Believe Them

Hayek noted the committed collectivist must be prepared to do anything, even things that shock the conscience.

The most interesting aspect of Kamala Harris isn't necessarily her and her elusive policy positions. I expected that of her. Anyone who would conspire to hide the mental and physical weaknesses of a president, someone she claimed to be in contact with daily, could - no, should - be expected to do literally anything to advance herself.

Hardly surprising.

What is surprising is that her followers – the regular members of the Democrat Party – have so enthusiastically shown themselves to be completely devoid of independent, critical thought and any semblance of feigned integrity. They have fallen into synchronized goosestep with their Borg Queen and the rest of the Borg collective, claiming to support every policy she is now allegedly “supporting” – policies they claimed to be racist, sexist, xenophobic and every other thing they could scrape from the slime and sludge at the bottom of the barrel.

I must deduce Harris is lying, they know she is lying, she knows they know she is lying, and they just expect the old Kamala to rise from the grave like Lazarus after the election.

This is the first time in my memory a political party, en masse, has revealed itself to be fully willing to deceive everybody, including themselves, to win an election. Yes, I know every party does it, but I have never seen a sell-out this aggressive and this public. In the past, at least in America, they have at least tried to camouflage it, but not this time.

I guess I should not be surprised.

It has been foretold – eighty years ago.

In 19444's "Road to Serfdom", F.A. Hayek pointed out that the committed collectivist must be prepared to do anything, even things that shock the conscience, if that thing "serves 'the good of the whole,' because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done."

Hayek continued:

"Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, deception and spying, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual are essential and unavoidable. Acts which revolt all our feelings, such as the shooting of hostages or the killing of the old or sick, are treated as mere matters of expediency; the compulsory uprooting and transportation of hundreds of thousands becomes an instrument of policy approved by almost everybody except the victims. To be a useful assistant in the running of a totalitarian state, therefore, a man must be prepared to break every moral rule he has ever known if this seems necessary to achieve the end set for him.”

It also explains why we see nothing but the most perfunctory sympathy toward any killed in the pursuit of the collectivist goals – the failure of either Biden or Harris to personally acknowledge the soldiers unnecessarily killed at Abbey Gate and their families, any sympathy for American hostages held and/or killed by Hamas in Gaza, or any American arrested and held in foreign jails, are part and parcel of that – they were acceptable losses in the pursuit of Biden’s horrific decision to exit Afghanistan and other Democrat policies.

Pay attention. The Democrats are telling us who they are, and they should be believed.

And this collectivist iteration of that party should be consigned to the dustbin of history.