The Explanation: GIGO

[PoliticalChic]

1. What need be explained is how so many seemingly intelligent, educated folks....college grads....are such, well- why sugarcoat it- fools when it comes to their understanding of history, economics, and politics.

Answer: As they say in the computer business....GIGO.....'garbage in-garbage out.'


Dennis Prager puts it this way:
The more years one has spent in a university studying the social sciences, the less wise an individual is.

The 'experts' paid to 'instruct' their captive audience largely owe their careers to one particular political perspective, and behave in accordance with that fact.



2. The Left protects, and advances, its own.
"Academic feminists who received tenure, promotion, and funding, tended to be pro-abortion, pro-pornography (anti-censorship), pro-prostitution (pro-sex workers), pro-surrogacy, and anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, and anti-American…proponents of simplistic gender-neutrality (women and men are exactly the same) or essentialist: men and women are completely different, and women are better. They are loyal to their careers and their cliques, not to the truth."
“The Death of Feminism,” by Phyllis Chesler


This truth applies to the broadest spectrum of the purveyors of knowledge in the social sciences: they 'teach' their ideological predilections as opposed to the truth.



3. No doubt, many who have graduated college as Liberals will demand proof of the above. My pleasure.

a. First, there is John Kenneth Galbraith, considered a saint and Liberal icon, who, in 1984, offered his considered opinion of the future of communism:
"That the Soviet system has made great material progress in recent years is evident both from the statistics and from the general urban scene. . . . One sees it in the appearance of solid well-being of the people on the streets . . . and the general aspect of restaurants, theatres and shops. . . . Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast with the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower." FACTS FROM THE U.S.S.R.


a. See the year in which that was stated?

b. Against whom do you suppose it was meant as an attack?

c. And....in actually....what was the condition of the Soviet economy at that moment?



In 1984 the Soviet economy was near comatose. Why? Because communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism are all frauds and failures that only appear to succeed in combination with slaughter, coercion, and corruption.



But the Left's elites/intellectuals are all about hiding that fact and supporting Leftism at all costs.
Actually...at very little cost, because their careers continue to be finances and advanced simply because they are Leftists, not because they are correct or accurate.....or honest.



So....Ronald Reagan was smarter than the 'best and the brightest' of the Left's academicians.

Know what happened in 1991?


Lots more to come.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Interestingly, I once said something similar about the OP's threads...

...they're like a sewer..what you get out of them depends on what you put into them.

 

[The Original Tree]

You left out "THEFT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"

Communism & Liberalism cannot survive without theft, robbery, extortion, graft and bribery.

And GIGO also applies to The Climate Warming Agenda, which is Globalism masked in Pseudo Scientific Dogma and Propaganda.

False and manipulated data and information, produces false ideas and ideologies in humans & false modeling in computer simulations.

But what's a few lies if it helps you to get your hands on other people's money?

You cannot be a Leftist unless you have no moral code but what the situation dictates you do to win at all costs, even if that cost is your immortal soul.

Lying then is just a tool, and an end to a means, and a mechanism to leverage the machinery of society to achieve an agenda.

Situation Ethics then is the practice of The Artful Lie, and this is The Profession of All Leftists.

So, if According to The Bible, "Thou Shalt Not Steal", and "Thou Shalt Not Lie", and "Liars cannot enter in to the Kingdom of Heaven", exactly where does the "Practicing Leftist" have to go to spend eternity?

 

[PoliticalChic]

You left out "THEFT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"

Communism & Liberalism cannot survive without theft, robbery, extortion, graft and bribery.

And GIGO also applies to The Climate Warming Agenda, which is Globalism masked in Pseudo Scientific Dogma and Propaganda.

False and manipulated data and information, produces false ideas in human and false modeling in computer simulations.

But what's a few lies if it helps you to get your hands on other people's money?

Well....I did cover that here:

In 1984 the Soviet economy was near comatose. Why? Because communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism are all frauds and failures that only appear to succeed in combination with slaughter, coercion, and corruption.

 

[The Original Tree]

You left out "THEFT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"

Communism & Liberalism cannot survive without theft, robbery, extortion, graft and bribery.

And GIGO also applies to The Climate Warming Agenda, which is Globalism masked in Pseudo Scientific Dogma and Propaganda.

False and manipulated data and information, produces false ideas in human and false modeling in computer simulations.

But what's a few lies if it helps you to get your hands on other people's money?

Well....I did cover that here:

In 1984 the Soviet economy was near comatose. Why? Because communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism are all frauds and failures that only appear to succeed in combination with slaughter, coercion, and corruption.

Love reading your stuff, but "corruption" is a very broad term. Just saying...
The main motivation for Corruption in a Socialist, Communist, Liberal or Collectivist Society, is Control over Other People's Money. It is also the main motivation for people pushing Globalism and The Climate Agenda.

These are attempts by the 1-2% to gain even more control over more wealth and people's lives.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You left out "THEFT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"

Communism & Liberalism cannot survive without theft, robbery, extortion, graft and bribery.

And GIGO also applies to The Climate Warming Agenda, which is Globalism masked in Pseudo Scientific Dogma and Propaganda.

False and manipulated data and information, produces false ideas in human and false modeling in computer simulations.

But what's a few lies if it helps you to get your hands on other people's money?

Well....I did cover that here:

In 1984 the Soviet economy was near comatose. Why? Because communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism are all frauds and failures that only appear to succeed in combination with slaughter, coercion, and corruption.

Love reading your stuff, but "corruption" is a very broad term. Just saying...
The main motivation for Corruption in a Socialist, Communist, Liberal or Collectivist Society, is Control over Other People's Money. It is also the main motivation for people pushing Globalism and The Climate Agenda.

These are attempts by the 1-2% to gain even more control over more wealth and people's lives.

By 'corruption,' I mean to include the crony capitalism, the 'corporatism' that Franklin Roosevelt took from his pal, Benito Mussolini.

1. The propaganda of the New Deal (“malefactors of great wealth”) to the contrary, FDR simply endeavored to re-create the corporatism of the last war. The New Dealers invited one industry after another to write the codes under which they would be regulated. Even more aggressive, the National Recovery Administration forced industries to fix prices and in other ways to collude with one another: the NRA approved 557 basic and 189 supplementary codes, covering almost 95% of all industrial workers.
   1. The intention was for big business to get bigger, and the little guy to be squeezed out: for example, the owners of the big chain movie houses wrote the codes that almost ran the independents out of business (even though 13,571 of the 18,321 movie theatres were independently owned). This in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘progress.’
   2. New Deal bureaucrats studied Mussolini’s corporatism closely. From “Fortune” magazine: ‘The Corporate state is to Mussolini what the New Deal is to Roosevelt.’(July 1934)
2. Another early policy given high priority by the Nazi government was the organizing of all German businesses into cartels. The argument was that—in contrast to the disorderliness and egoism of free market capitalism—centralization and state control would increase efficiency and a sense of German unity. In July of 1933, membership in a cartel became compulsory for businesses, and by early 1934 the cartel structure was re-organized and placed firmly under the direction of the German government. Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
   

Liberals, Nazis, Fascists, Communists.....peas from the same pod

 

[The Original Tree]

Taking this a bit further about Collectivist Ideologies, and what their main motivation is:

"Wealth and Power of the Elite, & The Pacification of The Masses with Equivalent Poverty"

In Other Words "BENEVOLENT PATERNALISM"

In Common Terms......The Fatherly Slave Master

The Left is not Altruistic....They Are Entirely Selfish and Oppressive.
They are Wolves IN Sheep's Clothing...promising freedom forged from the shackles of collectivism. Their pursuit of wealth and power is insatiable. Human Lives are Human Capital to a Leftist. People then are objects in a market place to be bought and sold.

Those who have much "Silver" are never satisfied with more.

Greed begets more Greed, and Those with Power, are Greedy for more of it.

The Left's PC Culture is not about Secular Morality...for if that were true, their Morality would be solidified and concrete and not be rooted in Situation Ethics.
PC Culture is all about POWER over OTHERS! No different than every other Leftist Ideological Paradigm. Each Pillar of Leftist Philosophy is built upon a foundation of GREED, Lust for Power, and Lust for control over The Wealth & Lives of Others.

 

[PoliticalChic]

But, I digress....

The point of the thread is that the Liberals teach, impose.....totally incorrect 'experts' on their student body, and insist that these buffoons be treated as incontrovertible.
And that's why so very many college grads turn out to be Democrats.



4. Let's compare Reagan with yet another Liberal light...

"WHEN LESTER THUROW TALKS, DEMOCRATS LISTEN... liberal economist..." Fortune Magazine, 1987


In 1989 Thurow wrote this:

“Can economic command [communism, as opposed to the free market] significantly … accelerate the growth process? The remarkable performance of the Soviet Union suggests that it can … Today the Soviet Union is a country whose economic achievements bear comparison with those of the United States.” Justice to Ronald Reagan


Get that????

Another 'brilliant' Liberal economist out to support communism, i.e., command and control by big government.


Remember....the torrent of regulations imposed by the Obamunists is the command and control of the economy that Bolsheviks favor.






So....Thurow writes "Can economic command significantly … accelerate the growth process? The remarkable performance of the Soviet Union...."

Know what happened a scant two years later, in 1991?

Right: the USSR crumbled.




So....Ronald Reagan was smarter than the 'best and the brightest' of the Left's academicians.....yet which one winds up in the curriculum of the universities?


Get it?

GIGO....garbage in, garbage out.

 

[The Original Tree]

You left out "THEFT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"

Communism & Liberalism cannot survive without theft, robbery, extortion, graft and bribery.

And GIGO also applies to The Climate Warming Agenda, which is Globalism masked in Pseudo Scientific Dogma and Propaganda.

False and manipulated data and information, produces false ideas in human and false modeling in computer simulations.

But what's a few lies if it helps you to get your hands on other people's money?

Well....I did cover that here:

In 1984 the Soviet economy was near comatose. Why? Because communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism are all frauds and failures that only appear to succeed in combination with slaughter, coercion, and corruption.

Love reading your stuff, but "corruption" is a very broad term. Just saying...
The main motivation for Corruption in a Socialist, Communist, Liberal or Collectivist Society, is Control over Other People's Money. It is also the main motivation for people pushing Globalism and The Climate Agenda.

These are attempts by the 1-2% to gain even more control over more wealth and people's lives.

By 'corruption,' I mean to include the crony capitalism, the 'corporatism' that Franklin Roosevelt took from his pal, Benito Mussolini.

1. The propaganda of the New Deal (“malefactors of great wealth”) to the contrary, FDR simply endeavored to re-create the corporatism of the last war. The New Dealers invited one industry after another to write the codes under which they would be regulated. Even more aggressive, the National Recovery Administration forced industries to fix prices and in other ways to collude with one another: the NRA approved 557 basic and 189 supplementary codes, covering almost 95% of all industrial workers.
   1. The intention was for big business to get bigger, and the little guy to be squeezed out: for example, the owners of the big chain movie houses wrote the codes that almost ran the independents out of business (even though 13,571 of the 18,321 movie theatres were independently owned). This in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘progress.’
   2. New Deal bureaucrats studied Mussolini’s corporatism closely. From “Fortune” magazine: ‘The Corporate state is to Mussolini what the New Deal is to Roosevelt.’(July 1934)
2. Another early policy given high priority by the Nazi government was the organizing of all German businesses into cartels. The argument was that—in contrast to the disorderliness and egoism of free market capitalism—centralization and state control would increase efficiency and a sense of German unity. In July of 1933, membership in a cartel became compulsory for businesses, and by early 1934 the cartel structure was re-organized and placed firmly under the direction of the German government. Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Liberals, Nazis, Fascists, Communists.....peas from the same pod

Very nice points.

One of the least discussed issues about Roosevelt, The Great Depression is The Corporatization and Consolidation of The Banking Industry.
The Federal Reserve is an Extra Constitutional Entity who was illegally granted the power vested in THE Treasury to manage our money supply.
The Federal Reserve sought to Consolidate The Banking Industry by having The Federal Government sanction Civil Asset Forfeiture for THE IRS and Federal Reserve Banking System.

They then moved on 30,000 Privately Owned Community Banks..with the help of The Federal Government....and The Legalization of THEFT by our Legislators, delcared that our Constitutional PUBLICLY OWNED Money Supply, (Precious Metals and Treasury Notes) would be phased out, and exchanged for Privately Owned Instruments of DEBT (Federal Reserve Notes). Federal Reserve Notes are not CURRENCY. They are Promissary Notes...to The Federal Reserve based on an Illegal Contractual Obligation with THE US TREASURY to pay The Federal Reserve for managing our monetary supply by accruing debt and paying interest on it.

The Fed promised community banks owned by your neighbors in your home town, that if they turned in their treasury notes, they would be replaced by Federal Reserve notes. The Private Banks complied. The Fed Promised 'The Check Was In The Mail' but they intentionally never mailed it. They purposely restricted the money supply, and did not give the private banks Federal Reserve Notes to replace their Treasury Notes. They then doubled interest rates for the Fed loaning Money to The Private Banks. These two things combined caused shortages in the banks and bank runs began. It was intentional. It was Government Dictating Consolidation Legislatively for The 1%.

It is estimated that 'Consolidation' cost American Taxpayers, nearly a Trillion Dollars in Lost Savings and Properties, which oddly enough....ended up in the very hands of THE IRS & The Federal Reserve system who then sold those properties again and they and the Fed Gov never returned the tax payer's lost savings. Today the two largest holders of properties and wealth in US are The Federal Reserve & The Federal Government

For historical context, watch a good Bonnie and Clyde movie, or It's a Wonderful Life.

So there you have it. How Debt Economics Took Root In America. The Fed and THE IRS began moving on America and Foreclosing on Banks, Farms and Small Businesses. And to this day, there are NO TWO MORE FEARED entities than a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK, and THE IRS. Both can wreck your life at will.

 

[PredFan]

I thought this was going to be a thread about climate change. All the scam artists have is computer models. GIGO.

 

[The Original Tree]

I thought this was going to be a thread about climate change. All the scam artists have is computer models. GIGO.

It's all part of the same scam.....Globalism

 

[edthecynic]

There is no better example of GIGO than CON$ervoFascism as exemplified by Don THE Con.

 

[PoliticalChic]

5. In 1970 the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the author of the best-selling and most popular economics text was Paul Samuelson.


"As non-economist Tim Bethell pointed out in a 1988 article in National Review, successive editions of Samuelson's Economics showed a graph of relative growth rates for the US and Soviet economies with the Soviet growth rate rising more steeply than the American one. ....the Soviets were projected to overtake the US in about twenty-five years."
John O’Sullivan, The President, the Pope, And the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, p. 255



"With each new edition of the book, the date of intersection with the US economy was shifted out into the future. Samuelson's seventh edition (1967) ....put the Soviet economy at 50% of the US in 1960...with intersection ...in about 1990.

By the tenth edition (1976)....Soviet GDP had moved ahead to 57% of US........intersection point around the year 2000.

The graph has been dropped from Samuelson's ...(twelth) edition.





BTW.... "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable," wrote Samuelson in the tenth edition of his textbook "Economics." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia--all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm



Have I made my point that The 'experts' paid to 'instruct' their captive audience largely owe their careers to one particular political perspective, and behave in accordance with that fact'?




Any want to argue about that?

 

[PoliticalChic]

There is no better example of GIGO than CON$ervoFascism as exemplified by Don THE Con.

1. Fascism is Leftwing.....as are Communism, Nazism, Socialism, Liberalism.....

2. You need someone more astute than you to explain the premise of the thread to you....any third grader will do.

a. In it, I prove.....prove.....that the economists, political scientists, foreign policy analysts taught as paragons in universities are frauds.
Ronald Reagan was correct when viewed from any perspective, yet, considered a bête noire.



I'll give you a moment to look those terms up.

 

[PredFan]

There is no better example of GIGO than CON$ervoFascism as exemplified by Don THE Con.

Stupidity, childishness, irrelevancy, and completely wrong, all in one sentence.

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. Again....this is the 'economics' that is taught in Liberalville....college.



" I was so amazed by the Fortune quotations from [Paul] Samuleson text that I started looking through the book to see what else he had written about communism. It seemed to me utterly incredible that an otherwise great economist could parrot idiotic Marxist propaganda. At a time when it was apparent even to the most willfully blind Marxist in Central Europe and the USSR, when even Gorbachev was beginning to hint at the magnitude of the Soviet economic disaster, the 1985 Samuelson text offered these paragraphs:


<< "But it would be misleading to dwell on the shortcomings. Every economy has its contradictions and difficulties with incentives--witness the paradoxes raised by the separation of ownership and control in America...


<< "What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth."


<< And again, writes Samuelson:


<< "The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth and awesome military power."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm



Any care to argue that it is not communist indoctrination.



And....the guy who was actually correct...Ronald Reagan, is considered anathema.

GIGO.....garbage in, garbage out.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. The 'brilliant' Liberal economists and pundits were wrong, they allowed their ideology to overwhelm the facts.
Reagan, on the other had.....100% correct.
But....who gets taught in the university???




The very same inclinations apply to historians and foreign policy experts being paid to indoctrinate our students.

Seweryn Bialer "is emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University and an expert on the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Poland. He was the Director of Columbia's Research Institute on International Change." Seweryn Bialer - Wikipedia


Columbia....the finest of higher education institutions, but the original home of the neo-Marxists who fled Nazi Germany.

And, it shows.

Bialer wrote, in Foreign Affairs, in 1982, this oblique attack on Ronald Reagan: “the Soviet Union is not now nor will be during the next decade in the throes of a true system crisis, for it boasts enormous unused reserves of political and social stability that suffice to endure the deepest difficulties.”
Providence: Reagan, the Soviets, & the Ash-Heap of History | Joseph Loconte

And this:

“…such language stunned and humiliated the Soviet leaders . . . [who] believe that President Reagan is determined to deny the Soviet Union nothing less than its legitimacy and status as a global power . . . status . . . they thought had been conceded once and for all by Reagan's predecessors.”
Seweryn Bialer, "Danger in Moscow", the New York Review of Books, February 16, 1984.

And another one bites the dust.


Know what happened a scant few years later, in 1991?



So....Ronald Reagan was smarter than the 'best and the brightest' of the Left's academicians.
But the losers are imposed on students.

 

[NYcarbineer]

There is no better example of GIGO than CON$ervoFascism as exemplified by Don THE Con.

1. Fascism is Leftwing.....as are Communism, Nazism, Socialism, Liberalism.....

That if true would make you a Leftwinger. I'm guessing you're not willing to acknowledge that.

 

[jc456]

You left out "THEFT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"

Communism & Liberalism cannot survive without theft, robbery, extortion, graft and bribery.

And GIGO also applies to The Climate Warming Agenda, which is Globalism masked in Pseudo Scientific Dogma and Propaganda.

False and manipulated data and information, produces false ideas in human and false modeling in computer simulations.

But what's a few lies if it helps you to get your hands on other people's money?

Well....I did cover that here:

In 1984 the Soviet economy was near comatose. Why? Because communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism are all frauds and failures that only appear to succeed in combination with slaughter, coercion, and corruption.

Love reading your stuff, but "corruption" is a very broad term. Just saying...
The main motivation for Corruption in a Socialist, Communist, Liberal or Collectivist Society, is Control over Other People's Money. It is also the main motivation for people pushing Globalism and The Climate Agenda.

These are attempts by the 1-2% to gain even more control over more wealth and people's lives.

yes you must set dependency neighborhoods up. Like the south side of chicago and Detroit.

 

[edthecynic]

Fascism is Leftwing

BULLSHIT!