top authority over domestic matters it can not know. The folks in charge all over the place, do what people do who pay attention can do, further their own interests. We have forgotten why the founders did what they did which created the modern economy. Do folks think the world’s economy would have become so wealthy and diverse had the system not been bottom up and rooted in freedom? Do they think it will remain that way when these idiots consolidate power in “experts” hands?

    Government should be strictly defined public goods only. Supposedly it’s 80% nonpublic goods.

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  4. RufusRJones Member
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    I Walton (View Comment):

    There is a tendency to think their experts are wrong about a lot but our experts are not. The issue isn’t expertise its power and narrowness. The US is unfathomably complicated and intricate. It cannot be known from the top, the middle or the bottom. The reason the bottom worked so well is that folks there dealt with what was in front of them, what they were responsible for. The top worried about defense, borders and the very few things that pertained to the US as a country that had to deal with other countries. Our political system has given the top authority over domestic matters it can not know. The folks in charge all over the place, do what people do who pay attention can do, further their own interests. We have forgotten why the founders did what they did which created the modern economy. Do folks think the world’s economy would have become so wealthy and diverse had the system not been bottom up and rooted in freedom? Do they think it will remain that way when these idiots consolidate power in “experts” hands?

    Public choice theory and…

    Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™

     

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  5. Paul Stinchfield Member
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    There are plenty of truly expert people, but the only way to become an official expert is to say the things that the gatekeepers want…and to say the contradictory things that they want tomorrow.

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  6. OccupantCDN Coolidge
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    I have to disagree with Brent Bozell here… Hollywood, Media and the left didnt loose. They didnt spend millions shoring up a failed candidate… They gave a few endorsements, wore a t-shirt for a photo op… They’ll shrug it off and move on.

     

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