A week or so back, news reports began to come out with the obvious intention of letting the left half of the country down gently. The Mueller Report was not going to be the bombshell lefties have been dreaming about for the last two years. The bad news came yesterday at 5:00 PM. Robert Mueller had completed his report and it had been delivered to Attorney General William Barr as proscribed by law. Coming as it did on Friday afternoon at 5:00 PM, the announcement did not set off delirious rejoicing on the left. Friday is the day for releasing news to be covered and then forgotten as quickly as possible. As part of the Friday afternoon dump, it was announced that Mueller would not recommend additional indictments to the ones already made.
No indictment of Donald J. Trump, nor of anybody in the Trump family. No one anywhere has been indicted for the purported reason there was an investigation in the first place — collusion with the Russians to swing the 2016 election, or collusion of any kind with anybody for anything. And now there won't be any, either. Rumor has it that Rachel Maddow was in tears as she covered the announcement on her MSNBC prime time show.
If we should ever wonder how we got to where half the country sincerely believed Trump should be impeached for acting as a Russian agent, Friedrich Hayek explained it in a chapter "Why the worst get on top" in his libertarian classic "The Road to Serfdom."
The totalitarian leader must collect around him a group which is prepared voluntarily to submit to that discipline they are to impose by force upon the rest of the people. That socialism can be put into practice only by methods of which most socialists disapprove is, of course, a lesson learned by many social reformers in the past. The old socialist parties were inhibited by their democratic ideals; they did not possess the ruthlessness required for the performance of their chosen task.
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There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves ‘the good of the whole’, because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done.
For the last two years an army of Social Justice Warriors (SJWs)and others have been doing whatever it takes to serve "the good of the whole," which in their minds means ending the Trump presidency. This army includes Democrats, journalists, bent FBI agents, Obama holdovers in the Department of Justice, and others. Attaining that particular "good of the whole" demanded extraordinary measures, like conducting unethical, if not illegal, surveillance of American citizens because they happen to be part of an opposition party political campaign. Like inserting FBI informants into that political campaign. Like justifying it all with phony dossier masquerading as intelligence. An army employing such extraordinary measures places a high value on the type of people who are willing to take them. Intelligence and honesty are useless qualities when the good of the whole is at stake.
It's been a hot market for SJWs these last couple of years. Buyers in the market are players like George Soros, Tom Steyer, and Hillary with her Clinton Foundation, and when these buyers sink resources into their causes they are not buying integrity -- at least, not integrity in the traditional sense. The integrity the buyers hope to attract is unswerving loyalty to "the good of the whole." Social Justice. For years Democrats and their supporters have been recruiting young Social Justice Warriors right out of college and getting them into positions of consequence, so that by now probably 85% of the journalists in America are in favor of ousting President Trump and happy to do their part to make it a reality.
But young people grow up, and after a while some of them figure out that many Social Justice issues are contrived and meaningless. Often, it's too late for regrets. Besides, they've grown comfortable. There's too much to lose. So maybe they've ruined a few lives. It's pointless to give up the luxurious lifestyle. Social Justice is a pretense they need to keep up, but the real goal is just to hang in there.
We're there. In the newsrooms and in the corridors of power, they know it's all horse shit, but they have no choice except to soldier on. Their livelihoods, maybe even their very lives, depend on it. There's barely even the pretense of honesty. Just rage. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, MSNBC, CNN, the list is way too long. It has been nonstop BS for years. There is no possible way they can't know it. But then, intelligence and honesty are useless qualities when the goal is Social Justice, whatever that happens to mean at the moment, and Social Justice has to be imposed.
We're fortunate that America is still a country of markets. In countries where there are no markets to speak of, resorting to force to establish Social Justice happens early on in the process in the form of a military coup. Here in market oriented America, a military takeover is out of the question. Instead, you might say that we've just about reached the bursting point of a Social Justice market bubble.
The question is whether or not we will ever be back here again in a future market swing. Almost assuredly. Unless the Social Justice players pay a heavy price for the criminality that arose from their misplaced loyalties, we might be back here sooner than you think.
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