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[Pre-order a copy of David Horowitz’s next book, America Betrayed, by clicking here. Orders will begin shipping on May 7th.]
When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows.
Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved ideology would allow them to advance their careers and excuse their lawbreaking.
The same thing has happened with the woke movement and the now-huge Diversity/Equity/Inclusion conglomerate.
Grifters and opportunists mask their selfish agendas under the cloak of neo-Marxist care for the underprivileged or victimized minorities. Meanwhile, they seek to profit illegally as if they were old-fashioned crony capitalists.
During the disastrous COVID-19 lockdown, California governor Gavin Newsom pontificated about leveraging the quarantine to ensure greater equality: “There is opportunity for reimagining a (more) progressive era as it (relates) to capitalism…We see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.”
Meanwhile, Newsom did not seem very “progressive” when he was caught in one of California’s most expensive restaurants dining with sidekick lobbyists while violating the very mask and social distancing rules he had mandated for 40 million others.
Newsom also bragged about social equity when he signed a new California law mandating $20 an hour for fast-food workers — while many of his own employees at his various company-controlled eateries made only $16 an hour.
And he allegedly gave a unique exemption from his wage law to one particular bakery/restaurant chain, Panera, whose owner is an old friend and major campaign contributor.
Newsom apparently feels that the more progressively he postures, the less he’ll be called out for his own hypocrisy and self-interested agendas.
In another egregious case, the now-imprisoned felon, Sam Bankman-Fried, may have been the greatest con artist in American history. He siphoned billions of dollars from his cryptocurrency company, destroying the fortunes of thousands when his multi-billion-dollar Ponzi empire collapsed.
How did Sam and his two Stanford law-professor parents manage to accumulate millions of dollars in resort properties and perks without getting caught until after their empire collapsed?
Answer: Sam showered millions of dollars on left-wing politicians to advance their progressive crusades. His parents justified this family giving as a form of “effective altruism.”
That catchy phrase masked the reality that his crusade for social justice was just an incredibly effective get-rich-quick scheme.
The Bankman-Fried family apparently reasoned that their devotion to this woke form of “altruism” would translate into riches for themselves, albeit bankruptcies for investors.
Another example: In Georgia’s Fulton County, District Attorney Fani Willis ran for office, promising to indict supposed right-wing monster Donald Trump.
She raised campaign money on her woke credentials. Often, when challenged, she played the race victim card.
Meanwhile, Willis hired as a special prosecutor her secret paramour, the incompetent Nathan Wade, although he had never tried a single felony or even criminal case.
She and Wade then went on expensive junkets. She claimed that she reimbursed him with cash that was, of course, unverifiable.
Given their woke ideology, both assumed they were entitled to splurge at taxpayers’ expense, offer likely-false testimony under oath, and violate canons of professional behavior for lawyers.
She wasn’t alone in her corruption. After the death of George Floyd, the founders of the left-wing Black Lives Matter movement went on a house-buying rampage. The more corporations filled their coffers with millions, either from guilt or as protection money, the more new homes the directors purchased.
One co-founder, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a self-described Marxist, splurged by spending $3.2 million in BLM money to buy herself four upscale residences.
And the most radical Democratic members of Congress — the so-called Squad — apparently feel that the more they level accusations of racism, the more they can profit without fearing any consequences for their wrongdoing.
One squad member, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, redirected $2.8 million of her office’s allotted government money to her husband’s political consulting company.
Still another member, the radical leftist Rep. Cori Bush, often harangued the country to defund the police. Now the FBI is investigating her for stealthily paying tens of thousands of campaign dollars to her own husband for “security.”
Woke and DEI activists may not necessarily be any more innately mediocre, corrupt, or conniving than other politicians and activists.
But they seem so, because they loudly broadcast that they are for “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” — and thus assume themselves to be exempt from all scrutiny and free to profit in any way they please.
The woke/DEI project is enticing thousands of shysters, careerists, and mediocrities, all keen to enrich themselves on the premise that they are noble fighters for social justice who deserve immunity from any scrutiny.
How odd it is that America is wasting billions of dollars hiring DEI czars and electing woke politicians who so often accuse others of a multitude of sins, largely as a way of enriching themselves, hiding their own culpability, and making a mockery of the law.
Whaa….Sam Bankman-Fried may have been the greatest con artist in American history and “cryptocurrency” is fake money paid for with real money by retards? Black Lies Murder is a seditionist terrorist organization? The Jihad Squad in Congress is anti-American and criminal?
WTF!?
Tell me something I don’t know.
Hanson needs to go. He called nearly 1m people BUFFOONS that exercised their 1A rights on J6 protesting a now so obviously stolen election, resulting in dire consequences for what’s left of our Constitution. I call these people Patriots, not Buffoons. And where were you Mr. Hanson on Jan 6 2000. Oh, I know. Sitting comfortably in your home typing away.
These patriots did no good for the cause on January 6, only harm. All they had to do instead of what they did was to stay outside the Capitol building and avoid rioting. But they were unaware of the trap Pelosi and her ilk had set for them as they lost control of their emotions. Buffoons no, foolish yes.
Choose your battles wisely, and have a concrete plan before bulling your way into the china shop.
Anyone that thinks that protesting the election fraud that took our nation is not only wrong but literally Anti American. That goes for Hanson and his aplologists like you. Get a backbone sir.
He’s saying these people had no plan. That’s true.
I agree they are all patriots wrongly imprisoned for exercising their tight to protest.
Its no wonder that our country is dying with so GD many cowards. And TPTB knows it.
The love of money is indeed the root of all evil
It’s up there. And the people who love money the most, like the Biden, Clinton and Pelosi crime families are the worst.
Be a good boy and give all your money away.
The root of all kinds of evil.
To MAKE and EARN money HONESTLY through production, innovation, technology, and trade is one of man’s greatest VIRTUES. Without honest money, production, innovation, and trade mankind would still be living in caves and with an average lifespan in the teens.
It is the love of THEFT and the love of the UNEARNED that is evil.
“Most people lump together into the same category all men who become rich, refusing to consider the essential question: the source of the riches, the means by which the wealth was acquired.
Money is a tool of exchange; it represents wealth only so long as it can be traded for material goods and services. Wealth does not grow in nature; it has to be produced by men. Nature gives us only the raw materials, but it is man’s mind that has to discover the knowledge of how to use them. It is man’s thinking and labor that transform the materials into food, clothing, shelter or television sets—into all the goods that men require for their survival, comfort and pleasure.
Behind every step of humanity’s long climb from the cave to New York City, there is the man who took that step for the first time—the man who discovered how to make a fire or a wheel or an airplane or an electric light.
When people refuse to consider the source of wealth, what they refuse to recognize is the fact that wealth is the product of man’s intellect, of his creative ability, fully as much as is art, science, philosophy or any other human value.” – Ayn Rand
Greed and envy are pernicious. Production is virtuous. Work is love made real.
Pardon me, but from a philosophical and practical point of view, allow me to amend your comment: It’s the love and WORSHIP of money that is the root of all evil.
In a world where money is necessary for survival and to prosper, loving money in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing (e.g., bills have to be paid, families have to be clothed & fed and no one works for free!)
Evil manifests when a person is possessed with the love AND worship of money. There is no room for things like compassion and virtue in the heart of a person who loves and worships money.
Personally I think the will to power over others is the root of all evil, money is just a means to that end.
The ONLY way to reduce this is to drastically reduce the size of government, starting at the top, the UN, defund it now!
These scams exist because they work. Out of all of these grifters and frauds only the white, male, Jewish Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail over it. He just got too greedy and, given his race, sex, and religion, was an easy sacrificial offering.
DEI is an extortion loop. Pay up, or face online slander and threats of urban violence.
Tapson’s video in today’s FPM nails it down best.
The people who push the DEI scam probably learned it from Jesse Jackson. Jesse had done it for decades before others stepped in.
The Biden/Austin has embraced DIE or our military. Here are their stated goals for military recruitment and advancement.
“We must recruit an increased numbers of the following: parental or caregiver status; gender identity or sexual identity, to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and all others (LGBTQIA+); pregnancy; disability, including people with hidden disabilities and the neurodiverse population; members of religious minorities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.”
How did we ever win WW2 without the aid of The Rainbow?
I don’t like that you cannot edit a post on frontpage. My fingers are too big for the small keypad on my phone.
I would have rewritten the first sentence as:
The Biden/Austin administration has embraced DIE for our military.
It’s a dog eat dog world Mr. Hanson and most of us are wearing milkbone underwear. Cheers!
and his two Stanford law-professor parents manage to accumulate millions of dollars in resort properties and perks without getting caught
Of all the instances you gave, the only one that received any substantial consequences was Bankman Fried, Fanni Willis is still in power, the “Squad” is still in power, Biden, Newsome, all down the line. That (D) they put behind their name makes them virtually untouchable to the vast blob that our government has become. This is costing America more than just money.
DEI is neoracism
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/neo-racism-in-the-twenty-first-century
Mr. Hanson, thank you for writing “National Socialists” instead of Nazis. Too many people these days do not understand the origin of the term Nazi or that Hitler and his followers were socialists.
…”The full name of the Nazi Party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German for ‘National Socialist German Workers’ Party’) and they officially used the acronym NSDAP.
Newsom is a liar and a fraud and CA is 1.5 trillion in the hole. Californians need to lean in and put things right in sacramento
The farther they push the DEI pendulum, the harsher the backswing.