Fauci is the living embodiment of our big government Ineptocracy: a mediocre bureaucrat obsessed with his privileges and drunk on his taste of stardom, pawned off on the American people as a brilliant expert in a complex scientific field.
Fauci is far from the only bureaucrat misrepresented as a dispassionate scientific expert. It's the biggest running scam in Big Government. We're CONSTANTLY instructed to view selfish mediocrities who put politics first as selfless geniuses who know what's best for everyone.
Corruption is so endemic in this system that Big Government apparatchiks literally cannot see it. Many of them know they're corrupt and take steps to cover their graft, but some genuinely think of corrupt arrangements with special interests as just The Way Things Work.
Pick any subject you want, and it won't take long to find your Fauci - the plodding bureaucrat presented as a brilliant expert, the self-dealing politician portrayed as a saintly leader who thinks only of the public good, the dim ideologue presented as a dazzling deep thinker.
Big Government's abject failure at every level on the coronavirus wasn't really any different than Big Government's other abject failures: theatrics over substance, ideology disguised as science, agencies too fat with cash to perform their core missions, ass-covering prioritized.
Fauci's emails come straight from the template for how Big Government addresses every problem. They always lie to us for our own good. They always claim to have more knowledge and control over the situation than they really do. /end
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As we confront the rising evil and growing power of the Chinese Communist Party, June 4 is day to remember that some of the bravest people to stand up for freedom - at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and today - are also Chinese.
Tiananmen Square is where the illusions of the postwar international order died, along with countless brave Chinese democracy activists. On that day, the forces of evil learned they could murder their way to power, even in the dawning Information Age.
The CCP's internal communications from that day are illuminating. Some of them thought their regime was doomed, that nothing could be done against the blossoming of democracy in Tiananmen Square - not with the whole world watching, not with cameras and fax machines everywhere.
China's demographic crisis is fascinating, and alarming, because it shows that even a brutal totalitarian hyper-nationalist government cannot reverse the demographic crash afflicting most industrialized populations. The core reason for the crash is becoming apparent...
... it's because having babies is HARD, especially on women.
That's the big secret lost during the latter half of the 20th Century that is slowly, painfully being rediscovered by the 21st, in both free and unfree societies. Everyone underestimated how hard child-rearing is.
That sounds simple and obvious, but let me assure you, it is anything BUT obvious to political elites, everywhere from Western democracies to Communist China. They all convinced themselves family formation and child-rearing are purely materialistic processes, almost industrial.
The true, bloody, and brutal story of Antifa, Abolish the Police, and Black Lives Matter is following exactly the same trajectory as the Wuhan lab leak story. The truth was dismissed as a conspiracy theory and ruthlessly suppressed until it could no longer be ignored.
With both the coronavirus origin and urban unrest stories, the media ran like a witless herd, easily manipulated by small groups of bad sources with big megaphones, easily stampeded away from listening to the "icky" people who happened to be telling the truth.
This is one reason it's important not to let the media get away with a half-hearted shrug of "golly, maybe we should have taken that lab leak theory seriously after all" and a bout of furious stealth-editing for their old callous dismissals. They keep DOING THIS. It's systemic.
Why does Marxist thought inspire so much violence? It goes back to that core oppression narrative, the notion that private ownership of capital is exploitation and free societies are SYSTEMICALLY corrupt (or "racist" in the currently fashionable iteration of Marxist theory.)
Of course every collectivist, statist philosophy is inherently violent, because sooner or later they must use force to compel obedience, but Marxism gets to looting, burning, beating, and killing VERY quickly because it sells itself as a revolution against systemic corruption.
We don't reflect enough on how every exercise of state power is an implicit threat to use force. As I believe Walter Williams once put it, even the most benign-sounding law ends with an implied "... or you'll be killed," because that is the final outcome of disobedience.
I got in one really big fight in grade school. I was a Catholic kid living in a pleasant, mostly Jewish neighborhood. One day I saw some Jewish classmates picking on a very small Orthodox boy for wearing his yarmulke. My friends and I stepped in to defend him. Punches flew.
The aftermath, when everyone was cooling their heels in detention, involved us comically confused Christian kids asking the Orthodox boy what the yarmulke was, why he wore it to school, and why the heck would other Jewish kids give him a hard time about it.
We didn't know what was going on that day. We just saw a little guy getting shoved around by a bunch of big guys. We learned a lot that day, and made a new friend who was part of our little outcast crew ever afterward. (Everything feels like forever when you're that age.)
It's like Tom Tuttle from Tacoma in "Volunteers." We sent over a tough-guy wrestler action star, and in two seconds flat we get back a sniveling toady regurgitating Communist propaganda.
Anybody still think globalist economic and cultural engagement will liberalize China?
You know what will put a stop to this disgusting cowardice from Hollywood? Make it cost more for them to suck up to China than it would cost to speak up for freedom and justice. Kill this Fast and Furious movie dead at the box office and scare the ever-loving hell out of studios.
Nothing ELSE will do it, that's for sure, China has proven that its "sharp power" policies - weaponizing its entire economy to serve the geopolitical interests of the Communist Party, using its financial leverage to compel obedience from "free" world corporations - WORKS.