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2021-10-17 Home Front: Politix

[TAKIMAG] The seeds of moderate defeat are always the same. They agree in principle with the goals and philosophy of the radicals, they just lack the guts to do it. In 1920s Russia, the moderates did not want to murder millions to create socialism. Today, the moderates don’t want to commit to trillions in spending to Build Back Better. When your only complaint about the plan to murder society is the price tag, you are not in opposition. You are in the way.

The radicalism in this Build Back Better agenda is not in the price tag or in the groups it promises to reward and punish. What makes this bill so radical is that it does not exist as a written piece of legislation spelling out the spending plan. Instead, it is a framework that authorizes the federal bureaucracy to spend trillions to achieve the goals of this new economic and cultural framework.

In a functioning parliamentary system, annual budgets are debated among the representatives, usually over taxes and spending. For decades now, the American system has been one where the prior budget is the baseline. Additions and subtractions are what get debated in Congress. In other words, budget debates are largely ceremonial, but there is room for tinkering around the edges of the budget for political purposes.

Even though budget debates have been reduced to ceremony, the budgets actually exist, and in theory they can be altered. In this new bill, the thing that passes is more like a set of suggestions, which will be filled out later with other bills passed by Congress and regulations created by the bureaucracy. In other words, the people endlessly yapping about threats to "our democracy" are about to kill the democratic process.

In principle, this is not a bad thing, as democracy is the most ridiculous form of government ever conceived. If taxing, spending, and war are no longer topics of debate, then most people can get back to their lives and forget about politics. After all, if it no longer matters which party wins, then there is no point in voting. Think about how much happier life would be if politics was removed from the public square.

The trouble, as was quickly discovered by the Russians after the revolution, is that putting unbalanced lunatics in charge never ends well. Having that ridiculous sissy Mark Milley in charge of the military, for example, ensures a future disaster. Putting the legions of innumerate simpletons who make up the federal bureaucracy in charge of the economy is probably worse than communism.

The absurdity of empowering the managerial class to take full control of the economy and culture will not stop the Death Eaters from carrying the day. That is the great lesson of Western liberalism. The Death Eaters always win. The NEPmen of the Soviet system learned this the hard way. The so-called moderates of the inner party will soon learn the same lesson, although in less colorful fashion.

The consolation, if there is any, is that it will prove that you cannot defeat radicalism with moderation. The only antidote to the egalitarian madness of liberal radicalism is an equally fanatical illiberal radicalism. If the West is ever going to awake from this egalitarian madness called liberal democracy, it will start with Occidental people waking up to the reality of their situation. Only then can we Build Back Better.

Posted by Fred 2021-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 the absurdity of empowering the managerial class to take full control of the economy and culture

Spot on. The budget, bad as it is, is a sideshow compared to the damage wrought by enabling legislation like the law that allowed the internet giants to make trillion-dollar empires by selling personal data and to avoid responsibility for suppressing speech and rigging elections.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-10-17 12:45|| 2021-10-17 12:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Keep in mind, the end-state is to turn all Red States blue. The handouts/freestuff funded by the 'Federal' gummit will not always be funded by the 'Federal' gummit, but must one day (2-4 years hence) be continued by the States.

This means higher taxes and regulations cast upon the people by the States. The "Free Stuff" must be continued or our elected thieves lose their positions of power whether they be dem or pub.

The migration to the Red States must end. All must be Blue. The arrival of illegals will assist this effort. They will need much free stuff.

And so it goes.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-17 13:00|| 2021-10-17 13:00|| Front Page Top

#3 There's no reason to hope our country isn't lost already. Whoever said it first was right. When people figure out they can vote themselves largesse from the national treasury why would they labor needlessly to earn it the old fashioned way?

Posted by jpal 2021-10-17 16:42|| 2021-10-17 16:42|| Front Page Top

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