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Which is it, Sasha. Respectable people, or Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand, or Stephen King?
"seemingly respectable"? No, I don't think so...
The complete lack of a sense of humor. The being extremely judgmental, self righteous and preachy. The certainty that they hold a complete monopoly on morality. The eagerness to oppress others.
Yep. They're just like the first group of Puritans at heart.
BTW, I used to mock Lou Dobbs in the 90s for going on and on about illegal aliens and outsourcing all the time. I used to scoff when labor unions would complain about outsourcing and say it was their own fault for being so greedy. I used to think federal law enforcement were the good guys and could mostly be trusted to do the right thing. I supported the Iraq war. I supported big business/Wall Street. I supported Defense Companies. I was for the Patriot Act. I voted for Dubya. I was against tariffs and was for "free" trade.
I look back and all I can say is "ooooof". I have reversed 180 degrees on all of those. The corruption I see today is unbelievable. It is something I never ever thought I would see in the country I grew up in. Given what is going on, it is difficult to even be proud of the country anymore and I've always been fiercely patriotic. I have lost all trust in just about every institution in the country. They've all been corrupted.
It’s a long read but worth the time. I, too, was once a liberal.
The inflation of the 70s helped me to find my way out of the fog. The 15% mortgage on our house was a punch in the nose of reality. Wow! That stung!
The entire legal system and the courts are quite openly corrupt. It simply does not work the way I was taught it did in law school.
When I started doing my own reading of primary sources years after graduating college as a history major, I discovered I had been taught a very incomplete and biased version of American history. The reality was often the exact opposite of the prevailing narrative. Looking back, this was also true of law school. My law profs were very hazy about the legality/constitutionality of what happened during and after the War for Southern Independence. What actually happened was the original constitution was overthrown and a highly centralized system erected - one which was no longer voluntary and was now based on threats and violence instead of consent.
Before and during business school I was taught classical economics, David Ricardo specialization and exchange, etc. I was taught free trade was good and made everybody wealthier. Sure, there would be some losers in the process but it was all just a political question fairly dividing up the bigger economic pie.
That may be true in theory but in reality, the people hurt by outsourcing for example, were never compensated for their losses. The Coastal Elites just pocketed almost all the benefits for themselves. And that's to say nothing of the national security implications of allowing China to get a hammer lock on rare earths, global manufacturing, medical equipment, even antibiotics and over the counter pain meds, etc. The globalist model works great....until it doesn't. Until somebody like China decides - after gaming the system to get control over critical areas - to apply pressure by cutting off or even slowing down the delivery of critical products. When that happens, you're just completely screwed. They never covered that part in school. As for those who lost their livelihoods, we were taught it was sad, but they'll just need to be retrained and ultimately it will be better for them because they'll acquire new skills and go into areas that pay better. That never happened.
What I was taught was just a bunch of self serving BS that benefits the Establishment. It took a couple of decades of experience for me to see that for myself.
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What an admission by someone from the Left. It’s rare that the reality of the situation can break through to someone and they can be honest with themselves and others about it. If only more people would wake up.
And this sort of ignorance and stupidity is why we are where we are.
If you’re wondering how seemingly respectable people like Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand, or Stephen King can go along with such obvious corruption of our trusted institutions....
The money quote that proves she totally gets it:
“We were never the resistance. We were always the Empire.”