Public Choice Theory and How This Ends
Concentrated minority interests will ALWAYS defeat dispersed collective majority interests in any system of government/institution that doesn’t terminate in an individual owner.
This is basic public choice theory. […]
The most degenerate will set the tone of sexual politics because they’re the slim minority that cares the most and has the most to gain, whereas normal people have 10k other concerns and can’t dedicated their lives to defending normality. Same with farm policy, it will always be set by the narrow concentrated interest of corporate food producers and recipients of subsidized government food stuff: This is what’s happened to America’s food supply, it’s what happened to Rome’s before the fall. Down the list of every policy.
Every individual item will be controlled not by the public good or even majority will, but by the narrowest interest that can make it their life’s work and either get rich, or lead a life of sloth by controlling it.
Not much to disagree with there. She’s kind of right about “normal people have 10k other concerns and can’t dedicated (sic) their lives to defending normality”.
But defending normality doesn’t have to be a full-time job. Just about everybody I have ever heard say something along the lines of “I’m too busy for that” seems to have plenty of time to play old-timers hockey, or baseball, or curling, or to drink coffee with their buddies. But they can’t get off their tired arses to go to a council meeting every now and then or take 5 or 10 minutes to write their MLA or MP. And they get really, really busy any time there’s a protest.
suffice to say JM, in my soon to be 60 years watching ottawa, queens park, city hall (expanding to the white house) multiple ‘public’ ‘servants’ come and go. many of them vastly richer for it . . . . .
sadly l gotta agree.
nimby nimby nimby the one cry they all got in common.
which is why given MY abject FAILURE to ‘find a voice’. l announced to my paid communications consultant l have begun to disengage.
limiting my contact and involvement with a core group of friends, merchants on good terms (esp the vet clinic really fine folks), my GP and his support staff, pleasantries and nice tips to the pizza delivery, cabbie etc.
but the rest of them? taking an inventory who contiunes to ignore me in some cases DECADES:
-all MPs
-all MPPs
-city hall elected and hired
-Western U DEI admin
-public library regarding their bizarre policy who is permitted to resort to force to defend their person
-cops (the biggest single source of lip in my orbit)
-and not the least the local ‘chuch’ where l was SNAPPED AT in a meeting to GET TO THE POINT followed by an arguement about getting to the point that took FIV TIMES LONGER IF I HAD BEEN *ALLOWED* TO ‘GET TO THE POINT’
thats enough for now. iow, my ‘arse’ is very tired. tired of being IGNORED and dismissed and insulted and abused by authorities. so given there is NO HOPE for li’l ol’ moi to be heard let alone agreement then screw ’em.
their loss, let the show begin !!!
Problem is that they use people for enforcement on ridiculous restrictions, regulations and laws imposed and never debated as the deception of what they express doing doesn’t nearly cover the actions that they involve.
Betrayal of the enforcement runs rampant as what is promised rarely is reality.
Threatening vital infrastructure for payments while leaving out the multitude of causes that they are funding.
Decisions made are never reviewed for mistakes and imposed until the end.
She articulates perfectly what my 40+ years in international business has shown me. I only see collapse incoming.
Mancur Olson made the same case in the 60s.
I wonder if he would be surprised at how bizarre the special interests would become.
We are left hoping that”what can’t go on, won’t go on”.
I was born for “Irish Democracy”, non compliance, throwing sand in the gears, but I’m an N of 1.
It could be kinda true that”we have met the enemy, and it is us”.
Slightly off topic, but Edward T Hall was prescient in the 70s; he wrote about bureaucracy as the greatest obstacle to real progress.
That was excellent.
“But the Government discovered they could mine the votes of Shrewish unmarried women (who don’t just vote like the men in their family)”
Ann Coulter has said that the slow, steady, inexorable decline of America began when we gave women the right to vote. She isn’t wrong.
Good read.
And I am 100% in agreement with Anne Coulter.
Only need to look back to early ~1900’s onwards….
Kathy Shaidle, RIP, made the same argument.
Very under-rated. Very over-looked.
“…governments cannot ever be reformed except via a dictator whose junta forces out the democratic corruption, takes ownership of the entire system, and hunts this stuff down because it’s now hurting HIS bottom line and economy by billions; barring that it can only reform via collapse.”
Right. Except nothing will actually change if all he does is steal money himself and kill anybody who has a problem with that.
There have to be rules that are binding on everybody, with no exceptions, not even the king. And people who cannot or will not comply with those rules need to be gotten rid of, by force, because people who think they can do what they like rarely listen to anything but force.
To put it another way, countries can only be reformed by getting rid of all the people who think they can do what they like.
That’s what the Israel Defense Forces are doing in Gaza. And that’s what needs to be done in Canada.
I have never heard it said so well or completely.
I think I say “government only does one thing well, get bigger” once every week or two.
New Zealand in the eighties, had a nobody-wants-to-buy-your-bonds financial collapse moment for them to shrink their gubmint.
So did Canada.
Can you honestly say that New Zealand and Canada are freer, more prosperous and happier places than they would have been had they not just told Wall Street to drop dead?
Axe grinders and idiots.
Those who desire elected office all seem to be fools and bandits.
Either driven by a single burning issue or so fearful that they must, rule over all.
When no one in their right mind,wants a job..those who seek that job are obviously not in their right minds.
How can you tell a Liberal?
You can’t,for you cannot tell a Liberal anything.
The wilfully ignorant cannot be reasoned with.
And so all those who are leftminded attempt to dominate the public spaces.
And when their “ideas” are scorned,mocked and ignored by those who work,they attempt to ban speech,on the part of those who mock them.
This never ends well.
I’m really liking that blog lately.
As for the people running the joint, those who seek power over others are the ones least fit to wield it.
That was a good read.
And who do I send it to that can effect a change?
And how do I make them even read it, let alone, pass it on?
The abattoir line is packed full with the willing.
Seems to be obvious. The tyranny of the few over the many.
Has been ever thus.
We expected our so-called conservative leaders to push back against this stuff.