The pain felt by the average American-- the high cost of household items, energy, gas, etc., is a pain not shared by the collectivist elites whose policies caused these problems. Our need to be free, to control our own destinies is in conflict with the elites' need for evermore power.
Inflation
Are we being made to suffer intentionally?
For Americans, driving means freedom. The ability to just pick up, and leave town almost at a whim, either for business or pleasure promotes independent thought and action. This is antithetical to the leftist way. For the socialists and other collectivists, travel outside of one's hometown is a privilege, not a right.
LR Podcast S2E36: 2021 in Review, Pt 1
At the end of 2020, we had high hopes that 2021 would be a darn sight better. In some ways it was, but in many ways it wasn't and often things went sideways. This podcast covers many of the major events of 2021. #2021YIR
LR Podcast S2E30: Evil or Just Bad (Redux)
So are the leftist Democrats in power really just inept or is all the destruction being caused to our society and economy just a price to be paid to achieve the collective Utopia they seek?
Are they evil or just bad?
So are the leftist Democrats in power really just inept or is all the destruction being caused to our society and economy just a price to be paid to achieve the collective Utopia they seek?
LR Podcast, S2, E23: A trip to the grocery store
The immunized gets to keep their job, no problems. The other must submit to weekly COVID tests or lose their job, despite having natural immunity.
LR Podcast S2E7: Collectivist Debt
Ayn Rand explains how leaders with a collectivist mindset can justify such lusty sums for pet projects and public largess even though we are experiencing record inflation partly due to previous enormous spending. It comes from altruism, paired with a neurotic lack of self-esteem in a leader or among lawmakers that fuels the need for ever more spending on “the public good”. It is based upon the need to feel good, rather than actually doing good.
How did we get to multi-trillion dollar spending bills? Ayn Rand had an answer.
The public who support these policies get to feel good about themselves too, but only for a little while, until the bill comes due. By the time they're paying $5 for a loaf of bread, and $6 for a gallon of gas, it's too late.
LR Podcast S2E1: “We the Government”
The “Infrastructure” plan. (talked about at length in episode 51.) Congress using the same “bait and switch” language in describing it. They're selling it as an infrastructure plan, but what you really get is about 7% infrastructure and the rest Green New Deal crony capitalism.
LR Podcast Episode #47: Never have so many owed so much.
This is just the beginning. The Democrats will announce (safe prediction) a "climate crisis", after or even before the COVID-19 crisis is over in order to justify more spending and greater control of the economy. This will open the door more massive Green New Deal spending and regulation.
Liberty Relearned 