Bob Livingston Alerts, via email, are always good and thought provoking. He has recently sent out an email which is essentially an extended mediation upon a famous John Adams quote made in 1776: "Fear is the foundation of most governments." As he argues, with the Covid plandemic as a telling example, along with fear, the governments use deceit as well, lying to the population, often with a bare face, and laughing at their audacity.
We are seeing this at present in major aspects of the Australian Labor government policies, such as mass immigration, which is the highest it has been in the post-World War II world. This is generating a vast housing crisis, putting Aussies on the streets, but the government denies that immigration is a problem, and pushes the line that migrants bring wealth and hence create housing, in the longer term, and skills, eternally short, are always needed. Yes, but as John Maynard Keynes said: “But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.”