Proverbs 26-11

11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

In 1961, a group of Lenninist revolutionaries decided to take advantage of the chaos created by an incompetent series of military dictators in Nicaragua.  They set up a Marxist group known as El Frente Sandanista de Liberacion Nacional.  They were predictably inspired by pedophile, mass-murdering, market icon Che Guevara and decided to do something original like set up “a political-military organization whose objective is the seizure of political power through the destruction of the bureaucratic and military apparatus of [Somoza’s] dictatorship.”  This because it worked so well for The CCCP under Stalin.

People who play stupid games win stupid prizes.  The Sandanistas successfully took over in Nicaragua and received $99M in aid from Jimmy Carter.  The US won the stupid prize of another government in the South American region that hated our guts.  The Sandanistas moved to spread their rebellion to El Salvador.  By 1981, the US, under Ronald Reagan came to believe their $99M in good will money was a dead weight loss. 

Meanwhile, Nicaraguan Strong Man Daniel Ortega did for the people of Nicaragua what people's democracies always seem to do for the people.  The weight loss results from the typical productivity we associate with Socialist agriculture were palpable.  A group of revolutionaries known as the Contras took up arms against on behalf of the people against the people's democracy.  The US support for The Contras became a degenerate, screwed-up mess that nearly got Ronald Reagan impeached.  Finally, in 1990; after many years of stupid, the people actually got to vote on whether they wanted Ortega's People's Democracy.  They did not.  Ortega was temporarily exorcised. 

In 2007, Daniel Ortega returned.  He campaigned as a nicer, pink-not-red version of his lovable self.  He won.  The people actually wanted this guy back.  The dog had returned to his vomit.  Within two years, he reached out to his ideological soulmate Hugo Chavez.  By 2011, he was modifying Nicaragua's constitution to be more "Progressive" and allow him to stay in power some more.  He also formed an unholy alliance with crony-capitalists who couldn't care less how socialist Ortega acted as long as they could still keep their swag. 

Business leaders gave him a free hand in politics, which he used to take control of independent institutions, subvert opposition parties and rig subsequent elections. In return, Mr Ortega adopted business-friendly policies. That led to economic growth of better than 4% a year on average from 2007 to 2017; inflows of foreign investment more than trebled over that period.

This, however, is no longer working out as planned.  Like many democrat blowhards who blow hard with the rhetoric about freedom, Daniel Ortega doesn't seem to support certain choices as much as others when it comes to exercises in Democracy.  Hence, the suffering Nicaraguans are again asking a US President to bail out their boats.

Human rights organizations in Washington and Nicaragua are documenting allegations of human rights violations following the deaths of at least 113 people protesting the Daniel Ortega regime in the political uprising that began two months ago, according to sources familiar with the investigations.  A group of Nicaraguan college students traveled to Washington this week to ask for assistance from President Trump and Congress in toppling the regime.

I don't favor this course of action.  We already got rid of Daniel Ortega once for these idiots.  They invited him back.  They knew he was a scorpion when they gave him a ride.  You can't name a Communist who doesn't turn violent against his democratic opposition.  You don't make it to the top of anyone's politburo by shaking hands and playing by Marquis de Queensbury Rules.  Let Nicaragua become another Venezuela.  Let the rest of the world see this place and burn with an ardent desire not to be them.  We've done Iran-Contra before.  It was an utter turd show.  The Nicaraguan People asked for Ortega, they got Ortega and perhaps they deserve to die from Ortega.  Donald Trump has no business whatsoever saving idiots from flunking Life's IQ Test.  

Another Scare Story Tanks

In Europe and Amerika
There's a growing feeling of hysteria....

OK.  There is a growing effort to manufacture that feeling.  But the ground truth in Europe suggests this is ridiculous.

Number of Active Tanks
1985 NATO: 32,700 USSR: 54,500
2015 NATO: 7,500 Russia: 2,750

In terms of nuclear weapons, The USA has gone from 30,000 nuclear weapons in 1969 to a steady state of 5,000 since about 2010.  The USSR/ Russia has stepped way back from the Tsar Bomba days of rage.  They hit peak nuke in about 1985 when they fielded 40,000 warheads.  They are down to about 5,000 IAW the end state of the START Treaty.

So what do we hear about in the media?  The Russians are coming!  And it's because they are naturally belligerent.  They rig our elections via Facebook and Google.  But Facebook and Google are responsible corporations, so it's totally the Russians.

Apparantly, even selling them 20% of our Uranium isn't enough to appease the raging bear of the North.

In 2013, Rosatom, backed by the Russian state, acquired a Canadian uranium mining company, now called Uranium One, which has assets in the U.S. Uranium is a key material for making nuclear weapons.  Through the deal, Russia is able to own about 20 percent of U.S. uranium production capacity. However, Colin Chilcoat, an energy affairs specialist who has written extensively about Russia's energy deals, said that the company only extracts about 11 percent of uranium in the U.S.

So The Wilsonian Era just called and asked me to pass on a message to Robert Mueller.  They want their Palmer Raids back.  We apparently had more reason to have Joseph McCarthy investigate Daschele Hammett than we had to impanel a special prosecutor to investigate the 2016 Election.

So we remain at war with Eurasia because we have always been at war with Eurasia.  And we owe to much money to Eastasia.  Who needs nukes when you can always just nuke our long bonds?  This is all distraction.  This how the DC machine and the Proggy Cathedral strive to distract us from their hideous kakistocracy.  Just keep them serving 'Merka against them Big, Evil Rushens.

Distract them effectively enough and they won't notice that the Big, Bad Enemy has 1/18th the tank force and 1/13th the nuclear arsenal that they did when they had serious aspirations of cross-ventilating Western Democracies.  Just keep them swinging at the high cheese and maybe the people won't notice that the greatest threat to Western Democracy comes from the democrats themselves. 

Italy Rips Off The Mask of The Failed Elite

David Brooks noticed something and The New York Times even permitted him to.

Once upon a time, white male Protestants ruled the roost. You got into a fancy school if your father had gone to the fancy school. You got a job at a white-shoe law firm or climbed the corporate ladder if you golfed at the right club.  Then we smashed all that. We replaced a system based on birth with a fairer system based on talent. We opened up the universities and the workplace to Jews, women and minorities. University attendance surged, creating the most educated generation in history. We created a new boomer ethos, which was egalitarian (bluejeans everywhere!), socially conscious (recycling!) and deeply committed to ending bigotry.  You’d think all this would have made the U.S. the best governed nation in history. Instead, inequality rose. Faith in institutions plummeted. Social trust declined. The federal government became dysfunctional and society bitterly divided.

So then he has to explain why this all went in the opposite direction...

1. Exaggerated faith in intelligence.
2. Misplaced faith in autonomy.
3. Misplaced notion of the self.
4. Inability to think institutionally. 
5. Misplaced idolization of diversity.

So what is the end state of this.  Well, quite simply; a group of looters take over.  It ends like an overly verbose Ayn Rand novel, except that we never get to meet John Galt.  The looters pillaging Italy like a Carthaginian Army are ensconced in the EU Headquarters in Belgium. 

They claim to just love Democracy.  What they don't like are fickle voters who actually vote their own interests.  The European University system gives them an elite that they are all supposed to shut their yaps and follow.  They manage these people out of the goodness of their ever-loving hearts. 

Or not.  They run a Kakistocracy.  The recent Coup d'Etat in Italy shows us how Democratic Democracy really is.  You can always vote.  They just don't allow you to make certain choices and will pull the plug on you if you do.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Sunday barred a coalition of euroskeptic parties from forming a government despite a clear mandate handed down by voters earlier this spring. The move amounted to nothing less than a bloodless coup d’état and laid bare the naked contempt for the vox populi among the Italian and European liberal establishment. Talk about liberalism without democracy.

This brings us back around to David Brooks' root causes of elitist tyranny and failure.  If we apply an Alt-Right Translator to David's 5 Root Causes we get 3 fundamental flaws of Post-Enlightenment Western Democracy.

Exaggerated faith in intelligence combined with the inability to think institutionally translates into a Rejection of Traditional Aristocratic Hierarchy.  Brooks specially describes what the dope-smoking, jean-wearing, egalitarian campus rabble replaced.  These White Male Protestants who hived at the WASP-Nest Institutions were a Brahman Class.  They were privileged to be sure, but in return for that privilege they acted out of patriotism and noblesse oblige.

Misplaced faith in autonomy and a misplaced notion of the self map to a combination of toxic individualism merged with crowdism.  The individualism comes from the death of aristocracy.  You can't tell *me* what to do in an egalitarian society.  *I* don't have to take it from you.  *I* have rights and *you* have obligations. 

Then we get the crowd of identical individuals.  It's amazing how all these liberated individualistic units looked identical.  The Star Wars Clone Armies had more unique personalities.  These kindred non-spirits flock together and form a hostile, demanding, destructive crowd.  This is crowdism and it destroys anything or anybody that stands out above the norm. 

The misplaced idolization of diversity doesn't even need translation.  Now Brooks would never except the simple conclusion that diversity plus proximity equals conflict, but he does understand that we all need to stay the people God made us.  We need our society to work the way we built it. That cannot continue when we deliberately replace the population stock. 

So David tells us to look in the mirror honestly.  To accept our virtues as well.  Diversity Fetishism is dishonest self-hatred.  Here David Brooks is magnificently right.  God made me White and LeBron James Black for his own divine reasons.  Neither one of us has anything to feel guilty over on those grounds.  Ignore the Left.  It is #OKTOBeWhite.

It's also OK for average, working Italians to choose not to work for some anonymous German banking conglomerate.  They may like being Italian.  They might just get up in the morning, look in the mirror while shaving or brushing their teeth and feel pretty satisfied with what they see before them.  And what in the heck is a European anyway?  It has been meaningless ever since their failing, university-educated elite destroyed the morally binding concept of Christendom. 

Now they feel like they have to destroy what it is to be an Italian.  How long before the managerial state destroys what it is to be a human being?  It's a valid question now that the mask just got ripped off of the Italian "Democracy."  We now know it is nothing but a lie. 

The Mathematics Of The Kakistocracy

Le Chateau Heartiste highlights a very interesting question from the comments on one of his pieces.

Btw, what kind of democracy is it that the 2% has more power than the 98%?

I respond with a certain sadness to the query posed above.  My friends, it is not a Democracy.  At least it is not the bright and shining lie we were sold as Democracy.  It is a manipulated Kakistocracy.

Every so often, the betters who tell us what we are permitted to think mess it up.  They ask us what they really think expecting a different and less unpleasant result than you would get from say taking the temperature of a struggling Ebola patient in an ICU Ward. One example where the beliefs of those living in Amerika run afoul of The Gospel of The 2% involves the benefits of International Trade.  Reuters/Soros (Oops I mean Ipsos), had the temerity to ask...

Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each of the following... International trade hurts average Americans because it keeps wages down due to the cheaper costs of foreign labor?  3,397 Responses  Agree 69.4%  Disagree 30.6%

Here we have a clear and definitive divergence between what the overlords in the gilded capital want and the desires of the piddle-itch peasantry in the hinterlands.  And this is not the only major issue on which the desires and needs of the people diverge from the preferred status quo favoring those to the manor born.  By 40%, this poll reflects disagreement with the elite preference for unrestricted international trade.  If it accurately reflects the sentiment of the country, we've got a majority of 128 Mil; out of a population in the ballpark of 320 Mil that want their elite opinion to do the FOAD.

This begs an essential question.  How can these "leaders" get away with crap like this.  Democracy implies consent of the governed.  The governed just indicated that a huge majority of them want this particular policy direction reversed.  Shouldn't our elected representatives fear the popular reprimand?  They do fear a reprimand, but it's not a popular one. This is what our Democracy is responsive to.

Politico quoted Rowe threat to deny funds to GOP legislators who do not sign the discharge petition which will create an amnesty for at least 2 million DACA migrants, plus many of their chain-migration relatives.

Meanwhile, the peasants get itchy rectums in countries other than just the US of A.  In Sweden, The Swedes are questioning just how intelligent it is to import masses of people who are 180-degrees different culturally, religiously and racially than the usual member of Swedish Society.  This is diametrically opposite to what the Swedish governing class wants.

The Social Democrats, Politico reports, have "struggled to respond" to the Sweden Democrats' rhetoric on the issue, particularly in light of a recent spate of violence in Sweden's immigrant ghettos. Their lack of strength on the issue has actually caused Swedes to turn from the Sweden Democrat party; the group is facing a near 30% drop in support from the last election cycle.

Folks, this is an acid test.  Democracy is never about what the people want.  It is about what those skillful at manipulating the people want.  The Swedes, like the members of congress and the Amerikan voters; are all about to get railroaded.  It will be for their own good.  It will be because the elites care.  Actually, it won't.  But we all know this already and are patiently waiting until it all falls off the cliff and we can rebuild from the societal ruins.  Until then, they all just wanna be elected.