The Fear Industrial Complex

But, Sometimes They Are Correct

If you turn on your television to any news or business news station, it’s all about engaging with the fight or flight part of your brain. Especially the flight part. Fear is a huge motivator and fear will keep you glued to the television. You think they will give you more information. Instead, you see pharma commercials.

This is true of Fox/CNN/CNBC or any outlet. Political leanings do not matter. Media is there for fear and clicks, not information.

I turned on CNBC this morning to check on some markets and they were talking about the NASDAQ being down for the “fourth straight day”. Here is a year-to-date chart. Up 15.53%. Pretty good.

However, there are times when it is right to sound the alarm.

Unfortunately, because the media is breathless 99% of the time and trying to stoke fear in people, when the alarm needs to be rung, no one pays serious attention.

Democrats electing communists is a time to sound the alarm. Even James Carville, no fan of the Republican Party unless it’s his wife, said the same. My friend Roger Simon penned an article about it today.

“Lady, I ain't in the same party as you," Carville said of union organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier, referencing her past comments that white people should not be in interracial relationships. "I'm sorry. I'm just not. And I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the 's' word: schism. I really do. Everybody's always said, 'No, no. We're a coalition. We're a big tent. And there's just some s--- I can't be in the same tent with." Avila Chevalier unseated Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday's primary, while state Rep. Claire Valdez defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, and former New York City comptroller Brad Lander easily beat Rep. Dan Goldman.”

I think the same can be said for Republicans. Nick Fuentes and his followers, no thank you. If you are a grifting antisemitic fraudster, no thank you.

Democrats have had a culture of big government solving every problem ever since Woodrow Wilson assumed the Presidency. They have a natural affection for centralization. Communism is the ultimate centralization.

Republicans have generally been the “Don’t bother me, I am busy building a business” party. However, that culture leads to bad things like regulatory capture, which crushes innovation. As the Republican Establishment class loses influence, the innovators are exercising influence. Elon Musk was a Democrat. Marc Andreessen was a Democrat.

They aren’t anymore. They understand where communism leads, and in their case, it will be them to the guillotine.

The pushback is strong.

The problem with communists isn’t just their ideas. It is a religion with them. They approach it with the same fervor as a religious cult. The flip side is that they see capitalism as a religious cult, too. That is why they can say, “We will send you to re-education camps” when they get power.

When Nick Fuentes and the groypers rose up, Republicans did not stay silent. They criticized Tucker Carlson for giving him a platform, and now Tucker says he left the party. Back in the 1960s, William F. Buckley did the same thing with radicals who wanted to control Republican politics.

I don’t know a way out of this situation. But at least people like Carville are talking about it. I notice none of the Democratic candidates in Nevada are. They are just like the people at Lennie’s party.

Silence is compliance and agreement.