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The problem with socialism is that the least productive people in society make the greatest claim on the collective wealth of that society.

Capitalism allows each individual to have the greatest claim on their own productivity, and whatever excess can be pooled and distributed to the less productive as well. That’s how nations become wealthy.

On the other hand, the “something for nothing” mentality propagated by the media and elites, believes that everybody is a con artist ripping off everybody else — because they have no idea what it means to be productive and a contributing member of a society. They think that anybody who isn’t taking as much as possible (free) from everybody else is a fool — and must be told what to chant in their protests and riots to demand even more than their fair share.

But without personal responsibility, discipline, and regard for fair exchange, everybody ultimately ends up on the streets with nothing — but their incessant demands on the productive and responsible in any society.

Not surprising, the drones of the media and celebrity world. are pushing their way to the front of the line while deriding and disparaging the real and legitimate creators of wealth. Capitalism is the accumulation of wealth for a future when it can be enjoyed; socialism allows no such reserve, and so the populace are doomed to a hand-to-mouth existence because the reserve is always raided by those who place themselves at the head of the line for every distribution.

Properly conceived and run government programs should increase the exposure and participation into the mainstream of economic and cultural life — and not merely create an increasing permanent underclass of “disabled” and incompetent ghetto culture that exists just for the exploitation of the socialist and Democratic parties to exploit in their protests and riots.

“Lock the gates! No escape from New York.”

Properly conceived and run government programs should increase the exposure and participation into the mainstream of economic and cultural life — and not merely create an increasing permanent underclass of “disabled” and incompetent ghetto culture that exists just for the exploitation of the socialist and Democratic parties to exploit in their protests and riots.

What’s with all these morbidly obese and out of shape people coming out of Massachusetts?

I thought they had Harvard doing all that medical research out there. We ought to get a refund of all that funding to produce better educated human beings.

No need to get fancy: The Trump Room will do.

Without dysfunction, drama is not possible. There is a generation raised in the early days of television (mass media) to believe that life is meaningless without all the drama, dysfunction and constant problems — even if self-created and self-inflicted. That’s why even a lot of the “successful” people become victims of their own success — and feel the need to create the problems of their own lives. That’s what every episode of “I Love Lucy” and “The Jackie Gleason Show” was about — the constant bickering and sabotage by even their spouses and closest friends — as the predictable storyline for each show. Much of literature and early psychology was also exclusively about dysfunction and the quandaries of their own invention.

In a culture of excess, many create problems even when none should exist — like what sex is this child? — as though they were creating the wheel, and ought to be rewarded for their genius — rather than realizing that Nature has taken care of all that — just like breathing and heart beat. But then you have these gurus running around claiming to have invented breathing and heart beat — and the mass of people not being able to “discriminate” the authentic from the bogus — can be indoctrinated to prefer the bogus, and eliminate the authentic.

So proud are they of these achievements, that they want to advertise to the world in “pride” parades and naked bike rides — to proclaim to thee world that they’ve done even better than God — and should be appointed to high positions by virtue of that. Those are the real problems of these times.

Where was Antifa?

Were they being paid to stay away?

Notice how these climate-fascists are always trying to get everybody else to do something about it — while they continue to jet around the world for their own vacations and turn up their own air-conditioning to full throttle? That’s why these problems just get worse. It doesn’t matter how much one can convince everybody else to do — while doing nothing themselves but being the problem.

The cheap, easy, and delicious way to get more probiotics in one’s diet is to buy the 3 lb. tub of sour cream at Costco for $4.89 — after picking up the 2 dozen cage-free, free-range eggs for $4.59. That combo is all one needs to have the ultimate keto-diet. It even turns all those chips into a health food. It goes extremely well with eggs (Eggs Benedict), soups, casseroles, etc. It even has a built-in timer requiring you to consume it before it spoils in approximately two weeks — forcing you to eat as much as possible before then. Pretty nearly the perfect food — at a lower price than practically anything else. I tolerate it very well as an ordinarily lactose-intolerant person.

“If I don’t lie, cheat and steal, how can I get ahead? Everybody I know does it — why shouldn’t I? If Californians wanted an honest politician, they wouldn’t have elected me. We are the party of Depravity (D) and not Resurrection (R). Honesty is for suckers. This is California — where everything you can get away with goes.”

Cultural institutions exist to teach the general rule — and not all the deviations and exceptions to every rule — that makes such generalized knowledge useless. For those rarities, they can be processed as exceptions — and not that it is valuable to learn every exception that might never be encountered again. That’s how culture and science is useful — and not that we learn every possibility as equally valuable. We want to learn the general rule first — and not all the deviations that make such knowledge useless. Even the exceptions will benefit first from knowing what is the general rule and principle — before fragmenting reality into the futility of any learning.

That latter makes all learning equally useless. It is like studying lottery winners to develop successful rules for most hard-working people — and what we want is to increase the possibilities of successful and happy lives — and not just the diversity and randomness of every possibility equally — as though that is an intelligent thing to do. The whole reason for culture and society is to improve one’s chances for successful and prosperous adaptations and lives — and not to rail against God and reality that one isn’t at the top — undeservingly so. That’s not what life is for anybody. That is the great misunderstanding perpetuated by institutions of learning with no understanding of their purpose and reason for being — other than to receive the “unlimited free money” they feel they are entitled to — for being “disabled.”

The Portland (Oregon) public school vocational counselors are doing a poor job of informing their students that “professional protester” is not a viable occupational choice for the future — although they may be offered as majors and certifications at the colleges and universities to bring in more federal monies to stimulate the Oregon economy from complete collapse — as their only industry.

When a people prove time and again that they are incapable of governing themselves, and have driven out the portion of the gene pool that is capable of doing anything, then it is time for them to stop simply demanding more unlimited federal monies in the hope that insufficient financial aid is their only problem — and they just need infinitely more — with no strings attached.

Meanwhile, we have proven winners who actually solve problems and are ready for the next challenge. That’s where we should be ls spending our resources, and not dumping them into the endless pit of the demented, deranged, dysfunctional and demagogic (D).

A better way of understanding these people is to realize what they truly are — and not the delusions they claim to be. They are antisocial, and antihuman; the prisons and mental institutions are full of them — until the liberal judges let them out to terrorize the rest of society. That is their power and ego trip — to have the rest of society at their mercy. That is also antisocial and antihuman — wearing lofty and calling themselves honorable. They are not anti-fascists; they are the fascists — in sheep’s clothing. They have no noble purpose. They just want to bring humanity down.

Walz wasn’t gay enough?

All he lacked was lipstick, a wig and a dress, and he could have ridden in the lead car in the Pride Parade.

The Vice-President is right: a small group of people take over and are enabled by an unwitting, undiscriminating larger group. Just like with Antifa: it’s not like they are “legion” — but are the 25-50 people in Portland and Seattle who camouflage themselves among the larger, often legitimate protest group, and make it seem like “everybody” is doing it — rather than only a few chronic and perpetual loser-troublemakers who know how to manipulate all the others to providing cover for their malicious, antisocial activity — which has as its objective to set every one against every other.

That is their “power” in life — and power trip — and so people have to become more discerning and discriminating at identifying those and isolating them from the innocent masses — who want to believe that everybody is good, or everybody is this or that — led by the Satanists and demagogues among us — working tirelessly to sow confusion until their final desperate act.

They don’t want a hand up: they want to drag everybody else down with them. That is their plan.

There are still people who believe that Joe Biden received a record-shattering 81 million votes in the 2020 election — so why not make up the numbers to show record employment during those years?
It’s not like anybody has to actually show up for work — or be a citizen to vote, for that matter.
Heck, the sky’s the limit under the Biden Administration (Democrats).

I think the great divide in this and every other contemporary society is the computer usage among the baby boom generation. That is the difference between being connected — and being “out of it.” I think the great danger is among the young — while for those transitioning into their senior (retirement) years, the computer is a major enabling technology. The greater danger is the old media of passive consumption of television and print — where a few demagogues do all the thinking and talking for everyone.

The Free Republic is a good example of modern participation in the collective dialogues — to whatever extent one is capable of. Of course a few abuse and misuse it — like with any activity, but there is this tendency to throw the baby out with the bath water — while discouraging people from discriminating the difference. When people are incapable of making any “discriminations” for themselves, then they are at the mercy of all the demagogues willing to do all their thinking for them — and telling them exactly and only what to chant and repeat endlessly.

So it is like every good thing — that can become a bad thing — but the worse is not being aware of what in the world is going on. Then one is easily convinced by the media that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (and Tim Walz) are the smartest people running circles around everybody else — and there is nothing beyond.

What else should they be doing?

Smoking pot?