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All Our Institutions Are Controlled by Democrats
Just before the midterm elections, the Journal of the American Medical Association released an “abortion issue.” JAMA generally summarizes the latest research in various fields of medicine. But in this issue, every article was about abortion. And, shockingly, every article took the same view, and they made no effort to hide their biases in articles such as “Advancing Birth Equity in a Post-Dobbs US,” “Health Care Access and Reproductive Rights,” and on and on.
Note the cover art — a huge man in a suit, with a sad-looking doctor and woman cowering in his shadow. Again, this is ostensibly a medical journal, seeking only objective truth in scientific research, right? No. This is political advertising that the Republicans just can’t buy. And the Democrats don’t have to buy it – it’s free. Nearly all of our institutions are like this. It’s a miracle that Republicans ever win anything…
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This is very good on the political dynamics of abortion in the last election. 12 minutes.
https://ricochet.com/podcast/byron-york-show/assessing-blame-after-the-gops-close-call/
I appreciated seeing “Confronting the Medical Community’s Complicity in Marginalizing Abortion Care. ” Heaven forfend that anyone in the “medical community ” question the killing of current and future patients.
I think they know now what the consequences are. They are experienced surgeons and aren’t stupid. They dont expect backlash and feel protected by their institutions and “consent.” I cant guess at the motivation or intimidation that would convince someone to mutilate healthy children’s bodies because their emotions or minds were struggling. But it’s been done before (chinese foot binding; islamic fgm; African tribal neck rings; and thats before “experiments fir science.” I expect this wont be the last iteration.
It’s worth it to enable some evil to prevent other from taking Liberty.
Back to agreeing with you, Jerry.
The OP makes me beyond sad.
What do you propose to do about the institutions? That’s what the OP is about.
Build new institutions.
Daily Wire is a step in the right direction.
Ricochet too, if enough of us do it right.
There is too much centralized power in this country.
The economy is regressive and there is going to be blow back big time.
Institutions are captured by the left.
We aren’t serious about developing human capital, mostly.
If people want to go in the Pedro Gonzales, Compact Magazine, Amwerican Compass direction, have had it. I don’t think even Steve Deace wants to do that.
I noticed that when IWalton says basically the same thing as what I’m saying nobody ever challenges him.
What I’m saying about Deirdre McCloskey is, she’s right because she has the Austrian view of economics, which is the most fair to the individual and promotes decentralization. It mitigates the need for government and socialism. She has new research on how conservative values inside of the family create more economic output in a more dispersed way and reduces the size of government.
Now that the republic and all of its institutions have been stolen the next step will be to cede our sovereignty to the world government. This may be beyond fixing.
I think the first step toward fixing our institutions is ignoring them. Their power is based on our attention and respect for them.
Which we’re sort of doing already – less than 10% of doctors belong to the AMA, for example.
The Dr. Faucis of the world become less harmful if nobody cares what they think.
It gets tricky with some of them, because either they are monopolies or they have access to government force. The media. Education–which is funded at gunpoint. The freaking federal reserve is enforcing ESG, now etc.
ESG is how they will enforce climate change and any other Godless policy down the throats of the American people. It won’t only be shaming if you don’t comply, it will be guns and gulags.
They came up with a better way of forcing “stakeholder capitalism” on everybody, which is a concept that makes zero sense except in a screwed up socialist society.
It is Frankenstein. They’ve tried many other schemes that were hugely unpopular. Now it’s Environment, Social (meaning only politically correct behavior, as they define), and Governance (again defined as the only acceptable behavior according to the democrat party). Who can oppose this beautiful policy for the world?! And slap an acronym, ESG, on it so that no one will care to look under the covers at the fine print.
I hope that what happened to CRT will eventually happen to ESG. However, I doubt it. This is a train which has picked up enormous momentum.
p.s. ESG was first ‘coined’ as an investment strategy. It silently replaced what used to be called “Socially Responsible Investing” (SRI). It’s use and acceptance was universal in the investment industry. Everyone knew what SRI meant and they just accepted ESG as the substitute. The devious inventors of this substitute did not make this a loud and important change. It was just accepted so that you did not appear to be ignorant of the evolution of SRI into ESG. This substitute is a bomb waiting to be exploded by the democrat party at a future time of their choosing.
You are exactly right about “stakeholder capitalism”. And the use of ESG will place a “grade” on every stock traded on a national exchange. And a high grade, or ‘blue check’ if you will, will only be given to accommodating companies.
This is exactly right. We have a sicko Ruling Class.
This is a lawyer question, but what gets me is, why don’t they just outlaw whatever they want to outlaw instead of all of these ridiculous hoops? I don’t get why the GOP just doesn’t flat out make a big deal about that in that way. Haul them in front of committees. Blackrock and all of those guys. It’s Orwellian.
We are already seven years behind on fossil fuel extraction capital investment. Just outlaw it. Basically every mineral is in the same dire straits of production.
I think that they doubt that they are in a position to strong arm policy like this at the present time. They can be patient – an evolution rather than a revolution (they know that they are not as good at that “gun stuff”). And right now, they can be greatly confident in the coming force of ESG.
This isn’t really my bag, but it seems to me that the GOP could do a lot better at making a great big stink about how illogical it is.
One of the local environmental lobbyists was trying to tell me that the reason you have to do ESG, is because fossil fuels are going away, anyway for example. Yeah I think the bankers and the stock pickers can figure this out for themselves. It’s patently stupid. It’s a lie. Obviously they are subsidizing solar panels, wind turbines, and electric cars, but the people that allocate capital can see that for themselves.
I shell out to hear what hedge fund guys are saying about this stuff and it’s really terrible. They are going to ride whatever they can on the way up, and then short it on the way down. They are totally cynical about government and rightly so and they get paid for it.
Harris Kupperman says that oil is going to $200 a barrel. You can find interviews of him everywhere.
Diversity requirements for corporate boards. What could go wrong?
These people are out of their minds unless they are trying to shove communism down everybody’s throats.
i didn’t know that – how does track to the certification organization? Seems groups like the pediatricians are whole hog off the cliff against children? Can you opt out also of the relevant specialist group?
My wife is a medical hospital researcher. She forwards to me many articles from Med Page, a medical publication that they send her at work. It has many woke articles like the ones cited in your list. It is notable that for most of these articles the comments section from the medical community are at complete odds with the doctrines put forth in the publication. While the comments are more respectful than your average comments section, they are sometimes openly disparaging of issues like “climate change is affecting medical care” and other such nonsense.
Okay, I’ve got a textbook example right off the presses, so to speak. This article is just a pile of nonsense. You don’t even have to read it. The woke garbage is totally predictable. But click onto the comments section and count how many people are actually on board. Perhaps one tepid soul. And the readers are all people working in the medical field.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/101917?xid=nl_medpageexclusive_2022-11-28&eun=g151079d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MPTExclusives_112822&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Medpage_Exclusives_Active
MedPageToday might have to respond the way that the supportive posters of videos of Gates, Fauci and Biden have responded: by no longer allowing comments.