Train Dodger

Every time you hear the word democracy, just mentally substitute oligarchy. Everything makes so much more sense afterward. We need to protect our democracy? No, we need to protect our oligarchy. Local news is a danger to democracy? No, it's a danger to the oligarchy.

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable." - H. L. Mencken

Consider the arrogance of these people. Consider what the past 40 years have looked like.

• Iran-Contra
• Danny Casolaro being suicided
• Gary Webb being suicided
• DynCorp trafficking kids in Bosnia
• 9/11
• The Iraq war predicated on Colin Powell and Robert Kadlec's anthrax hoax
• The disastrous war in Afghanistan
• Wikileaks
• The Snowden Leaks
• The CIA torture report
• The CIA's arming of "moderate rebels" in Syria
• The Panama Papers
• Jeffrey Epstein suiciding himself in prison
• Ghislaine Maxwell being convicted for trafficking little kids to no one

After all of this, they have the temerity to whine that we're "undermining trust in institutions" with "fake news".

The destruction of the American middle class was deliberate. They outsourced all our jobs to China and destroyed our living standards. They made certain that kids come out of college with a head full of divisive woke nonsense. They also ensured that they come out of college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt so they can't start a family or have a life of their own, and set them up with terrible low-wage service jobs so they're forced to live hand-to-mouth. All of this was set up by billionaire tax-evaders so they could profit immensely off of labor arbitrage. Bring the jobs back. Bring the good wages back. Bring the middle-class living standards back. That's all that matters.

There are a whole lot of people out there who are deeply invested, emotionally, in their governments. That's the biggest barrier to waking people up. These people get a dopamine hit from the rapturous experience of partaking in a mythical liberal democracy that doesn't exist. The general public's chief assumption is that their countries and their institutions are led by rational people who have their best interests in mind. Their faith in this idea borders on religious. It does not stand up to rational scrutiny, at all. I grew up with 9/11, Colin Powell's ridiculous anthrax vial, the War on Terror and the CIA torture reports from Gitmo, the Arab Spring, the Jeffrey Epstein revelations, and about a thousand other political scandals. I have very little faith in government to begin with. I see an anti-government stance as intrinsically noble.

I can't help but laugh every time someone blubbers on about protecting democracy. What democracy? Where is it? Representative democracy has largely been supplanted by managerialism and Soviet-style committees. Our representatives only pretend to represent us, while letting armies of unelected civil servants do all the real legwork of setting policy. What the civil servants cannot do, they outsource to contractors. The tasks contractors cannot do, they give to quangos and think tanks. So, I say again, what democracy? What are people even talking about? Our elected officials exist to do one thing and one thing only. To stand up in front of a camera, make grandiose speeches, and make you think you have a choice in how society is run, when you manifestly do not.

I ate a scorpion. It was very, very crunchy and tasted mostly like chitin, with a very faint note of shellfish, like shrimp.

Today, I had pork liver pate on toast with gruyere on the side. It was delicious.

If I were President, I would immediately and savagely gut all federal agencies. All of them. Every single one. Their pieces would be strewn across the landscape. I'd sack everyone at the FDA, EPA, ATF, CDC, FBI, CIA, all the three-letters. All of 'em. Throw 'em away and start over. The experiment didn't work. And you know what? Everyone would love me for it. Right before my head got opened up by a CIA assassin's rifle bullet, of course.

I had alligator andouille sausage today for breakfast. I then put on my pith helmet and monocle and rode off into the sunset in my motorcar.