Rudy Giuliani and Legal Team Testify to Michigan House Oversight – Livestream…


Posted originally on The Conservative tree House on December 2, 2020 by Sundance

Rudy Giuliani and team, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and the man in charge of Trump’s fight to overturn election results in several states, appears in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee to share findings about the Michigan election results. [Livestream Ongoing]

CTH 2.0 Site Status Update, Information, User Issue Reporting Thread…


Posted originally on The conservative Tree house on December 2, 2020 by Sundance

As we work through bugs associated with CTH 2.0 launch, consider this a thread to provide information, report user issues, ideas and concerns. Please read the information provided below as it might answer many questions in advance.

Today, December 2nd, was our official eviction date as established by WordPress/Automattic two weeks ago. Considering the scale of moving 11 years worth of data (56,000 articles, massive media file, 7.2 million comment library), the tech team did a great job.

That said, we anticipated some issues, are encountering others, and we are carefully working through a checklist.

First, we wanted to migrate the data and site in the least disruptive way to the CTH community that provided continuity and familiarity.

Despite the tech issues with the disconnect from WP/Automattic servers to our own proprietary server system, that overarching goal was achieved. Now we are getting into the weeds.

First, some background so everyone can understand the big picture issues. Obviously WordPress/Automattic wanted us gone; however, in hindsight the unspoken purpose and motive behind our eviction is now making a lot more sense.

Based on insider information, there were two distinct issues that merged; sunlight upon them is against the interests of massive multi-billion dollar organizations, but at CTH the truth has no agenda, so here’s the inside explanation as it appears.

♦ Ideology – As they said in their notification to deplatform, the “content” of CTH was against the terms of WordPress/Automattic. This is not really a surprise as Big Tech looks for any obtuse or obscure reason to silence voices that are not in political alignment with their goals. The decision by WP/Automattic is not surprising even if they would never publicly admit it. Quite simply, this battle has been going on for years and now it is at an inflection point. Alternates to the grip of Big Tech are starting to emerge, slowly.

♦ Business – In addition to the ideological nature of the motive, there is another element which has gained significant clarity in the past few weeks. Our CTH community did something WP/Automattic never expected… we were too successful.

The scale of the CTH reader and commenting community literally was/is a rebel alliance reeking havoc inside a host network that didn’t like our voice. Simultaneously, we were chewing up massive amounts of their server space and capacity.  This is very interesting.

According to insiders who have reached out and shared their opinion, what CTH evolved into is far more than a simple blogging community. Essentially the metaphor provided is this: “you took a blog platform and built a mini FaceBook social media enterprise within it.”  The CTH community, our extended global family of ragtag misfits, was/is using CTH as a network of like-minded friends to share and discuss information.

You might say well, isn’t that what a blogging community is all about… and the answer eleven years ago was a simple: yes. However, our assembly became much, much, much larger than a simple community.

The scale of having up to 25,000 simultaneous users is way beyond a simple blogging platform. CTH became a social media enterprise. Discussions, information sharing, networking and contact with each-other is what social media was all about.

The FaceBook social media model is essentially operating in our site. That’s an awesome outcome, but one WP/Automattic did not expect. In essence CTH hijacked the platform to create a social network.

All of that engagement costs the host (WP/Automattic) server space and massive amounts of bandwidth. Despite my paying for their hosting services (business plan), we were essentially living cheap, almost rent free, inside their platform.  Once we realized this was also an element of concern, some prior work by WP/Automattic to control CTH made sense.

There is an interesting conversation happening in the coffee shops of Big Tech about this issue… WordPress/Automattic can never admit the unique financial problem that CTH created for them.

The business model for WP/Automattic is to sell the potential outcome of exactly what we achieved. WP/Automattic pitches their business plan by saying you can build a blogging community and share your voice.

Well, we took them up on that offer ten years ago and we built the biggest community within their system; a massive community. We did exactly what the marketing people at WP/Automattic say is possible… except we did it bigger than they ever imagined. Our success at achieving the scale of community created a problem they can never admit.

If WordPress/Automattic were to be honest now about the financial impact of users -like CTH- achieving success, they would be undercutting the entire marketing/advertising plan of their hosting platform.

The honest sales approach from WP/Automattic would be to say: we can provide you a platform, up until you achieve significant success; and then, it is in our financial interests, for you to leave. Obviously WP/Automattic would never sell their product if they were honest… so they look for reasons, any reasons, to control or eliminate the community. THAT appears to have been a big part of what drove their decision.

It was not a surprise that WP/Automattic kicked-us out immediately after they went into the market to get more money to expand operations. CTH was costing them money, perhaps a lot of money. As a consequence not only were they hosting a voice against their ideological interests, that voice was so big it was costing them money. Combine both factors and you get the insufferable excuse “your content” is against our interests.

Believe me, this financial ‘cost to host‘ issue is a big topic in the background of conversations in the tech industry. The hypocrisy of selling a product they do not really want to see succeed is a very interesting conversation. Sunlight upon this motive in the world of tech is kinda funny.  The Automattic members can never allow this to be widely known; but the people within the machinery know exactly what the issues are.

♦ So, what does that mean to CTH 2.0? Well, we have a big server network hosting us right now – and it ain’t cheap (by a long shot). To give you an idea of how unique this situation is, they cannot even calculate the cost until they see the results over the next month or so.

This is uncharted territory. Our commenting community, specifically the number of simultaneous users, is essentially like a mini Facebook inside their server network. No-one has any idea how to manage this outside of pre-existing social media platforms that generate millions/billions in upfront revenue and construct proprietary and dedicated server farms.

It’s a good problem.. so everyone says.

It’s a good problem from the perspective of those who would love to monetize our network/community. However, that is not the purpose of our assembly.

To the extent our community will need money to securely exist and thrive safely, publicly and with privacy protections on an independent platform, that is ok. However, the true value in our community is our fellowship and the search for the truth.

♦ To the DETAILS:

The comment restoration function was a significant hurdle for a variety of reasons previously explained. One of the issues moving forward is the type of software that drives the comment function. We are trying to use the most private system possible that also provides security. The WordPress/Automattic system used a combination of proprietary creation and a system called JetPack.

Jetpack has some functional issues and is inherently connected to the comment function. When JetPack was uninstalled, it impacted the comment platform; that is why “likes” and the familiar embed Wavy avatars were lost. We are looking for alternate options that we can add to the site to restore those features and also add an edit button (if possible) to the comments. In the interim if you register a gravatar with your email address your custom avatar will follow you.

There is a comment system that most platforms are using called Disqus. If you let Disqus run ads in the comment space they provide the comment software free. However, Disqus does track users and I am not too happy with the privacy aspect. That would be a last resort, and only if they will set-up a custom privacy component.

If you are having issues with the comment feature or site access, feel free to provide feedback below and we will attempt to compile and/or assist as we move forward.

Love to all,

~ Sundance

Attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood Hold Press a Conference in Georgia – 2:00pm ET Livestream…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 2, 2020 by Sundance

Civil lawsuits have been filed on behalf of the American people by attorneys looking into targeted voter fraud in specific areas within key states.  Fulton County Georgia, the Atlanta area, is one of the districts in focus. There are several abnormalities within Georgia.

Representing civil lawsuits in Georgia attorneys Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood are holding a press conference today at 2:00pm to discuss their finding and the status moving forward.  [Livestream Links Below]

RSBN Livestream Link – Alternate Livestream #1 – Alternate Livestream #2

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Press Conference – 1:00pm ET Livestream


Posted oniginally on The Conservative tree house on December 2, 2020 by Sundance

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a press conference from the Brady room. Anticipated start time 1:00pm ET [Livestream Links Below]

UPDATE: Video Added

The Proof Is In: The Election Was Stolen


Re-Posted from PaulCraigRoberts.org By Paul Craig Roberts On December 1,2020

I have read enough of the fraud reports, affidavits, and statements from election security and forensic experts to be comfortable in my conclusion that the election was stolen.  But I am not confident that anything will be done about the fradulent election. The American elite no longer believe in democracy. Consider, for example, the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.  It is anti-democratic, as is globalism. Democracy is in the way of elite agendas.  Indeed, the reason the elite despise Trump is that he bases himself in the people. Judges will not even preserve the vote record so that it can be investigated. In Georgia a federal judge has refused to stop the Dominion voting machines from being wiped clean and reset UPDATE: Judge overturns his previous order and reinstates ban on wiping and reseting Dominion machines used in Atlanta. 

For those of you who find it too technical and volumnious to read through the massive evidence of election fraud, here is a brief summary: 

Electoral fraud was organized in all of the states.  The purpose was not to try to steal the red states, but to make the vote look closer than the expected pattern in order to provide cover for extensive fraud in the critical swing states.

The voting machines were programmed to allocate votes with a bias toward Biden.  The result was to cut back Trump’s margin of victory in red states.  In swing states more extensive measures were used. The Biden bias programmed in the voting machines was raised.  As a backup, large numbers of fraudulent mail-in ballots were accumulated in the Democrat-controlled cities in the swing states—Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia.  Although Georgia is a red state, the same occured in Democrat-controlled Atlanta.  The reason voting was stopped in the middle of the night in these cities was to prepare the mail-in ballots necessary to overtake Trump’s sizeable lead and enter them into the count.  This is a time when poll watchers were told to go home, and it is a period when both Democrat and Republican watchers observed numerous acts of fraud of every description.  You can review the types of fraud in the references at the end ot this article.

There are proven votes from the grave, from unregistered people, from out-of-state people. There are back-dated mail-in ballots. There are mail-in ballots without a crease, that is, ballots never folded and placed in an envelop, and so on and on.  There are places where the vote exceeds the number of registered voters.

A number of independent unbiased experts have reported that the Biden vote spikes in the early hours of the morning are either impossible or so improbable as to have a very low probability of occurring.  For them to occur simultaneously in different states falls outside the range of believability. 

It is clear that the voting procedures imposed by Democrats in Pennsylvania are in violation of the Pennsylvania state constitution. A Pennsylvania state judge has permitted that suit to go forward and gave her opinion that it would succeed. I am confident that the corrupt Pennsylvania state Supreme Court will overturn her ruling.

If following all of this is too demanding for your time and energy, fall back on common sense: 

Consider that Joe Biden’s Twitter account has 20 million followers.  Trump’s Twitter account has 88.8 million followers.

Consider that Joe Biden’s Facebook account has 7.78 million followers.  Trump’s Facebook account has 34.72 million followers.

How likely is it that a person with four to five times the following of his rival lost the election?

Consider that Joe Biden, declared by the biased presstitutes to be president by landslide, gave a Thanksgiving Day message and only 1,000 people watched his live statement.  Where is the enthusiasm?

Consider that Trump’s campaign appearances were heavily attended and that Biden’s were avoided.  Somehow a candidate who could not draw supporters to his campaign appearances won the presidency.

Consider that despite Biden’s total failure to animate voters during the presidential campaign, he received 15 million more votes than Barack Obama did in his 2012 re-election. 

Consider that Biden won despite underperforming Hillary Clinton’s 2016 vote in every urban US county, but outperformed Clinton in Democrat-controlled Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Philadelphia, the precise cities where the most obvious and most blatant electoral fraud was committed.

Consider that Biden won despite receiving a record low share of the Democrat primary vote compared to Trump’s share of the Republican primary vote.

Consider that Biden won despite Trump bettering his 2016 vote by ten million votes and Trump’s record support from minority voters.

Consider that Biden won despite losing the bellwether counties that have always predicted the election outcome and the bellwether states of Ohio and Florida.

Consider that Biden won in Georgia, a completely red state with a red governor and legislature both House and Senate.  Somehow a red state voted for a blue president.

Consider that Biden won despite the Democrats losing representation in the House.

Consider that in Pennsylvania 47 memory cards containing more than 50,000 votes are missing.

Consider that in Pennsylvania 1.8 million ballots were mailed out to voters, but 2.5 million mail-in ballots were counted. 

Consider that the presstitutes have zero interest in this massive list of improbables.

Consider that the pressititues, the Democrats, the social media and tech executives, and universities have far more loyalty to getting Trump out of office regardless of the means than they have to democratic outcomes and fair elections.  The massive fraud of the 2020 election was only possible because the liberal part of America has divorced American values and has no respect for them. The American liberal is no longer liberal. He has morphed into a fascist who suppresses speech and denies legitimacy to other opinions. Indeed, liberals are so hostile to electoral integrity that they want those who bring evidence of electoral fraud to be imprisoned.

It is educated Americans brainwashed by Critical Race Theory and Identity Politics who are liberals, not the working class who are the real Americans.  Red state people are Americans. Blue state people are not.  Blue state people demonize real Americans and have branded them racists and misogynists. Real Americans—the majority of the population—are “the Trump deplorables.”  

The Real Americans have just had their democracy stolen from them by people who have no integrity and no honor.  

If the stolen election stands, America falls.

But more than an election has been stolen.  The deep state, Democratic National Committee, and media whores did not steal the election because they don’t like Trump’s hair, or because he is a racist, a misogynist, a Russian agent or caused Covid, or for any of the other false accusations raised against him for four years.  Trump is hated because he is anti-establishment.  Trump opposes the elite’s sacrifice of Americans’ jobs and hopes to globalism and the elites’ own bulging pocketbooks. Trump opposes the elite’s erasure of American monuments and history, such as the New York Times 1619 Project that paints all white Americans racist.  Trump objects to the elite’s demonization of white Americans and the discrimination that elites enforce against heterosexual white males in schools and employment.  Trump stands against Identity Politics, the hate-filled ideology of liberal America. When liberals call Trump a racist, they mean he doesn’t share their demonization of white people.  If you don’t demonize white Americans, you are a racist.   

Trump is a populist, a president of ordinary people.  Trump is hated, because he was intent on rescuing ordinary Americans from subservience to the agendas of the elite.  Unfortunately, being a populist is not enough to overthrow an entrenched elite.  Only a revolutionary can do that, and Trump is not a revolutionary leader.  

The elite are getting rid of Trump in a way that makes it clear to all presidential candidates in the future that their only choice is to represent the elite.  If somehow an anti-establishment person slips in, he will experience the same fate as Trump’s four years.  The Dominion machines and corrupt Democrat big city regimes will steal his reelection even if enough voters have escaped their intended brainwashing to defend their champion in the voting booths.

Trump’s Department of Justice has failed him. So has the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Homeland Security. This is easy to understand. These are establishment institutions. They protect the establishment, not law and justice. Will the judiciary be the next to fail the president and American democracy?

If the stolen election, which is a coup, stands, after Trump no presidential candidate will dare to attempt to represent the American people.  

If this stolen election stands, there is no hope that government can be returned to the people.

References:

https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/11/what-youve-been-asking-for-a-fairly-complete-list-of-some-of-the-most-significant-claims-of-2020-election-miscounts-errors-or-fraud/

https://www.unz.com/article/election-bomb-shell-the-us-constitution-goes-to-court-or/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/

https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/trump-won-record-minority-support-yet-the-left-is-calling-it-racism/

https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020

https://www.theepochtimes.com

The Best of Paul Craig RobertsPaul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, , co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.

The Constitution is not suspended because of a Pandemic


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com DEC 1, 2020 AT 9:29 AM, Don’t Be a Baby, Be An American

I heard Montana leads the nation when it comes to mask wearing resistance. I’m proud of my state, but nobody in the country should be forced to wear them.

After all, they don’t stop the virus and harm us physically and psychologically. Government tyrants insist we wear them to make us compliant.

It’s a form of control.

I was walking through a local grocery store recently and I noticed quite a few people were refusing to wear the masks. I wanted to applaud each and every one of them. However, most were wearing light-colored disposable masks. At the very least, they could wear garish bandanas and look like outlaws, but most people don’t want to stand out. Then it hit me. Instead of masks, I imagined them all sucking on pacifiers. I imagined their parents as the government tyrants—telling them what to do, when to go to bed (curfews), how to play, and what to think. Their obedient citizens were obeying without question, child-like. Mommy and Daddy are only trying to keep their toddlers safe, after all. Many tyrants see us as mewling babies who couldn’t exist without their help. As their children, they think they own us while they order us about with threats of isolation, fines or even brute force spankings.

At the checkout line a grumpy mask-wearing man behind me said I wasn’t properly lined up. I could not hear him clearly. I wasn’t at the proper distance or something. Then he noticed I wasn’t wearing a mask. “You’re not even wearing a mask!” he muffled. I ignored him, but I wanted to wheel around and say “Cool it, Dr. Fauci.” However, two grown men exchanging insults could quickly escalate into fisticuffs, and my right cross isn’t what it used to be. So I ignored him. The government loves teachers’ pets such as him, though…and they know that peer pressure will do most of the enforcement work for them. China knows this and it’s why they have block captains who enjoy their power trips by hectoring, spying, and tattling on their neighbors.

Before we as a nation descend into a ChiCom-style nightmare that the globo-socialists have planned for us, we need to start rebelling.

We need to assert our independence and Constitutional rights.

Will we finally grow up and realize our government ‘parents’ have been abusive? When their mandatory vaccines threaten our ability to work or travel—along with our very lives, then we’ll know we let them get away with their abuse for far too long. We have no choice but to resist and push back.

If not, we won’t be sent to look into a corner for a few hours. We’ll be sent to government gulags.

—Ben Garrison

A Short Discussion on the History of How We Got to the Point of Embracing Marxism!


This is a very short summary of how we got to where we are today. There is a lot more detail but I think you will get the drift as we use to say. I use Marxist instead of progressive since that is what they actually are.

Going on 50 years ago a movement was started to make the world a better place. One part was the environment movement that formed in the late 60’s and Patrick Moore was one of the founding members of Greenpeace in 1971 and they did do a lot of good. Unfortunately when the U.S.S.R. collapsed between 1988 and 1991 the worlds Marxists were left hanging as their utopia was gone. That set in motion two new movements.

The first movement was the Marxists taking over the environmental movement and focusing it on Climate change based on the work of Dr. James Hansen and VP Al Gore and then Bill Gates. The premise of this new group was that the world’s population was too large which was lifted from the work of Robert Malthus’s theory that population would expand geometrically while food production would only expand arithmetically leading to starvation was published in 1798. The theory had proved to be false but that didn’t matter. The Club of Rome picked up Malthus ideas and published The Limits to growth in 1972 and we now had the frame work or the New World order (NW)).

The NOW need a wedge to save the world from itself and James Hansen’s Theory of CO2 being a gas that would create a runaway increase in heat that would turn the earth into a hell hole of extreme heat like Venus was just what they needed. Hanses work was endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences in their Ad Hoc study group’s report on climate chaired by Jule G. Charney in 1979, known today as the Charney report. This lead to the UN Conference on Environment and development held in Rio de Janeior in 1992 that produced a report called Agenda 21 which was the start of the reduce the carbon movement. The report was non-binding but signed by H W Bush (41) and funded by President Clinton.   

The Marxists now had all they needed; a way to large population that was using too much carbon based fuels because that was going to destroy the planet, because CO2 from burning fossil fuels was going to turn the planet into an unlivable hot house according to Hansen. Therefor the population had to be drastically reduced to eliminate carbon based fuels. They knew that the Green Energy (wind and solar) could never replace the carbon based fuels.

The second movement was created when the European countries formed the European Union (EU) in 1992 with the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. This union was to create a power block for economic and social purposes with a single currency the EU. Unfortunately, there were fundamental flaws built into the system that appeared in the 2008 crash, which then created a sovereign debt crisis in the EU. The structural flaw was compounded by the policies of those in power in the EU when they went to negative interest rates on government debt. This meant they could no longer borrow money from the private sector.

Within a half dozen years the European powers realized they had created a major problem, which of course they could not admit to, so they began to develop a new economic system bringing together the main drivers of Science, politics and economics: Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Thierry Malleret, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab (GOMSS). The plan would be called The Great Reset and it required a new economics system using Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The plan will be implemented in January 2021 at the next World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos between January 25 – 29 2021.

The system they wanted required central control of all major countries in Western Civilization and they started to the planning to implement it during the Obama administration by destabilizing the Middle East and creating racial tensions in the US with groups like Occupy Wall Street which morphed into black life’s matter (BLM) and Antifa this was very easy to do because the US schools and colleges had begun teaching Marxism (using different names) during the Clinton and Bush administrations in earnest. But they still needed one key element a disaster of some kind to justify the planned change. Bill Gates delivered that in 2019 (the Wuhan Virus). It’s not clear whether China was aware of this but they certainly took advantage of it to spread the virus around the world.

The World Health Organization the CDC the NIH and Liberty University in London all participated in developing the proper narrative to get to a worldwide lock down. Google, Facebook and Twitter aided the process by censoring all counter information on the COVID-19 no matter the source. Their only obstacle was President Trump who had managed to block much of The Great Rest agenda in his first three years. They could not tolerate another four years so they activated their voter control system which had not been used in 2016 since they had made a major blunder believing Trump could not beat Hillary. Further, Trump was very popular with the middle class and a greater proportion of all the minority groups than any previous Republican because he had created full employment. That meant that he would be very hard to beat in 2020

Their voter control system is based on the equipment and software developed by a Diebold subsidiary Premier Election Solutions which was sold to a competitor ES&S in 2009. That morphed into Smartmatic and Dominion Software today among others. The Hardware and software is designed to give an outside party the ability to change votes. This was why the virus was so important as it gave GOMSS the ability to create a panic using mail in voting so they could use the Smartmatic system in the 2020 election.

Fox news was the key to their plan since it had to be coordinated and the signal was when Fox strangely called Arizona for Biden very early. That signal keyed all the Democrat controlled counties (with large major cities) to stop counting which they all did in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. The rest is history and the rebel alliance (MAGA) in support of President Trump should be able to prove this before it’s too late.

Below are a few links to videos to partially show proof of the above paragraphs, there is a lot more, but these few give a decent over view. Gates on over population, Moore showing Carbon is not a problem, WEF with an overview of The Great Reset, Armstrong’s description of the Great Rest, Reiner Fullmich explaining the problem with the PCR testing and lastly Sydney Powell with a summary of the Smartmatic system. This is as short as I can make it. I have been working on this issue since the early 1990’s albeit not in the present form but only from the sense that something was wrong.

Not is any particular order we have ….

Bill Gates


Patrick Moore


World Economics Forum (WEF)

Martin Armstrong

Reiner Fullmich

Sidney Powell

I’ll followup in a Post here soon with the time line for 2021.

Edward Snowden on Hacking the Election


Armstrong Economics Blog/Technology Re-Posted Dec 2, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

I get some emails from Democrats arguing there is no proof of the machines switching votes. As Edward Snowden posted, this is a video from 2019 that sounded the alarm. I was the keynote speaker at the Hacker Convention in Miami back in 2016. I dare say everyone in attendance was capable of hacking these voting machines. Many teenagers from their mother’s basement could hack the machines. The problem is that nobody can prove the vote was NOT hacked. This is the problem we have with our elections. There should be standardized voting nationally where it is really Equal Protection of the Law so everyone’s vote counts fairly.

You can easily create a system where they pay $1 to vote and enter their debit or credit card, and in return, they get $100 credit against taxes. That will eliminate dead people and illegal aliens. If we can buy online from Amazon with a credit card, surely we can also vote safely.

Why is Washington Post & New York Times Always Anti-American?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Socialist Re-Posted Dec 2, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

The real problem with socialism/communism is a simple refusal to understand the business cycle. Indeed, communism collapsed for the very same reasons they seem to hate capitalism. The comment published in the Washington Post actually admits that there were busts long before capitalism.

“There were calamities and injustices long before capital, and I’ll venture to say there will be after. But it seems to me that it’s time for those who expected to enjoy the end of history to accept that, though they’re linked in certain respects, capitalism seems to be at odds with the harmonious, peaceful, stable liberalism of midcentury dreams.”

What these people fail to understand is that the business cycle cannot be tempered and controlled. It is not simply the product of human activity. Capitalism began because of the Black Plague which killed 50% of the population on average. That created a shortage of labor and where people were serfs before landowners began to offer wages in addition to their free housing and right to keep part of the crop they grew. That led to the kings suddenly looking at these lower-class people as a new source for taxes. Hence, we begin to see the first rebellions were over taxes by 1381.

So the business cycle is not simply controllable by policy and regulation. Everything is a part of it from weather to disease. It cannot be tempered or controlled to create this perfect world of Utopia. That is the very core flaw to this entire idea of socialism that they entirely ignore.