excellent analysis of the fascist reaction of the left to a voter rejection of their idea of utopia...posted to facebook...

one comment on "...crony capitalism..."...in my discussions with Rand, Branden, and Kelley, it became clear that he who defines the topic, wins before the discussion starts...define or be defined...i do not put "capitalism" in any negative association...i use the term "crony socialism"...or "crony fascism"...??? what do you think...

Excellent Robert. Txs.

Your experience in a college classroom reminded me of my first experience after returning from having served in the Marine Corps from 68-72. Students have been taught that if you can convince the majority then they have determined what is reality and you must subject yourself to that interpretation. With that kind of thinking if we were having a discussion about the nature of the earth a few hundred years ago I would have drowned out by the flat earthers and sent of to die by falling from the edge of the planet. Unfortunately numbers do equate to the perceived right and willing use of violence to accomplish their ends of plundering those who produce to give to their 'victims' until there is nothing left. Since there is no place to be left alone survival becomes an effort to not be noticed and plundered.
My classroom experience was to be drowned out by the rest of the class insisting and demanding that I had only the right to keep or use my property as the majority dictated it was in their best interest to let me have the property. If an individual cannot determine what he will do with his property he cannot determine what he will do with his life. I had already suffered a blow to my ability to determine the value of my life when the state determined it had the right to dispose of my life or my morality about killing if I expected to keep the right of letting the state determine how and when I could use my property.
Americans have not been free for a long time and humans in general have not been free at all except where they might have been overlooked by the statists.

Most of the reasons for taxation in the USA are for non-essential projects. As RG points out, you can look just behind the reasons for the constant increase and mountainous debt and find that the government in Washington has become a den of thieves. Pouring money into it through middle class taxation is like trying to eliminate an ant hill by pouring sugar on it. The increases have been incremental but they have over time gradually impinged themselves upon the consciousness of voters. Add to that the blatant criminality of the Clinton family and it's like having a nightmare while awake. Being forced awake, that is. It was only when the voting public finally woke up to having their naughty-bits being squeezed in a vice, that finally they shouted stop it!

interesting that hildebeast, the posterchild for collectivism, used the sayings "stand with me", and "stronger together" as the basis of her campaign. I wondered what she was talking about, but her supporters didnt wonder- they are circling their wagons to get the strength they see in plain numbers of bodies.

At least trump reversed the sayings such that he was standing with US in wanting the country to be great again. Not that he is a John Galt by any means, but it was refreshing to see he prevailed over Hildebeast.

Superb analysis, Robert. Thank you for your clarity and balance. This is, indeed, the algorithm for how the capacity for deceit (distorting the facts of reality) in the name of survival by unnatural selection operates in human minds. Or is it natural?

Hats off to you...Again! Laughing.
You aptly described the up side down paradigm, the Anti-civilized times we live in.
I have to laugh, although with great sadness, It has taken many years for progressives, progressive generations after another to get it progressively wrong.
Just think what things would be like if Objective Value creators spent the same amount of time to get it right.

You can image a sundae that's not there, You can also look into a pile of waste and see something wonderful that you wish were true. Religious people might see the virgin Mary. People like you and me want to look hard at that pile of shit and find signs of a rejection of statism.