My Predictions: Election Day 2020

Of course, as usual, the polls show that the Dems will just pull out a win in the presidential election today. But given that the polls are now based on a response rate of 6 percent to each call rather than 50 percent as in olden times, I suspect that the polls are not that reliable.

So we have to go with our gut.

My gut with respect to my gentry liberal neighborhood yard-signs. 

Way back in the aftermath of the 2016 election some feminist group created the #WeBelieve yardsign. You know what I am talking about:

In this house We Believe
Black Lives Matter
Love is Love
Women's Rights are Human Rights
Science is Real
...
Kindness is Everything

Here's an example

Wow! That must be a new one: "Not all cops are bad."

But the point is that clearly, there was a lot of enthusiasm out there in liberal land. Back then.

Then, of course there was the Death of George Floyd in May 2020 and pretty soon every liberal yard in North Seattle had a Black Lives Matter yardsign out front. Hey, you can buy them at the local hardware store!

So, a lot of liberal enthusiasm back then in May.

But there are not that many Biden/Harris signs out front. Just sayin'.

My gut with respect to "oppressed peoples" enthusiasm

Now, if our liberal masters are not that enthusiastic about Joe Biden, whatabout their Clients, the "oppressed peoples" of which we've heard tell? I haven't seen anything on the enthusiasm of blacks, Hispanics, women, etc. I suspect the lack of data points is telling us something.

My gut with respect to Trump voter enthusiasm

On the other hand we are seeing unprecedented enthusiasm for Trump among his natural supporters, the Commoners of these United States. We see remarkable turnouts at Trump Rallies, where Trump extemporizes to the delight of thousands of his fans. We see the incredible Trump Car Parades, that report incredible numbers, like 75,000 cars at a parade in Miami/Dade County; 75 mile-long parades. And of course the Outrage of the Century, the Trump Honor Guard for the Biden/Harris Bus. I may be wrong, but I have never heard of enthusiasm like this before in a US election.

And I believe that scientists agree that enthusiasm equals turnout.

My gut with respect to mail-in voting

Now I believe that, back in the spring, the Democrats all got together with their hive mind and decided that it would be really cool to convert the whole US to mail-in voting, because safety. And cheating. And, of course, within moments their bribed apologists in the media were echoing the New Wisdom.

But I wonder if this was really such a good idea. See, I believe that mail-in voting requires a degree of literacy that many "oppressed peoples" do not possess. And it is not just literacy, but a confidence and familiarity with handling paperwork that matters. So I suspect that mail-in voting will lead to a reduction in turnout among the lower orders.

My gut with respect to the Lockdown

Or the Lockdown. I wonder if the Shelter in Place mentality that Democrats have encouraged in their supporters -- and which women, in particular, have embraced -- is such a good idea when it comes to winning elections. Suppose that turnout in the highly locked-down Democratic states and cities is down? Oops!

I think that the whole purpose of elections and campaigns is to get your supporters all enthusiastic and get the opponents' supporters all pessimistic and sheltering in place. Hey guys!

My gut with respect to "suburban moms"

I don't know if the "suburban woman voter" thing is really a thing or not. But I would say that what trumps women saying Eeuww when reading about Donald Trump reciting how women let him feel them up is women reading about and watching "mostly peaceful protests" in major American cities. Because "women expect to be protected." Now, there are several women of my acquaintance who are not happy about riots in cities. And they have responded by voting for Trump and voting a straight Republican ticket. We will see if this extends outward to women in general.

My gut with respect to the "shy Trump voter."

Is it really such a good idea to have news items about conservatives getting censored and canceled on social media? Because I would say that what the ruling class -- any ruling class -- needs to know is what people are really thinking. They need their District Officers reporting when "the natives are restless." And people won't tell you what they are really thinking if they know all about people like them that have lost their jobs because of their political opinions.

Put it this way, liberals. Like Mayor Daley in 1960, you chaps need to know how many votes you need to manufacture in order to win the election. If there is a whole class of voters that won't talk to pollsters because they are afraid then you chaps won't know where to manufacture votes and how many might be needed. Is that smart? I don't think so. 

Looking at the bigger picture you need to know what everyone is thinking, so you can plan where to spend money and where to send the candidate.

And, of course, the "shy Trump voter" is not just shy, he is mad as hell and he is not going to take it any more. Maybe that's why I am reading this morning about polling stations with lines around the block. I just don't think that heavy turnout means a Biden win. But I could be wrong.

And if there are "shy Trump voters" whatabout "shy Trump students?" Suppose you are a non-political student at one of our select colleges. What do you think about the lefty student activists and the lefty professors that oppress you every day with their political obsessions. Do you join the parade? Do you give up? Do you count the days till graduation? Do you determine that you are never going to vote for a Democrat in your life? You tell me.

My gu with respect to the stock market today

The stock market indexes are up about two percent today. I wonder what they mean by that?

Bottom Line

I've written this again and again. The reason for the current lefty cancel culture is that lefties aren't winning any more. The halcyon days when lefties had FDR in the White House and supermajorities in both Houses of Congress are gone for ever. The glorious days when lefties could create Big New Programs are gone forever. That means that life is hard for the left. They can't just win automatically. And what do people tend to do when life gets too hard? Exactly. They cheat.

But you know what? People don't like it when other people cheat on them. In fact, they hate it.

Just sayin'.

Great Reset: Building Back Better. Oh Yeah.

The World Economic Forum has announced "The Great Reset." These are the chaps that run their annual show up at Davos on Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Here is what that means, according to the WEF:

As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons. Drawing from the vision and vast expertise of the leaders engaged across the Forum’s communities, the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being.

The United Nations has its "Building Back Better." And of course Joe Biden is also Building Back Better, too. Of course.

It seems to be a top-down initiative by the Best and Brightest to teach us deplorables the facts of life.

Notice how the WEF puts it: "to help inform all those determining the future state of..." And who are the lucky ones, the wise ones, the powerful ones "determining the future" I wonder.

So @jack censors the NYPost. Google Search thinks that COVID infections are the most significant question with regard to Trump rallies. And all these wise heads are determining how to direct traffic after the Great Pandemic.

I am trying to figure out what all these top-down chappies are up to. And what they think that makes them so special that they are qualified to teach us all a lesson.

And it is hard for me because my basic belief is that you can't direct traffic, Mr. Wise Philosopher. Not only because the battle plan is useless after the first gun is fired. Not only because administrators can't hope to keep track of all the variables as the direct the economy. Not only because the world changes unpredictably to upset the plan.

But also at the basic level because the greater well-being of the world may not intersect at all with the notions of an @jack, a WEF, a UN, a political campaign. Or anything. 

I would say that the biggest problem in the world is the people who think on the lines of "determining the future" of the world.

Because the future of the world is determined by accident, by anybodies discovering something that changes the correlation of forces, by a Sacrificial Hero that inspires millions for hundreds of years, by the mysterious operations of the human herd instinct, Jung's collective unconscious.

But, almost everyone is easily misled by the conceit that he can lead his fellow humans to victory or at least the moral and intellectual standing to "build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being."

Well, I'll tell you what I think. I think that all these conceited Great Reset and Building Back Better need to be taught a good sharp lesson. They need to know that the last thing the world needs is a bunch of conceited jet-setters and billionaires and bureaucrats and lifer politicians implementing their tired and conceited agenda on the rest of us.

Because, you see, if there is one thing I am sure about is that none of these conceited idiots have a clue. The world will stumble and bumble its way forward, as it always has, two steps forward and one step back. What I don't like is that the experts and the moralists and the lockdowners, for all their self-confidence, usually manage to give us one step forward and two steps back.

But that's what grumpy old guys like me have been saying since the dawn of time.

This "Fact Checking" Thing and @jack's Beard

Can we now admit that the "fact-checking" era is over?

Because, let's face it, "fact-checking" was always a liberal grift to avoid publishing conservative attacks on liberals.

No need to go into the weeds on this. It was OK to publish thinly sourced attacks on President Trump, accusations that had political-hit-job written all over them. And to spend tax-payers' money following up every possible false trail armed with Special Prosecutorial powers trying to trap the guy in some shenanigans, no matter how trivial.

But when it comes to Joe Biden and a lifetime of pay-for-play corruption, help! Where are the smelling salts?

Hey, liberals, did you know that being one-person-removed from the actual transaction means you can say "I never took any money from any of those people." Quite right, Joe. It's called "deniability" in the trade of influence politics, of which I am sure you are the Grand Master.

But the fact-check culture means that @jack can reach into his beard and declaim that Twitter is not going to publish "hacked" material. Because principles. I always wondered why @jack sported a beard. Now that he has revised and extended it during the COVID years, I get it.

You could say, of course, that the "fact-check" culture was a political joke by our liberal friends, as in "hey, why don't we tweak the right's noses by using their devotion to facts and logic and reason by subjecting the right to fact-checking?"

Whereas every good lefty knows that everything in this world, from race on down, is a social construction.

As a matter of fact, of course, everyone who has stumbled into Kant knows that. Because if, with Kant, we believe that we cannot know things-in-themselves but only sense impressions, it follows that everything we know about things is a social construction, starting with what George Lakoff calls "basic-level" concepts like cat.

Why do you think little Susie knows that a cat is a cat? Because Mommy told her.

The joke is that -- as with everything the left touches -- our lefty friends have taken a stunning discovery and turned it into a political weapon.

Because, sure, race is a social construction, but humans categorize everything, including different kinds of humans. It is helpful to know that people looking different is significant, and that it might serve to differentiate enemy from friend. For instance, in the current era of mostly peaceful protests, it might be helpful for the average pedestrian to categorize males on the street by their hair: maybe you should watch out for the guy with a man bun, but not the guy with a crew-cut that looks like he just started basic training at Parris Island.

Sure, let's all agree that physical characteristics, as defined by social construction, are not dispositive because, after Kant, we cannot know things-in-themselves. But you never know, it could help.

Facts are what we come up with after applying our received notions about the meaning of life, the universe and everything, usually after a very cursory glance.

(I hesitated before putting in "meaning of life" because even I am something of a facts-and-logic guy. But then I realized that first comes the belief in a meaning of life, then comes everything else, including facts, logic, science, and the universe and everything.)

For instance, I would be inclined to believe any accusation of corruption against a Clinton or a Biden, because my experience, solidified by years of consuming conservative media, leads me to believe that Clintons and Bidens are up to no good. The notion that Clintons and Bidens are up to no good is a social construction.

But the point about a social construction is: does it help navigate the uncertain world of a million sense impressions? Meaning, is it helpful to develop a social construction that Clintons and Bidens are up to no good?

Many of our citizens organize their political lives these days around a social construction that may be summarized as Orange Man Bad. Hey! They have a perfect right to do so, right, @jack?

Hey @jack! Stop mumbling in your beard!

But, the question is, would it be a good idea to use the social construction of Orange Man Bad as a strategy for, e.g., investing your 401K? Hmm.

And would it be a good idea to interpret everything in political life in These United States through the lens of the social construction of Orange Man Bad?

For instance, suppose you were a political pollster and you believed in the social construction of Orange Man Bad. Do you think that your social construction would help or hinder your polling to find out who or what was going to win the presidential election of 2020?

In a way, there is something comical about the notion of "fact-checking." You mean to say, you wise one @jack, that ordinary people are not able to sift fact from fiction and must be protected from the lies of political actors?

For there is a real danger in the "fact checking" culture. If your guys are out busily labeling things true or mostly true, false or mostly false, there is a danger. The danger is what scientists agree is "confirmation bias." There are no facts out there, scientists agree. There are only interpretations.

But you educated liberals already knew that. Right @jack?

President Xi's Greater China Project Will Fail. As Our Elites Greater Woke Project Will Fail

I was reading a piece about China the mega-nation yesterday. How President Xi and the CCP see themselves as building a Greater China -- including, of course, not just Mainland China but Hong Kong, and Taiwan and the Muslim areas of western China,

Of course they do, because the whole point of the left's project, what I call the Great Reaction, is the faith in politics, that politics is the means for Heaven on Earth, led by the educated Gentry trained in the schools and seminaries of the ruling religion of politics and its downstream culture.

But I say that the Age of Revolution, of political transformation of human society with a vanguard of committed activists, is over. Been there done that.

And I say that the Age of Politics, of political management of human society with a priesthood of ideological ministers, of an administrative bureaucracy of carefully trained nomenclatura, of regulatory supervision of the economy and the culture, is in its final stages. Been there, done that.

The salient feature of human society in the Age of Revolution and the Age of Politics is the idea of mobilization for war: religious war, cultural war, political war. Problem is that humans are not programmed for war on a continuing basis. They can respond to the present emergency, but eventually return, instinctively and inevitably, to wiving and thriving, which is the real meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

So the Great China project will fail, because we humans are beyond all that. And China proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt already in the 20th century.

The Great Leap Forward was a grand plan of the political management of the whole of the Chinese economy, under the charismatic leadership of a Glorious Leader. It failed, of course, with a butcher's bill estimated at 30 million Chinese.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a grand plan of religious and cultural transformation of the whole of society, under the charismatic leadership of a Glorious Leader. It failed, of course, with a butcher's bill in the millions.

Only after the Double Failure did the Chinese ruling class in the CCP decide to try the other way, to allow a market economy  to grow up without the daily and hourly supervision of all economic and cultural activity of the Chinese people by the Party.

But that lasted only a while. Now, under President Xi, China is being forced back into the logic of its lefty ruling class culture. Because that's what lefties do. They cannot imagine a society without political supervision by an evolved and educated progressive ruling class. And the Factory Girls encountered by Leslie Chang in early 21st century southeast China clearly understood themselves as individuals called upon to create their own lives on their own.

Hey, let's be nice about it. The Chinese CCP ruling class is not much different than our Woke ruling class. It thinks, as our ruling class thinks, that it is called by history to bend the arc of history towards justice. And once you are intstalled in power you naturally determine to use that power -- for good, of course.

We see that in our own ruling class, especially in the aftermath of 2016. It is simply unthinkable to our lefty ruling class that anyone other than its own kind is qualified and destined to rule. Orange men? Deplorables? Systemic racists? Eeeuuww!

As I say, I believe our Woke ruling class has completely missed the point. And if they press their power -- whether in stealing the election, using its social media pals to censor the internet, packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the Electoral College, eliminating fossil fuels -- it will visit disaster on us and on itself.

And I believe the same is true for President Xi and his CCP and his vision of a Greater Nation of China. His plan will fail, because it denies the truths of our age, that religious and cultural and political domination of society do not work. Because human society, and indeed the universe and everything, is much too complex to be so supervised and controlled.

The funny thing, of course, is that it was lefties, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno that clearly enunciated this truth in their Dialectic of Enlightenment. Domination and hegemony don't work. And Heidegger confirmed this with his notion of humans being "thrown" into the world. And lefty Habermas contributed with his concept of humans living in a "lifeworld" of social interaction rather than the rigidities of the mechanical world of logic and reason.

As I say. The only question is the size of the butcher's bill on the inevitable failure of President Xi's Greater China project.

As is true of our own ruling class and its Greater Woke Project.

All of these fools and knaves are marching in lockstep in a monstrous Great Reaction that simply amounts to a lurch back to the primitive that resurrects slavery, feudalism, vengeance, and all the rest of our ancient and not so ancient past.

I dream of a better world that has woken up beyond the hellscape of lefty woke Reaction.

I Just Want the Voters to Teach the Ruling Class a Lesson

So Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg had no idea that his election integrity official used to work for Joe Biden. And @jack says that the NY Post can repost its bombshell article about Biden's corruption, but first it has to delete the old one. And none of the social media CEOs had any idea that they are stuffed with lefties.

Well, maybe everything they say has been carefully vetted by the company lawyers. So really who cares what they said? It's all a charade. As I said at American Thinker a week ago, they are all fools and knaves. I suppose that, 1) they think, like all in the educated Gentry, that they are doing God's work in throttling the dumb bunny "far-right," or 2) that prudence requires that they keep their Democratic friends happy.

And at a superficial level, at a tactical level, they are probably right. The Dems and the left are the ruling class and since whenever, the commercial class has needed to keep in good with the ruling class.

At a deeper level, a strategic level, they should really be thinking around the next corner and realizing that going along to get along with the Dems and the left is not going to be good, not for Big Tech and not for the society at large.

Actually I can see a point for social media to protect ordinary citizens from egregious hate and slanderous posts. But, I would say, public figures should be open season.

And hey, there is a good reason why that policy would work. Ordinary private people do not have the resources to protect themselves. But any public figure that's in the arena does have the resources.

Ordinary private people are probably more at risk from being fired from work or shamed by libelous social media posts. But public figures have signed up for abuse.

And yet lefty groups all the time are posting hateful things and everybody seems to shrug. But if the NY Post posts an article about the corruption of a presidential candidate, apparently that is a bridge too far.

Really @jack and Zuck? Don't you think that a presidential candidate can take care of himself without you chaps rushing in to protect him? I mean, if the guy is innocent he can range the big guns of the mainstream media, wheel to wheel, and set off an artillery barrage that would make World War I look like a mere fireworks display.

So I think that the tech moguls are fools and knaves. They are doing what seems to them to be the safe thing, but I suspect that they will be disabused of this in due course.

Don't say I didn't warn you chappies.

But I tell you what shocks me. That the tech lords didn't see the danger in the Trump Car Parades. Good lord chaps: how could you let the deplorables conspire together in their hateful mulitudes to fry the Earth with their hateful and planet destroying Car Parades? Are you dumb or something?

Well, I think it is too late now. The Trump Car Parades have become a Thing, and every Tom Dick and Harry is trying to organize his own parade all across the fruited plain. The thing about Trump Car Parades is that they are social, and humans are social animals. Scott Adams this morning was listing all the ways in which the Trump campaign was firing on all cylinders, doing exactly what a campaign needed to do to get people excited and persuade them to get out and vote.

Maybe Adams is right, and maybe he ain't. Hey, maybe the Dems are playing a deeper game that we think and put Biden in because they didn't want to get blown away in a landslide if Bernie Sanders was nominated.

I guess, for me, with all the sound and fury of the last week before the election, I just want the ruling class and its educated Gentry to be dealt a sharp blow in the pit of the stomach. Just something sharp enough to persuade them all to go back to their mansions and think, wow, maybe we need to rethink this.

Maybe we tech lords ought to think more deeply about who our friends are. Maybe we Democrats need to think about how we got to the point last spring where it looked like far-left Bernie was going to drive the party into the ditch. Maybe we educated Gentry ought to think a bit about how our scorn for the deplorables and white supremacists is exactly the hate that is supposed to have no home in our front yards.

But, the way of the world is that people don't pay attention until someone hits them in the head with a two-by-four. And we ain't there yet.

Pity really, because I think that the future is so bright you gotta wear shades -- after the rule of the educated Gentry for the last century or so gets sharply reduced.

So Yeah. People Believe What Others Tell Them. Wow.

Yes. The Horror. On Quillette, Vincent Harriman and David Kopel worry about "How Availability Cascades are Shaping Our Politics."

Well duh, fellahs! Humans are social animals; we take our cues from our fellows and the people that don't are clinically insane. But, like everything, politicians and culture vultures and priests take advantage of that. They often submit to the temptation for money, power and the love of beautiful women.

When all available information seems to indicate that everyone is falling in line with a certain belief, we may be under the influence of an “availability cascade.” Today, our politics and public discourse are being poisoned by availability cascades. Thanks partly to partisan domination of the media and academia, many people are being pressured into publicly espousing beliefs that are not their own.

Well, bust my buttons! I had no idea!

Look. We humans are social animals. The point of that is that we obtain information and ideas from others -- steal 'em fair and square. That is why, e.g., we how have LED lights in our homes instead of good old-fashioned tungsten lamps. Or good old-fashioned Standard Oil lamps like you see in western movies. Or candles like you see in modern series about the Victorian era using modern low-light video cameras.

But how do we figure out which ideas are good and reliable and which ideas are just lies and clickbait put out in the interest of some political or cultural power base?

We don't. 

Yep, it's tough. We humans lurch from one mistake to another, and if we are lucky, really lucky, the mistakes are small ones rather than catastrophic disasters with a gigantic butcher's bill to pay.

This means that, time after time, we gullible sheep are led into disasters by confidence men and tricksters. And yes, every politician and journalist is a confidence man and a trickster, especially including Donald Trump and Joe Biden and all the media ships at sea. And especially the journalists giving us the latest from the Daily Sewer about how Donald Trump is in league with the Russians, but how a Joe Biden that has actually taken money from Russians and Ukrainians and Chinese through his bagman Hunter is just middle-class Joe.

Yeah! But what do we do about it? Well, we could start by reducing the power of government, dear educated Gentry. Because then the effect of each availability cascade, or media panic, or political campaign would be limited to the fact that politicians and activists had only a limited power to screw up our lives with the latest lie.

Oh dear, I forgot. What would be the point of a government with limited power if it didn't have lots of lovely Jobs for Gentry? Sorry I spoke.

Here's an idea. All these Trump rallies, Trump Car Parades, Trump Boat Parades are also "availability cascades." Someone started a Trump Parade on Facebook months ago and now every Tom Dick and Harry wants to organize a Trump Parade, complete with flags and banners and good cheer and laughter. So are the Trump "availability cascades" good or evil?

I was watching an interview of Trump rally attendees: one was a retired plumber, another a single-mom with a business, another a Hispanic family with a family business.

These people are anybodies, that have created a small world for themselves that works for them and theirs.

But that doesn't work for educated Gentry that have gone through the full education system with advanced degrees. An advanced degree sets you up for some sort of formal job in a hierarchy where specialized knowledge is required. But without that hierarchy with its specialized jobs you are just another educated yokel at Starbucks looking to create a niche for yourself.

Do you see the Horror in the situation of the highly educated person? You are nothing unless the society has provided an abundance of nice comfy Jobs for educated Gentry. God forbid you should have to go out into the world and discover some useful work on your own.

Look at the situation of our latest conservative hero, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Justice Barrett has always been the model student: top of her class; clerking for Justice Scalia; law professor at Notre Dame Law School; federal appeals court judge; and now Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.

But what if Barrett had had to find her way outside the established institutions, creating a job by her own intelligence, using some instinct that sniffed out a service that wasn't being met?

Something outside the "availability cascades" of politics, established institutions, media, and Daily Sewers?

OK, she would have done fine. But we wouldn't see her name up in lights.

See, my belief is that the real work of the world goes on outside the media and the established institutions, From Zero to One, as Peter Thiel has it.

If you like, the real work of the world is to start a new "availability cascade" inventing something useful that nobody ever thought of before. I think of young Jack Rockefeller the store clerk looking at those barrels of oil out back. Or What Do You Care What Other People Think by Richard Feynman.

Or, like the Trump voter, you can just be a plumber, just start your own little business, that never really amounts to much but does put bread on the table and does give you a certain dignity.

Honest toil indeed. But where is the ambition, the honor, the vanity in honest toil?

The decision is clear. Either start your own "availability cascade" or follow someone else's "availability cascade." You make the choice.

OK, So Biden Blundered on Fracking, But...

It's a good thing that President Trump tripped Joe Biden up on the fracking front last week in the presidential debate on October 22, but.

Yeah. Jobs in Pennsylvania may win the election for Trump next week. So oil stocks will go up. But not for long.

Because the entire global elite is 100 percent behind climate change and decarbonizing. Because science.

And because "the only warrant for government power is existential peril." If there is no existential peril from the Earth heating up and frying us all, why then there is really no need for an educated gentry ready willing and able to to order us around for our own good.

Hey why not? The war on climate change ain't gonna change their status as special people that know better than the deplorables what is good for us. In fact, fighting climate change is going to be great for the educated Gentry. More Jobs for Gentry in climate change research. More Jobs for Gentry in climate activism. More Jobs for Gentry in regulation of the economy to subsidize and promote carbon-free solutions. More Jobs for Gentry in cleaning up the inevitable mistakes and messes. Really what's not to like for the educated Gentry?

One thing is for sure. There will be no wasteful burning of fossil fuel in systemic-racist Trump Car Parades in the future. OMG no! And apart from the waste of fossil fuels in driving around needlessly, whatabout the utter waste in banners and flags! We could save the life of a child with that, and if we only save one life!

I was reading someone today commenting on the new globalist line: "building back better." So the global elite Has a Plan to direct the economy to build it back out of the COVID mess. Oh great.

But you see, this is exactly the fantasy of socialism -- going back to Sir Thomas More and his Utopia. Yeah, let's make sure that the townies get to live in the country every few years to amp up their farming skills. Just like Mao. Let's direct traffic. Let's found the economy on sound scientific principles.

Been there, done that.

The fact is that the way the economy has prospered over the last 200 years of the Great Enrichment is precisely that most the time, for accidental reasons, the overclass did not direct the economy. In the beginning it knew nothing and cared nothing about economic growth, merely playing politics and interstate rivalry. And when the political elite got into the mix on the economy they usually screwed it up.

We have seen what happens when the political elite directs the economy. Just in the last year it decided that the way to fight the COVID virus was the shut down the economy. And the Dems are still doing it, partly, I suppose, to beat Trump over the head with a bad economy.

So here's my question to you elitists. Given the cock-up on the COVID front why in the world should we peasants trust you with the Building Back Better after the end of the crisis? Huh?

The lesson of the last 200 years is that economic growth was driven by folks I used to call "nobodies" and now call "anybodies." An anybody like John D. Rockefeller, the store clerk that built the oil industry; an anybody like Andrew Carnegie, the telegraph messenger that built the steel industry.

Yes, globalistas: You somebodies need not apply. Because, as Curtis Yarvin says, you chaps are in it for the "ambition, honor, and vanity." Y'all really don't care about people like me. You care about your status, your honors, your reputation among the other educated globalistas. And, generally speaking, you screw it up.

But, the problem is, what is it going to take for you chaps to get off your climate change hobby horse? Yep. That's the problem. Because, really, nothing less than utter failure and humiliation will do the job. One day, whether in a couple of months or in four years, Donald Trump will no longer be president, and some Kamala Harris or other follower of the elite conventional wisdom will be president and will return the politics and the economy of the United States to the glonalist conventional wisdom.

And the people will suffer. Unless you chaps screw it up enough that the voters say: Enough.