Posted on 08/05/2022 4:23:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The trick of Western totalitarians has been to slowly embrace totalizing control over our lives.
Everyone senses that the American economy under Joe Biden is in a rut. Inflation is at a 40-year high. Energy prices are skyrocketing. The prices of all goods and services going up. Meanwhile, the administration does little to alleviate these regular everyday problems. This is by design.
Since the Industrial Revolution there have been two approaches to economics. One, sometimes called laissez-faire, is really a decentralized form of economic organization and productivity in which individuals, civil society, and private organizations have broad freedom to act as they see fit. There is little centralized oversight, limited bureaucracy, an emphasis on entrepreneurial risk and reward. The economic activity from this decentralized approach benefits all and empowers individuals and civil society.
The other, which goes by many names, is a centralized system of top-down controls where a single leader or the organs of the federal state make most -- if not all -- of the decisions. Moreover, all independent or private organizations, insofar that they might still exist, operate under the subjugated dictates of the central authority either corporate, government, or an alliance of both. The economic activity from this centralized approach benefits the planners, bureaucracy, and established corporate powers.
We know the second system under different names: socialism, communism, fascism, national-socialism, the welfare-state. All are the same, roughly speaking, regarding the top-down control system that a centralized system of economics seeks to establish.
This is precisely what the Biden administration, their apparatchiks, and the proponents of the Green New Deal seek: a thorough top-down command-control system of the economy. Whether in the more benign bureaucratic-managerial form of the modern welfare-state of the West, or the more viciously brutal socialistic, fascistic, or communistic cousins, the goal remains the
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And the central planners have never had a real job, but they think they are the smartest people in the room. The Dunning–Kruger effect.
And the central planners have never had a real job, but they think they are the smartest people in the room. The Dunning–Kruger effect.
Mr Krause.
What you refer to as ‘laissez-faire’, I refer to as Harding/Coolidge.
Their hands off approach produced a pretty good 1920s for everyone.
But then again maybe the “Harding/Coolidge/Trump hands off economic effect”.
1920s & 2017-2020 were pretty good years for most.
Excellent explanation of the Biden tyranny.
The beast will most always be at the door. In our Nation’s History the People have only enjoyed brief rests FREE of the beast. The beast goes by many names. Today, two of those names are democrats and rinos
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