"Summary: We gave our elites the greatest gift that America can give.
Understanding this, we can make a powerful resolution for the New Year – and change the course of history.
The difference between ordinary epidemics and horrific pandemics is in their frequency, duration, and size.
This applies to social ills as well as diseases.
For example, America has been wracked for generations by an extraordinary series of moral panics.
These are an ordinary illness of societies...
...America has an amazing number of moral panics of extreme size and duration.
In the 1980s and 1990s we had the Satanic Abuse hysteria and Day Care Child Abuse hysteria.
Both were huge and long.
These put people in jail after trials that made those of the Salem witches look like models of rationality (they also helped make Janet Reno Attorney General of the USA).
...Now we are in the midst of two moral panics that made those before look penny-ante: RussiaGate and the Climate Emergency. Although neither has much factual foundation, both continue to burn today, with no end in sight.
...While causes are useful to know, only results matter.
These massive moral panics show that Americans are no longer capable of self-government.
We lack the rationality, balance, and self-discipline necessary for this most difficult and rare of tasks.
We have given our elites the greatest gift we can bestow: proof that we are unfit for democracy. America is theirs now, until we prove that we can retake control of our affairs – and our destiny.
“Every nation has the government it deserves.”
— Dark words said by Joseph de Maistre (lawyer, diplomat, philosopher) in a letter dated 13 August 1811, published in Lettres et Opuscules.
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