If depression 2.0 (or worse) is what takes to do it, isn't that ultimately a good thing?
Nah. Hunger, starvation, peeps without their meds, evictions are not something I want to see happen to anyone.
I'd much rather seem them exposed for the crooks and liars they are in a court room. Maybe it'll happen if a bunch are charged in the Jan 6 attempt to overthrow the government. Of course there are baddies on both sides. Have to investigate them all.
It shouldn't have to have happened to anyone...or, maybe, it had to and must happen. Human nature follows predictable patterns. That's why so many societies in crisis, pass right by the easy way to right things, and get on the MERGE lane on the Highway to Hell.
Our warning bell was the Frankfurt School. Our alarm should have been the moving of Moral Relativism into our schools. We should have KNOWN...rock-solid KNOWN...that fifty years later, those school kids of that time, berift of moral instruction, would be in positions where morality would be NEEDED...and would fail the test.
When one man fails, it's a business collapse. Enron, or Penn Central. Or Adelphia Cable.
When a whole generation fails, we wind up with criminally-insane Big Pharma, trying to Save-The-PLANET! using the precepts of Thomas Malthus and Billy Gates.
But there were other signs. Removing the dollar from a PM standard, could only be done for one reason - to give the Deep State license to inflate the currency. GIVEN what historians KNOW about fiat currency, that should have been de-facto criminality and treated as such.
But it was not.
From moral relativism, we moved, with our kids, into sexual anarchy; and then into Dependency. They were taught, government was there to CARE for us. Government is the source of all wealth. The "poor" (we used to call them "shiftless") have a "right" to be cared for. The well-off have a duty, and an expectation (and in many cases, a burning DESIRE) to "partner" with government.
Usually that creates a new place for seigniorage to flow - new printed money, to new sponsor-enablers and regulatory capturers of the Regulatory State.
Carry this through, and limit government jobs, including teaching jobs, to minorities and females...and you get the normalization of homosexuality; the jettisoning of critical figures in history, for what malcontents CLAIM those figures stood for. We have new holidays and new heroes based on skin hue. We have new meanings for cultural anchors - like "marriage." As the radicals in schools take OVER the schools, and reject facts in favor of their historical NARRATIVES, we get the 1619 Project and other programs intended to cultivate self-loathing.
Finally it all came to this. A manufactured **PANIC** Chinese flu! Only, don't call it "Chinese flu" - dat RAY CYST.
What to do about it? SPEND MONEY! Print and spend! First, give SPESHEL money to schools that make all the kids wear FACE DIAPERS! Oh, what?...cloth masks don't have any effect on contagion? FAKE NEWS! BAN HIM! Hire MOAR BANNERS AND MOAR FACT CHECKERS!
Wattsdis? Moderna got a vaccine, ALREADY? We don't even KNOW THE STRUCTURE of this virus. Oh, but your Harvard scientists (and Club-Of-Rome members) SAY you have a vaccine, 99-percent effective? FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! And put those Face Diapers on, and keep them on!
...and it just goes on. Because we tolerated evil. Worse, we indulged evil; and we let evil persons indoctrinate our children, 55 years ago.
Now there is no avoiding the consequences. People have died, and more will die. Including many of us.