COMMENTARY / OPINION
If the System Is Collapsing Should We Let It? By Jim Hoft
Mar. 14, 2023 7:15 am – The United States might survive another 10 years, but the crises will increase in both frequency and intensity until the end. And, as Steve Bannon has said since Friday night, this is not your fault.
You did not drive the dot com bubble.
You did not cause the 2008 financial collapse.
You did not impose Covid lockdowns or toss cash from helicopters for three years.
You got a job, paid your bills, and saved what you could.
You moved to good school districts so your kids could get into a college with a name people recognize.
You painted your porch and upgraded your windows and tried to keep up your lawn.
But the people with advanced degrees from those well-known universities did none of that. They played you like a sucker. They schmoozed your Congressman for special treatment and federal dollars. They bought a drink for a Senator in Jefferson City and got tax freedom for a generation. They took your savings and lost it on casino bets. And, now, they’re demanding you cover their losses.
The rich and powerful are coming to you and me for handouts for a very simple reason: there are many more of us than there are of them.
The elites think there’s strength in their exclusivity. And they’re right—until the uninvited, the unwashed masses, get fed up. Exclusivity is powerful until the plebes no longer care about the consequences of taking them down.
In the TV series Billions, a character made an astute observation: the only thing more dangerous than a man with unlimited means is a man with nothing to lose.
The uninsured depositors at SVB are men of unlimited resources. You and I are men with nothing to lose.
The sooner you realize there are 10 million of us losers for every 1 elite winner, the sooner we can even the score and end this nonsense.
You see, here’s the new problem Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer
If the democratically elected government of Israel capitulates on judicial reform now, other than agreeing to cosmetic compromises, know that the putsch will not stop with judicial reform. Op-ed.
Mar 13, 2023, 8:17 AM (GMT+2) – I have written previously regarding the judicial-reform issues for which there is no room to compromise. That article is foundational to my legal and Judaic thinking on the matter, as I contemplate some of the compromises now floating around. For example:
1. A judiciary must be fair and balanced. The current Israeli Supreme Court is corrupt and imbalanced, and has been since Aharon Barak took off his mask and made it into a tyranny of the Left thirty years ago. Therefore, because politics is cyclical, one approach to getting a more balanced court is the American way: to allow elected governments to select the judges. That way, when Democrats and the Left are elected, their president and senate select and confirm their judges, and then the Republicans and the Right get their chance to balance it all when they win. It keeps bouncing back and forth in cycles.
If the Israeli Left now wants judicial democracy like America, that would see Israel’s judges named by the elected prime minister and approved by the elected Knesset. That is exactly the American system. Begin names judges approved by Likud. Then Rabin gets his day. Then Shamir. Then Peres. Then Bibi. Then Barak. Etc.
Leftist Israelis do not realize (nor presently care) that the American system has many flaws. To put it mildly, they are no Sanhedrin. American Leftist courts make up their own laws out of thin air, like Roe v. Wade which falsely “discovered” abortion as a Constitutional right even though everyone, including the justices who fabricated it, knew it did not actually exist in the Constitution. Eventually, the Right’s political cycle came, and a more conservative Court ultimately threw out Roe v. Wade. See how it all balanced? It took only 49 years to overturn. Nice and smooth, except for predictable death threats by the Left against the conservative justices. The only fall-out is that 63 million lives were aborted, 63 million souls snuffed out during the interim. That’s all. Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
So the American system is not so great either. The U.S. Supreme Court approved slavery (Dred Scott), separate facilities for Blacks to keep them away from racist Whites (Plessy v. Ferguson), denial of basic rights to Chinese immigrants who could not even become American citizens until 1953, mass incarcerations of innocent Japanese Americans (Korematsu), and other such. All those eventually were overturned, but only after decades of great damage inflicted on millions of victims through several generations.
