Liberals; the Definitive Creators of Unintended Consequences.

Jordon Peterson brings to light that most ideas for change are bad. The main reason is we forgotten why we do things they way we do. Liberal Progressive believe not only that change is good but needs to be done continuously, without any thought of why what they want to change is being done the way it is being done; the end result is almost always a disaster of unintended consequences for which they take no responsibility. Further they are intellectually lazy, or simply don't care because they are agenda rather than result driven. A typical example is the constant false rationalization that correlation equals causation. In it's absurd form, they would say that carrots cause heart attacks, because the vast majority of people having heart attacks eat carrots shortly before their heart attack; this of course ignores that carrots are a staple in most diets, and nothing at all to do with heart attacks. In a more subtle way the same can be said for sending people to jail for so called minor crimes. Data correlation tells us that those sent to jail for theft crimes generally emerge more antisocial than when they went in. The Liberal Progressive would say we should than not send thieves to jail. The problem is that theft is antisocial by definition, so without punishment, the same person will continue to steal and become still become more antisocial; at least when the thief is in jail they are not continually re-offending, until their crimes become serious enough to warrant incarceration. Further, the lack of punishment for theft encourages others to commit theft as well.  In other words the unintended consequences of not addressing theft crimes, is the criminals will continue to offend with impunity, meaning whether incarcerated or not, they will still become more antisocial, with the addition of creating many more victims and it will result in massive increase in others taking up thievery. Of course the left now measures success only in the term of equity and since criminal behavior tends to be overrepresented by minorities, the view fewer incarcerations as a success unto itself, regardless of the harm and wholesale destruction it does to society. 

There are those that claim that theft is a form of reparations, again from a world view based on equity. Even if this were true, the unintended consequences of that is entirely regressive, as the end result will be lawlessness in the poorest of communities and a massive increase in retail costs. This of course goes along with defund the police, which is another regressive policy that is only popular with those that live in otherwise protected communities and do not face crime on a daily basis; in other words, the poorest among us. While decades of indoctrination has convinced urban blacks that the are the constant victim of police violence and anti-black racism, they also know that the police are the only barrier between them and violent crime committed almost entirely by other blacks. Murder is so prevalent in Black communities, it is one of the primary causes of deaths of young black men. liberal Black activists often rationalize away black on black crime, saying white criminals generally victimize whites also; what they conveniently ignore is blacks are victimized by blacks at ten times the rate of whites by white criminals). Yet it is so ignored by Democrats and the mainstream press, that the moment the suspect of a mass shootings and/or killing or violent act is identified as black, all reporting is immediately stopped, just as all black on black crimes are never reported on, no matter the body count or the viciousness of the crime. To the black communities, regardless of how much they hate the police, they still want their presence in as large numbers as possible, as without them they are without any protection from the violent black gangs that otherwise control the segregated ghettos controlled solely by Democrats, they are forced to live in. 

Science Should Not be Used For Public Policy

Anothony Fauci head of the NIH, has said that arguing with him is arguing with science. While many berated him for being so ritious, the fact is in many cases he was right. Now he has also admittedly lied, such a when he said that masks were unnecessary to prevent the spread of Covet 19. He explained later this was to stop people from hoarding N95 masks, which he felt were better utilized by hospital workers than scum citizens they were forced to treat. He also said the BLM demonstrations we're not the Covet super spreaders they turned out to be, based solely on his progressive political views (many have stated this was the point where they started to to doubt government policies on Covet, as they were apparently based solely on the political postering of Liberal Progressive s. However, one could argue that at many times Fauci could point to some scientific study to back up his claim that he is following the science; and there lies the problem (the fact is science is always changing, because it a mechanism of proving hypothesis wrong). Science is a process, not a gauge or judge of the ligitimacy of public policy. And while Fauci may be following the science, science by definition needs be open to all possibilities and be defined as open debates and free discussions at all levels, or it is simply religious dogma. Since Dr Fauci had made a career of shutting down any dissenting view point other than his official position, he has simply become an anti-science autocratic.

The point here is there are just as many scientists and peer reviewed scientific studies that are counter to what Fauci and the progressive left are claiming is they only true science. Not only has Fauci declared his science is better, he has actually conspired to discredit esteemed and highly regarded scientists in the immunology and vaccine fields; this certainly shows he has abandoned science in the name of progressive politics. Many forget Fauci falsely claimed AIDS was a hetrosexually spread disease and he discredited was is now one of the primary treatments for AIDS related pneumonia. The question has to be asked why does a government scientist have more credibility than a non-government scientists with similar or more expertise? And should we give government scientist the power to discredit and ridicule non-government scientists that disagree with them; something always the case with past authoritarian governments.

What appears to be the reasoning behind all this unscientific rhetoric, is the powers that be behind the Biden administration, went all in, that vaccines would stop the Covet 19 epidemic. In doing so, they ignored, outlawed and ridiculed any alternte stradegy. As mentioned prior to Covet 19, the normal medical procedure was to pretreat diseases with various protocols, and then agressively treat the symptoms of the disease when symptoms first appears. However with Covid, patients are told the only pretreatment are vaccines, and if symptoms appear, to go home and wait for the symptoms to become so serious, they require hospitalization. Then, once in the hospital, many Covid patients were put on ventilators and drugged with opiates, where they usually wasted away and died. The reasoning again is if you go all in on vaccines, you can't have any other factors complicating the approach; this includes for the first time in medical history, ignoring naturally aquired immunity, which interestingly is the basis for vaccines. The Biden administration and the progressive left media did not want any alternate belief system, other than this is an epidemic of the unvaccinated; in other words as said by both President Biden and the progressive left media, get the jab and your protected, period. Any other information, facts or opinions, regardless of the source had to be banned, censored and/or ridiculed. The reasoning being there could only be one truth, because people are too gulable and not intelligent enough to make this decision based on any other information that was available. It is the Case Sunstein "Nudge Principle" on steroids.

Of course, Fauci and the Biden administration now have a problem; the new mRNA vaccines don't prevent being infected by Covet, not do they stop the spread; at best they reduce severity of the symptoms if you are infected. This has led Biden to pretty much abrogate federal responsibility (although interestingly not federal authority), when he stated that the Covid epidemic could not be stopped at the federal level. 

All this harkens back to my original point; science should never be used for the bases of public/governmental policy. For one thing it is too compartmentalized and can be oppressively authoritarian as it ignores the consequences of poorly thought out policies such as quarantining the healthy which destroyed the lives of millions and led to more deaths from depression (suicides and drug overdoses) and economic destruction that revered 50 years of gains against poverty. There is a reason we have elected officials and not autocrats ruling our nation, and it's time we realize that many of our elected officials (who are often seen ignoring the mandates they have forced on the populace) have abrogated their responsibilities by claiming they are following the science, when in actuality they are are simply grasping onto a rationality for authoritarianism without accepting any responsibility for their actions. 

The Narcissism of The Woke Worldview

Even a cursory view of the woke worldview shows it is bases in narsism. Narcissist do not understand lateral love, they only understand adulation. This further exacerbated by social media where one can create an infallible personna that lives in their smartphone, which is often their only connection to the outside world. The problem is we are human beings and by definition fallible and hopelessly flawed. This results in the need of the woke to continually isolate themselves for fear that any personal contact will lead to the destruction of the facade they have created to conceal their true fallible selves.

The truly views themselves as inclusive; as a matter of fact the woke movement is based on the concept of radical inclusion. But like all things on the fringe, end up being the opposite; that being discriminatory and exclusive. The reason is rather than looking to be inclusive, they instead search out those that are flawed and and in there warped worldview,  non-inclusive, which at some point is everyone

This is the idiocy of the woke cancel culture, which is based on ignoring we are all flawed and broken and is perpetratored by a vocal minority, who are just as guilty as anyone else of violating their woke worldview, such as attacking racism using the most racist means imaginable, which blindly lacks any forgiveness and /or redemption; it is simply  a denial of what Carl Jung said is the need to integrate one's shadow. Further the haters, with little to no life experience, use contemporary values to judge the past without realizing they will be judged  just as harshly for their current behavior which will be deemed completely unacceptable in the future by the next generation of self-aggrandized wokesters . In other words its a live and die by the sword existence, where people are so frightened and ashamed of their hidden anti-social and racist feelings, they must lash out at others thinking it will somehow square things with their refusal to accept their own shadows.

Unfortunately the woke /cancel culture ends up harming a lot of good people who most of these purveyors of woke are simply unworthy to judge. In essence the Democrat woke/ cancel is based purely on narcissism. It is a bizzaro take on the Christian parable, that if they cast stones it will somehow absolve them of the fact that they are human and therefore imperfect and irredeemable broken.

Transgender Women Live a Life of Gender Misappropriation

I find it horrorific that after over a century of hard fought women's rights, the left has  decided these rights should now exclude woman and now belong to men who simply identify as women. This also includes women's hard fought equity in sports programs that are also being invaded and sometimes taken over by trans men. It has literally become the case that Democrats have decided the rights of men with gender  dysmorphia (and those faking gender dysmorphia to victimize women) take presidence over the rights and safety of women. In other words, the left, like it did with the working class, has completely abandoned women rights for the privilege of a minority of men; if ever there was a war on women this is it. 

The other issue facing the transgender war on women is the fact that women in most societies are protected and for very good reasons. First women are weaker than men, they also bear children; neither is true about transgender men. If a male has gone through puberty, he will have all the muscular and skeletal advanges of a male for the rest of his life, even with testosterone blockers and reassignment surgery. In essence transgender men illegitimately misappropriate the protections society has given women. Unlike Transgender misappropriation, cultural misappropriation is fallacy, the actions it pretends to definite are nothing more than mankind's incredibly strong desire to imitate what it sees as productive or pleasurable; in other words if is one of the driving forces of biological evolution, but transgender misappropriation steals from women and by doing so eliminates any possiblity of equity.

This has also been part of the way Critical Race Theory is being taught in both universities and K12. CRT is being used to discount and demonize science and math. Particular to this discussion CRT teaches gender and biological sex are the same, both being purely of social construct, resulting in the demonization of the science of biology and those stating simple biological facts, who are being declared transphobic and ostracized from schools, academic and even non-academic employment. It is literally become a form of totalitarianism where people are being forced to renounce reality; if you can force people to deny what they know is factual, you will have complete control over them. ‘Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.’ George Orwell 

Women are being told they should accept intact males (in one poll 23% of transsexuals said they are heterosexual*) into their previously safe places. Specifically lesbians are told to accept (even as sexual partners) intact trans men that identify as lesbians, and women of all ages and sexual persuasions need to just deal with being in close proximity to naked men with penises. In essence we should all be TERFs** in order to protect the women in our society.

*https://www.thetaskforce.org/wonky-wednesday-trans-people-sexual-orientation/

**Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/b6cig1/the_transgender_war_on_women/

The Lie of Democrat Inclusion

Since President Obama, the Democrats made what appears to be a permanent turn to the extreme left; the days of the party of the working class and Bluedog (aka fiscally conservative) Democrats simply disappeared in a puff of progressive smoke. Interestingly the Democrats made no secret of their abandoning of the middle class worker, which is literally neocommunist saying they no longer cared about the proletariat; instead they were about inclusion and developing a collective of minorities and the oppressed. But something strange happened along the way, instead of being inclusive, they became exclusive to only those with a similar world view. And like the Communist Party of the 1950, you are either all in or cast out as a hater and racist.

What quickly has become apparent is Democrats now judge any and every identity as political. In other words, you are not black due to the color of your skin, but by your political worldview. Blacks that don't kowtow to the the primarily white Democrat political worldview are labeled black white supremacist; homosexuals with a conservative political view are homophobic and racist; conservative women are misogynist and racist, conservative Hispanics are called white Hispanics and even those that believe in human sexual biology are transphobic and of course racist. 

The point being that Democrats are not inclusive or even invested in identity politics, they call anyone, regardless of their identity racist if they vary in the lest from the new Democrat political worldview and further redefine identity by the same worldview. In other words you can not be black, Hispanic, female, homosexual, or transsexual if you don't think like they do. I really believe most Democrats think this is insane, but most must think they must play along or be ejected and have there political lives ruined forever.

 

Understanding Opiate Addiction

Many, even doctors do no understand why people become addicted to opiates. First it's important to understand that taking opiates mimics what the body does naturally. Opiates can disrupt this natural process which can lead to addiction. The natural system that opiates mimic is primarily the Dopamine system. Simplified, Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that your body uses to reward, reinforce positive behavior and relieve pain (it can also be the agent of feeling awe and belonging). Again simplified your body has a reservoir of Dopamine and a number of Dopamine/ opiate receptors. When you do something that is positive for your body (eating, exercising, having sex), your brain rewards you by releasing Dopamine which is absorbed by your Dopamine/ opiate receptors and you feel good; the Dopamine will then be recycled back into the reservoir. Interestingly, your brain also releases Dopamine when you listen to music, meditate and pray among other things we really don't understand. As I said it also relives pain. If you have ever stubbed your toe or caught you fingers in a door, you will remember after about 30 seconds to a minute, you will have a warm feeling and the pain will subside for a short while; this is the Dopamine system at work. It is also worth noting that opiates are a narcotic, which means it systemically slows down the workings of the body, including the heart; take too much and the heart will stop. To counter this a substance called NARCAN is available. What NARCAN does is block the Dopamine/ opiate receptors which counters the affect of the opiates.

When you take opiates, they mimic Dopamine but it flushes your Dopamine/ opiate receptors with a massive amount of a Dopamine like chemical, you feel very rewarded, and the pain goes away. The problem is your body is designed to be very efficient and frugal. Because opiates create an excess amount of Dopamine, as you continue to take opiates, your body reacts to what it sees as an overabundance, so depletes it's reservoir of Dopamine and starts shutting down receptors; this is what causes a tolerance to opiates requiring you to take more to get the same effect. 

If you stop taking the opiates, you will then go through a withdrawal period as the remnants of the opiates you are taking is processed out of your body, refereed to as detox. If that were all there was to opiate use and addiction would not be the problem that it is. First, this is a physical addiction. After the detox period, there is still the issue of your body returning to homeostasis, eg normal. Your body does not immediately refill it's reservoir with Dopamine and turn the opiate receptors back on; this can take, weeks, months and even years and is referred to as PAWS or Post Acute Withdraw Symptoms. During this time, your body will not be able reward you for almost anything, this is the misery of withdrawal. Nothing that you do will result in your feeling good, just the constant pain that goes along with being alive with no positive reinforcement for anything that you do. The two exceptions seem to be the relief of extreme pain and submersion in "hot as you can stand" water; the relief of/by extreme pain response can result in self injury simply to reduce the withdraw or PAWS.

Further there is also the physiological addiction, where the user even after their system has returned to something approaching normal (the tolerance they developed may never completely go away), will forever want to experience the initial high the had with their first opiate use. I also find it disingenuous to say opiates are safe when taken as directed. Again the problem is tolerance and dependency can begin almost immediately, and if the doctor is not monitoring the patient, their opiate use can quickly spiral out of control. In other words, a prescribing doctor should assume if not properly monitored, a patient will start abusing their medication, simply because of the known additive nature of the drug.

I have heard that addiction is nothing more than weakness or a lack of self control; well yes and no. First of all, as I explained there is a physiological reason for addiction that goes beyond simply taking opiates to feel good. Most that become addicted to opiates  do not start off as drug abusers, they are usually prescribed opiates by a doctor to relive pain. However, since many doctors don't really understand the nature of drug addiction, they do a very poor job of monitoring their patients whom they have prescribed opiates, which can lead to opiate dependence and addiction. People also react to opiates in different ways. To some opiates cause them to be drowsy and out of touch, however others react in an opposite way. With many people opiates cause a feeling of exhilaration and added energy, these are the people most likely to become addicted. Further, people vary greatly in their ability to withstand withdrawal symptoms and/or PAWS. This is not really a matter of will power, but more a matter genetics and/or environmental factors. Further, the use of opiates also reduce ones ability to withstand low level pain without the use of opiates; in other words, ones pain threshold is significantly reduced with the use of opiates, because the body has fewer resources to deal with low level pain. 

To put all this in prospective, as a result of the Covid-19 lock downs, more than 100,000 people a year (2020 and 2021) have died from over dosing of opiates (an increase of 28% over 2019), making opiate addiction approximately the number 8 cause of deaths in the US. While the increase of fentanyl (fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin which makes dosing much more difficult and potentially fatal)  laced drugs is partially to blame, but the Covid-19 lock downs have caused universal increases in drug and alcohol use/ abuse, depressions and other mental breakdowns, suicides and domestic violence. To say that these overdoses by drug addicts are all simply the lack of self control would seem to be based on ignorance as it completely ignores the physiological causes and the lack of opiates being properly administered by seemingly clueless medical professionals.

Mainstream Media Forced the Riddenhouse Narrative so Hard it Broke

In my last blog I showed how practically everything that was written by the mainstream media about the Riddenhouse trial was a lie. What has also become obvious is this was to force their white supremacy narrative for which they have few if any real examples to report on.

Here are some examples I posted earlier; "Riddenhouse is a white supremacist"; the truth is Riddenhouse is not associated with any groups at all, other than idolizing police officers. "Riddenhouse carried his AR-15 across state lines"; no Riddenhouse Ar-15 was bought for him by a friend who lives in Kenosha and was kept their by his friend (every lying account says he crossed state lines with his AR-15,  as if there was something wrong or illegal about it, but neither is true. The lie is likely looking for a nexus to a federal violation so the FBI and DOJ could charge Riddenhouse with a federal violation). "Riddenhouse was a vigilante"; no, Riddenhouse went to Kenosha to protect property and provide first aid to those who were injured in the rioting (prior to the shootings he was filmed discussing this very thing as he showed off his first-aid kit).

 Riddenhouse actually spent the previous day removing graffiti from a school in Kenosha. 

Probably the worst attempt to force the white supremacist narrative was several mainstream reports that Riddenhouse shot three black men, even though they were white; one was a child rapist, one had a history of domestic violence and the surviving subject was pointing a hand gun at Riddenhouse, when Riddenhouse shot him. 

There is also the fact "The riots were sparked by the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man. Blake is still alive, though everyone on the left thought he was dead. This was the first sign that liberal America has no clue what's going on." From Townhall.com 

There are also those playing the what if game. What if Riddenhouse had been black? Would the outcome had been the same? The left says no, but they reality is we don't know. First and foremost, race was simply not a fact in this case, but the left can't let it go. As my dad used to say, if the dog would not have stopped to shit it would have caught the rabbit; or would it have? Rabbits are fast and live in holes in the ground. What didn't happen, didn't happen; there numerous scenarios that could have played out from a murder conviction  to tha DA not even filing charges, but the outcome can never be known so the speculation is nothing more than race  baiting.

Finally we have a slew of elected Democrats villianizing Riddenhouse, calling him a white supremacist and vigilante, before any facts were known and even after he was found not guilty. President Biden is especially guilty of this, saying he was angry at the verdict even though he admitted not following the trial and refused to comment on his earlier and unsubstantiated accusation that Riddenhouse was a white supremacist. 

Fortunately, as a result of the press coverage of the verdict, at least the fact the subjects shot by Riddenhouse were white is becoming more common knowledge, and people are finally starting to question, how a white kid, shootings three white men is the act of a white supremacist.