Precipice: The Left's Campaign to Destroy America
Posted on 01/08/2023 6:10:12 AM PST by rktman
It’s not often than a CEO of a large, publicly traded company speaks bluntly in public about politics and political power. So, both “surprising” and “refreshing” describe energy executive Nick Deiuliis’s new book, Precipice: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy America (Republic Book Publishers).
Deiuliis, a chemical engineer and attorney by training, is director and chief executive officer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based CNX Resources Corporation, one of the largest natural gas exploration, development, and production companies.
n addition to penning Precipice, Deiuliis is a prolific writer on topics ranging from the American Civil War to professional sports to the Federal Reserve to music. When he’s not writing, he hosts “The Far Middle,” a weekly podcast that tackles topics including energy, business, politics, culture, sports, and more.
In short, Deiuliis does not fit the stereotype of the CEO of a publicly traded company.
As an energy leader, Deiuliis is an unapologetic advocate for his industry, and he makes a strong case that abundant and affordable energy is indispensable for developing and prosperous civilizations.
But his book’s subtitle – “The Left’s Campaign to Destroy America” – best captures Precipice’s focus, which extends far beyond the energy industry. Deiuliis identifies four categories of members of modern society: “Creators,” “Enablers,” “Servers,” and “Leeches.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Thanks for speaking up. Original piece was at RealClear wire but I couldn't spot it so here it is from WND.
But 81 million people voted for the leeches. If you can’t tell my reply is sarcasm, see my tagline.
If we hadn't outsourced so much of our manufacturing and IT and allowed the left to educate our young with useless degrees in "homosexuality in homo-sapiens" studies, there might be far less leeches. As it is now, we're too addicted to cheap exported labor and borrowed money to break free.
Precipice: The Left's Campaign to Destroy America
Wait until ‘24 when branDUHn says “Hold my cone!” and the new arrivals line up to pay homage. And vote for him. 81 buhzillion? Pfffttttt! Probably 100 next time.
Even Bernie Sanders got thrown off a commune for being a useless leech.
When you’ve lost the commies…
That's axiomatic. It should be taught in all the schools, along with reading, writing and sodomy.
You left off Make Up 101 for the “undecided”.
(The scene is in Hell at the annual dinner of the Tempters’ Training College for young devils. The principal, Dr. Slubgob, has just proposed the health of the guests. Screwtape, a very experienced devil, who is the guest of honour, rises to reply:)
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast, overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence – moral, cultural, social, or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how “democracy” (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient Dictatorships, and by the same methods?"
Lewis was no fool.
Ayn Rand beat him to it.
The government is so big and the economy so intertwined with it that we are almost all leeches of a sort. Unraveling that knot would be quite the challenge.
“When those who produce must seek the permission of those who produce nothing your society is in decline.
When the laws that are meant to protect you from the powerful protect the powerful from you your society is in decline’’.- Ayn Rand.
Indeed.
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