As IF Times

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At this time, hundreds if not thousands of people are thinking to themselves; well if he can do it, I certainly can! We are referring of course to running for public office; not necessarily for the highest job in the land, but for any political office.  Who knew that not only is the bar set very low, but that there’s barely a chalk line in the sand.

The phenomenon that is Joe Biden has created an epiphany for those out there who have no real life skills and have made nothing but bad decisions in their lives.  For a guy like Joe to aspire to run for public office of any kind, much less the Presidency of the United States, is chutzpah of the highest order.   According to all of the recent revelations about his life’s escapades, he has enough skeletons in his closet to fill a small gym.  This should be ample encouragement for every individual out there with only minor blots on their life record such as a murder conviction or an assault allegation, to overcome their reticence and just run for public office.  It’s like those TV commercials offering you instant loan approval even if you’ve been bankrupt.  Your credit is good!

In fact, from observation, moral rectitude of any kind is actually an impediment to holding successful public office.  The ones that seem to survive the longest at the public trough all have common characteristics.  Many are lawyers, but graduating at the bottom of a class of 3000 from a mail order law program is all that’s needed.  You don’t need to actually practice law, only have it on your CV.  These people often have little tether to reality as their arguments are so preposterous that they’ll deny having made them once confronted.  Their only real skill is to be predictably mendacious on any issue of importance and to be able to take both sides of an issue with a straight face.  John Kerry of course is the poster boy for this trait with his infamous ‘I was for the war before I was against it’ comment.

Joe Biden however, is the new gold standard for political aspirants who never thought their flawed lives would allow them a chance at holding public office.  With a totally straight face, he tells those who will listen, that after 47 years, virtually his entire adult life, spent in the offices of government and having achieved zero results of any kind, that he will now have the solution to all the problems that America faces.  A man who has never run a business or signed a paycheck somehow has the ability to run the planet’s largest and most complex economy but has been keeping it secret for all these years.  A man who has been recorded as being on the wrong side of every current social issue is now taking the other side as their champion.  The most damning recent revelations now show a man who is supposed to be the champion for the American people being caught red handed accepting graft from foreign nations.

In a sane world, any hint of even one of the transgressions attached to him would disqualify him from getting voted dog catcher in any backwater town in the nation.  But in today’s world, the tactic is to wave them off, characterize them as Russian lies and have the media play clean up.  Joe Biden is hardly the only person in public office to hold so many of the characteristics that regular people find reprehensible.  It’s just that’s he’s so damn good at it and he is perfect for a gullible public.

source:  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/newsoms-office-tells-californians-to-wear-masks-in-between-bites-of-food-when-dining-with-members-from-same-household-in-public

As time drags on with what I’ll call the Prison Pandemic and we now enter the 10th month of a touted 14 day safe period, the edicts from the ruling regents are becoming more and more draconian and not less as would be expected and logical.  The classic children’s plea of ‘are we there yet’ has never felt more apt.  Like Gilligan’s Island, a 3 hour tour has turned into an apparent life sentence.  If 14 days is a safe period and herd immunity is allowed to take its effect in a society, 10 months is a pretty wide safety margin, even for the most ardent hang wringers.  Or so you would think.

It’s not as if people are collapsing everywhere like pro sports ratings;  the nation’s mortality number and rates have stabilized.  Recall that even the CDC had quietly revealed that of the just over 200,000 deaths attributed to Covid, only 6% were directly caused by Covid.  The rest had ancillary health issues.  In addition, we have a control group society which did the opposite of what most Western nations did and that is Sweden.  They did not lock down, did not impose mask edicts and only exhorted their citizens to socially distance and be careful….as if addressing intelligent adults.  Images from that nation show people going about their daily business, eating at street-side cafes, working and recreating as would be the case in any normal society.  Surprise, surprise, their infection and mortality rates are negligible, their hospital emergency rooms are empty and mask companies are going out of business there.

Even with these bald facts at their disposal, political tyrants in the civilized and developed West continue to enact crazier decrees in order to express their control over their subjects.  The latest edict from California’s Newsom has crossed the line of ensuring public safety to apparently simply enforcing personal whims.  We expect that very soon, masks will be required in showers and while sleeping. Pets will be considered transmitters as well, so they will need to go.   Not content with the cruelties inflicted upon their populace thus far, they now warn of the second wave…because the first one was kind of a dud.  People of course are still free to die, but as long as it’s not from Covid, it’s acceptable.

How can this happen?  How can an intelligent and informed society submit to the edicts of their very misinformed and power drunk public overseers?

Well it turns out that people are pre-disposed to obey rules.  Something in people’s DNA tilts them towards compliance even with no real reason to do so.  A social psychologist named Stanley Milgram made some revealing studies while teaching at Yale in the 1960’s.  In one of his most famous experiments, subjects were placed in a room adjacent to another apparent subject who was wired with electrical probes.   In fact, the wired subject was a confederate who was to aid in the experiment.  The test subject was then told to punish the confederate plant with increasing jolts of electricity if he answered the questions of the moderator incorrectly.

The ‘voltage’ continued to increase as did the screams and discomfort of the confederate.  Even as the test subject felt anxious, they continued to obey the exhortations of the moderator despite the evident pain of the confederate and despite there being no reason to obey the orders.  This revelation about human nature has been harnessed by many smart people in the years since that time. From subliminal advertising techniques all the way to more sinister applications including of course, spy-craft, this human frailty has been weaponized.

People who attain power in political office seem to innately understand this trait of most people and they use it to their utmost advantage.  Employed legitimately, they can inspire patriotism and a sense of duty to a nation or cause.  Unfortunately, this power has been used far less admirably by politicos as they drive the recent crisis.  They have been able to tap into the meek and submissive element that is present in a large part of the population so that they essentially, enslave themselves.  Combined with gaslighting paranoia, they have been able to cripple an entire society with their own fears.