Americans Reject the Establishment Again

I see that Trump won the election pretty handily. I'll be happy that all the campaign signs are going into the landfills. I'm very tired of seeing all that garbage on the side of the road.

Kamala Harris is a bad politician and the Biden administration obviously sucked so it's not such a surprise that Trump won. If there's a larger theme it's that people in the US---probably all over the western world too--are done with the "establishment" people and their institutions. That's a continuation of the rejection of the RINO republicans and reformulation of the GOP into a populist working class party--basically some version of FDR democrats. The democrats became republicans too. It's bizarre partisan people don't notice those changes.

The current establishment is "left wing" which just means they advocate social engineering policies because people called gay kids "fags" in 1985, buy they are still all about stacking as much wealth as possible.

The establishment is rich people, corporations, and associated institutions like universities. The American lefties want to adopt a Europeanish style system with heavy handed central planning. The average person would be living like a hamster in a habitrail while an inbred parasite class "manages" society and infrastructure that slowly falls apart. That top down central planning is a follow on to the failing neoliberal financial/corporate system. It's really an attempt to cement the current social/economic order in place forever.

Many Americans apparently don't want that outcome. Many people realize the top down plans of the past several years were utter failures. The common core education system pushed by people like Bill Gates and Obama is an utter failure. Obamacare sucks ass. The states in the US that are lefty dominated are losing residents at a rapid rate and the average IQ in states like California is plunging as the population mix changes.

The problems in America run pretty deep and I don't think an election or any resulting institutional reform will fix a single thing. Its really a waste of time to scheme over "policies" and "system" fixes. Systemic fixes aren't really possible. That's the neoliberal system in a nutshell--a big paper, now electronic monster that can be tweaked and poked and prodded to produce some desired outcome. Nope. Not gonna work.

We'll probably get 4 more years of establishment driven left wing nutjob craziness. I'm sure dumb fuck shitlibs think the world ended for the second time. They'll probably rededicate themselves to wrecking cities they control and crapping up corporate life even more than it already is.

Americans invest way too much time and energy in national politics and national media. They should bring their focus home and even work on their own self instead of even thinking about nonsense like politics, the NFL, national media, the stock market, etc...

Ego Based Society Sucks

When I was in High School, my friends and I were guided down a path of "achievement" mainly by praise and vague promises of future financial success. For example, I was a musician and eventually became the "first chair" player in the band in my section and participated in myriad band activities over the years. The real reason I did that was all my social connections were band people, but I never really liked playing and wasn't "into music" like a lot of people are. It never occurred to me to sit down and listen to jazz records for example. Then when I was in college, I had a music scholarship, so I was forced to keep playing. Once I was out of school I barely ever touched a musical instrument again. I have a twinge of nostalgia for it once in a while, but I know I won't practice and seek out opportunities to play, so I don't bother with it.

Lots of kids were in a similar situation in their particular niche--maybe it was sports; maybe it was some other performing art; maybe it was 4H or horse riding or something similar. The school scenario grooms people into a world where they can be the center of attention every once in a while and maybe win a ribbon or stand on a podium, or have an article about their performance in the school paper. Some kids might love the thing they're doing in faux competitions, others might be blase about it like I was with music.

One common factor to all those performance based ego-feeding sessions is the competition is really limited and is essentially a fraud. A good high school musician might never be a world class soloist that can play in an orchestra for example. A high school football player can be good within their entire conference but be miles away from a Division I college player.

Anyway, in short, life's problems really are nothing like the faux competitions kids are groomed to invest so much time and energy in. There's some valuable habits that can come from training to be a musician or athlete, but the overall structure of the programs is very misleading and damaging and artificially limits the horizons of kids.

The critique of "track based" education that sort of reformed schools in the US has some merit, but the system that's replaced it is obviously way worse. Schools replaced faux competition with praise of everybody and now the students are just entitled retards and brats based on the reports I've seen.

The Montessori school system seems better; they basically throw the kids into real life with training wheels, then the kids learn in the context of doing real things. Kids run businesses for example, or learn about biology in the context of a farm, and that kind of thing. I have no idea how that system works with respect to the ego based/faux competition scenarios I was constantly in, so I can't comment on it, but one of the major problems with the faux competition scenario is it trains the ego to stay in the world of lies instead of grooming students to deal with real reality.

For example, a business can fail no matter how hard a person works, how smart they are, etc... A person groomed to believe the praise they received their whole life might misjudge what "failure" means. There's a fake praise feedback loop instead of feedback based on real world performance, or real world scenarios where performance doesn't even impact the outcome, which is quite common in real life.

Grounding kids in real world scenarios would produce a much healthier society based on realism, but it's a lot easier to manipulate a population that's trained to pursue ribbons, trophies, and public praise and fake money.

The Least Important Election of Our Lifetime

Whichever bozo gets elected tomorrow, the same shit is going to happen.

For some reason Trump voters think Biden caused runaway inflation--that started when Trump was President and the feds gave away $2.3T because of the stupid COVID scam. Trump went along with all the COVID insanity. He pushed operation warp speed... that white liberal doofuses eventually loved.

Kamala Harris initially criticized operation warp speed, but then she did a 180 once her handlers told her what to say.

Kamala Harris is a non-entity. She's a continuation of the Obama years, which were a continuation of the Bush years.

The problems in the US are problems with the public at large, not just the corporations or the government. The whole country has been corrupted by an insane, inbred ruling class that's pushed short sighted self serving policies.

The typical political partisan lives in a land of make believe, especially the lefties who are just in a complete fantasy world.

Good YouTube Channel

This guy has a good handle on the nuts and bolts of the socio-economic scenario in the US and western world.

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Fail Your Way to the Top!

Intel is apparently financing a big PR campaign to try to sell the story line that they're not failing tech company like DEC was, or Sun Microsystems was, etc... they're a unique national treasure that the US can't function without, so Intel wants endless government cheese. I think the sales pitch is aimed at the goofball retard politicians and "elite" dope class.

The current CEO of Intel made hundreds of millions of dollars so far in his position. I assume other executives are getting similar truckloads of cash and stock and perks even as their company goes on the dole full time.

There's a similar theme with the neocons--all their schemes were terrible, destructive failures, but they're still embraced and promoted by national media and similar institutions.

The same thing happens with crazy left wing ideas which are pushed from the top through prestigious schools like Yale or Harvard. Obvious, patently absurd ideas like "defund the police" and decriminalizing shop lifting blew up in the faces of the cities that put them into practice, but the dope squad that pushed those nonsensical ideas will face zero consequences for being abject failures.

In fact, there's not much room for pragmatic or practical people because the policies such a person would advocate might be viewed as "racist" or "antisemitic".

End of the Neoliberal System

Some major labor unions did not endorse Kamala Harris this election because their membership realizes the democrat party is the neoliberal party and doesn't represent them anymore--it hasn't for decades, but they finally figured it out.

Neoliberalism is just corporatocracy/oligarchy in drag and with effeminate/gay talking points. The behavior and policies of the US government are the same whichever party is in charge of the congress or the presidency, because all the "representatives" are basically just employees.

The MAGA republicans sort of figured it out, but have a pretty dim vision of what would need to change to "restore" America of even just 20 or 30 years ago. The typical democrat is either a beneficiary of the system itself and maybe has an apparatchik type job in an HR department or a tech job or professional job in some giant quasi-public institution, and/or also is a puritanical religious person that believes in global warmaids or think the government "helps" people in need--basically they believe propaganda that was on TV in the 1980s and 1990s.

Neoliberalism is a global phenomenon. The western countries are all hollowed out from it and some Asian countries are on the up-swing because of it. One of the main issues with the neoliberal system is the parasitic western "elites" imagined they'd control the countries they shipped western manufacturing to for the past 50  years. However, the "elites" in Asia decided to build and manage their own industries instead of serve as junior partners to western corporations in perpetuity, so even the executives at failing companies in the western world are now under threat from competition they created.

Anyway, the central governments in the west are the problem and not the solution to neoliberalism. I think Europe is just FUBAR and has a pretty bleak future and isn't really worth worrying about, at least from an American person's point-of-view. The western hemisphere, though, could actually enjoy a prosperous future if the current governments were purged and we rebooted a new financial system and promoted internal and local investment instead of global centralization of financialized wealth-tokens.

Good Depiction of "Elite Overproduction"

 We are watching the old TV show "Gilmore Girls". It's a chick show. The characters are supposed to be quirky, unique, and lovable but to me they're almost all awful

The main characters of the show are mother and daughter. The mother character got pregnant in high school and had the daughter at 16, so when the girl character is supposed to be high school age, the mother is supposed to be in her 30s.

The mother's family is wealthy New England snobs that had high expectations for the mother who lived a bohemian independent life, but transferred her own life expectations to the daughter. The high school aged daughter is obsessed with going to Harvard, and if not Harvard some other ivy league school. As part of her quest to do that she enrolls in an elite private high school, which is one of the central story lines in the show.

Anyway, the concept of "Elite Overproduction" from the historian Peter Turchin is depicted well in the show. The daughter is questing after an elite job, like a CNN reporter. The children of the wealthy families follow a script to get into a position in life, but eventually the positions run out or get diluted. CNN reporter is a great example: the entire media industry restructured, so all the kids pursuing an elite journalism role in the early 2000s were chasing after a largely obsolete job in a declining industry.

I think elite overproduction is really a symptom of systemic stagnation and decline. The "elite" population expands just like the overall population, but the defining characteristic of the elites is hyper-consumption of resources. They collectively impose a parasitic burden on everyone else. That's probably the main theme of our era: a bunch of entitled people get paid a lot, and the system is rigged to support their lifestyles.

For example, there's more managers and administrators than ever before in places like colleges and hospitals for example and the cost to fuel the lifestyles of those administrators drove rapidly inflating costs in both industries. There's probably more managers per capita in every industry, including tech. I saw that throughout my career.

The current dream of elite twats is a centrally planned expert managed economy that's totally automated so there's no jobs for anyone but them, and there's not even any competition for their positions. There's a corresponding authoritarian bent to their schemes, like the whole COVID scam, which demonstrated how fraudulent their claims of expertise are.