THE TRULY SCARY BIT

Looking at this article by the Manhattan Contrarian and it suddenly occurs to me that about 70% of Americans are utterly useless in a Republic and that they can be made to believe ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING by those who control their exposure to information and history. George Orwell was actually prescient when he wrote hit two most famous books becuase they are getting closer to reality everyday and the terrifying part of it all is that the ignorant hyper-partisan "liberals" on the left are the ones most vociferously advocating for a return to full blown national socialism, censorship and rule by the elite. Worst of all, those smug bastards are quite possibly the stupidest morons in history and are Xeroxing themselves at a tremendous rate through the total control of Education, Teaching, Academe and the Media.

There are supposedly smart people who think Biden is a really excellent president. And you know what? There is absolutely no point in trying to change their mind. They are just like the vast bulk of the voters who continue to reelect congressman for decades that have never actually done anything for the people that vote them into office.

You can all read that any way you like because it applies equally to both parties and their parties. Many of them also don't really believe voter fraud is a thing and will poo poo the various stories that do make it into the media by saying things such as, "well it's only 50,000 votes and what does it matter." This always brings to mind memories of me sharing my apartment in San Diego with my little brother who was working as a teller at Home Fed Bank at the time. For about a year he used to come home and tell me that the Bank had written off another 2% of assets or written off another 4% of assets and I kept telling him that no business could continually write off assets without going bankrupt. He was eventually promoted to Branch Manager of the bank in Berkeley which was handy because his wife had finished her first 2 years of undergrad through California's fine community college in San Diego and had been accepted as an undergrad at Berkeley to finish her degree in Classics. (The version where students read the classics in the original Greek and Latin). The bank went bust a year or two later after the feds ordered it to buy insolvent S&Ls and then changed the amount of onhand capital banks were required to keep on the books. It was basically like when the Shah's aide killed himself by shooting himself 47 times in the back from a distance of 30 feet while pausing only twice to reload.

You basically never want the Fed to regulate anything. They do a really bad job of it and the graft and corruption eventually simply tear the system apart. Sheeesh, just look at NASA compared to SpaceX. Too much Heinlein can be dangerous.