Well-Designed Systems Self-Correct
... Thomas Jefferson said it.
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe...
To Jefferson and these others, "democrat" was the opposite of "aristocrat": that each person was of equal intrinsic worth, that assertions of special privileges by birth are inherently wrong...
In the last 25 years, we’ve seen... climate zealots who want to force us into smaller homes, to have fewer children, to replace reliable power with solar and wind, and eventually to restrict us to "15-minute" neighborhoods... They want to tell us what to do, what medical care we may have...
As bad as those are... what’s worse is they want to tell us what we may say, what we may read and write, and finally, what we may think...
But here's the thing. The system of the Western Enlightenment, and particularly the system that we evolved in the United States, is largely self-correcting, even though to us mortals, it can seem glacially slow.
The change started in 2015 when Trump made his entrance on the Trump Tower escalator...
... the pendulum is swinging back, and we have a chance to defeat the aristocracy for a generation.
