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Government Corruption | |
Institutional Collapse | |
2021-06-08 | |
[TAKIMAG] ...The Bolshevik Revolution is another good example from that period.
Russia provides another relevant example on this topic. The official narrative is that Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. His economic and military policies accelerated the demise of a bad system. In reality it was the Afghan war that broke the Soviet system. The Red Army was the most trusted institution in Soviet Russia in the 1970s. Its failures in Afghanistan and the subsequent lies to hide the truth cratered the most trusted institution in Russia. Collapse soon followed. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 A tweet by Omri Ceren, who works for Ted Cruz: "Americans look at our late modern expert class - a clique of I-95 Mean Girls except without the edge of self-awareness, who lucky for each other get to credential and hire each other - and understandably though unfortunately say "if this is what expertise is, to hell with it."" |
Posted by: Matt 2021-06-08 07:46 |
#1 If the experts are just as corrupt and rapacious as the political class, they can no longer be trusted. The 'experts' and 'political class' joined hands long ago and are now nearly indistinguishable. I believe the current term of reference is a... 'distinction without a difference.' I'm assuming a Doctor Anthony Fauci graphic would be nearly as redundant as my comment. ol·i·gar·chy /ˈäləˌɡärkē/, noun, A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. A country governed by an oligarchy. "the English aristocratic oligarchy of the 19th century" government by an oligarchy. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-08 05:34 |