The Sane vs. the Insane

That’s Today’s War [The Daily Reckoning] March 23, 2024 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( The Sane vs. the Insane Saratoga Springs, New York Editor’s note: Today’s ideological war is not between conservatives and liberals, but between the sane and the insane, argues James Howard Kunstler in today’s reckoning. As usual, James pulls no punches. He may even offend certain readers, but we will not censor him. Though we are anti-partisan, we are strongly pro-speech. Here’s James: [James Howard Kunstler] JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Dear Reader, Can you feel it? The tension rising to the red line? It runs clear through all of Western Civ. We’re ruled by governments of fiends. But now, the sun rides higher in the sky. The sap is rising in the northern forests. The earth heaves. The buds swell and blush. Something is in the air. The animals are waking from their long winter sleep. The natives are restless. The two traditional political divisions, liberal and conservative, died with COVID. Now there are simply the sane versus the insane. The sane have had enough of being pushed around by the insane. The insane don’t register much of what reality tries to tell them. They have a body of insane ideas to comfort and protect them from reality’s rigors. To call that body of ideas an “ideology” is way too polite. Progress Toward What? That the insane call themselves “progressive” is a signature of their insanity. Progress toward what better state of things? Toward a supremacy of fiends, sadists, degenerates and morons seizing riches and power by every dishonest means possible outside the rule of law and common decency? It’s not even suitable to call them “communists.” They lack the necessary idealism for that. They don’t expect to put their shoulders to the wheel with their fellow man. They just want to grab your stuff and then kill you so they don’t have to hear any complaints. The insane do not believe any of the theoretical BS they want to force you to swallow. They don’t care about climate change. It’s just a cudgel they use to beat everyone over the head so they can steal your stuff. They don’t care about “democracy.” It’s just a line of nonsense to cover up their election-stealing. Do you suppose that sane people would keep using electronic vote-tabulating machines that were demonstrably connected to the internet, and thus hackable, if they cared about election integrity? Of course not. They’d arrange p.d.q. to junk them and use paper ballots, and only in person at polling places, with “absentee” exceptions only for people out of the country. The insane don't care about public health. Everything that’s known about the COVID-19 vaccinations tells you that they’re unsafe as far as vaccines go, and don’t prevent infection or transmission of a flu-like illness that might not even be what it was officially labeled as. Our public health officials in the FDA, the CDC and other corners of the Department of Health and Human Services lie about everything they’re responsible for. This week, the CDC (under Director Mandy Cohen) released a 148-page study on myocarditis reactions to mRNA shots. Every word on every page of the document was redacted. The CDC printed countless copies of the report with 148 utterly blank pages, and then proffered them to the news media. How is that not insane? [ALERT: Billionaires Dumping]( Zuckerberg sold $1.2 billion of META…Bezos sold $8.5 billion of AMZN…Jamie Dimon sold $150 million of JPM…The Walton family of Walmart sold $1.5 billion of WMT…Which begs the question… Why is the “smart money” pulling out of the market right as retail investors are piling in? Well, that’s why Jim Rickards—former advisor to the Pentagon, The White House, and the CIA—has uploaded a new urgent warning for you. In it, he reveals a way to “opt-out” of this crazy market panic with an entirely different strategy that no one is talking about… And help you get in position for what’s coming next. [Click Here To Learn How To “Opt Out” Now]( Insane “Lawfare” The insane don't care about the rule of law. The conduct of “lawfare” is the subversion of the law by dishonest means. It’s a species of racketeering. And that’s why lawfare rogues such Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, Matthew Graves and Merrick Garland should be charged under the federal RICO statutes for conspiring to deprive sane citizens of their rights and property in many cases related to the 1/6/21 riot at the U.S. Capitol. People are still being arrested for simply walking around the Capitol and taking selfies. They didn’t hurt anyone or damage property. Doesn’t matter. Meanwhile, the feds show remarkably little interest in finding out who left pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters that day. Strange. It is, so far, an abiding mystery of contemporary history as to how New York Attorney General Letitia James managed to get away with prosecuting a real estate case against Donald Trump that was no more than victimless business-as-usual between a borrower and his lenders. Ms. James ran for that elected office promising to “get” Mr. Trump on something, anything. That is not how the rule of law works. Under the rule of law, first you determine that there is a crime and then look for who did the crime. Letitia James must be insane and/or pretty stupid. The short-term gain of stealing Mr. Trump’s property under a false color-of-law and creating impediments to his election campaign will, sooner or later, blow back at her as a matter of malicious prosecution and, plausibly, racketeering as well. (With whom did she conspire to bring this case? We shall find out.) She’ll eventually be disgraced publicly as her teammate Fani Willis has already been disgraced in Fulton County, Georgia. Insanity Upon Insanity Here are a bunch of other things that are insane: Re-litigating the First Amendment is insane. It means what it says, and states it plainly. The open border is insane. No credible sovereign polity would allow it. It would be opposed with force, if necessary. Turning children into transsexuals on a wholesale basis is insane, and fiendishly so. Everybody knows that it’s not good for the children or for our society as a whole. But fiends got to fiend, and if you try to deprive them of being fiends then you’re guilty of “hate.” [URGENT: Your New Crypto Book Is Awaiting Shipment]( If you’ve kicked yourself for not investing in cryptocurrency… Watching Bitcoin go from $61… To $1,000… To over $60,000... Then pay close attention. Famous crypto millionaire James Altucher just released a brand-new book on crypto… And he’s releasing a limited number of books to folks who click here now. We have a copy reserved in your name, and we just need to hear back from you. [Click Here To Claim Your Copy]( The war in Ukraine is insane. We certainly didn’t ignite it in the service of “democracy.” Our pawn there, Mr. Zelenskyy, canceled the national elections last year. Russia just held elections, which Putin won in a landslide. You can argue they were rigged or whatever, but the fact is Russia held elections and Ukraine didn’t. The war was arguably an effort by our CIA to deprive Russia of its market for natgas in Europe, and thus deprive Russia of a great deal of money, that is, of prosperity. The project failed. Russia overcame NATO’s proxy army and found other markets for its gas. Blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines only served to impoverish and weaken our NATO allies, who no longer have affordable gas to run their industries. The leaders of those allies were too insane to recognize that the Nord Stream op was an act of war against them. They were also busy destroying themselves, like the USA, with open borders. They’ll end up in a new medievalism, ruled by savages. You’d have to be insane to arrange that for yourself. Is It Insane to Run Biden? What’s most obviously insane in our country is that the insane party is pretending to nominate the mentally unfit White House place-keeper, “Joe Biden,” for reelection. You would think that if this party wanted to retain power, they’d run a candidate who, though insane, was not also visibly senile. But the rank and file of this party are too insane to see that this dodge is not working. They’re pretending with all their might that this is OK, that the growing faction of the sane don’t notice. Sensing the growing impatience with insanity among the voters, the insane party has reached its point of terminal desperation. What will they try next? Murder? Why not? Nothing else seemed to work. They’re too far gone in their insanity to understand that winter is over. We’ve entered the season of rebirth and renewal, starting with a renewed appreciation for being sane and for that indispensable ingredient that makes liberty in a free society possible: good faith. A society hostile to truth can’t possibly remain civilized, because it’ll also be hostile to reality. That appears to be the disposition of the people running things in the USA these days. The problem, of course, is that this is not a reality-optional world, despite the wishes of many Americans (and other peoples of Western Civ) who wish it would be. A financial crack-up is probably the only thing short of all-out war that will get the public’s attention at this point. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it happened next week. Really, the only question left is how rough do the insane intend to play to prevent the return of sanity and good faith? 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