Joel Kotkin, one who has specialized in demographics for many decades and not a conservative writer, points out in his latest article how America (and Europe too) is turning into a neo-feudalistic order under super rich tech oligarchs and other elite economic bankers and corporations - most of whom lean strongly to the left. Such elites have little interest in establishing free and fair markets, but are taking strong control against the interests of the middle class and small business by prostituting themselves in the same bed with government bureaucracies and other pro-government forces by advocating myriads of regulations and government mandates which only the rich can afford - and, of course, makes everything so much more expensive than it otherwise would or should be. Rich corporations and elitists who side with the government protect themselves from it by underwriting and supporting it.

The original classical liberals (America - the only revolution that ever worked) and leftist revolutionaries attacked the feudalistic orders of their respective countries day mired in impoverishment and peasant servitude. Today, leftism in Europe and America have been taken over by rich billionaires, who may say all the right things from a politically correct point of view, and may even believe in such things (only God knows the hearts), but will do everything but save us from the global warming apocalypse with the green new deal, much less usher in an utopian Garden of Eden this side of the grave or take us to a future transhumanist paradise on the earth full of technology and sexual/ biological/ economic/ racial liberation. Instead, they are bringing us all back into a neo-feudalistic order. Elites do not like the middle class freedoms, much less free markets precisely because such things interfere with their power and control.

We receive the news from rich corporations, the vast majority of whom are run by the Left and full of propaganda on a scale never seen before. And they have taught people to feel, not think. Kotkin thus points out with demographic facts the exact opposite of what many Americans feel, "American cities (most of which have been dominated by Democrats for decades now - my addition in parenthesis) now have higher levels of inequality, notes one recent study, than Mexico. In fact, the largest gaps between the bottom and top quintiles of median incomes are in the heartland of progressive opinion, such as in the metropolitan areas of San Francisco, New York, San Jose, and Los Angeles. In some of the most favored blue cities, such as Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, not only is the middle class disappearing, but there has been something equivalent of "ethnic cleansing” amidst rising high levels of inequality, homelessness and social disorder. Long-standing minority communities like the Albina neighborhood in Portland are disappearing as 10,000 of the 38,000 residents have been pushed out of the historic African-America n section. In San Francisco, the black population has dropped from 18% in the 1970s to single digits and what remains, notes Harry Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce president, 'are predominantly living under the poverty level and is being pushed out to extinction.'”

The Left falsely presume that identifying some kind of societal problem means that pro-government socialism/ intervention is always the answer. This is a false doctrine and a false conclusion. It is one thing to identify a problem, quite another to resolve it. Fixing so-called 'capitalism' in the name of socialism always compounds problems rather than fixes them. Today, we are now back to the point of returning to neo-feudalism rather than socialist heaven on earth - the exact opposite of what Leftism was trying to establish in the 1800's in Europe - much in the same way the Soviet Union just established a Soviet oligarchy rather a socialist utopia - which is a history lesson that few people bother to look at. National Socialism itself was rife with feudalistic ideas and practices.

As I have said so many times, criticizing 'capitalism' is easy. Even I can do that. What you replace it with is the problem. The Bible even specifically predicts that during the end times, Europe will be dominated by tyranny and a feudalistic confederation of kings and countries who will control what is bought and sold that will enrich the Middle East. At the end of the day, even Solomon, when he looked back upon his very rich life and kingdom that was filled with gold and silver, recognized the futility of it all, "What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted (Eccl. 1:15)." We live in a fallen world, and the more people try to fix it, the worse it seems to get, particularly if you use legalism, overregulation, political mysticism, and taxes in order to get us all there.

A WORD FROM TIM:

We are living in a fascist economy. That is, it is a monistic setup where you can't tell where government ends and corporations begin. There is a revolving door between the two. Small businesses - the backbone of free markets (what Chesterton called Distributism) are going to disappear as economic and political power centralize. It's the same type of economy Hitler promoted, or Mussolini.

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