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Conservative Versus Liberal Reactions To Crisis (Doubtful Dan And Chicken Little)

Mar 19, 2021

“Buy when there’s blood on the streets.” That was the advice of Baron Rothschild. It means that when there is a crisis, there is an opportunity for profit. It’s an oft-repeated adage of the investor class, whether or not the attribution is correct.

 The point is, those in the business of investment know that when everyone’s panicking there are great investment opportunities for those who keep their wits and their cool. While everyone without reserve capital—which would include the risky wealthy and most every working person—is melting down, those with reserve capital can buy up on the cheap. And when government officials and politicians are under pressure from a citizenry looking for someone to help them out of their predicaments, they can be easily sold a solution by those looking to make a buck. Because, unlike politicians, investors are always preparing for crisis.

 In times of crisis the average person looks to their politicians for leadership. They want to believe there is someone who knows what is going on and is capable of and willing to pilot society through the rough times. Witness how the United States turned to their chuckling idiot of a president after 9/11. The man became a symbol of American resiliency. But politicians in general are not prepared to actually take charge of anything, they are more facilitators. They work for the money guys who donate to their campaigns and tell them what to do. They even tell them when to go to war. And the further politicians rise in the power structure, the less capable they are of actually doing anything truly useful.

 For that they rely on the actual doers and risk takers of society, AKA the business class. Now those in the business class are doers because they have the capital, the connections, the free time, and the opportunity to make deals happen. And they are the risk takers because they know no one in their economic strata actually has to pay when their risks go south. So long as the only people hurt by their failures are the working class, they know they will be able to skate away from their errors in judgment and overreaching greed, leaving someone (usually the government or small investors, AKA working people) holding the bag.

 In a really weird way, working class people who vote for Republicans know this. They hate the wealthy who exploit the system and they hate the politicians who do their bidding. They hate the wealthy even as they support them and they hate the politicians who support the ultra-rich the most even as they continue to vote for them. I'll leave it for someone smarter than myself to explain why.

 In a less weird way, people who vote for Democrats know this too. They too hate the wealthy who exploit the system and they hate the politicians who do their bidding. They hate the wealthy even as they buy from them and truly believe they are voting against them even as they vote for those who fail to stop the agenda of the wealthy so often it is impossible to believe they really oppose it.

 But here’s one thing I’ll give credit to the conservative voters for: in times of crisis they seem to see a little bit more of the opportunism that’s going on and call it out. Whereas in times of crisis liberals tend to trust government and those in power to do the right thing. War used to be an exception to this rule, but not any longer.

 And here’s where liberals don’t seem to understand when the Republicans are actually making sense. Sure, they may be right for mostly the wrong reasons, but they’re still right. Conservatives see the corruption in a crisis before they’re able to see the crisis. When someone says we need to act immediately to a crisis, their initial reaction is one of suspicion. Whereas liberals see the crisis and are so caught up in reacting to it that they never get around to seeing those who are looking to use the crisis to enrich themselves.

 So when a crisis hits, liberals see the need to do whatever is necessary. And conservatives, knowing that the wealthiest among us profit off of crisis, are always skeptical. Because not only do the ultra-rich react to a crisis in order to increase their wealth and power, sometimes they even initiate crises in order to increase their wealth and power. Most wars are the result of crises initiated by those seeking to expand business opportunities.

 What tips the table in the conservatives’ favor now is we have been living in an era of perpetual crisis for the better part of a decade. Most of it is actually manufactured crisis, but it was only manufactured to mask still greater crises that are even now falling upon us. Thus, since the moment Trump first arrived on the political landscape, neo-liberals have been in a full-scale meltdown that would make Chicken Little pause for a chuckle at the absurdity. And there seems to be no end in sight.

 Conservatives have noticed this perpetual panic and found it worthy of mockery. Not the cruel mockery of the schoolyard bully they’re often guilty of, either, but a detached sort of WTF reaction. When you can make conservatives behave in this matter, it should give you pause. But those in panic cannot contemplate pause.

 There is a degree of unfounded conspiracy theories in the conservative camp, but there is a lot of thoughtful criticism of what is taking place behind what the media is willing to show, as well. The media, unsurprisingly, is more than willing to pump you full of the unhinged rantings from conservatives, but is utterly unwilling to research the more serious questions raised by conservatives, and by all those who aren’t automatically willing to run to the arms of authority in times of panic.

 Therefore, the media will tell you all about the anti-maskers and the anti-vaxxers, but they won’t let legitimate questions like "Why did Dr. Fauci tell us not to wear masks before telling us to wear masks?" be asked. These are the kind of questions that need to be addressed by the media and the experts if they want those who are not conditioned to flock-up in times of crisis to enter into the fold.

 But quite the contrary, the media uses the most extreme voices as a means to silence the more sensible people asking questions that probably should be answered. Whether willingly or foolishly, the media is doing a great disservice by trying to immediately label anything that does not support the official narrative as “fake news”.

 There are people in the world today who see every crisis as a way of strengthening their control and increasing their personal wealth. This is not some fringe theory, it is born out in the words of a Rothchild, is born out in the way every war has been a profitable war, and is most definitely obvious in the way the net wealth of U.S. billionaires has increased nearly a trillion dollars since the start of the pandemic. These are truths that cannot and should not be swept under the rug. To attempt to do so spells doom for anything approaching a reliable or relevant media.

One might suggest that ship has already sailed.

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