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Nails it as usual, Sowell is one of the greatest. The part of this whole mess that gives me the biggest chills are the actions to cover up and obfuscate the causal link between their policies and Z eg. articles about heart disease in kids and increased deaths in athletes due to...something, deliberately making data hard to access by moving it, changing the format or even just not collecting it, and other assorted BS to cover up excess deaths due to vaccines.

Those civil servants and reporters can't have done any real research at all on these matters, as they are entirely fabricated, and so have to be suspicious on some level that those stories or changes in policy just appeared out of the blue at the behest of their superiors. Even if they manage to push this thought aside and pretend they're doing the right thing, deep down they know. These are one of the categories of people who will hold on to the bitter end, unable to admit they did dark, self-serving things and ignored their inner voice.

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WE MUST DO SOMETHING!

THIS IS SOMETHING!

WE MUST DO THIS!

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May 5, 2022·edited May 5, 2022

1) government creates a problem,

2) people demand the government fix the problem,

3) government makes the problem worse,

4) go to step 2

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At the end of Stage 2, one might add (cf Heather Heying's discussion: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/equal-knowledge):

The anointed accuse the critics of denying that the situation has negative aspects.

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Great find. The passage is astonishingly fitting in the current context.

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Wow, this is perfect! It really is a generic pattern of government action. I suppose that is why liberal/progressive types took to Covid like rainbow colored ducks to water. It was a dream "crisis" to be able to do more than they ever dreamed possible.

I realize I haven't heard much from Sowell about all this, but I can't imagine he'd be anything less than scathing. Question is: did he sign up for the vax?

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Sowell is a national treasure.

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May 5, 2022·edited May 5, 2022

T Sowell is a great reference. I would mention, however — Money Magazine over 40 years ago said that Newt was incorrect historically and LBJ had greatly succeeded in reducing hunger via War on Poverty. Truth told of my personal anecdotal observations — I saw homelessness come back under Reagan. Many other slams on LBJ and all the rest for useless wars that corrupted our national soul, but his acknowledgement from Money Mag (not a bastion of liberal bleeding hearts) was meaningful. But, everybody needs an audit by an OMB down to the pencils on their desks. I’m not willing to starve people who have been preyed upon for the sake of pigs. I’d rather roast the pigs. Why don’t we get a real justice system going and see how it goes.

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