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When Fantasies Die

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When fantasies die many who hold those fantasies to be true die with them. Donald Trump is only president. There is a limit to how much damage a president can do alone. A nation full of mush minded ignorant citizens can do unlimited damage.

People like this will die before they learn what the issues are and become enlightened.  This has played out many times in many parts of the world. Government makes people feel special and they support candidates who elevate their self esteem. I am not talking about the illiterate and the uneducated. I am talking about professional people with higher degrees.

The folks in the picture neither understand the issues facing the country nor do they even know what the issues are. They don’t know that they are being robbed blind by government monetary policy.  They wrongfully believe the U.S. military is fighting for freedom. They don’t know the difference between healthcare and health insurance. They don’t even know who financed the candidate they voted for in the election.  They don’t know what fascism is. Fascism has replaced our free market system and these folks are not even aware that it has happened. They hear kind words about special people and believe government has been doing something for these people. The Democratic Party has done absolutely nothing for women, minorities gays or anyone else.  We are looking at ignorance and stupidity so thick that it couldn’t be cut away with a knife.

Regardless, these people will die before they disolve their fantasies in the light of reality. I mean that literally. When a reality gap gets as large as this one is, it is really hard for a country to survive.

 

Economics of Self Esteem

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00_selfesteemThe chart  illustrates the relationship between self esteem and gullibility. The relationship holds even though the variables cannot be described with actual numbers.

Regular readers understand than for human beings work is a second choice.  Main street economists cannot be right very often because in that crowd, work is treated as a first choice. Poor people do not have the manipulative skills to live off of the efforts of others. Those with middle class incomes fare slightly better, but not much.

The best way to extract income out of others is to do everything possible to work their self esteem to ridiculously high levels. So great are the efforts to elevate every American’s self esteem to the highest possible levels, that citizens are now almost completely gullible. Taking their money without giving them anything in return is a piece of cake.

Today government policy  makes certain anyone who has saved money receives in interest far less than they would receive in an honest market.  Are they unhappy? No, because they believe the Federal Reserve is doing what is best for the country by starving them of their rightful  income.  What loose money policy actually accomplishes is to extract money from people who work and transfer it to people who own financial assets, purchased with money that has been given them for doing absolutely nothing.

Those who are solidly anchored in humility are at a distinct advantage. There is an old saying I will paraphrase. “If you present yourself as a maple, you will get sapped.”