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Kunstler: A Turn for the Worse
The Democratic Party has steered itself into an exquisitely neurotic predicament at a peculiar moment of history. Senator Bernie Sanders set the tone for the shift to full-throated socialism, and the primary election win of 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a New York congressional district seems to have ratified it. She promised voters free college tuition, single-payer health care, and free housing. Ah, to live in such a utopia!
One can actually understand why New Yorkers especially would fall for that agenda of promises. When I was a child there in the 1950s and 60s, New York was a mostly middle-class city. City College of New York, with a really distinguished faculty, was free. That’s right, stone free. Much of that middle-class was educated there, including most of my high school teachers. In the 1950s and 60s, it cost a few hundred dollars to have a baby in the hospital, and less than that to receive three stitches in the ER. Back then, New York real estate was mostly rental housing and not subject to the deformations of wandering global capital.
You can’t overstate how fortunate this country was after the Second World War. The mid-twentieth century was the apex of American industrial wealth. We produced real goods and lived in extraordinary comfort. Now, of course that has all turned around, the industry is mostly bygone, the magnificent energy supply is getting sketchy, and all that’s left is a false-front financialized economy based on swindling and accounting fraud. Medicine and health care have become unabashed rackets, and good luck finding a place to live for less than half of your monthly income.
Things have changed, as Bob Dylan once noted in song, and the times they are a ‘changing once again. This is probably the worst time in recent history to go full-bore socialist. Look, it’s as simple as this: the 20th century saw the greatest rise of global GDP ever. The prospect of that is what drove the various socialisms of the period — the belief that there would be evermore material wealth and that a lot of it had to be fairly redistributed to the workers who brought it into being. You can debate the finer socio-ethical points of that — and indeed that’s what much of politics consisted of throughout the industrialized world — but the stunning bonanza of wealth compelled it.
That is the world we are moving out of right now, despite the fantasies of Elon Musk and the many techno pied pipers like him. GDP growth has stalled, the implacable trend is toward contraction, and the wizards of financial hocus-pocus are running out of tricks for pretending that they create anything of value. In short: there’s no there there. All that’s left are IOUs for loans that will never be paid back — and that kind of loan (especially in the form of a bond) doesn’t have any value.
So, the Democratic Party has embarked on a crusade to redistribute the wealth of the nation at the exact moment when the “wealth” is turning out to be gone. Good luck with that.
A perhaps more high-toned and fine-tuned version of this program is the new scheme called “universal basic income” (UBI). A Silicon Valley zillionaire named Andrew Yang has launched a 2020 presidential bid based on this UBI. You can listen to his pitch in this excellent discussion with Sam Harris here. Yang is obviously sincere. He proposes to give every citizen around $1,000 a month whether they have a job or not. You can mount any number of arguments about how this might incentivize behavior for better or worse, but if something like that were ramped up, I assure you it could only be done with a debased currency on track toward oblivion. The wealth is no longer there and the representation of it in “money” will be obviously false.
Don’t get too worked-up, either, over the Big Story that robots will soon be doing all the jobs lately done by humans in America. That fantasy of the next economy is actually already dead-on-arrival due to the energy predicament that virtually no one in the public arena is paying any attention to. The century-long oil bonanza is winding down again. The oil companies know it. They’re not spending any money on exploration, meaning they won’t replace the energy we’re currently burning up with new supply. To make matters more interesting, the alt-energy industries will not survive the demise of oil. You have no idea how this dilemma will shove the life our nation into something like a new medieval age. And don’t be surprised if it comes complete with a new feudalism — which is just a way of describing a deeply local economy, if you can make one at all.
The Democratic Party’s return to socialist nostrums could not happen at a less propitious moment. It’s one thing to spend other people’s money during an age of steadily rising GDP, and another thing when GDP is collapsing. It might even prove to be a winning strategy in a few elections. But that depends on how delusional the voters remain.
119 Comments on "Kunstler: A Turn for the Worse"
MASTERMIND on Mon, 2nd Jul 2018 10:09 pm
Madkat
How are you tearing it down now? You took your money and became a collapse refugee in a third world country..
Makati1 on Mon, 2nd Jul 2018 10:18 pm
MM, you are the fool, not me. Trying to make me look bad is your defense of your country’s depredations and you inability/unwillingness to do anything about it.
I am only one of thousands leaving the Us every year. At last count, some 5,000+ every year for decades and the exodus is increasing in numbers every year.
I spread the facts about the terrorist country everywhere I can. That is more effective than any physical act I can do. You still do not understand the world you live in. I see it from a vantage point more than twice your age. Perspective, MM. Perspective.
joe on Mon, 2nd Jul 2018 10:47 pm
“Cloggie on Mon, 2nd Jul 2018 3:36 pm ”
I told you it was a rouse. The CSU will not split with the CDU. It still won’t help them. Merkel knows a shift to the right helps the Afd throughout Germany. This new camp system idea is doomed to fail at the 1st pictures of muslim kids behind wire fences in Germany of all places. The EU is screwed.
Cloggie on Mon, 2nd Jul 2018 11:11 pm
https://youtu.be/Y_1G4_oPt_o
Airhead liteweight Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promisses to dole out goodies like there is no tomorrow.
Sounds like the next Venezuela in the making.
joe on Mon, 2nd Jul 2018 11:40 pm
Of course they could give free education, homes and medical care. They do it in Saudi Arabia. But only for native born Arabs. UK has free health care and housing etc is heavily subsidised. Millions of muslims are risking death to get to Germany due to the generosity of their welfare state. Go on USA, the sweeter you make mothers milk, the more the children will suck.
Cloggie on Mon, 2nd Jul 2018 11:40 pm
“I told you it was a rouse. The CSU will not split with the CDU. It still won’t help them. Merkel knows a shift to the right helps the Afd throughout Germany. This new camp system idea is doomed to fail at the 1st pictures of muslim kids behind wire fences in Germany of all places. The EU is screwed.”
The CSU can’t afford a split now because of the upcoming elections in Bavaria. They will get a beating from the AfD anyway, they want to avoid having to compete with the CDU in Bavaria as well.
But every talking head admits that the current apparent mending of CDU-CSU relations is fake, conservative Seehofer and the communist Merkel hate each other.
You’re Brit, so you hope Europe and especially Germany will get destroyed again and that ZOG-USA will continue to dominate. There are no signs that anybody in Europe has the intention of blowing up Europe, not even the populist governments in Italy, Austria and Eastern Europe. In fact it remains to be seen if Brexit will happen (I hope it does, God do I hope it does, so we can finally go full-Gaullist and swap you for the Russians and their thousands of nukes).
It is all about illegal immigration, everybody in Europe is fed-up with and this aversion is currently blowing up the 1968-leftist US-oriented establishment in Europe.
Merkel is the last hold-out of that establishment that is currently melting away. Even the communist media of US c*ck-suckers are afraid of Merkel and the way she creates the gaping hole through which the right can creep in and take the joint over.
Yesterday Weidel-AfD in German television, grinning: “we are the hunters now”. And that is true. I think that after the elections in Bavaria, CDU-CSU will split up and that the CSU will begin to operate federal-wide, in accordance to the wish of a large part of the electorate to have a real conservative party again.
joe on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 12:02 am
The so called populists of Europe are strawman parties for the implementation of the Lisbon treaty. Italy can’t seriously consider giving up the euro without paying 20% interest on debt, same goes for the rest of southern EU countries. Brexit will happen because Soros made sure the Major government had to leave the erm. Without the UK we will see more divergence in EU policies between countries. A centralised right wing EU will be a disaster for liberals globally, not just for US-UK/Nato. In all probability they will shut the door to migrants, destroy welfare systems and militarise. The EU founding values will be forgotten and a new German empire will emerge. France will be powerless to do anything, it’s a huge disaster for liberals and socialists. They are being punished for 20 years of their anti-US policies of withdrawing support for US wars of aggression etc….
As for Uncle Putin, don’t hold your breath on Russia riding out to save Berlin. Russia follows its own agenda. Noam Chomsky rightly points out that Russia is the last sovereign country in the world. A lurch to the right will only encourage rebellious acts and polarise societies. The EU is a ticking time bomb.
Cloggie on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 12:29 am
A centralised right wing EU will be a disaster for liberals globally, not just for US-UK/Nato. In all probability they will shut the door to migrants, destroy welfare systems and militarise. The EU founding values will be forgotten and a new German empire will emerge. France will be powerless to do anything, it’s a huge disaster for liberals and socialists.
Shutting the door to immigrants, yes. Militarization, yes. But the coming populist system will be a system for the small guy, for the “deplorables”, a bit like under national-socialism, although I do not expect “democracy” to be abolished, just a change in “Zeitgeist”, crushing leftist-globalism, the borderless One World of the Soros-types.
Welfare will not be abolished, just a refusal to share it with everybody who shows up at our shores.
There will be no German empire. It is unlikely that Germany will want to copy France and Russia and acquire nukes too, I think they won’t.
As for Uncle Putin, don’t hold your breath on Russia riding out to save Berlin.
We don’t need Putin to save Berlin. Our demographics are still such that we can win a fight all by ourselves.
Russia follows its own agenda.
Everybody has an agenda, but you fail to say what you think Russia’s agenda is. I’ll tell you what Russia’s agenda is: Russia is preparing itself to finally become a real full-blown continental European country, as it has aspired to become since Peter the Great. And now Vlad the Great is going to make it happen. All you need to do is listen carefully to what Putin has said repeatedly in the past:
Last month:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/05/10/boreas-rising-paris-berlin-moscow/
Earlier:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/paris-berlin-moscow/
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/russia-plays-the-european-card/
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/vladimir-putin-about-german-russian-reconciliation/
We continental Europeans should let Russia in, but the timing is very important as you don’t want to provoke a last minute anti-European Chinese-US alliance. The waiting is for America to blink first: either CW2 or a major war in the Gulf, Korea, or South-China Sea. Paris-Berlin-Moscow can only begin to happen in case of a serious US-Chinese clash or a serious uprising in the US, that could be initiated by either the left or right.
The strategic continental European goal should be: Heartland USA + Europe + Russia. That is enough to balance the coming #1 China.
For this to happen Washington needs to go. Think Carthage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthaginian_peace
We either get the desired geopolitical option, a unified white world where PBM will replace Washington (“Samuel Huntington”) or second best (“Orwell”), the latter being a disaster for Anglosphere, but a serious possibility, if the milliminds prevail in Anglosphere:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/which-future-world/
Paris-Berlin-Moscow is going to happen anyway and will replace the EU. Main reason: rising China.
DerHundistLos on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 12:55 am
Kunt continues to behave like a spurned lover. Once the public learned that his numerous predictions were ALL wrong, the invitations to college campuses dried-up. Now Kunt believes (or maybe it is) his paycheck will be covered by the Republicons. Of course, this comes with a price.
DerHundistLos on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 12:58 am
How did I know Davy would be incapable of resisting a cheap shot at the enemy political party. Cheap shots and fake conspiracy theories…. priceless.
john kelley on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 2:01 am
Thank you Onlooker,JuanP,LTHSDG and Mastermind for taking the time to help me understand why humanity isn’t responding to this on-rushing energy disaster which will affect us all.You have given me a lot to think about.
Makati1 on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 2:37 am
Americans, if you still believe that there are two political parties and you have a say in your government, I suggest you read this and give it some thought.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/01/dictatorship-over-america-how-it-functions.html
Slip slidin’…
Theedrich on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 3:35 am
America is based on original sin. Its collective unconscious was formed by Christianity, which is based on a myth about a talking snake convincing humanity’s fancied protomother to become conscious by eating knowledge from an imaginary tree full of it. This “offense” against a Hebrew high god was claimed to endow all (White) descendents with permanent guilt, which required a Greek-like dying and rising god to expunge. Presto: Cretinity!
This myth has caused untold deaths throughout the centuries since the time of the Jesus groupies. Yet the tale has also proven quite useful to all kinds of politicians, never more so than in America. Projecting sin, evil, alliance with a devil, etc., onto targeted political enemies internal or external convinces hordes of ignorami, mushrooms and dimwits to give up their very lives for “God and country.” Both right and left, both theists and atheists use the tactic. Nowadays, attacking Trump as super-dupernaturally “evil” is used to convince the masses that the program of Lenin, Stalin & Co. is the right way to go. In the president’s defense, he and the international financial system are pumping up the GDP with Monopoly money, as Kunstler points out. Only the stars know how much longer this contest can last.
But since the U.S. is a suicidal-megalomaniac nation, it is also aiming at dominating the earth militarily, justifying its massacres with palaver about (Christianity-derived) “humanitarianism” and importing ThirdWorldlings to fill its need for slaves and for virtue-signaling.
The only hope is that Russia and China may block the psychotics who run the government in D.C. And maybe North Korea and South Korea can form some kind of a nuclear-armed alliance to excrete Yankeedom from the Asian mainland.
shoal on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 3:58 am
“The ‘Dirty Dozen’ Sectors Of Global Debt”
https://www.narrowroadcapital.com/memos/the-dirty-dozen-sectors-of-global-debt
“When considering where the global credit cycle is at, it’s often easy to form a view based on a handful of recent articles, statistics and anecdotes. The most memorable of these tend to be either very positive or negative otherwise they wouldn’t be published or would be quickly forgotten. A better way to assess where the global credit cycle is at is to look for pockets of dodgy debt. If these pockets are few, credit is early in the cycle with good returns likely to lie ahead. If these pockets are numerous, that’s a clear indication that credit is late cycle.”
“In reviewing global debt, twelve sectors standout for their lax credit standards and increasing risk levels. There’s excessive risk taking in developed and emerging debt, as well as in government, corporate, consumer and financial sector debt. This points to global credit being late cycle. Central banks have failed to learn the lessons from the last crisis. By seeking to avoid or lessen the necessary cleansing of malinvestment and excessive debt, this cycle’s economic recovery has been unusually slow. Ultra-low interest rates and quantitative easing have increased the risk of another financial crisis, the opposite of the financial stability target many central bankers have.”
MASTERMIND on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 4:23 am
Clogg
Within a decade the European union will seize to exist..it won’t matter who is leading them..you are just rearranging the chairs on the Titanic at this point..
Darrell Cloud on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 5:25 am
The Democratic Party walked away from middle America when it put a Muslim Marxist in office. Neither Muslims nor Marxists are progressives. Now the Walk Away Movement has pointed free thinkers towards the exit.
https://www.facebook.com/usminority/videos/486555651765405/?t=121
joe on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 6:09 am
We are entering a phase where the elephant in the room is no longer ignored by the elites. Trump has at least had the balls to make a stand. Nobody can ever take that away from him. The AFD are the same. Only time will tell if has any meaning in the future.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 6:26 am
Darell
Yea the right are real free thinkers aren’t they..the religious party of Jesus..
The smartest people in America are liberals..Doctors, Scientist, Professors, Artist, Comedians..
The dumbest people are conservatives…Gun nuts, religious people, racist, conspiracy loons..
I rest my case..
joe on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 6:58 am
Mastermind makes an awful big supposition that all the above mentioned are liberal. He’s so prejudiced and does not realise how dumb he reads. Apologies on mms behalf to all conservative doctors actors comedians etc
MASTERMIND on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 7:04 am
Joe
In general they all are..Not everyone one of course but the vast majority are..The right isn’t a political party, its a religious party..And religious people are the dumbest -poorest, lowest IQ people in the entire world..And they are the most violent..
Darrell Cloud on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 9:05 am
Pew research tends to disprove your assumption, MM. It seems that bitter clinger, bible thumpers tend to be better informed than their counter parts. As for us gun nuts, we seem to be the only ones that understand that the second amendment was put in place to insure that we the people had the means to resist the government should it ever go nuts. A cursory review of history reveals that individuals tend to murder in numbers centered around single digits. Governments on the other hand murder millions.
http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/2339-republicans-more-informed-than-democrats-according-to-pew-research
Dredd on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 12:00 pm
“don’t be surprised if it comes complete with a new feudalism”
American feudalism is as old as unending wars for … (American Feudalism).
Cloggie on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 3:27 pm
Trump abolishes “positive discrimination”. Excellent.
Dutch PM visita president Trump. According to Rutte is the relationship US-Dutch relationship stringer than ever.
https://www.firstorderhistorians.com/2018/07/02/rutte-on-a-visit-to-trump-relationship-with-the-netherlands-better-than-ever/
Economic powerhouse Holland is 2nd largest investor in the US, after Japan, but before Canada, Germany and France:
https://howmuch.net/articles/foreign-investment-usa
Dutch marines visit the place where it all began: New Amsterdam:
https://mobile.twitter.com/fromvlee/status/1014204552185286657
Cloggie on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 3:33 pm
Oops, overlooked that Britain is the largest investor in the US.
Makati1 on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 6:41 pm
The shoe is on the other foot…
“”Shooting And Robbery Are Frequent”: China Warns Its Citizens About Risks Of Travel To The US”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-03/shooting-and-robbery-are-frequent-china-warns-its-citizens-about-risks-travel-us
“In addition to getting killed and mugged, the embassy warned Chinese tourists to be aware of issues including expensive medical bills, searches and seizures by customs agents, telecommunications fraud and natural disasters…
China may be right: according to a 2015 University of Alabama study, Yemen is the only other country in the world with a higher rate of mass shootings, adjusted for population.”
Slip slidin’…
Makati1 on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 10:11 pm
Are YOU prepared?
“How do you know when the real SHTF has arrived?…
You really need to be the well-prepared and smart frog to realize that the warm (and maybe pleasant) water is going to be deadly boiling in a very short time….
I believe the term is “strategic relocation”, or in other words, it is moving to an area where the situation going to be better if SHTF….
…a few things that I would look for are:
1. smaller communities
2. places where you already have some network (family, friends…)
3. availability of resources ( land, rivers, woods, hunt…)
4, reasonably far away from big infrastructure
5. laws that allow you freedom (or absence of restrictions) like farming, weapon carry, homeschooling etc….
Here are some of the signs that the SHTF has actually arrived….
1. Freedoms and rights are disappearing.
2. Polarization, hate, and violence are on the rise.
3. Your access to information will be limited.”
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/selco-these-are-the-signs-the-shtf-is-happening-for-real_07032018
All the signs are visible in the Us. Do you see them?
Free Speech Forum on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 10:19 pm
Living in a police state is dehumanizing.
Americans are just slaves, zombies, and sheep now.
Makati1 on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 10:33 pm
Right on, Free. Right on!
Cloggie on Tue, 3rd Jul 2018 11:53 pm
Senator Bernie Sanders set the tone for the shift to full-throated socialism, and the primary election win of 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a New York congressional district seems to have ratified it. She promised voters free college tuition, single-payer health care, and free housing. Ah, to live in such a utopia!
Of course Kunstler “forgets” to mention the all-important ethnic background of these two scoundrels: jewish c.q. puerto-rican. Under the banner of “anti-racism” they are both preparing to help whitey off his money or what’s left of it and venture to subsidize every gate-crasher from his purse.
One wonders how long whitey is going to put up with it.
tic-toc-tic-toc
MASTERMIND on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 12:09 am
Clogg
I wouldn’t worry about some socialist winning a small time election..In a few years we are going to have a global oil supply shortage, and its going to collapse all the world markets and global economy..And it will be like the movie “The Purge” afterwards..
Cloggie on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 5:34 am
Millimind, this victory is symptomatic for the demographic changes underway, of which you are well aware because your tribe organized it.
Whitey will ever more put himself at the electoral mercy of the invaders 2.0 (whites being invaders 1.0) who smell financial blood. “Cough up!”, you cracker, don’t you know we are all eekwel now?
Now how do think the crackers are going to react?
[insert vile European natzi grin here]
Dredd on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 7:00 am
Independence is the common good (Independence From What?).
MASTERMIND on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 8:25 pm
Cloud:
Firstly, your source is a right-wing rag so of course the results will be faked.
Here is Pew’s interpretation of the results, liar:
“There is little difference in news knowledge across partisan groups, with Republicans and Republican-leaning independents and Democrats and Democratic leaners answering about the same number of questions correctly on average (5.7 questions vs. 5.5 questions, respectively).”
Finally, these poll results do not contradict MM’s statement. It is a fact, the better educated the person, the more likely the individual identifies as a Democrat.
Makati1 on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 8:42 pm
“… these poll results do not contradict MM’s statement.”
Have you totally lost it MM? You are talking, in that sentence, like you are not MM. Like he is another person. not you, MM. Reread it and decide who is talking OK?
MASTERMIND on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 9:06 pm
Madkat
That wasn’t me again..I told you..Someone is talking under my handle.
Maybe its the deep state…LOL
Makati1 on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 9:08 pm
Really? Or maybe it is just MM being stupid?
MASTERMIND on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 9:26 pm
LEFTIST throws drink in face of proud patriot, steals his MAGA hat, and yells, “YOU AIN’T SUPPORTIN’ SHIT N—A”
https://twitter.com/brxpug/status/1014417257945018368
Anonymouse1 on Wed, 4th Jul 2018 10:24 pm
Wow, are you ever dumb davyturd. You made the exact same claim, but as the exceptionalturd.
It seems, some unnamed 3rd party, is posting fake comments using your name, and is confined, oddly, to just the one, err ‘two’ of you. ‘Yourself’ and the exceptionalturd.
Pure coincidence I am sure.
Cloggie on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 2:23 pm
Global happiness distribution 2018:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-report/2018/WHR2018Chapter2OnlineData.xls
And the winner is… Finland!
In general it helps to be white, capitalist and protestant.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 3:11 pm
Clogg
Venezuela was in the top ten happiest country a decade ago..And now look at them..That is why collapse is fast..I bet most of their people never though things could go downhill so fast..
And Europe is in a depression..And their collapse is coming! The German’s know what is coming..DO YOU?
Cloggie on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 3:27 pm
“Venezuela was in the top ten happiest country a decade ago.”
The World Happiness Report began in 2012, you fool.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-report/2016/HR-V1_web.pdf
“The first World Happiness Report was published in April 2012, in support of the High Level Meeting at the United Nations on happiness and well-being, chaired by the Prime Minister of Bhutan.”
Antius on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 3:39 pm
“LEFTIST throws drink in face of proud patriot, steals his MAGA hat, and yells, “YOU AIN’T SUPPORTIN’ SHIT N—A””
Next, the leftist gets fired for being a violent, abusive piece of scum.
Leftists tend to be moral absolutist. They have a rigid and inflexible definition of what is right and wrong. It provides them the emotional security they need. It is no coincidence that these people tend to have serious emotional problems.
The idea of moral absolutism is clearly very appealing to emotionally damaged people. It also explains why they cannot tolerate people that do not share their views. It is emotionally painful to them, because disagreeing with them means that you are rejecting an emotional prop that they need. So long as they can be assured that they are working towards some universal good, it makes these lonely people feel that they have a purpose in this world and that they are something other than oxygen consumers on their way to becoming worm food.
But you reject that and you essentially shatter their whole existence. Which is why they tend to be so violent and angry towards people that do not accept their world view. It is intensely painful for them. Because of their intense personal need for order and conformity, they tend to find solace in the group. Ironically, this tends to allow the most emotionally weak people to dominate the emotionally strong. Happy people don’t feel the need to do this.
The right, for their part, tend to be conservative and individualist. That sort of belief system is only suitable for people that have the self confidence to be happy without the collectivist emotional support of a group. Their instinct is to reach compromise and choose a path that favours individual freedom and emphasises individual responsibility. But they usually fail to understand the mindset of their opponents, because they are fundamentally unlike them. For the left, the idea of compromise in unthinkable, they require unquestioning consent. They tend to be obsessed with control; with the idea that people and society should be forced into an idealistic mould. Because the right do not share this obsessiveness, they tend to end up being out manoeuvred. They lack the single minded desire to control others.
Until we recognise left-wing fanaticism as being the mental illness that it really is, then our democracy will not be safe. For always it will be dominated by idealistic groups that are bent towards the control of others.
joe on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 3:54 pm
Cloggie on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 3:27
The World Happiness Report began in 2012, you fool.
“https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2006/07/nparticle.2006-07-28.html”
Cloggie as usual showing who the true fool is.
joe on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 3:56 pm
Btw, Venezuela wasn’t very happy then either.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 4:44 pm
We have traveled back in time to the Great Depression era..
Fascism rising, trade wars, police brutality, dust bowl.
onlooker on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 5:14 pm
MM, With the difference being we are NOT coming out of it ever. Sorry to say
MASTERMIND on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 5:14 pm
Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial..
Jose Manuel Barroso
Chairman Goldman Sachs International
MASTERMIND on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 5:17 pm
Onlooker
Yes that is correct..Once the oil shortage hits that will be the final nail in the coffin of BAU..
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
GregT on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 5:34 pm
“Once the oil shortage hits that will be the final nail in the coffin of BAU..”
BAU already isn’t what it used to be.
When I bought my first home it cost -3x the medial income. Today, that exact same home, would cost around 35x the medial income. People back then had savings accounts. People today have lines of credit.
Boat on Thu, 5th Jul 2018 6:06 pm
greggiet
My taxes are double per year than the value of my first home.