Why Central Planning Inevitably Fails

1. Central Planners (CPs) don’t have the integrity

No person, or group of persons, is bias or interest free, therefore, any CPs will always have interests which sway their judgement away from the “common good” and towards the good of themselves or their own sphere. Mother Theresa is not going to be our CP.

2. CPs don’t have the information or knowledge

As laid out by Friedrich Hayek in “The Road to Serfdom,” no person or group of persons can have or process the knowledge necessary to make decisions “for the good of the whole.” There are too many details, too much flux, and too many conflicting interests for such judgements to be centralized. Individuals making their own decisions on a daily basis create a better outcome.

3. Errors, instead of being isolated learning opportunities, are system wide and never admitted to.

The Great Famine in China was the result of many poor decisions, imposed universally. One example was the decision to kill off swallows, nationwide, under the theory that they were eating rice and reducing the harvest. Killing off the swallows resulted in the devastation of the harvest by insects, and the famine that resulted killed an estimated thirty to fifty million people.

CPs are always loath to admit their mistakes – after all, if the “experts” are not infallible, then why should the people listen to them instead of their own judgement? Admitting errors undermines the authority and purpose of the whole Central Planning exercise.

4. Freedom and Central Planning are mutually exclusive.

This seems self-evident. If people are making decisions and imposing them on you “for the good of the whole,” then you are not free to make them yourself.

5. Power corrupts.

Even if we got a CP who had the integrity, disinterestedness, and morality of Mother Theresa, more intelligence than any living being, and hands on access to all information known to man, this principle would still apply. Call it the will-to-power, or in religious terms, the evil impulse. No person or group of persons can be trusted with this amount of power.

6. They don’t have the authority

Seriously though – who died and left them boss? Neither the Creator nor natural law, if you prefer, has given them the authority to decide what is best for humanity. The people have not, (and cannot) bestow that authority upon them. Our Constitution specifically precludes them from making these types of claims. No one decided that they were boss except themselves. It is a reversion back to the “divine right of kings.” It was false then, and it is false now.

Freedom is messy, boisterous, fluctuating and discordant – but it still works better than any other system.

So the question is – Central Planning, yay or nay?

The Democracy That Wasn’t

One often hears Democrats and other assorted left-wing radicals yammering about “democracy.” “We have to ‘protect our democracy’ by silencing speech,” they might say, or insist that to “save democracy” they must foment a silent coup against a president who isn’t part of the club. Or violate the Constitutional rights of American citizens in a hundred different ways – all to “save democracy,” of course. It makes sense if you don’t think about it.

But are we even a “democracy?” And why does it matter?

Webster defines democracy as “government by the people; especially: rule of the majority.” Government by the people – so far so good, “rule of the majority” – we can all do without. The problem with majority rule is that the majority is often wrong. The majority sometimes works itself into an irrational frenzy, as in the recent covid hysteria – and occasionally a murderous one, as in Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

John Adams said “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.” 

The Declaration of Independence, our founding document, states that “all men are created equal, with certain inalienable rights” and that the purpose of government is to protect these rights.

The Constitutional Republic that the founders created was designed to prevent mob rule, on the one hand, and dictatorial government on the other. It was designed to prevent the destructive and dangerous frenzy of Mao’s China, and the lockdown madness we so recently saw here in the US.

When leftists say ‘democracy’ they don’t mean it the way it is commonly conceived. For True Marxists the “dictatorship of the proletariat” IS “democracy.” Silencing speech is “democracy.” Redistribution of wealth is “democracy.” All of these entail the violation of individual rights. The purported “good of the whole” outweighs the rights of the individual. The problem is – who decides what is necessary for the good of the whole? – and whose rights get violated?

Democracy sounds good until you find yourself in the 49%, and the 51% have decided that your rights no longer matter.

Better to have a Constitutional Republic where everyone’s equal rights matter, and government power is limited to protecting those individual rights.

Jefferson put it this way:

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’; because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.”

The Dirty Little Secret About Fauci’s “Vaccines”

The “vaccines” were never intended to stop you from getting or spreading Covid.

Yes. You read that right.

Exhibit A – “Importantly, the initial COVID-19 vaccines will prevent symptoms in those who become infected with the coronavirus rather than kill the virus itself, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit on Monday.

“The primary thing you want to do is that if people get infected, prevent them from getting sick, and if you prevent them from getting sick, you will ultimately prevent them from getting seriously ill,” he said.

Preventing symptoms is a “primary endpoint” in the vaccine development process, Fauci said. Getting rid of the virus altogether is considered a “secondary endpoint.”

Exhibit B – “The vaccines were never tested to prevent transmission, only symptomatic disease, and those who knew the science expected, from the outset, that we would see some number of such cases, and that they would be, overwhelmingly, mild. But Delta appears to have changed things… But most of the data in that analysis comes from before the arrival of the Delta variant, and during the current surge there does seem to be considerably more “leakage” in the protection that vaccines offer against pandemic spread than has widely been acknowledged.”

Exhibit C – “Much like the flu shot, Covid vaccines are intended to lower your chance of infection and severe illness, not eradicate it.

“Vaccines are designed to prevent serious illness, not to prevent infection or prevent any symptoms,” Dr. Anna Durbin, director of the Center for Immunization Research at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health”

Having thoroughly established that, not only do the vaccines NOT prevent illness or spread, but they were never intended, or tested, to do so, we have two major questions:

Why was the public so misinformed about this topic? These “vaccines” were sold as a way to “stop the spread” of Covid. By getting “vaccinated” you were doing your part to end the pandemic, and as such, as Australian leadership told their citizens, could be rewarded with getting some freedom back.(!)

But if the vaccines don’t stop you from getting or spreading Covid – established facts that got me banned from r/politics for stating – then that leads to the next question:

How can vaccine passports be justified?

How an Open Letter to Spotify Regarding Joe Rogan Exposes the Absurdity of It All

In case you haven’t heard, a group of “doctors” wrote an open letter to Spotify to complain about Joe Rogan’s podcast, specifically one which interviewed Dr. Robert Malone.

It isn’t actually a group of doctors, it is a group of some doctors, some nurses, at least one veterinarian, one family counselor, one dentist, some post-doctoral fellows, and – I kid you not – “Cole Kraten: Director of Research, Grasshopper Farms,” and there were, I believe, two or three epidemiologists.

NOT an impressive list. And they cited Media Matters as a source for God’s sake.

On the other hand we have Doctor Robert Malone, who, whatever semantic games the left wants to play, was intimately involved in mRNA vaccine development. He has been working in the field of epidemiology his entire life. Has written over a hundred peer-reviewed, published papers. Has served as a consultant to government agencies on this topic.

And many other doctors, such as PeterMcCullough, search in PubMed and you will find over 650 published papers, on various topics. Has written 50 papers on Covid alone. Has testified to the Texas State Senate, and the US Senate, and again has served as a consultant to the government.

Or Martin Kulldorf, a biostatistician and epidemiologist. He is a professor at Harvard Medical School and biostatistician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former consultant for the Centers for Disease Control. He co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration.

These are highly credible people, in positions of responsibility. There are others, like Pierre Kory and Byram Bridle, experts in the field who are treating patients, doing research, publishing papers on covid.

But Cole Kraten from “Grasshopper Farms” – a pot farm – signs a letter and we’re supposed to care?

The first step to solving any problem is to identify the problem, so let’s identify the problem here: the media presents information in a way that is designed to serve a narrative – and not to actually inform.

The media dismisses highly credible professionals as “crackpots” and elevates pot farmers as experts, because the pot farmer fits the narrative and the professionals do not. And the useful idiots see the biased presentation of information – and accept it as reality when the opposite is the case.

The absurdity of the pot farmer – excuse me “director of research” at the Grasshopper Farms (which begs the question – just how deep into his “research” is he?) signing a letter attempting to silence the actual experts is beyond the pale. But this is our world, thanks to our media.

Some Basic Truths

Some basic truths:

All human beings are individuals. Group identity is a factor, but has little to no use in ensuring the rights or happiness of individuals.

Individuals have rights.

Governments exist to secure individual rights.

Government protection of individual rights creates vastly higher amounts of health, wealth, and human happiness than collectivism.

In whatever guise, collectivism destroys the well being of people, both individually and collectively.

Collectivism destroys health, wealth, and human happiness because it is directly opposed to individual rights.

American Individualism vs. “Democratic” Collectivism

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

The American ideal, the Republican ideal, is that individuals have rights. That these rights are endowed within each individual BY THEIR CREATOR – not by government, and while government may infringe them, they cannot remove the rights which each individual possesses.

Further, that the purpose of government is to protect these individual rights. And that just power, legitimate power, derives from the consent of the governed.

At the heart of all collectivist, redistributionist, ideology, is the REJECTION of the rights of the individual. Your rights to property, liberty, free speech, freedom of religion, due process, etc. etc. etc. are all surrendered in favor of collective “rights” (which are no rights at all.) They reject the notion that consent must be obtained.

More evil has been done in the name of the “common good” than any other cause on earth. In the name of the “common good,” tens of millions of people have been slaughtered, imprisoned, tortured and starved. In the name of the common good, your speech can be silenced, your religion outlawed, due process revoked. Totalitarians will always have a “really good reason” why they must violate the rights of citizens “just for a time.” They will always promise that if they just get rid of a few more dissenters then peace will reign and Utopia will come. But power is not a means to an end – power is the end they seek.

The truth is – the greatest good that human beings can achieve is freedom. There is no other state of being which creates as much health, wealth, and happiness for humans. Nothing on this earth is perfect, but the greatest good for the most people is to be free.

Collectvism kills. It must be rejected by all who mean well for humanity.

Understand This

A lot of people still fail to understand what has happened.

When Biden is installed the United States of America will have an illegitimate government.  All of our institutions will have failed to ensure the integrity of our elections and failed to uphold their oaths to the law and to the Constitution.

No amount of “national conversations,” absurd political “commissions” or anything else will change that.

We will have, in fact, a totalitarian government, because only a totalitarian government fails to uphold its oaths, fails to ensure the integrity of elections, disobeys its own laws, and Constitutions (Federal and State) and fails to address, let alone redress, the legitimate grievances of its citizens. Only a totalitarian government calls upon corporate oligarchs to silence the voices of those that oppose it. Only a totalitarian government would support and condone actual violence – the looting, rioting, arson, assault and outright murder that we saw all summer long by left wing groups, then call for the murder and jailing of innocent, truly peaceful, protestors.

Whatever comes next, we all need to understand where we are. I do not call for violence, I never have and never will. Some may, and I leave it to each person to judge those calls for themselves. But every other means of resistance to an illegitimate regime, and to the Leftist / Progressive / Socialist / Communist movement which it represents is justified. Including civil disobedience as we saw in DC.

True patriots will have to learn how to organize and coordinate. We may have to use subversion and infiltration. There will be different tactics which appeal to different people. If you have a voice – speak. If you have a platform – use it. No longer abide those on the left, even your family and friends to spout leftist rhetoric in your presence unchallenged. For my part, I am willing to just avoid the subject altogether, but if a leftist starts in they will expect to hear the opposing view. Refuse to comply with unconstitutional mandates and directives. Inform others where it is possible and appropriate. Fire left wing employees. Leave Twitter and YouTube for conservative platforms. Patronize businesses which respect the Constitution. Undermine every left wing organization you can in any way possible.  Get your children out of government schools as if the building were on fire. Find a way.  And as a patriot, you have a duty to have as many children as possible. Read books or articles about communism and its tactics. As Sun Tzu said “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

The left declared war on this country decades ago, and many of the useful idiots who follow these movements still do not understand what they are about, even as they do the left’s bidding. They have succeeded in making every aspect of life political. To conservatives, this was never the case – now it must be.

Finally, we must be in it for the long hall. This will not be a battle that is won overnight. Let us not tire in doing what is right.

My Top 5 Take-Aways from the Democratic Debate

1.The best thing about the debate is that no one spoke in Spanish

2.”Profiteering” is a word only a commie would use.

3.Warren and Sanders sounded like senior citizens arguing over the lunch menu at the retirement home.

4. It might be easier if they just told us what ISN’T going to be free.

5. Forcing Biden to be up there stumbling around is elder abuse.

The winner of this debate – once again – is President Trump.

 

Individualism vs Collectivism

Episode 0 Podcast – Brandon and Jenn discuss Individualism vs. Collectivism