Animal Farm Revisited

According to G. Donovan Murphy, American politics would make [George] Orwell cringe today.  Socialists (née Marxists) see government as an all-purpose solution to the problems that they refuse to admit inventing.  Democratic socialists (née Keynesians) see government as a sort of battery operated magic wand, an economic and social Wizard of Oz.  Neither group represents the best interests of the people.

The government that they support is a failed experiment.  The fatal flaws of social democracy include promises that cannot possibly be kept; outlays that exceed income; the necessity for Orwellian mendacity; the absence of all moral hazards; and ultimately, a terminal erosion of the electoral process and democracy itself.

By now, sentient beings should realize that people who work for a living can no longer support those who vote themselves a living.  Taxpayer-funded and corrupt-politician created government union retirement schemes in California, New Jersey, Illinois, and other states reveal progressives’ gimme-mine-forget-you philosophy.  Propaganda justifying bankrupting states serves only parasites.  They are exploiting the fact that deadbeats can be bought with other people's money.

To point out that progressives’ official party line is a pack of lies is to state the obvious.  Spending your way out of debt is an oxymoron, a kind of logic that thrives only among civic knaves, politicians, and public employees.  No prudent banker will raise the credit limit for an insolvent cardholder.  We are unable to pay for the government dependence that Theftocrats created to extort votes from their constituents.  They are bankrupting the country and lying about it.   

Deceiving those who have already unquestioningly adopted a prepackaged collection of progressive values and beliefs is not difficult.  The proper Orwellian state requires a language of euphemisms…corruption of language is necessary for any successful fraud.  Mendacity is a standard kit for progressives.  They delight in conning people, proving how easy it is to lie to some people, especially liberals.

Lies are foundational in our legal and educational systems as well.  Lawyers and judges interpret the federal Constitution in ways that are so logically tortured that they should cause laughter to break out in courtrooms when they are articulated.  Another sordid example is that the city of Seattle has resurrected the separate-but-equal-doctrine to buy minority votes with the civil rights of others.  Educators excuse equating failure and success by claiming that commensurate consequences constitute the dreaded...STIGMA!

Deception also helps those who steal elections avoid bearing unwanted consequences.  One example is the New Black Panther Party members intimidating voters at polling stations with impunity.  Another is the investigation in Houston of massive election fraud that ended when the building housing gimmicked voting machines conveniently burned to the ground.  Federal prosecutors’ fraudulent prosecution and persecution that drove Senator Ted Stevens from office comes to mind also.  The American democratic republic seems largely nonexistent.

We are on a downward gyre in which cupidity and self-interest…thrive at the expense of the common good.  Immoral politicians represent amoral constituents.  This crisis was created by a bovine electorate and a porcine federal government—a horrible model that actually cultivates social pathologies for political purposes.  The pigs have killed and eaten the farmer.  All hail Napoleon and Squealer!

May your gods be with you.

Mutually Assured Mediocrity

A week by the seashore is amazingly rejuvenating; however, now we return to the work of encouraging rational deliberation of and dissent against the foolish, feckless, dangerous, and destructive policies and legislation created by the Obumites and their bureaucratic minions.

The bureaucrats who are harming this nation most are the government union members of the national education collective.  It might be interesting to see their reactions to the STEM programs that are being promoted.  They are resolutely opposed to the sort of competition that produces the best results in virtually every field of endeavor.

The education collective's strategies have been counterproductive for the US as a nation in competition with other countries. First among them is the deliberate dumbing down of American schools.  This is intended to provide students with ersatz self-esteem in a nobody-fails environment.  Who could benefit from preventing citizens from becoming insightful critical thinkers who recognize and criticize the inept, greedy, and destructive acts of agents of the state?

Another tactic is to divide classrooms into cells that have at least one bright and well motivated student who is responsible to teach the others and perform the work of non-producers; all cell members receive the same pay, or grade.  This scheme begins in grade K with unsuspecting children who are too young to realize that they are being subliminally indoctrinated to accept the socialist precepts of the nation's education collective.   

The author of the Bartaverse correctly notes the difficulty of getting "kids to study STEM subjects when we have teachers and students elsewhere struggling for basic literacy."  Perhaps a different point might be pondered.  Why are teachers and students struggling for basic literacy in the first place?  Children should be required to master grade K before promotion to the first grade.  When primary school students are advanced to middle school, and they are inadequately able to read, write, and perform basic math functions, they are doomed to academic, social, and economic failure.

Part of dumbing down America is to hamstring communication skills.  At the heart of this subterfuge is the virtual elimination of English grammar and usage.  Parsing sentences, proper punctuation, spelling, syntax, and consistent and concise organization are not taught.  A person who cannot identify the subject and predicate in a sentence also cannot recognize a complete sentence.  Thanks to journalism colleges and print and electronic media, pronoun and antecedent agreement are part of a bygone era.

Ineffective communication skills usually mean the difference between success and failure.  The primary goal of education's secular-socialists is mutually assured mediocrity.  What they abhor most is an open marketplace of ideas competing equally and effectively for viability and acceptance.

Punctuation often determines meaning.  Imprecise and nebulous communication such as euphemisms help collectivists avoid accurate comparisons of their constituents and others; still, the practice of devaluing grammar can hold devastating consequences.

Consider the effect of a single comma.  If a lawyer draws up a will in which an estate is divided among Linda, Imelda, and Ralph, each person receives a third.  If it is divided among Linda, Imelda and Ralph, Linda gets one-half, and Imelda and Ralph each receive a quarter of it.  Lawyers have been disbarred for less.  Dumbing down curricula by government agents is treachery.

Perhaps the one practice which most effectively ensures that significant numbers of the nation's academic underachievers will remain dependent on government is subsidizing professional sports through education funding.

All middle school, high school, and college sports programs should be intramural rather than interscholastic.  Additionally, the NFL and NBA should be required to create their own player development facilities similar to the farm clubs supported by Major League Baseball.  We need to stop funding football and basketball factories that masquerade as universities.

Far too often, former athletes leave college semi-literate and without marketable job skills.  They are physically large and muscular and have been taught how to use violence and intimidation to acquire their goals.  Faced with the humiliating prospect of lifetime underemployment or welfare dependence, they turn to violent crime.  Who could possibly benefit from creating and using these circumstances to justify ever increasing demands for more tax money to be poured down the bottomless money pit that is the mommy state?

That this situation has continued to exist and worsen since the days of Lyndon Johnson's Great Welfare Society indicates clearly that the government agents who fund it and make money from it want things this way; they are benefiting at the expense of the very nation that they are pledged to support.

May your gods be with you.