Geopolitics is definitely a shit show, but that and economics are all a part of the what I call the "Bigger Picture" so one should look at all the angles. I prefer David's economic analysis as well but don't mind the foray into geopolitics. I have read David a long time going back to his The Great Recession Blog and he has always done this on occasion.
Thanks for sharing that perspective. Politics is definitely a shitshow like Nick says, and it is the worst kind because, messed up as it is, few are willing to tolerate any perspective outside their own; and it has never in my lifetime been more messed up than now. It's been more violent in the social protest days around the Vietnam War, but ever this irrational. I am sure that, if I listened to Nick, my readership would slowly grow, rather than slowly decline.
We moved into the pages of 1984 under Biden's censorship and government declaration of allowable thoughts (righthink, I believe Orwell called it) via his thought police (the Ministry of Truth, Orwell called them). I never thought I would actually see such a drastic a move in the US away from constitutional moorings so quickly and see a third of society (the Left third) cave into it entirely. Yet, it happened so quickly with just a small disease being catalyst enough to get people to sacrifice their civil liberties for a false sense of security. ( I know I had the disease; it was a truly WEIRD cold/flu, as in like none I had ever had, but I recovered fully in two weeks and never got it again ... without the vaccine. )
Now we are moving into the pages of Nazi history. When people were first saying Trump was like Hitler, I took it as hyperbole from the nutty Left. I really did, but now that I am seeing how exactly he is following the pattern with his endless rule by decree (and everything I wrote about in this latest article), even if not quite the degree (yet!) that Hitler went to, I am shocked that we have moved this much further beyond the constitution this quickly and this far toward becoming a military police state. I never thought I would actually see such a drastic move even further away from our constitutional mooring so quickly and see ANOTHER third of society (the Right third this time) cave into it entirely.
It seems useless to write about it because anyone who disagrees will disregard even the most basic truths about Biden's dementia and censorship OR Trump's megalomania and authoritarianism ... just like the people of Germany disregarded all common sense about what a maniac Hitler was and all the evils he was doing. People think that, if it doesn't look immediately that bad, then it is not the same thing; but they don't stop to think that it didn't likely look immediately that bad to the people in Germany either; and, over time of turning a blind eye, the people's social cataracts grayed over to the point where they couldn't see the evil, no matter how darkly etched it became.
So, what does one do? Write in utter futility or say nothing and become as responsible for letting society run off the constitutional grid as everyone else who says nothing in such times and just lets the gray slime of social decay grow over the lenses of their eyes?
The night is falling quickly now ... as quietly as snow.
“Few there were among the good German people who could see the darkness that was gathering…” Those few had the opportunity to flee the encroaching darkness — on foot, if necessary — to other countries. To where do we go? Canada, which has started emulating England in hate speech prosecutions and disarming their population? Mexico, controlled by drug cartels more powerful than municipal governments? Or surrender your guns, wealth, and biometrics to flee to Europe, overrun with gangs of military-age Muslim men who have de facto government approval to gang-rape white infidel women? The few safe, peaceful, and desirable locations left in this world are now closed, because as an immigrant, YOU are the problem they don’t want. Where do we seek shelter from the encroaching darkness?
I was thinking more that the Germans should have spoken against it and rebelled, but most did not. A few did and paid with their lives. So, evil overtook their nation because a few cannot stand against a government like that, but a nation full of people who see what is happening and stand against it can. It's the old, "All that's needed for evil to triumph ..." or to just Trumph.
Good overview, David. Linking it today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
and greatness is definitely not being restored!!
Thanks!
I prefer the economic articles. The geopolitical environment is a shitshow.
Geopolitics is definitely a shit show, but that and economics are all a part of the what I call the "Bigger Picture" so one should look at all the angles. I prefer David's economic analysis as well but don't mind the foray into geopolitics. I have read David a long time going back to his The Great Recession Blog and he has always done this on occasion.
Thanks for sharing that perspective. Politics is definitely a shitshow like Nick says, and it is the worst kind because, messed up as it is, few are willing to tolerate any perspective outside their own; and it has never in my lifetime been more messed up than now. It's been more violent in the social protest days around the Vietnam War, but ever this irrational. I am sure that, if I listened to Nick, my readership would slowly grow, rather than slowly decline.
We moved into the pages of 1984 under Biden's censorship and government declaration of allowable thoughts (righthink, I believe Orwell called it) via his thought police (the Ministry of Truth, Orwell called them). I never thought I would actually see such a drastic a move in the US away from constitutional moorings so quickly and see a third of society (the Left third) cave into it entirely. Yet, it happened so quickly with just a small disease being catalyst enough to get people to sacrifice their civil liberties for a false sense of security. ( I know I had the disease; it was a truly WEIRD cold/flu, as in like none I had ever had, but I recovered fully in two weeks and never got it again ... without the vaccine. )
Now we are moving into the pages of Nazi history. When people were first saying Trump was like Hitler, I took it as hyperbole from the nutty Left. I really did, but now that I am seeing how exactly he is following the pattern with his endless rule by decree (and everything I wrote about in this latest article), even if not quite the degree (yet!) that Hitler went to, I am shocked that we have moved this much further beyond the constitution this quickly and this far toward becoming a military police state. I never thought I would actually see such a drastic move even further away from our constitutional mooring so quickly and see ANOTHER third of society (the Right third this time) cave into it entirely.
It seems useless to write about it because anyone who disagrees will disregard even the most basic truths about Biden's dementia and censorship OR Trump's megalomania and authoritarianism ... just like the people of Germany disregarded all common sense about what a maniac Hitler was and all the evils he was doing. People think that, if it doesn't look immediately that bad, then it is not the same thing; but they don't stop to think that it didn't likely look immediately that bad to the people in Germany either; and, over time of turning a blind eye, the people's social cataracts grayed over to the point where they couldn't see the evil, no matter how darkly etched it became.
So, what does one do? Write in utter futility or say nothing and become as responsible for letting society run off the constitutional grid as everyone else who says nothing in such times and just lets the gray slime of social decay grow over the lenses of their eyes?
The night is falling quickly now ... as quietly as snow.
“Few there were among the good German people who could see the darkness that was gathering…” Those few had the opportunity to flee the encroaching darkness — on foot, if necessary — to other countries. To where do we go? Canada, which has started emulating England in hate speech prosecutions and disarming their population? Mexico, controlled by drug cartels more powerful than municipal governments? Or surrender your guns, wealth, and biometrics to flee to Europe, overrun with gangs of military-age Muslim men who have de facto government approval to gang-rape white infidel women? The few safe, peaceful, and desirable locations left in this world are now closed, because as an immigrant, YOU are the problem they don’t want. Where do we seek shelter from the encroaching darkness?
I was thinking more that the Germans should have spoken against it and rebelled, but most did not. A few did and paid with their lives. So, evil overtook their nation because a few cannot stand against a government like that, but a nation full of people who see what is happening and stand against it can. It's the old, "All that's needed for evil to triumph ..." or to just Trumph.