"There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.
1) Money is a construct.
It can be created from thin air.
Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits.
But at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back.
... As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.
2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore.
Joe Biden ... has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void.
Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much.
Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.
Crime rates do not necessarily matter.
... How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the Left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer.
3) Racialism is now acceptable.
We are defined first by our particular ethnic or religious tribe, only secondarily—if at all—by an American commonality.
Unapologetic and explicit exclusion of whites from dorms, graduations, safe spaces, welfare, and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial.
It is unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of “good” racism ...
4) The immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen.
... Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules, social distancing, stay out of school, and obey all the laws.
Yet those entering the United States en masse and illegally need not follow such apparently superfluous COVID-19 rules.
Their children should be immediately schooled without worry of quarantine. Immigrants need not worry about their illegal entry or residence in America.
Our elites believe illegal entrants more resemble the “founders” than do legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.
5) Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children.
They cannot be asked to provide an ID to vote. “
Noble lies” by our elites about COVID-19 rules are necessary to protect “Neanderthals” from themselves.
Americans deserve relief from the stress of grades, standardized testing, and normative rules of school behavior. ...
6) Hypocrisy is passé.
Virtue-signaling is alive.
Climate change activists fly on private jets.
Social justice warriors live in gated communities.
Multibillionaire elitists pose as victims of sexism, racism, and homophobia ...
7) Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it.
It is more humane for both the homeless and the public that thousands live, eat, defecate, and use drugs on public streets and sidewalks than it is to green-light affordable housing, mandate hospitalization for the mentally ill, and create sufficient public shelter areas.
8) McCarthyism is good.
... Cancel culture and the Twitter Reign of Terror provide needed deterrence.
Now that Americans know they are one wrong word, act, or look away from losing their jobs or livelihoods, they are more careful and will behave in a more enlightened fashion.
The social media guillotine is the humane, scientific tool of the woke.
9) Ignorance is preferable to knowledge.
Neither statue-toppling, name-changing, nor the “1619 Project” require any evidence or historical knowledge.
... Undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees reflect credentials, not knowledge. ...
10) Wokeness is the new religion, growing faster and larger than Christianity itself.
Its priesthood outnumbers the clergy, and exercises far more power.
Silicon Valley is the new Vatican, and Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter the new Gospels.
Americans privately fear these rules, while publicly appearing to accept them.
They still could be transitory and invite a reaction.
Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized."
Monday, April 12, 2021
"Radical New Rules for Post-America"
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