Ooh, an article with my home state as the subject matter! I love how he calls Obozocare "unfair"-- I thought government was the ultimate vehicle for "fairness"?

I can't imagine being a liberal Statist; the day-to-day cognitive dissonance must be staggering! Even if you ignore the hundred-plus million dead in the 20th century due to government central planning as a paradigm in places like China and the Soviet Union, the present-day world must be bewildering!

Trillions of fake money created by central banks, and the world is teetering on a flat-out depression. To the Statist central planner, how can this be?? Governments around the world have massive spy apparatuses, yet terrorism is increasing. How? Why? Obozocare is enacted, and "health care" becomes less accessible. How is that possible?? And now the machinery of politics-- the ultimate savior of "the little guy"-- delivers unto you Hillary Clinton, the receiver of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign despots, massive corporations, and evil Wall Street capitalists.

I have a neighbor who, each election cycle, has literally every Democrat yard sign in his yard that he can find. This cycle? Zero signs in his yard. I bumped into him while on my walk yesterday, and asked him what the big machine in his yard was doing. "Oh", he replied, "that's a trump... er, uh, I mean a tree stump grinder."

Freud says hello, my friend!

I recently told someone at work that I've had to throw out my entire world view about three times to arrive at where I am now. The reason was because my old world views were not only not predictive of real-world events, but they were continously ass-backwards. By age 32, I pretty much had and have the world figured out: very little surprises me, and in fact events are fairly predictable.

But then you have this neighbor of mine... this guy is sixty years old, and still hasn't let go of his central planning worship and Statist belief system-- it's like a kind of religion for a lot of people. They literally can not process the idea that maybe central planning itself, as a paradigm, as a model, just doesn't work-- even when I explain the various mechanical reasons as to why it's ineffective.

It's like that time David Stockman was on CNBC, and one of the reporters asked, in the most incredulous voice possible, "but if the Fed doesn't set interest rates, who will??" I could tell it took Stockman every ounce of will power to now perform the world's most massive face palm.