Switched handles because the villain was right and nobody wants to admit it. Politics ruins everything. Culture reveals everything. And nothing — nothing — is black and white.
@JohnStossel@DeAngelisCorey When $20k per student results in teachers sending parents shopping lists, you're not looking at underfunding. You're looking at a system that works exactly as designed.
@catoletters An educated population that can identify logical fallacies is a threat to every institution that relies on them. That's not a bug in the curriculum - it's the feature.
@treidius Exactly - and once they control the information layer, they don't need to control behavior directly. Reality becomes whatever they need it to be.
A libertarian party that runs candidates on a platform of terminating the libertarian party tells you everything about why political parties always fail. Even the anti-politics party becomes the thing it hates.
Inflation is a cultural destroyer. Movie theaters dying, family gatherings shrinking, experiences disappearing. Nobody connects these dots to the money printer.
@KlausJSchmidt Mises understood that bad language leads to bad policy. You can't fix what you can't name accurately. The Fed has been exploiting this confusion for a century.
@HorrorGorl It's what happens when both parties spend generations making promises nobody paid for. The collapse isn't coming - it's been happening in slow motion.