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What the hell is up with progressives like DeRay McKesson?
Give them the opportunity to side with a mass murdering dictator and commit treason against the US and they will jump at it like a drowning person grabs at a lifesaver.
I cannot fathom the depth of the cesspool that is their souls.
I think we are living in an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. He wrote a movie called The American President which was sort of a prequel for The West Wing.
There is a scene towards the end of The American President in which the president chastises the American people about not knowing what leadership is right.
The reason this movie and The West Wing are so beloved is that only in fantasy land does a Left Wing president so so much charisma and is so effective at running the country.
The prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, apologized for how Canadian gays were treated.
Liberal Americans went nuts.
Aaron Sorkin was supposed to me criticizing conservatives in his movie, but like I’ve said before progressives can’t actually criticize progressives correctly in the media.
It is the progressives who are drinking the virtue signaling sand thinking it’s leadership.
Keep in mind Trudeau responded to Trumps Muslim Ban by importing Muslim refugees who are not integrating into Canadian society.
Trudeau can apologize all he wants on behalf of the Canadian government, but when gay Canadians start getting tossed off the CN Tower, I wonder how hollow his words will ring then.
Everybody knows “what goes up must come down.” It is the first law of science than everybody learns. The law of gravity is immutable. You can’t cheat it. You an resist it for some time by expending a lot of energy, like flying or launching a rocket into space, but once you stop expending energy your craft falls back to earth.
The laws of economics are just as adamant as the law of gravity. That is because the good laws of economics come from the same place as the law of gravity, observation of the natural world.
People behave in certain ways because we all have been influenced by the laws of evolutionary biology. Economics is really just the study of human behavior with the medium of money.
People will naturally tend to self preservation.
People naturally expend the least amount of energy necessary to attain a goal. If you are salaried, you are not going to put in 60 hours a week if you can do your job in 40, if putting in 60 gives you no chance at a raise or promotion. Nobody gives away free work.
This is human behavior. Every time a politician attempts to come up with a system, regulation, or policy that fights the natural economic laws, the only way it “works” is by expending HUGE amounts of energy in the form of money, and as soon as they stop their scheme crashes back to earth.
There are three natural laws of bureaucracy that are worth committing to memory.
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
Gammon’s Law of Bureaucratic Displacement: In a bureaucratic system, increase in expenditure will be matched by fall in production.
Shirky Principle: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Taken together, what they say is anytime you hand any problem to a bureaucracy, that bureaucracy will make the problem worse because it is in the best interests of the people in the bureaucracy to have the problem exist in perpetuity to guarantee their future employment, and the people put in charge of the bureaucracy will consume more and more resources to never fix the problem, ever.
Looking at DC, what all the Democrats and a large chunk of the Republicans keep telling us is “trust us, this time the bureaucracy will be different, we promise.” It doesn’t matter what the issue they are addressing is.
The answer that best satisfies the natural laws of economists is “do away with the bureaucracies.”
Unfortunately politicians are bureaucrats and are not going to vote for the demise of the system that feeds them.
While learning the ins and outs of the Music Business back in the 80s, I learned that the Grammys had then little to do with how good music was but how important for sale was to have one of the little statutes attached to the name of an album. When I was done with my first recordings and understood what was behind working an album, I was kinda pissed off that the NARAS (National Academy for the Recording Arts and Sciences) only gave 2 Grammys for recording/mixing: Best Classical and Best Non Classical. That was it. You do not record and mix Rock the same way you do Jazz or Salsa or Gospel and so on. Each has its very particular way to be treated and it takes years to perfect, so I (and many others) felt that it was an insult to engineers that no more specific Grammys were issued to the craft in the business while the academy kowtowed to the artistic side. The clinch was one of my professors, somebody who had his own double copies of the little golden gramophone in his shelf tell us straight that with the exception of two categories, he’d let his secretary fill the ballot and that the practice was not uncommon among the established members of NARAS as the secretaries either voted for their favorite artists or followed whatever the business interest the company may have. Oh yes, record companies make it a big drive to have their Academy members vote for their product, quality be dammed. We need to sell!
Even though I was sent the forms, I never joined NARAS.
NARAS then became a bit more truthful and is now known as The Recording Academy: no Arts and no Science. After this year’s nominees, I have to agree the name change fits.
