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No, to come up with ideas like hers means that you’re purposefully trying to create a disaster; that’s the definition of an evil person.

You only have to look at John Bolton to know progressives don’t have a on lock on freaks.

https://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/doug-casey-the-democratic-party-is-a-freak-show/

By Doug Casey

Justin’s note: Elizabeth Warren could cost America trillions of dollars.

Warren is, of course, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts. She’s also running for president.

And like many fellow Democrats, she’s full of wacky ideas. Most recently, she made waves by saying she wants to forgive more than $1 trillion worth of student loans if she becomes president. She also wants to issue reparations to African Americans, which could also cost trillions.

These sorts of ideas used to be considered extreme. A candidate would get laughed out of the race for suggesting them. But those days are over.

A recent poll found that just 27% of Americans oppose Warren’s debt forgiveness plan. As for reparations? Well, fellow Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris both support the idea.

Of course, not everyone’s a fan of these ideas. Doug Casey is one of those people. Below, Doug tells me why these ideas are not only ridiculous but destructive. He also tells me why he thinks Warren is part of a much bigger problem.

Justin: Doug, what do you make of Elizabeth Warren’s plan to forgive student loans? Surely, student loans are a major problem.

But I’m not sure this is the best solution. What do you think?

Doug: Well, it makes perverse sense that she’d suggest something like this. After all, a new Democratic presidential candidate enters the race every day now. I think we’re up to 22 candidates now. But who’s counting?

They seem to be competing with each other in an actual freak show. The Evil Party is trotting out its most bizarre nomenklatura, each trying to outdo the other in being socialist, black, queer, transgender friendly, or a professional female. By which I mean a female who parades as a female for a living. They’re vying over who has the most outlandish, rabid and nonsensical ideas about how they’re going to transform the very nature of what’s left of the United States.

Meanwhile, the Stupid Party, the right wing of the Demopublicans, populated by neocons, has-beens, and assorted non-entities, seems mainly interested in hyping the stock market with phony money, and looking for a major war somewhere in the world.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) kind of set the tone for all this. It amazes me that a 29-year-old Puerto Rican bartender comes from out of nowhere, apparently as a result of an actual casting call, and now everybody in the country takes her ideas seriously.

Perhaps the most stupid of her ideas is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This basically amounts to unlimited printing of dollars.

All these other candidates have to call her bet, raise it, and wait for the next player to reraise. They all have some signature goofball idea at this point…

There’s much more I can say about education. But there’s absolutely no reason why there should be $1.5 trillion worth of student loans outstanding. It’s not a sign of a well-educated country. It’s evidence of stupidity and corruption.

The fact is that if you’re worth anything, you educate yourself. Sitting in a classroom for six hours a day listening to professors drone on doesn’t constitute an education, especially today when almost all of the professors are cultural Marxists. College doesn’t just present zero value today. It offers negative value.

Having said that, I hasten to make an exception for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degrees. For those subjects, it’s very helpful to learn in a formal structured environment, where labs are available.

The vast majority of people shouldn’t go to college. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t have marched off to college. I would have used that money and time to do something much more productive, interesting, and fun than college…

“Free” college will further politicize education. Politicizing, or “democratizing” in the current idiom, is always a disastrous idea from about a hundred different points of view. But Boobus americanus will go for it because they have this mistaken idea that there’s a direct cause and effect relationship between going to college and being successful in life. In fact, that relationship doesn’t exist.

In my experience, people who go to college and became successful would almost certainly have been successful anyway. It wasn’t college that made them successful. It’s the logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc – after something, therefore because of it – in action.

The whole system is already terminally corrupt. Free school only makes it worse. People don’t value anything that’s free. In fact, they tend to treat it, and anybody that passes it out to them, with a form of contempt. Why? There has to be some kind of voluntary exchange in any moral relationship. Or a master-slave, conman-mark, patron-client, politico-voter relationship is implied. And the result is resentment.

I don’t know if Warren has got a criminal mentality or whether she’s just criminally stupid, but this is an idea that is almost as bad as AOC’s MMT idea.

Justin: I actually think this idea goes hand in hand with MMT. How else is the government going to pay off everyone’s debts? The way I see it, it’ll have no choice but to fire up the printing press again.

Same goes for reparations, which would reportedly cost trillions of dollars. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

But why stop there? Why not forgive credit card debt while they’re at it? Same goes for the people who went deep into debt to buy a car they can’t afford. Those people surely need help, too.

So it’s hard to say where the line is drawn. Maybe there isn’t one…

Most people are also unaware of the fact that the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery was Mauritania. It did so in 1981, although in Mauritania, as in many countries in Africa, slavery still exists today. It’s traditional. It’s just not enforced by the law anymore. But it exists just as much as it did before. I spent a week there a couple of years ago.

Types like Warren – er, Pocahontas – who are looking for “reparations,” are ignorant rabble rousers and race hate mongers. Their intention isn’t to improve things, but make things worse in just about every way possible. I mean, yeah, I actually think that – just like AOC – Elizabeth Warren is clearly an evil person with bad intentions. I don’t even give her the benefit of the doubt, by saying that she’s well-intentioned but has made some mistakes. No, to come up with ideas like hers means that you’re purposefully trying to create a disaster; that’s the definition of an evil person.

But she’s just a symptom. The real problem is the degraded state of the U.S. itself.

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