There is an Upside, by Eric Peters

One silver lining in the cloud of COVID and its vaccines is that far fewer people trust or respect the government. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

As bad as things are, there is one good thing that has arguably come of it all. It is that probably half the country – and if we’re lucky, it’s more than that – no longer assumes the government is benevolent.

This is a very different thing than the previous assumption that the government is merely incompetent.

Incompetence is an annoyance. It is something that bugs competent people when they’re forced to deal with it – or pay for it. But it is qualitatively different from malevolence.

Dr. Fauci is an example of malevolence rather than incompetence. He is not a stupid man. He is an evil man. He knew what he advocated is untrue, vicious. Yet he pushed forward with a deliberate sadism that the mere incompetent is incapable of. It is the difference between a well-intended kid who meant to surprise his dad by changing the oil in his car who accidentally cross-threads the oil-drain bolt keeping the oil in the engine – and the guy who puts sugar in the gas tank.

It’s the motive, in other words, that matters.

Government workers were once generally assumed to be motivated by a desire to help, even if that “help” was unwanted and resulted in more (and worse) problems than the ones supposedly being addressed. They mean well, many of us thought.

We thought wrong.

These are malicious people whose maliciousness has been magnified by the power of government. That is to say, by organized and legalized violence. That is fundamentally what “government” is, after all. In the very best of cases, this organized and legalized violence is limited such that those who are not themselves violent do not, in general, have to worry about legalized violence being directed at them. Most Americans probably felt (more or less) that they lived in a “free” country until the early 2000s – and it wasn’t an unreasonable feeling because it was (more or less) true.

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2 responses to “There is an Upside, by Eric Peters

  1. they are trying to reistablish the trust from us by introducing some new” [ miricle”] medical procedure or drug etc also they know the next generation wont know the truth of what they done because they controll the historical narrative

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  2. Government attracts that type and they get off on meddling in The Lives of Others like the 2006 East Germany Stasi movie.

    These apparatchik barnacles who can never be fired are a dangerous menace right up there with the banksters.

    Like the Straussian Necons there are never any consequences as the Beagle slayer mishandled (?) the AIDS crisis.

    O/T-Hot Car of the day gold 1972 Corvette with no side pipes!

    Interesting color and Pappy once had a blue one with the side pipes, so badass during go fast time as you sunk down in the seat.

    Breaking from John Denver:

    All Of My Memories

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