Sunny Lohmann

Striking to me about the continuing political chaos democracy creates is that it makes investment in anything impossible Imagine constructing something that will pay off after 20 years right now, with socialism ascendant. Imagine even investing in a retirement fund right now. It'll just be seized. What's the point? We've seen this before. Destroying Detroit destroyed America, because the way Civil Rights-enabled destruction obliterated decades of investment of social, political, and financial capital in the space of a couple years was a reminder to everyone who watched that there is nothing one can build that will not be ravaged if the race communists decide to come for it The wealthy kinda got around that by offshoring everything that could be seized, holding the financial capital connected to those offshored assets, retreating to expensive enclaves, and hoping for the best. That "worked" for a few decades, but also led to 1) the degradation of the average American, left without fulfilling work or much hope of financial improvement, and 2) a detached elite that has done nothing but encourage the rise of the left, either outright or through brain-dead policies Now we face the end state of all that, and even what ways of dodging the issue existed until recently are gone, as it's hard to really see what the point is Invest in re-industrialization? Get ready for a reminder about why everything was offshored Invest in real estate? The squatters will appreciate it Buy stocks? Enjoy your taxes and the minutest inspection of them at the hands of the powers that be, before everything is expropriated Invest in social relationships? The atomization that followed Detroit's destruction followed for a reason I guess this is just what life is like in a country that's about to start South Africanizing again, after a respite. We'll see how it turns out. The only way to really reverse it is to actually crush the left. Maybe that will still happen, but it will be much more difficult now that control over all three branches of government and most state governments was utterly squandered

Despair is a sin for a reason: it is an outgrowth of faithlessness Further, it is a political sin, for a man who believes nothing can be saved generally stops trying to save anything Aquinas held it was not the gravest sin but the most dangerous, because of what follows. "When hope is given up," he wrote, "men rush headlong into sin, and are drawn away from good works." Isidore of Seville put it harder: "To commit a crime is to kill the soul, but to despair is to fall into hell." Much is said about realism. Realism can be good. Realism that gives way to despair is not

There's a lot to learn about saving America from the end of the Odyssey