That’s a frightening thought, but I fear it’s true. Damn, here I thought I was already depressed . . .

But so international “governence” (to get round the hostilty many people have to World Government) and so on.

They (the left – the establishment, including many in the business world, especially in finance) really do believe in all this stuff.

They really do.

And none of it will work – not in the long term.

And the long term is not really so far away.

Within a few years they will have created total economic breakdown.

That is not what most of them want to create – even the worst just want to create a crises which will allow them to create a “fundementally transformed” America (and world – they know that America is still the key, destroy “transform” America and you destroy the West). But they still want a high tech developed world.

They (whether Marxist like Obama, or corporatists like Soros) are not dark Greens – they not want to live in huts hunting other human beings as food.

They really do not want that.

But, inspite of being incredibly clever (tactically) they do not understand just how destructive the things they are doing are.

They do understand they are destructive (they are not innocent – they evil people), but they do not understand the level of destructiveness.

As for the ones that think we can just create a forever credit money boom and fund ever high government spending from ever higher tax reveunes…..

Yes there are a few of of them as well.

For example, Joe Biden may be one of those – but then he has had several strokes.

However, I continue to hope the whole collectivist project will fail – that the human gut instinct that “something just is not right” will over ride the billion Dollar Obama campaign warchest, and the leftist “mainstream” media, and the leftist control of schools and colleges and ……

“But that is blind faith Paul”.

Not blind – but it is faith.

I believe that if the case is put honestly to people (even somehow truth can break through the walls of lies) most people will respond to it.

Collectivists do not plan the demise of the societal/economic carcass they are trying to feed on, indeed, they constantly trumpet the superiority of their endless schemes over the chaos of individualism and personal choice.

I agree that most of them don’t plan such demise, but the thing is that they don’t mind it. The trumpeting is just marketing – in other words, lying.

The competence of Resident Bungle, however, is totally open to question. Even his supporters are starting to question that one.

All too often, what appears to be some unfathomable plot to destroy freedom or the economy or some other aspect of our life is nothing more than the damaging results of the endlessly squabbling factions in our political construct trying to get a leg up on the other guys.

It is not that there is no danger. “Idiots at the controls” is almost the definition of danger for any enterprise, public or private.

Of course there is constant scheming, plotting, strategizing, and theorizing. The people that aspire to the kind of power over others that we are talking about live in a fantasy land in which all their careful planning just can’t miss.

So how is it, then, that, one after another, these genius designed and genius led plans fall apart, taking the unfortunate societies that fell under their sway down the sewer of economic collapse and social chaos.

Look around the world. It wasn’t just the soviets or maoists who were forced by reality to jettison their centrally planned utopian schemes.

The Japanese fell into a decades long recession.

Europe has been moribund for decades. The semi-socialized economies of the developing world lurch from one crisis to another.

And the US, after a century of centralization and intrusive statist planning, has finally reached the cliff’s edge, and is staring into an abyss unimaginable just a generation ago.

Termites do not plan to bring down the house—they just go about their instinct of burrowing into wood.

Collectivists do not plan the demise of the societal/economic carcass they are trying to feed on, indeed, they constantly trumpet the superiority of their endless schemes over the chaos of individualism and personal choice.

Why do I support a strictly limited state? Because the less the pols have power over, the less damage they can do when they screw up.

And they always screw it up. It’s not for lack of good intentions—they just don’t know what they’re doing.

Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view
of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy,
economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.
But it could not be so embarrassed, and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, it never
intended to make that kind of sense, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the
American scheme.
It took off from a revolutionary base. The design was European. Regarded from the point of view of
revolutionary technique, it made perfect sense. Its meaning was revolutionary and it had no other.
For what it meant to do, it was from the beginning consistent in principle, resourceful, intelligent,
masterly in workmanship, and it made not one mistake.

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” -Grey’s Law