We readers of the dystopian yet prescient Ayn Rand novel “Atlas Shrugged” feel like much of what we see happening these days is all too similar to the book’s plot.
Bureaucrats worldwide are rewarding slackers and punishing achievers to buy off those slackers for political reasons.
Populations are in turmoil over a variety of social issues. Economic collapse is rampant and the governments are more interested in getting out their propaganda than addressing problems.
Time for more news and views.
NEWS: South Africa is at the point of economic and social collapse as domestic terrorists murder and pillage to protest the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma. Meanwhile, a RECENTLY DEFUNDED national police force watches and those in power at the government level call in the army for assistance in quelling the disturbances and avoiding the full-blown Civil War that the headlines are predicting.
VIEWS: This one deserves more than one view. a) We could be looking at the future of the United States if the trend to look the other way regarding the violent protests of Antifa and Black Lives Matter operatives continues. b) Those wimpy Democrats who are traumatized and lamenting the end of democracy because some unarmed protesters walked into the U.S. Capitol in January and killed NO ONE need to get a sense of perspective.
NEWS: A Boston court ruling that altered admission procedures for three elite public schools in order to minimize academic qualifications and emphasize such things as zip codes of the students was reversed by the same judge who initially had made the decision. His change of heart was based on racist text messages by school committee members that were hidden from the judge ahead of his first decision.
VIEWS: One texted about being sick of “westie whites.” Another agreed, “Me, too. I really feel like saying that.” (Editors note: You did say that, moron, you just didn’t realize how public it would become). And a third mocked Asian names of some who commented on the matter. Remember this every time you hear the Critical Race Theory curriculum canard.
NEWS: Continuing audits and forensic investigations into voting are turning up glaring problems in Georgia and Arizona that are being revealed on a nightly basis, but largely ignored by the same left-wing news media that campaigned so hard to put Joe Biden in the White House.
VIEWS: It was obvious early, if one cared to look, that the most recent national election was rife with problems ranging from perhaps legitimate errors to outright misconduct. How do such things get addressed when public officials and the courts think that if they stonewall and look the other way long enough it will go away? See the South Africa example as a potential outcome. In an amusing side note, the other day the wife caught an early morning news show on the local television station whose anchor person tried repeatedly and never succeeded in correctly pronouncing forensic. Freudian slip?
NEWS: Media organizations, including Reuters, are warning that the Cuban freedom protesters could help spread COVID-19.
VIEWS: Not surprisingly, many of these very same organizations, including Reuters, saw no such problem previously when protesters around the world were acting under the banner of Antifa or Black Lives Matter.
NEWS: Still on Black Lives Matter, everyone’s favorite Marxist founded movement masquerading as a push against racism, BLM went on the record blaming the protests in Cuba on U.S. sanctions and praising the Marxist Cuban government.
VIEWS: For anyone still taking seriously Black Lives Matter as a force for good, please rush to the latest psychiatric facility and commit yourself, for the good of all of us.
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