VECKANS FILOSOFISKA INSLAG AV BILL BONNER
BILL BONNER: ”Polybius history 150 BC, not much has changed (The Hannibalic wars between Rome and Carthage).
Polybius believed a noble republic inevitably degrades into a sordid spectacle of power grabs, intrigue, double-dealing and lies. The “masses” he says, believe they have a grievance against the greed of other members of society.
They will impose their will in the name of “freedom and democracy” but the nature of it will be “the worst of all, that is the rule of the mob.”
Today, the mob thinks it has been done dirty by the elite. It is right. But it is unaware of how the dirty was done, and so, its efforts – on both sides of the political divide – are ineffectual, irrelevant or deleterious.
On the right, Republicans believe tax cuts, walls, and trade deals are the winning formulae.
But the tide seems to have turned in favour of the left, where Democrats try to out do one another with tax hikes, freebies and fabulous something-for-nothing schemes.
Mr. Sanders promises a higher inheritance tax. Ms. Warren wants a wealth tax.
Ms. AOC offers to soak the rich with higher income taxes.
And a New York Times editorial has urged outlawing billionaires altogether.
Rome famously provided “bread and circuses” to the urban proletariat. Gradually, the sturdy farmers and independent yeomen who had been the backbone of the Roman army disappeared, replaced by slave labour and a dependent mob; the republic slid into the swamp of a degenerate empire.
Finally, the empire was forced to hire the foxes to guard the hen house, enrolling the barbarians to garrison the frontiers.
We all know how that turned out.
And this is where our restless feet begin to twitch. All it takes is a glance around the world to se that the BS, claptrap, and scams are fairly evenly distributed - the soak the rich taxes… the military boondoggles… the scammy currencies… the bogus budgets… the erzats “stimulus” … the counterfeit programs.
And then you begin to laugh … val-deri, val-dera… ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha… and become wobbly on the whole “us vs. them” proposition.”
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