With the fires in California, as often when dealing with government at all levels, there are rumors that they’re doing this according to some long held plan.
Yeah. They might be. I mean, some of the more tin-foiley versions require all sorts of machiavellianc work arounds, and are probably not true. OTOH the givens are that they really hate their constituents and that they view themselves as harbingers of the utopian future. Oh, yeah, and that they mostly think things repeat as in the scant history they actually know, but mostly the fiction and just so stories they’ve read.
And after great fires, cities have been rebuilt to fit grand utopian visions. Actually pretty much every time: Paris, London, Chicago, and if you go back far enough Rome. So I could see them thinking: great fire equals bringing our wonnerful vision in, and working to make this a reality. Among other things it would totally explain Noisome’s self-satisfied smirk and little dance when being interviewed about the fire, and also how he’s been hell of cagey about his plan for the rebuild. (And FYI calling it a Marshall Plan is a bit of a giveaway since the Marshall Plan was imposed on a DEFEATED Europe.)
So could this be “according to plan?” Sure, I’ll allow it. I’ll at least allow that once the fire had started, idiots saw a “great opportunity.”
But wait, because there’s more. Sure, the wolfheads in power are malicious and possessed of a hatred of humanity in general and those who refuse to go along with their plans in particular. They also have a grand disregard for individual passions and interests.
BUT–
And it’s a bit but (or butt if you prefer) they’re also incompetent, and a vast number of them are absolutely rock-dumb.
I’ve — I think — covered this territory sufficiently before, but if you’re just tuning to this channel now, I’ll do a quick recap.
I’m not saying everyone on the left is stupid. That’s just the flipping around of their (dumb) certainty that everyone who disagrees with them is stupid and uneducated (an assumption that btw makes perfect sense for people of naturally compliant character in a culture that equates education with intelligence, and where education has become iron-clad indoctrination.)
People are on the left for any number of reasons, a combination of character, trauma, family tradition, self-interest and accident of personal experience. And their chance of falling, stumbling or being pulled into the left or even the hard left has nothing to do with their native intelligence. (I’d argue that they on average tend to have a more compliant character, to be “good boys and girls” because the establishment has been left for most of my life and you have to work less to be left. So some of them might also be smart but intellectually lazy. And some are ambitious and know that’s where the money and advancement is, or has been till very recently. (I could name some authors. i won’t.))
However, over time they tend to act stupider, and they tend to be less competent. This is not because something happens to their intelligence and ability to think, so much as the fact that they don’t NEED TO.
And the lack of need to starts somewhere about the end of high school if not before. You can just mouth back the platitudes and you get all the candy. You’re not trying to think yourself into your position, you don’t need to hold your beliefs secret against discernment, you just go with the flow and say “the latest thing” and you get rewards.
This is twice as bad if you come from a wealthy, lefty family and/or you’re a minority. Chances are the teachers never taught you much. They were far too busy making sure you liked them, and they virtue signaled as being the right political color and frankly if you were of a certain disposition making sure you didn’t get them into trouble.
And for the purposes of this, “female” is “minority.” I watched midwit girls in my boys classes get the royalty treatment while getting taught so little and having so little demanded of them that if they were my daughters I’d have had even more problems with the school than before. The treatment goes on through college. And heaven forbid you are female, tan and gay. You’re not going to be asked to do anything and will be considered a prodigy if you can pronounce your name correctly. I’ve seen it.
Am I saying women, minorities, gay people are dumber than white straight males. Oh, bullshit. Only the lefties reading this for rage points will twist my words to say that. There are statistical differences in the distribution of male and female IQ (Y’all have a lot more morons and a lot more geniuses than we do — keeping in mind those are still and always rare at either end — and we have more “normal bright.” (Which is what almost everyone needs to get through life, btw, geniuses share some difficulties with morons in getting along with society simply because they’re not the norm, come to that.) And sure IQ for minorities is all over the place, but IQ measurements are “weirdish” unless you get the people administering them being very careful about the background of the tested (if you’ve never done a certain type of test, you’ll test lower, just on familiarity. Also, not a lie that every time you take an IQ test, you’ll do better.) Also leveling and straight out, they’ve monkeyed with IQ tests so much since the 70s partly to make them more “equitable” that some of them aren’t even really valid any more. And the equitable thing is no better and might be worse.
But note that evolution doesn’t work that fast, even if you assume only the dumber are reproducing, and we’re now at a stage where states are doing away with literacy tests for TEACHERS. Teachers of all races, (though mostly female.)
The only thing falling IQ results and falling competence correlates to is “leftist governance.” Which means it’s two things: stupidity in selection (of teachers, superintendents, mayors, governors, and yes fire chiefs) and NOT TEACHING PEOPLE or not teaching people in a way that anyone can learn. (I maintain the failure of teaching languages in the US is that the method used can’t teach ANYONE languages. It helps to have a record/handed down the stories going back to the great flood or shortly thereafter for this. NO ONE IN MY FAMILY HAS EVER FAILED TO LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Some have an unearthly facility — that’s my brother — so that you could drop them naked in the Amazonian forest, and they’d emerge into civilization three months later speaking fifteen tribal languages flawlessly. Some are like me, and mutter and groan and scream at the books for the first two years, and then it clicks and we’re fluent. So when my kids couldn’t learn foreign languages I spent summers teaching them. They learned. They learned 3 years in a summer (Younger has forgotten everything, but hey.) The problem is that the pseudo-total-immersion method not only wasn’t teaching them, it was making it impossible for them to learn. Reading and writing are now being taught that way too, I think (I don’t have kids in school.))
Both operate because their blinkered sexist and racist notions enjoin them to demand nothing of females or people who tan or females who tan. I don’t know if at some level they believe we’re less capable, or they never thought about it. Or if it’s the magical theory of “raise their self esteem and they’ll automagically learn.”
So you have a population that ranges from illiterate to merely unlearned. From these they pick not the most competent, but those that fit arbitrary criteria in which “victimhood points” add up to create the perfect candidate.
For obvious reasons this results in a disastrous lack of competency at every level from dog catcher to fire chief, and even into elected positions, in a system as corrupt as California’s. (Almost every dem state is extremely corrupt. I wonder why!)
Here’s the secret: picking for any reason other than competence erodes the competence of the people hired, even if the educational system weren’t already completely borked.
ANY REASON. If you were deliberately picking only white, straight males, you’d hit the same effect. You might have a bump at the beginning, because white straight males have had to work harder to have any achievements for the last forty years so the current qualified crop is a bit better than the competition. BUT that won’t last. Because if you’re advancing white straight males automatically they’ll start suffering from the “don’t have to work” effects.
Or you could be picking people for being related to the people in the job. And then you get Latin countries. Or Gavin Newsome. You see where that leads.
For prosperity, safety and advancement, people must be picked for competence for whatever the position is. ALWAYS for competence.
We haven’t had that in a good long while. Even white males get picked for “Complies with leftist beliefs without question” and have been for the last almost a 100 years.
So, no, our “leadership” and “political” class is not all that. In fact they’re idiots studying to be morons.
Are things like the California fires part of a grand plan? At least at the level of taking advantage of a crisis? Who knows? Who cares?
It’s important not to fall into the trap of thinking these are top of the line chess players. People, these are creatures that can maybe pour their piss out of their own boots with the instructions written on the sole, but only if they decide to work that hard that day.
It doesn’t really matter if they have a grand plan, to be honest.
As we saw during the Biden interregnum (two days and a wake up) their grand plans tend to turn to shite and their great constructions come apart in their hands.
They are at that level. It’s my opinion this is why communist systems fail after 70 years. No, we never fully went there, but our leadership sure was picked that way. After seventy years of picking for compliance and whatever proletarian points apply, you have people so incompetent they have the Mierdas touch.
Be not afraid. It’s okay to be angry, but don’t let it blind you. Stay alert for the opportunity to rebuild where things fall apart. And they will.
In the end we win, they lose.
That’s all.
According To Hoyt 