There is a bigger picture to politics. Since it is undoubtably a huge apparatus, grown over a long time, it made itself into a juggernaut. It is a filth that attracts profiteers all the time. If you combine political power with media and corporate power, you are having an opinion making machine that directs its audiences to its preferred view. Just ask yourself what has grown big within the century. It's the state, it's the media, it's the corporations. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.
Despite the enormous sums the state collects through taxes, the state is in deep debt (Germany is no different from the US). So, the remaining wealth is just borrowed money. Who gives them the money if the budget at the end of a fiscal year does not come up clean? If there are huge deficits in the departments? What do you think the money lenders need to receive in return to continuing being 'generous'? Obviously some good deals to have huge return of investments.
Since humans are great resources they can be looked at from that point of view. People exist in billions, they are a fantastic source of income through their wishes and needs. They are extraordinary consumers, both in terms of physical and mental desires. If you have them sick and you find a way to have them sick all over the world, you'll do it as a government because your hands are tied by those who deliver the cash. Who needs healthy people if the much better business model is to have them ill? If you combine it with having them addicted on top, even better.
If I continue to follow such cynic mind to think out a concept which would generate a massive revenue, I would take such knowledge and transfer it into a global event. Not only would I make sure that I spared myself to have high production costs, but to make it as low in investment as it can get. Like thinking of the fact that people get ill at certain times of the year. The best candidate would be Influenca, since it will never stop to occur and has enough multiple symptoms to use and exaggerate them, even paint them as something totally new (loss of taste etc.).
This has the advantage that it'll never stop being experienced by the peoples and so I have my business model for the future. I may give money to some labs to create and mess around with DNA to push transmission, but since I cannot be certain that it works one hundred percent, it's much better to use what works one hundred percent: fear mongering.
Also, I make sure that no liability is written in the contract between me and the corrupt part of the government, that they hand me down a free pass and I can't be sued. Since I do know that not all people will comply and will resist or are indifferent towards a 'deadly disease' I must make sure that those people will be silenced through building up another fear: towards the long arm of the state and the media. They will make sure that those folks will be significantly denigrated, ridiculed, canceled and censored. Within their working spaces and in the media. They serve me as conspiracy theorists. The rest will be done by the peoples themselves, amongst and against each other.
The thing payed out big time, did it not?
The governments were mostly in lockstep. The people accepted distancing and not gathering, and the media had entertainment ready to show those who demonstrated on the streets - the proper candidates for labeling them as we know it. Of course, we had the heroes as well.
Now, if you do not believe that these ridiculously high debts are real, you also may not believe the immense power that comes with it. But you cannot be that naive, can you.
The 'best' job the filthy part of government can do to stay in power, is to get the populace into different camps. To have them as opposing fierce enemies, each and everyone in their echo chamber, campaigning for preferred political candidates. You have those faces all over the screens, day in, day out, so that the watcher builds up a personal relationship with them, and either loves that person or hates it. The emotional identification becomes so high that one cannot fathom the stupidity of the other.
But to believe one second, that as an individual human being one will be saved through a political candidate or through what the filth in government does or does not, we all know, can't be true.
Your piece is in the same way un-balanced as is being publicized from 'the other side', since otherwise you'd have presented both sides of the spectrum. If I would place a bet that you'd find as many questionable and repulsive things about Biden/Harris, I would certainly win if you'd bet against that. Which I do not believe, you would.
You have a personal distaste for Trump. I would not defend him, since he obviously is very good at doing that himself.
I once wrote a fictional story, where I said that one of the models
to explore the future is called "three P's and a W," meaning a possible, probable, and preferred future, plus wildcards, i.e., unexpected, seemingly improbable, but consequential events of both a positive and negative nature.
I would place the figure of Trump as the 'wild card', since he is known to be somewhat unpredictable. As no one can fully predict the positive and negative consequences but pretends in doing so, obviously pays into what one prefers/prefers not.
Now, the uncomfortable thing about the human self is that everyone has a dark side. That side - under fear - wishes for some strong hand to reign. The inner permission is undoubtably there to have coercion put upon ones fellas if they are perceived as ignorant up to evil, and therefore 'actually deserve to be forced to obey'.
Would you dare to say that you never feel this dark side within yourself? I wouldn't. How evil and atrocious one can become, is under circumstances a test, put upon the individual. What I can say is, that I spared myself to having been an active executer towards others during that horrible years.
It is better to build bridges and to endure to have a differing opinion.
Hello @erh.germany,
Please note that I began the blog with this statement:
The blog was written to counter a claim, put forth by his supporters almost universally, that the current President-elect did a good job in his first term. My blog simply asserts that this is not objectively true. I cite facts, statistics, his own words to support my position. I don't use generalizations, broad terms. I just offer objective information to support my view.
As for good and evil. They exist in the world. No one has a monopoly on evil.
Thank you for reading.
Firstly, I am sure that data and statistics can be found for all preferences. As far as your stated sources are concerned, I'd wager that if you have the opposite preference - anti Biden - you'll find figures and data that run counter to them.
Since neither you nor I have the relevant insights into the physical books and balance sheets of the finance departments, and are not in a position to track them ourselves from an accounting point of view, the only way to express a preference is to use the sources you trust.
One's own attitude towards people and parties stands or falls with the corresponding trust or mistrust.
Secondly, all hard data is ultimately subject to interpretation - every scientist knows this. This is the linchpin of any understanding of the facts provided. How these multiple facts are put in relation to each other, in which graphic form they are presented, what wordings are used, all of this influences the perception of those who view them. It is no secret that interpretation and presentation are and have been manipulated, again, towards what one prefers.
Since you prefer to believe that your last four years as US citizens were better in terms of health, economy, debt, foreign relations, inner relations, fitness for presidency, etc. in comparison Trump vs. Biden, is, what you have accomplished, to substantiate your own point of view once again.
I personally don't buy it. I could be wrong, but so could you.
I return to my previous reply:
Narrow focus of the blog. Not more ambitious than than. If a reader would like to show the he did a good job, that reader if free to find the facts (not general statements, which have no worth), the statistics, the data, to support that reader's view
the reader won't bother. We are having enough problems since war is coming close.
None of this matters in light of recent events. President Biden, who was voted out of office, authorised the use of US long-range missiles in the Ukraine war, and yesterday they were launched. An insane act, an unlawful authorisation by an administration that lost the election and doesn't seem to give a damn about what the voters want and what Trump has already announced on the Ukraine issue. This is the most striking evidence that the Biden administration has abandoned all reason and de-escalation and could now do unimaginable damage before it leaves office. We can all only pray that the third world war is being prevented. Parts of the EU, who are warmongers, are happy, God help us, if France and the UK now release their missiles for launch. It is unbelievable.