Saturday post on Friday evening

Two excellent pieces came through from sources I don't usually visit.  The first was from Konstantin Kisin whom we saw as an anti Trump left liberal and he admits as much here:

"My entire public career since 2016 has been predicated on describing what anyone could see with their own eyes: the Left was going off the deep end. The first and most obvious sign of this was the response to the Brexit vote here in Britain and the election of President Trump in the United States. As a Remain voter and Trump skeptic myself, I could not believe what I was seeing.

I devoured Ayn Rand’s writings in my youth and, while much of my thinking has evolved significantly since, one quote stayed with me: “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” In other words, if events you cannot believe keep happening, you are missing something.

Because of this, even as a default liberal in 2016, I had one choice and one choice only: to ask what I was missing and seek information outside my bubble. This, incidentally, was the genesis of TRIGGERnometry.

But that is not what my soon-to-be-former friends on the Left did. Instead, they buried their heads even deeper into the sand."

The second was from John Ward, surprisingly:

The line that ‘life was always this crap’ is trying to hoodwink Millennials:

Governments used to design socio-economic policy based on the needs of the 96%. Now it's devised solely by and for the 4%.

The Baby Boomer parents of the late 1940s begat the Beautiful People of the 1960s.....who in turn begat the Millennials born during the Noughties.

But along the way, things went terribly wrong.

In education and science, the search for Truth turned into the politically correct.

In public life, punishment for malfeasance turned into do what you have to do and tell any lie necessary to get away with it.

Among showbizz celebs and the media, a talent to entertain and investigative journalism turned into if it feels good do it, and lock-step elite propaganda.

In service industries, after-sales care turned into 'No Reply' emails and AI jargon....thus ensuring that accountability turned into inaccessibility - and then invisibility.

In Silicon Valley, hitech progress turned into surveillance State process.

In soccer, playing attacking ambitious football turned into play-safe midfield pass-tapping, and corner kicks turned into all-in penalty area wrestling.

In government, being a politically neutral bureaucrat turned into neutured elected assemblies and revolving door corporatocracy.

In politics, explaining necessity turned into rationalising expediency.

In banking, our money became their money and their losses became our responsibility.

In pharmaceuticals and healthcare, making sick people better turned into making money from addicted patients. 

Overall, in fact, natural tribal mutuality capitalism turned into monopoly-globalist greed.

Clearly this must stop, plus Millennials and Zoomers need to understand that while, overall, greed at the top did always rule and plebs were turned into cannon fodder on a whim, the better to keep populations controlled ... this in the past few decades has seen a real cranking up of the hell and departure from all ethical precepts ... at least they made a show of decency earlier ... MPs resigning etc.

Even soft MPs such as Badenough and Cooper, Kendall, have lost all decency whatever ... suggestion the elderly lose their pensions? Should be eased out of the world?  Babies aborted up to and after birth? All the body mutilation? Nope, this stuff was not around earlier, except in narrow clubs and dens.