I was talking with a guy last night who had been screwed over–on his account–by a large American car manufacturer. Later we got to talking COVID, and he commented “people just don’t trust the government”. I inferred he was a mild but not enthusiastic Democrat, not least because in theory Democrats would protect him from what happened to him.
I said “I don’t trust the government. I don’t trust large corporations. In fact, I don’t trust people in general, in organized large groups.”
And this mistrust is historically warranted, and very, very warranted at present, where a cabal of large corporations has entered into what amounts to de facto fascistic partnership with Big Government to control the world. Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Media: all are trying to buy a government congenial to their greed. And they got a guy in the White House who has been playing their sort of ball game for a long time, and in my view all his life. Joe hasn’t changed. Washington didn’t change him. He is wired like that. If he wasn’t engaging in graft in the 1970’s, it’s only because he hadn’t yet learned how to get away with it, and/or he wasn’t worth much to anyone.
Here is what I will contend: the only lasting way to block psychopaths and those consumed by greed without becoming fully insane, is by making sure none of them control too large a part of the pie. Adam Smith said, in 1776:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Competition protected by law was his solution.
And it occurred to me this morning that by design our CONSTUTION amounts to the same thing. Balance of power amounts to a free market competition between all the elements of our government. By intention, none of them ever gets a large enough share to dominate the rest. That is why the 10th Amendment is there, to prohibit the Leviathan that the Federal government has become.
If you have one source of power, then you, as a crook who believes strongly in the principles of plutocracy (those with the gold make the rules), have merely to corrupt that one source. And that is what has happened in the United States. We retain much residual power in the sundry States, but they Left KNOWS this is a problem, so if they can’t corrupt the system as a whole by undoing the Constitution (such as by packing the court), they are going to try and corrupt the electorate with FACILITATED illegal immigration. They are already corrupted the elections. That is obvious.
It’s tiring for me, looking at the ultimate human stupidity of all this. They are fighting so hard for glass beads, for yachts, and cocaine and hookers, and I think most of all the feeling of IMPORTANCE. For what? It lasts a microsecond, and is not even within many orders of magnitude of the best sorts of experience possible to human beings. It is the creed and code and lust of morons.