"Just Like Romeo & Juliet" (opens in separate window)
the advent of idiocracy
friday, october 11th, 2024
AKamala is dumb. I don’t intend this as an insult but as a cool-headed diagnosis. We could use more refined terminology, such as “intellectually unexceptional,” but we have a perfectly suitable, one-syllable word for her condition: dumb. I don’t mean that she would likely score in the mentally handicapped range on an IQ test, in the lowest decile, be legally considered in need of a guardian ad litem. Rather, relative to formally educated leaders, she is a dim bulb, not the brightest in the vice-presidential chandelier. She says stuff like, “When we talk about the children of the community, they are children of the community.” Really? Or, “Community banks are in the community.” It’s not just that she makes such self-evident declarations; it’s that she does so with the air of someone who believes she has stumbled upon a profound insight. She proclaimed, “We will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery effort.” She said Americans need to move on from the “failed policies” that “we have proven don’t work,” as if she were not the current Vice President. Did she forget? But who can forget her inspiring call for us to work together: “We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues . . . and to work together as we continue to work, operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements that we will convene to work together . . . we will work on this together.” The filthy Left takes what you said, twists it into what you didn't say, and criticizes you for what they say you said.
Yeah, Kamala is dumb. Observers have so frequently described her ramblings as “word salad” that it’s trite, although still apt. Ben Shapiro prefers “word coleslaw.” There’s more objective data. She attended a middling university (86 out of 436 USA universities) and a mediocre law school (82 out of 196). She didn’t distinguish herself. She wasn’t a valedictorian nor an editor of a legal journal. She failed the bar exam on her first attempt. Her entry into politics was not due to out-shining her peers but rather her . . . ahem . . . relationship with a married man, Willie Brown, then the Speaker of the California State Assembly and 31 years her senior. (For those in the Kamala IQ decile, that means that Brown, then 60, was thirty-one years older than Kamala, then 29.) Do we think Brown chose her as his paramour for her scintillating conversation?But let’s give her some credit. Kamala Harris is just smart enough to realize that she’s too dumb to be subject to serious scrutiny, confining her few, brief interviews to sycophants like Stephanie Ruhle. When Ruhle asked her what she would do if a Republican Congress refused to raise taxes on those greedy corporations that suddenly started price gouging (which Kamala first mispronounced as “gauging”) during a prospective Harris-Walz administration, she responded with all the confidence of a four-year-old being asked what she’d do if Santa didn’t come this year: “Well, but we’re going to have to raise corporate taxes.” But Santa Claus IS going to have to come. Then she lapsed into her mental tic of repeating, parrot-like, the term of the day, this time borrowing from her “mentor” Joe Biden: “fair share.” At other times it’s been “return on investment,” “the significance of the passage of time,” “holistic.” It’s Sesame Street-level vocabulary teaching, like her animated explanation to children, “You’re gonna literally see the craters on the moon with your own eyes!” Could they metaphorically see them, and with what else were they supposed to see them than their eyes? Or when she explained that Russia, a big country, invaded Ukraine, a small country, and that’s bad. She can naturally communicate in layman’s or even children’s terms because, well, you know.
This is new in American history. Previously, Democrat candidates portrayed themselves as “egg heads” (like Adlai Stephenson) and technocrats who sacrificed scholarly careers to guide us benighted hicks toward a paradise that never materialized. They smugly ridiculed Reagan as a simpleton actor, Dan Quayle for misspelling “potato,” and George W. Bush’s malapropisms. Democrat presidents were typically highly intelligent and respectably credentialed. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. Obama graduated from Columbia University and then magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. Even the Democrat wannabes, like John Kerry (Yale University), Al Gore (Harvard), and Michael Dukakis (Harvard Law School), boasted impressive credentials. Democrats put forward candidates who were objectively brainy, even if they often harnessed their big brains to pull dumb causes. Clinton was morally impaired and Obama was handicapped by a twisted ideology but no honest critic could say they weren’t smart.
For Democrats it’s important that their leaders be verifiably well-educated. (Republicans care more for performance.) One of the defining characteristics of American liberalism is their pretensions to be “the best and the brightest.” They are, they think, the intelligentsia. They appeal to people who imagine themselves to be smarter than they truly are. Consequently, they are easily conned by claims that smart people believe men can become women; that if you pay people not to work, they won’t be incentivized not to work; that injecting trillions of dollars into the economy will not inflame inflation; that bureaucrats make better decisions than businesspeople; that legalizing all abortions results in fewer abortions, among other nonsense. The average Democrat voter doesn’t understand it. But he’s sure that that’s what the smart people have concluded. After all, their champion was a Rhodes Scholar or the editor of a prestigious Harvard journal. He’s smart for me, they thought.
Then, enter Joe Biden. Biden was “a poor student” in high school. (Wikipedia’s words, not mine.) Then he attended the University of Delaware in Newark (which at #76 is admittedly slightly better than Kamala’s alma mater) where he was “an unexceptional student.” (Wikipedia again, I’m not making this up.) Then he graduated from Syracuse University College of Law (120th, well behind Kamala’s law school) where he placed 76th in a class of 85, thus destined to be the kind of president who would ignite inflation with irresponsible spending, usher over 11 million illegal aliens into the country, and arm the U.S.’s enemy, the Taliban, with more than $7.1 billion in weapons. Probably much more. He gave us idiocracy.
What was new about Biden was that he was dumb. We’ve had presidents with dumb policies, like Johnson and Carter, but the men themselves weren’t dumb. But with Biden, that changed. He was only elected because of the coattails of Obama, the frenzy of 2020, the hysteria over COVID, mass censorship, and other shenanigans. On his path to the White House, he selected, by his own admission, a DEI hire for VP. A dumb man chose a dumb running mate for a dumb reason. He gradually lost support as his dumbness became increasingly obvious and then the bottom fell out as his senility stripped him of the mask of competence. “We beat Medicare,” indeed. The unforgivable sin on the Left is to appear dumb. He did.
Now we’re faced with the decision of whether to vote for the dumb candidate selected by the dumb man. It is not hard.
© 10.02.2024 by John B. Carpenter, Ph.D., "American Thinker".
[JS: "Kama-lama-ding-dong is a product of today’s media power. All she needs is occasionally show up, say some of the phrases and that’s about it. Better not to overdo it, anyway. The media and the donors are taking care about the rest. The same as they did for Brandon. And, that is actually, what the deep state wants. The state just needs a figurehead, who just signs what they give it. They, the geniuses, just out of college, and the faceless bureaucrats who never did anything useful, but they are getting paid very well for it, they will take care about the rest. The demonKKKrata are sociopathic. They see but won’t open their eyes. Idiocracy is their basic level of existence as they attempt to get the rest of us to embrace such an almost subhuman state of things. There are many tentacles involved in their idiocracy: DEI, “equity”, “misinformation”, “fact-checking”, “misremembering”, “diversity” and so much BS. As they descend into a subhuman sewer and embrace a societal Tower of Babel. . . I say “No Thanks!”. Pox upon them as they attempt to destroy human civilization. I will not cooperate in their sociopathic insanity."]
A Day In The Life.
[Missing Oct 4th Entry.]
Up at 9a on Friday (9.27), I went thru my finger stick to check my BSL (Blood Sugar Level) and recorded it on my Diabetes 2 chart, made coffee and breakfast, took two 50mg Tramadol and a 300mg Gabapentin for various pains, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the HOT garage and checked the leftover errands list...It was a cool 69°/ very high 85% humidity outside Friday, heavy fog, and headed to 80°. I had some wonderful Kona Coffee, then scanned the news and weather sites, and missed the entire "Chris Stigall Show LIVE" (CS Show) from 6-9a, also missed part of the "Chris Plante Show LIVE" (CP Show) 9-12noon. I scanned the weather news and accompanying videos of Hurricane Tropical Storm Helene: way beyond amazing. 6 dead so far, many "missing" and so many homeless. So sad for all those families.
Sherry arrived at 5:30, after filling-in for Daughter Hollie, and we had a short, but wonderful time together, before it began to get darker and she had to leave for home. I had some dinner, watched the FNC evening news, switched to History's "Ancient Aliens" until 10:30, and bagged it for the night.
I slept-in until 10:30a on Saturday, another overcast, humid, drizzly 67° morning, forecast to get to 73°. Here's some nice guitar for a rainy morning, with coffee. I left at 11:30 to get the Jeep HEMI V8 fueled-up, before the coming Monday at 12 midnight port and trucker strike. Grocery stores and gas stations will empty out in a few days, as trucks, which supply 70%+ of this Nation's goods and fuel, stop running. Just damn; the Hurricane/Tropical Storm Helene death toll is up to 44, now.
I had 6-7 minor condo chores to get done, but first I had to get the Jeep fueled-up at an almost empty Royal Farms Super Station, where the price of Ethanol Free 90oct Premium was up to $4.25 from 4.409 just a few days ago. Seems people around here don't know what's coming, but the gas stations sure do; they're raising prices. After getting back from stops at Rite Aid Pharmacy and Royal Farms, I got 4 of 6 chores done; I'll get to the other two, tomorrow.
After a BLT, I watched the evening news, switched to History's "Ancient Aliens" until 1:30a, and unplugged. Lights out.
Up at 8:30a on Sunday, to an overcast, rainy, humid, cool 61° morning, I had a lot of lower R/S back/buttock/thigh pain, took a 250mg Bayer Aspirin, and that helped somewhat. A hot shower did also, for about an hour, but as the affected area(s) cool off -- same with heating pads -- the pain returns. Sucks to be me. I scanned the news headlines, the weather forecasts, had some breakfast and did 2 loads of laundry. Sunday is another "NBC Day" -- except for F-1 GPs or IMSA-WEC Endurance Races -- so 99.7% of what's on, is just crap, junk, shit, trash, debris, garbage, filth and sewage.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.In fact, I got so tired of the TV crap offerings, that I dialed-up "PO'd Vic" on YouTube, and watched almost every one of his funny videos. That's how pissed off I was, about the shitty TV line-up. Heh, nevermind. I shut down around 11:30p.
Sleeping-in until 11a on Monday, another dreary, drizzly, cool 62° morning -- or what's left of it. Next to savoring Hawaiian Kona Coffee, sleeping late is becoming one of my favorite things. Heh. I made coffee, tuned into the "CP Show LIVE" thru iHeart Radio, had a couple smokes, fed the squirrels and bluejays, and got ready for my usual Monday trip down south to Red Lion and Dallastown, for some errands and, skipping breakfast, left at 12:30. Lots of R/S lower back/buttock, hip and leg pain, so I ate some aspirin, again.
Back at 2p, I unloaded the Jeep, dialed-up Fox News on my computer, and the devastation across the Southeast was stunning, from TS Helene. Over 100 dead so far, tens-of-thousands of people missing (!), livestock and pets dead and floating in the muddy water. 3ft+ of rain in 2-3 days. Here's just (what was) Asheville, NC's territory. Beyond sad.
I donated $100 to the Fox News Forward Hurricane Relief Program.
I had some dinner, watched the news to get Helena updates, returned Sherry's call, and watched Motor Trend's "Iron Resurrection" until 1a. Unionized dockworkers at 36 East and Gulf Coast ports went on strike just after 12 midnight. I hope you're well-stocked up for this idiocy. Lights out. JoAnne, my cleaning lady, is in here tomorrow at 8:30a.
Awake and up at 5a on Tuesday, a rainy, DARK 58°, I started coffee, had a smoke in the garage, scanned the news and weather. The dock worker's strike is full on. Expect the store shelves and gas stations to begin emptying out by the end of the week. The drizzle continued. My neighbors are all rushing-out to get supplies, but I'm doing just fine, as is. My Kenmore 15 cuft Chest Freezer overflowth, and my 'fridge freezer is also well supplied. Don't need any booze. I'm good.
After JoAnne finished cleaning and left around 11a, I had a couple small condo chores to do, skipped lunch and had a 2hr snooze on the LR couch. Sherry had a great idea, a couple of weeks ago, about re-arranging the TV seating area and part of the LR seating area, and we did it last week: a wonderful change! She's a genius. It's just over a week and I like it, as it now is.
I had some BBQ for dinner, watched the news, a few minutes of the VP Debate -- I'll watch the YT highlights/lowlights instead -- and switched to History's "unXplained Mysteries" until 11p, and unplugged.
Up at 7a on Wednesday, a very cool 56°, rainy and dreary morning. I upped the heat to 75°, made coffee, had a couple smokes, and when I fired-up the HP Desktop and started to get the "CS Show LIVE" online, it had a "unexpected event"... BOOM! ZAP! POW! ... a major crash. I closed, restarted in Windows Safe Mode, and searched for a website about those 'glitches'. I got the old Win-7 Pro 64-bit installation discs from the basement's computer shelves, to REPAIR any damaged files, loaded the DVD, pressed the wrong command, REPLACED and ACCIDENTALLY OVERWROTE MY ENTIRE O/S... I lost everything! All gone, never to be recovered. JUST DAMN! I was stunned and couldn't reverse the procedure. No computer, no email, no (linked) TV. Nothing. Everything gone for good. No recovery. Well, the phone still worked. Tomorrow's another day.
Up sometime after 8a on Thursday, I don't remember much of the day. I spent all day on the computer's rehab, and finally got the TV working, partially. I called my long-time friend Matt, who owned the now-closed Spartan Computer in East York, and who owns MBIT, and Tech Riley was dispatched to help me try to recover Win-7 Pro. He was at my condo for 3hrs, and got about 30% of the massive catastrophe repaired. I worked until after 12 midnight to get a few other things reinstalled, but there's SO MUCH remaining, it's beyond daunting. I gave-up and headed upstairs around 1am. No "Journal" FTP up to the server tonite.
By late Friday morning, I had a few programs -- none of my subscription applications -- reinstalled and they were limping along as basics, but at least functioning. One ray of bright news: the greedy port workers' union strike is postponed until January 2025. My BSL (blood sugar level) had dropped into the under the 70pt-and-lower 'danger zone' -- dreaded Hypoglycemia -- when I woke from a 4hr LR couch nap, and I was very disoriented, shaky and had to take quick action to prevent it from going any lower. I fixed that with food and OJ. I'm still dealing with 'Walking Pneumonia' so, combined with dangerous Hypoglycemia (from Diabetes), I called Sherry to reschedule the day's afternoon get-together. I was not doing well, once again. Somehow, and with my Lord's help, I'll get thru it all.
Well, so much for Friday's usual start to the weekly "Journal"...
I slept-in until 10a on Saturday, seriously tired from the 2 days' BS, that I caused, had some brunch and got back to work on the machine. I spent 6hrs getting email to work, and go thru 587 emails in my Thunderbird Inbox. I worked all day, with a few smoke breaks and only one meal. My BSL dropped quickly, and I had to do some snacking. By 2a, I was falling asleep at my desk, closed everything down and headed upstairs.
Awake and up at 7:15a on Sunday, a nippy 46°, blue sky, sunny morning, but forecast to be delightful in the 70s. I'd left a voicemail for Sherry last evening, to see if she wanted to do some walking over the next few days. I made some new "HAPA" Kona Coffee -- delicious -- fed the squirrels, bluejays and cardinal, fired-up the HP machine, and got the news headlines. So much to fix, adjust, customize, install, modify, delete... it's daunting. I had some breakfast, trimmed my new beard, had a long, hot shower and worked the rest of the day on my computer. Sherry and I planned a day-plus, and I was just happy I'd see her again.
After 2 loads of laundry, getting my recycle bin to the curb -- I share recycle and trash bins w/ my neighbor -- for Monday p/u, I hit the LR couch for 45mins, and couldn't sleep; too many things yet to do on the computer. I worked on finding, installing the RealTek Audio System, and to update 7 program and system drivers for numerous devices, first. I called Sherry and we set aside some time together for the coming week. After some dinner, I watched the news and some paranormal programs on Discovery, and called it a day by 1a. I'm mentally exhausted from my error last week, and should sleep well tonite.
Up early at 5:30a -- 0-DARK-THIRTY -- on Monday, to a clear sky, nippy 58°, forecast to be another low-70s, beautiful day, like yesterday. I made Kona Coffee, fired-up the HP Desktop, had a couple smokes in the now-open garage -- the cool, fresh air was nice -- listened to the Chris Stigall Show LIVE and the CP Show LIVE, and fed the squirrels and birds. Our front doors and shutter were being repainted, so I had to wait until 12:30p to leave for my now 4 errands and get back by a decent time. Overall, traffic was light, but all of the usual construction choke point delays had moved to new places, and traffic patterns were all new. Finally back by 2:30, I unloaded, had a bite of lunch, and checked the day's headlines. I took a nice, short 2hr snooze on the LR couch and watched TV until 10:30p. Lights out.
Sleeping-in until just after 9a on Tuesday, a nippy 45°, sunny, clear blue sky and forecast to barely make 70°. Nice; feels and smells like Fall, and starting to look like it. I made coffee, had a couple smokes, talked to the CHCA-hired painters doing door and shutter painting, and fed the squirrels and bluejays. Riley was due here at 1:30p, to take this computer to MBIT's offices to begin reloading and reinstalling the many hundreds of SP ! & @ Updates and Fixes. I'll have to switch over top the almost identical Box, formerly of my Ol' GC&N's Office, of 23yrs. Riley the Tech is here, and he's going to do some 'surgery' on this computer, so I have to give it up for a while... later.
[OK, back to the current week. Confused? You should see what it all looks like from in here... heh.]
Holy crap. It's Tuesday 8th at 4:30p, and everything I've worked on since last Wednesday (10.2) -- after I "screwed the pooch" with my ol' trusty, reliable Win-7 Pro HP Machine... IS GONE! EVERYTHING CURRENT IS GONE. Riley, my old friend/tech from MBIT Co/Spartan Computers, swapped-out my 2 identical Win-7 Pro HP machines -- main and back-up -- and I thought the current in-progress "Journal", plus the missed previous weeks' "Journal, were both on this home machine. I'm beyond exasperated at what just happened. It's never happened before, but I was almost "expecting" it to happen. He'd left with that machine for MBIT's Offices, to get that main machine's Window's Service Pack 1 & 2's Updates installed and working. DAMMIT! So I'm starting all over, on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30p. If I somehow locate the Sept 11th file, after I get the machine back from MBIT, I'll put that older, more detailed "Journal" version up, and point you to it. But for now, I'm using this one.
Today was a cool 51°/ low 20% humidity outside, headed to 71°. I had some wonderful Kona "Peaberry" Coffee, then scanned the news and weather sites, and missed the entire "Chris Stigall Show LIVE" (CS Show) from 6-9a, also missed part of the "Chris Plante Show LIVE" (CP Show) 9-12noon.
Riley arrived at 1:30p and worked on getting some computer programs, that I need until the main Desktop HD box is returned, working, and I had some late lunch/ early dinner at 5:30. My BSL was dropping and I could "feel" it. I missed Fox News, but switched over to NEWSMAX to catch-up and then to FoxNews.com on my back-up machine, for more news headlines. First, it was Hurricane Helene beating the crap out of Florida's Gulf 'Gold' Coast, as well as North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Alabama, and now it's Hurricane Milton aiming for Florida again. The videos of tens-of-thousands of vehicles headed in bumper-to-bumper traffic was sad, and after it hits later tomorrow, it'll be much worse than it is now.
Just hours away from Florida.
Well, at least TV works. I watched the news, and History's "unXplained Mysteries" until 12 midnight, and unplugged. I've had more than enough of 'electronics', today.
Up at 7:45a on Wednesday, to a sunny, cloudless, colder 46°; a nice start to the day. I upped the heat to 75°, made Kona Coffee, had a couple smokes in the cold garage -- the fresh air was envigorating -- and fiddled with the computer settings, until just before Sherry arrived at 1p. I scanned the news headlines, in particular the progress of Hurricane Milton, to see when and where it'd hit the Florida Gulf Coastline. We talked for a while, and left for the nearby Springettsbury Twp Park (51ac) and took a nice walk in the sun and wind. Then we left for Flinchbaugh's Orchgard & Farm Market, then to Saubel's Market in East York, and we got nice food at all places. Back at my place, we unloaded, talked until we could see dusk arriving, and it was time for Sherry to go. We'll see each other again, for a short while on Friday, and make plans for next week..
I had some dinner, did a load in the dishwasher, watched the news to get updated on the coming hurricane, and bagged it around midnight.
Up at 8a on Thursday, to a cold 43°, sunny and lots of activity in the complex (mowers, generators, painters, trucks etc), I upped the heat, made coffee, had a couple smokes and scanned he news. Frost is coming soon. I did the 2x/day BSL finger stick test, had a delicious Applefritter for breatfast, and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE" until noon. I checked the news about Florida's disastrous run-in with Hurricane Milton, and it apparently wasn't near as bad as it could have been (according to news reports). Huh? Bad is real bad, if you live there in that mess. And Biden's/Harris' FEMA is still MIA. I had a load of laundry to do, disconnect the front gardenb's Drip Irrigation System timer, and let the lines drain -- temps will be dropping into the upper-30s tonite -- since the plants are now beginning to go dormant in the cool/cold weather, and don't need much water, if at all.
I did some condo chores, ran a couple errands, had a late lunch and watched more weather recap news on TWC. By 4p, I was tired and hit the LR couch for a 3hr+ snooze. Back up at 7:30p, I watched FNC's line-up until 9p -- I loathe Hannity -- and since it's another NBC Night, switched back to the TWC in the background, while I did some paperwork. By 11p, I was fading, closed down and headed upstairs.
Tomorrow starts a new week here in the "Journal", and although I have some minor app'ts, and a phone conference call, Sherry and I will plan some time together, when she's here later tomorrow.
All of America’s Problems are Leftist Problems.
The problem with solving problems is that once they are solved, no one needs the solver anymore. The better kinds of problems are recurring problems that ensure customer retention, employing plumbers, locksmiths and police officers, but the best kind are the completely unsolvable problems.
And those are the only kinds of problems that the Left wants to solve.
Given enough human ingenuity and technological development, most problems can concievably be addressed and that is why the Left has to contrive to make them unsolvable by either causing the problem (homelessness), defining it in such a way that it is inherently unsolvable (equity), defining the inappropriate problem while obscuring the actual problem (gun violence) or inventing fake problems (global warming) that can never be solved because they don’t exist in the first place.
Why create unsolvable problems? They’re a virtually infinite source of money and power.
The Left came into being by defining inequality as its signature problem. Since inequality is a factor of human nature and every attempt to solve it involves creating more inequality, it was the perfect unsolvable problem. But the primal leftist error was defining inequality in social and economic terms. Growing technology and social mobility made both social and economic inequality managable even as leftits were building up a full head of steam, toppling governments and setting off revolutions.
(Manageable is a long way from the equity ideal, but it’s all most people actually want from life.)
Eventually, by default, the only ‘unequal’ people left to advocate for were the dysfunctional whose lives could not be improved through their own efforts. Criminals, addicts, the lazy and those with poor impulse control became the last outpost of the working class proliteriat who would not work.
The working class who would not work became the new vanguard of the revolution. The wealthy student revolutionaries who also didn’t want to work went to war against society on its behalf. Along the way they lost the working class who did want to work and never looked back. The working class who would work became the new bourguese and the enemy of the non-working working class.
The social and economic theories of socialism depended on the idea that there were no individuals, only societies, and that individual dysfunction was really social dysfunction. The worse the individual, the worse the society. Solve the society and the criminals and junkies would become research chemists. And they would be if only society were not holding back their potential through systemic oppression.
Eventually the worst human beings on earth, serial killers, crackheads and terrorists, came to embody the leftist mission of expopsing their crimes as an expression of society’s seamy underbelly. The more evil the crime, the more it testified to the evils of the society that had brought it about. Those who were guiltiest were the most innocent among us because they had suffered the most at the hands of society. And those who were innocent were evil because their lack of crimes showed their complicity in an oppressive system. If they were truly innocent, they would also be criminals or terrorists.
In this way, good became evil, and evil became good. The problem of making good into evil had been solved long ago in the Garden of Eden, but the problem of turning evil into good was unsolvable on the leftist terms of blaming society while denying individual accountability.
Crime and terrorism became unsolvable problems because no matter how much leftists punished society by freeing criminals and turning countries over to terrorists, things never got any better.
The unsolvable problem that could never be solved went on being unsolved. Endless billions of dollars were thrown at the problem of giving evil everything it wanted so that it would turn into good.
It never worked and evil took over instead. Some leftists had desired this very outcome. Others were too foolish to understand the inevitable outcome of their adopted worldview. Most were happy to have an unsolvable problem whose solving could consume the resources of the entire planet for a billion years without doing anything except making the problem endlessly worse.
The Left’s problems are unsolvable because they are misstated to align with a simple ideological formula which always assumes that all problems are caused by those with power, that power is defined in economic terms and that the solution to those problems is the transfer of power away from those with money to leftists who will use the money to solve all the problems that they caused.
In short, industries are to be broken up and transformed into governmental organizations.
Whether it’s changes in the weather, school shootings or drug addicts lying in the street, the formula demands variations on the same solution. An industry, real estate, firearms manufacturers or oil companies, are scapegoated, followed by demands that the industry be regulated, banned and otherwise subsumed by the government. None of this has any hope of changing the amount of bums on the street, crazies in schools or the temperature outside, but it does transfer massive amounts of wealth and power from one group to another. And that is all that the Left ever really does.
The one thing that the Left will never do is solve a problem. It however excels at creating them. If there is a problem out there, it will do everything within its power to make it worse by rejecting the obvious root causes and insisting that all the efforts must be directed at its ideological formula which very often has the added side effect of juicing whatever the root cause is. Faced with crime, it insists on freeing criminals, with homelessness, it subsidizes it, with school shootings carried out by suicidal fame-hungry teens, it talks of them endlessly and makes them as famous as they could ever hope to be.
Are terrorists unleashing violence? The only thing to do is throw billions of dollars and enough territory at them so they can build a state. Is there economic inequality? Drive out businesses. Have people lost good work habits? Subsidize them so that they never learn those habits. Is there gun violence? Make sure that only the criminals have guns and have nothing to fear from the police.
And so the unsolvable problems thrive among feudal leftist outposts of urban human misery.
Eventually the problem ceases to be the problem and the Left becomes the problem. The Left claims that it knows the only way to solve all our problems, but it’s the Left that is creating our problems.
And there is no way to solve all of our problems except by defeating the Left.
© 10.6.2024 by Daniel Greenfield, "Front Page Magazine".
Muslim Terror Family Plotted Terror Attack on Election Day.
The Biden-Harris administration brought massive numbers of Afghans to America. The result has been terror attacks, sexual assaults, and criminal acts.
And now a major terrorist plot.According to the Department of Justice, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, an Afghan citizen awaiting parole who came here on a Special Immigrant Visa, plotted to kill Americans on Election Day.
And he didn’t do it alone.
The media loves to talk about ‘lone wolves’. This was an entire family of ‘lone wolves’. Or Islamists.
“Tawhedi was also seen in a video recorded on July 20 reading to two children text that describes the rewards a martyr receives in the afterlife,” the DOJ complaint states.
The children are Tawhedi’s daughter and his wife’s younger brother. The ISIS terrorist was telling them that Muslim terrorists get “married to 72 virgins”.
Tawhedi’s co-conspirator is described as a juvenile who appears to be Tawheid’s brother-in-law.
We’re dealing with a terrorist family here. The Islamic family that prays and preys together stays together.
“In his seized communications, Tawhedi allegedly indicated that his attack was planned for Election Day, and in a post-arrest interview, Tawhedi allegedly confirmed the attack was planned for Election Day targeting large gatherings of people, during which he and the juvenile were expected to die as martyrs.”
The full DOJ complaint states that he lives with his wife and a young child. His juvenile co-conspirator brother-in-law lives with his parents and five siblings.
How many of them knew what was going on? Did Tawhedi’s wife? The wives usually know, but it’s been hard to prove in past cases of Muslim terrorism such as the Boston Marathon bombing and the Pulse massacre.
Messages listed in the complaint have Tawhedi describing how he sold the house even though it was his father-in-law’s without him knowing about it. Unclear how. And plans to move the Afghan Muslim terror family of 8 people to Kabul including his mother-in-law, wife, one-year-old daughter, three sisters-in-law, and brothers-in-law.
The Afghan terror clan had liquidated its assets. While Tawhedi and his brother-in-law killed Americans, the rest would go back to Afghanistan.
None of this is surprising as the Taliban and Al Qaeda got to determine who could come here. Few of the Afghan arrivals are refugees, they’re ticking time bombs. And that’s why any plan to legalize them is an urgent threat to national security.
© by Daniel Greenfield, "Front Page Magazine".