House of Eratosthenes

It’s a trip to Crazytown, USA because each one of the three of these orgies is in full swing, and each one is just as dangerous for the country as the other two:

1. No borders
2. Unproductive/uncommitted people voting themselves gifts from the public treasury
3. Ban all the things!!

This much-discussed, seven-hours-at-a-throw imbroglio about “climate change” is merely a subset of #3, an excuse for banning-all-things. From nuclear power to drinking straws…it’s all silly but maybe viewed through this lens it doesn’t look quite so silly.

My Saturday-beerfest-guest, of whom I think highly, was asking me why I’m a conservative and not a liberal. Not wishing to offend, I gave the whole subject a cursory but respectful brush-off claiming that Jimmy Carter taught me their answers simply don’t and cannot work. Which is true. But if I wanted to be a bit more abrasive about it I would have cited #2 above. We can’t survive over the long haul this way. No republic can. If history has taught us anything, it’s that any association of people has a certain level of health about it, which rises and falls according to the health of the habits of its congregants. If you have healthy habits and can provide for yourself, you’re not going to be voting yourself alms from the coffers because there won’t be any need. So this must proliferate and empower unhealthy habits. It must. There’s no getting around it.

#1 and #3 reveal the political gamesmanship that threatens to tear our country apart: The democrats wish to rebel against a law, while at the same time come up with some more laws against things that in this moment are perfectly lawful? They conflict with each other. And they reveal this side to be nothing more than an agent of lasting chaos. A feel-good, fix-nothing movement to be participated in & enjoyed by those who are missing, or failing to make use of, any functional understanding of the fundamental concept of time. Snapshot-mode people. The ones who perceive their surroundings like a Mayfly, with its flash-in-the-pan lifespan.

So this isn’t going to work. Unfortunately The Left is filled with anarchists and malcontents who know what they’re doing — they can see this isn’t going to work, and for them that’s a feature and not a bug.

“… they can see this isn’t going to work, and for them that’s a feature and not a bug.”

Ye olde Leninist principle: “The worse the better.”
- vanderleun | 09/15/2019 @ 10:31
If you have healthy habits and can provide for yourself, you have to be persuaded that you are a good person if you vote other people alms from the public coffers, and a wicked person if you won’t vote for those alms.
Unfortunately, those persuasive techniques work on some people with otherwise healthy habits.
- Richard A | 09/18/2019 @ 06:27
Yes, you’ve identified the root of the problem. Which makes me wonder: How often do they work? It’s clear that they work often enough for the grifters to enjoy some success, but in a country as divided as ours how often is that?

That’s the question that surrounds the democrat handlers 24×7, and next year it will confront everybody else too. The solution to the problems that ail us lies in there. Some segment of the population, a potentially very tiny one, with “otherwise healthy habits” but that continues to fall for this, has to get educated about how not to fall for it.
- mkfreeberg | 09/21/2019 @ 03:38

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