Shattering the Overton Window, by Robert Gore | STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC
Heaven forbid anyone appear too extreme. Our rulers keep discourse safely within the Overton window by allowing debate about the details of what the government does or doesn’t do. However, those who question the necessity of particular government agencies or programs, or government in general, are beyond-the-pale extremists and cast into the Abyss of the Unacceptable, one zip code over from the Abyss of the Deplorable.
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Hoover should have been impeached and MacArthur and Patton court-martialed and executed for murder.
This event may have been the factor that cost Hoover the election in Nov 1932 and inflicted Americans with FDR - leading to the socialist government enslavement of Americans.
US government federal had started on that road when the Constitution was forced on Americans (with no Bill of Rights) by the traitor A. Hamilton and his comrades.
Looks like things are heating up in Virginia.
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But it will as it should, they are a "private" concern are they not?
Perhaps we should allow them the honor of shattering their own window of Overton.
PS, nice work, Robert.
Thank you.
I think people don’t discuss it because it arcane to people outside of the financial industry, not because it’s taboo. The article says it must be a taboo because the financial system is so god-awful. I don’t see that at all. Central banks give people more confidence in the banking system. They allow money to be created to fund the creation of new forms of means of production. They’re not perfect, and maybe they’ll go obsolete like phone monopolies, which served a purpose before we had technology for competing phone services.
Apparently contrary to the thesis about taboos, the article says “an ever-increasing percentage of the populace know in their bones that contemporary governance is rotten to its evil core.” I do think there’s some kind of spiritual crisis going on, but it’s not that people have caught on to gov’t problems. Respect for rights has increased enormously in the past few centuries. It was only a few hundred years ago we started experimenting with a practical democratic republic. It took a century to end out-and-out slavery and longer to respect everyone’s right to vote. In living memory, it was considered bad form for people to travel alone in pursuit of happiness (i.e. job opportunities, money, following their deams) and not be discriminated against by their physical attributes. It sounds insane to me after this amazing achievement to say gov’t is evil at its core.
This does not excuse all the abuses government and/or corrupt individuals in the gov’t commit. It’s wrong though to judge a real-world functioning government against a utopian ideal.
I don’t follow how the Overton window is related to coverups like the Afghanistan papers, nonsense about jobs being a limited resource like meal tickets, and global warming denialism. It just seems like saying a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories with a taboo offered as the reason people aren’t into conspiracy theories. It’s actually a good thing people don’t by this crap. I believe we will see liberalization of monetary policy in my life time, possibly with cryptocurrencies as a competitor to national banks. I believe we’ll see reforms to try to prevent future Afghanistan Papers and maybe a healthy dose of “Vietnam syndrome”, reluctance to act as a global empire. I believe a combinations of measures to deal with the effects of global warming and limit its extent.
We’ve already drastically reduced poverty, disease, crime, and increased respect for rights. The people of Earth need to stay focused on continuing the trend of prosperity.