A week or so ago, the Biden campaign said its agenda was COVID-19, the economy, climate change and systemic racism. Obviously they are serious about the systemic racism, because "Biden Fills Posts With Experts on Systemic Racism."
I must say that the article on systemic racism depressed me more than anything else out of the stolen election thingy. Even that Mark Malloch-Brown was all tied up with the Dominion/Smartmatic voting machine scandal. Mark Malloch-Brown, in case you didn't know, is a George Soros pal.
Can't we put the racism thing to sleep? Fifty-five years after the civil-rights acts? In a year when California voters -- deep blue California voters -- voted against reintroducing race policy in California government?
Well, no. And we know why. First, because Democratic bigwigs still thing that having a race panic in election years helps get out the black vote. Second, because fighting racism is part of the ruling class's virtue-signaling. That's the benefit of the #WeBelieve yard-signs. They tell us where the ruling class and its women supporters hang their hat on their virtue-signaling. Shall we run down the list?
- Black Lives Matter -- we fight racism
- Love is Love -- we fight homophobia
- Women's Rights are Human Rights -- we fight sexism
- Science is Real -- we fight climate change
- No Human is Illegal -- we fight xenophobia
- Kindness is Everything -- we are Good Little Girls
Just about covers the list, doesn't it. But, hey, why don't I get a word in edgewise?
- Black Lives Matter -- Hey, let's treat blacks as adults for a change
- Love is Love -- yes, but whatabout the children that LGBTs don't have
- Women's Rights are Human Rights -- Allows guys to say: get rid of it
- Science is Real -- If you think that you don't know science, darlin'
- No Human is Illegal -- Yeah, why not lower American wages
- Kindness is Everything -- I'm waiting...
I wonder if bearded @jack considers this bulleted list hate speech.
The thing about systemic racism is that our ruling class is going to keep hitting it until it flat out loses them three elections in a row, until even the dullest journalist on TV is embarrassed by it.
But now let's turn to "Build Back Better," which is the big program of the World Economic Forum, the chaps that meet at Davos, Magic Mountain-ville, every year.
Yep. "To Build Back Better We Must Reinvent Capitalism. Here's How." Also called the Great Reset.
An inclusive and green recovery is vital if we are to create more resilient economies and a world in which business can thrive, not just now but long into the future.
Oh yeah. I'm totally convinced. Here are the main headings of Build Back Better.
Resilience: "companies will need to establish a better balance between efficiency and resilience in everything from financial management to supply chain configuration." So, “Just-in-time” may be superseded by “just-in-case”.
No kidding! Hey, if there is any CEO that is not already concerned with "just-in-case" he should have his head examined! And fired on the spot.
Future growth: "The case for ‘green’ stimulus measures is clear: they are likely to deliver more jobs and higher (equitable) growth in the short-term, while reducing longer-term risks linked to climate change and biodiversity loss."
Really. Wanna have a bet on this? And if you chaps are wrong, will you pony up the damages to the world economy from your green stimulus?
Future-proofing capitalism: "COVID-19 has exposed the fragility and societally negative outcomes of contemporary capitalist economies. It has strengthened the case for shifting to a more sustainable and inclusive model... Governments and regulators must intervene to ensure the costs of environmental and social damage are internalized by the companies responsible: profits cannot come at the expense of long-term societal resilience... If we don’t seize this opportunity to build back better – to reset and reinvent rather than 'return to normal' – systemic risks and vulnerabilities will continue to accumulate, making future shocks both more likely and more dangerous."
You can see what is going on here. To our globalist overlords, the COVID-19 event is a wonderful opportunity to impose their top-down agenda on us all. Because Resilience. Because Future Growth. Because Future-proofing Capitalism. It assumes that they know better than we do and they know better than the market.
Now, in my view, this gets it all wrong.
Resilience? I'd say that the biggest threat to resilience is the debt and the entitlement programs of the modern state. And the various policies that encourage individuals and businesses to load up on debt. Why? Because when I take out a debt -- or anyone takes out a debt -- I make a bet on the future, that everything will be copacetic, and I'll be able to service my loan. In other words, debt is the opposite of resilience. You think that governments are going to ease up on the debt any time soon?
Future growth? Don't you guys know that nobody knows what will power the future. That has been the lesson of the last 200 years. Nobody saw anything coming, not the textile revolution, not the steam revolution, not the electric revolution, not the personal transportation revolution, not the computer revolution, not the internet revolution. So what makes you guys think that "green" is the wave of the future? My nickel says that the wave of the future will be something completely unexpected.
Future-proofing capitalism? I agree, we need to make capitalism more robust, watch out for externalities, reset and reinvent. But my nickel says that what really needs to happen is to unwind all the rigidities and rent-seekings that have been created by the century-long top-down political domination of the present ruling class. Only that is probably impossible because of Chantrill's Law, that government programs cannot work because you can never reform them. Not until they crash.
Hey, ruling classes gotta virtue signal -- as in systemic racism. Ruling classes gotta rent-seek -- as in Green New Deal.
Otherwise how are they going to get the support they need from the voters, the Deplorables and the Bitter-clingers?
So what really saddens me is that, to coin a phrase, the ruling class has learned nothing and forgotten nothing from the Trump experience.
And that is a pity, because it is We The People that will be paying the butcher's bill for this nonsense.
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