Laura Hollis is worrited; she says the warnings are everywhere:
The study of human history reveals plenty of ideologies that have led to oppression, war, the rise of dictatorial regimes, the destruction of economies, and the deaths of millions of people.
Of course, there were people that said it would all end in tears. But who listens to them? Here are the problems:
Deception: lying about COVID and vaccines and Trump collusion
Censorship: FBI at the helm of Twitter
Legal system corruption: No bail for criminals and AntiFa, but jail for J6 and raids on Trump.
Arrogance: Rulers thinking their are omniscient instead of patsies; they “crush opposition and forbid alternatives.”
But I say that when the rulers are ramping up the injustice meter, it is a sign that they know there is something rotten in the state of Denmark.
And wouldn’t you know, famed author of 50 books Paul Johnson just died at 94. The Powerline guys pulled a quote from his Modern Times. Writing in the 1991 he argued that the religion of politics was finding resistance. Still,
They marched across the decades and the hemispheres: mountebanks, charismatics, exaltes, secular saints, mass murderers, united by their belief that politics was the cure for human ills. . .
Politics is not the cure for human ills; it is merely the fight against the enemy. But don’t tell the Greenpeace chappie that rang my doorbell yesterday afternoon!
But what are we to do about it?
The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger today has a piece behind the paywall giving the details on “Why Federal Spending Exploded” through Democratic and Republican administrations and Congresses.
And then Veronique de Rugy writes about “Belligerent Spending, a Congressional Addiction.” And apart from spending caps we need better revenue predictions and a commission “composed of independent experts to tackle the reduction of discretionary spending.”
Yeah, yeah. Like that will work.
Really, under the current political regime of the educated elite — that operates an over-under political formula — of course we have the current problem. The rulers spend money on themselves, with lots of Jobs for Gentry, and they spend money on the lower class, their vote-bank.
The solution is for the ordinary middle class to rise to power, and stop the educated class from funding itself with lots of lovely lolly, and stop the educated ruling class from anesthetizing the lower class with lots of free bennies.
In due course, I believe, the music will stop on the educated-class regime. But it won’t be very soon, and it won’t immediately inaugurate a glorious age of moderation. And mainly that is because you don’t get regime change until the current regime has run out of other peoples’ money.