“Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character, or the Aristotelian unities.” – Addams Family Values
But the Terminator® drew the line at upgrading to Windows 10®. He said, “I still love Vista©, baby.”
As I mentioned last Wednesday, I worry that sometimes I talk too much about the downsides of workings of the economy. Today is about politics and culture. This stemmed from a friend who asked, “What does it look like when things start to look better? What does it look like if it’s all going to be fine?”
These are great questions about politics and culture as well as the economy. Not as good as, “Hey, want another steak, Mr. Wilder? Is the hot tub the right temperature, Mr. Wilder? More PEZ®, Mr. Wilder?” but still very good.
The economy is important, but the cultural and political are more importanter.
What will make things “fine” and how will we know when we get there?
First: The Great Replacement Must Stop.
It’s rather hilarious that the media, when describing the TradRight’s complaining about being replaced in their own country, say that it’s a conspiracy theory. But when they describe the obvious demographic replacement, celebrate the “end of a white majority”. This is taking place in the United States, Canada, and in Europe. Canada and France seem to be the worst of the lot, and I’m hearing of a pushback of the local people to being raped and killed. But Trudeau seems to be running on the “import rapists and murderers” platform, so we’ll see how that works out for him.
Trudeau’s wife left him (true story). She caught him screwing all of Canada.
This requires two things, starting with people in the West having incentives to have children. Incentives determine outcomes – if we have incentives for married couples to have children, they will. If we want more people, we should start with our own. The future belongs to those that show up, and if we create a society where women work to the point of infertility making PowerPoints®, well, that’s not a good consequence.
The other step that must be taken is that the throngs of illegals must be stopped and reversed. If they’re so awesome economically, they should stay home and Make Guatemala Great Again. Even GloboLeftists in big cities are getting it – the illegals are economic locusts and are a huge net negative because they’re here not to create, but to consume.
The GloboLeftElite, however, are making the economic case that the influx of will lead to a more prosperous America, while a recent economic study shows that just the millions we let in recently will decrease wages for over a decade.
I wonder if my friend with anxiety joined a cartel, if he’d go see a psychiatrist because of Hispanic attacks?
Over a decade. Moms vote for TradRight, because they have skin in the game. Single women vote for the GloboLeft because they want to avoid responsibility – all fun, no consequences. This explains every aspect of the GloboLeft’s plan from no-fault divorce to abortion to welfare.
Second: Unity Must Return.
We’re at each other’s throats. The GloboLeftists® like nagging, like inching their goals forward. When they get a goal, they have to pick a new, more ludicrous goal. They’ve had their best successes in sex-related issues: Drag Queen Story Hour? I mean, if they wanted to donate their time to help the elderly in nursing homes, probably not an issue. But, no, they have to take it in front of the kids and into girls’ locker rooms.
Maybe drag queens can give Joe the help he needs.
The TradRight is more like Pa Wilder. Pa Wilder rarely (almost never) participated in punishing my brother John and I (yes, his name is also John, since they figured it would save on monogrammed clothing). But when Pa Wilder did get up out of the easy chair to intervene? It was serious. The chair would stop rocking, and then we knew that we’d gone too far. I think the chair has stopped rocking – the GloboLeft has gone too far.
It turns out that not only is Diversity not our strength, it’s tearing us apart. The GloboLeft have been doing everything they can to pick apart the things that made America great and have succeeded in creating a country where Trump inhaling makes GloboLeftists complain that he has destroyed the atmosphere by breathing out carbon dioxide.
I’d love to sit in an ocean of orange carbonated water. It’s my Fanta®-sea.
This has destroyed society in many ways. Were Targets™ targets in the 1980s for rioting mobs? Nope. Did Carter see mobs of youths destroying convenience stores for free stuff, then complaining when those same stores close down? Nope. The rule of law must return – and that will require unity.
The GloboLeft loves diversity, because unity is inherently the place of the TradRight.
Third: Return of Industriousness.
This isn’t (necessarily) the fault of “people who don’t want to work” which is the meme. In reality, there are so many rules that simply didn’t exist decades ago. Kids setting up a lemonade stand? In many locations, it’s illegal. It violates health regulations. They’re not collecting sales tax. They don’t have a business permit. They’re operating a business in a residential area.
What lesson, exactly, is that teaching the kids? That the only economic activity permitted is that sanctioned by the state, in a location allowed by the state, and following state rules that may or may not impact safety or quality but that must be followed, just the same.
The impact is that industry is shipped off to countries that don’t have the same number of rules, or, in many cases any sort of rules at all. In many cases it’s minimal gain. I read one article that manufacturing the iPhone® in the United States would cost about $10 more due to labor costs.
$10. But Apple® decided to keep making it at places where they have to have anti-suicide nets.
What do you call a group of newborn sheep tumbling down a hill? A lambslide.
Americans have always wanted to make stuff that’s valuable, sell it, and make the world better while they make a few bucks as profit. As I’ve written about endlessly, the conversion of our economy to one dominated by making paper profits off of fake money doesn’t feed anyone, but sucks profits from people who are trying to actually make stuff.
The GloboLeft loves big corporations, whatever they may be, because it makes individuals helpless. The GloboLeft hates industriousness because it creates people who are self-sufficient.
I could go on (and I imagine I’ll see plenty of additional adders in the comments) but I see it this way: the only way to a sane economy, a sane culture, and a sane political environment is through the big discontinuity of pain that’s coming due in the next decade.
But until then? Bring on the PEZ®, steak, and hot tubs!
