America Has Design Margin That Allows Us To Recover From Failure

 In Send Elon, Guns And Money!, I argued that in an unarmed population, nothing kept the leaders from suppressing speech.

Because they were disarmed, the Elites could destroy their means of communicating freely. The leaders could then pursue whatever lunatic notions they chose. When your ruling class gets intellectually captured by stupidity, as ours has, they can see things are going to pieces, but they know, they just know that the solution is more and more of the stupidity. You peasants need to shut up and get with the program.

As I've watched our institutions go mad, I've thought about that over and over again. Things are obviously failing in places like San Francisco, Portland, Chicago and Baltimore. Under other conditions, our government would simply jail anyone who reported reality. Thanks to the genius of our Founding Fathers, we have huge amounts of design margin built into our systems in the form of free speech and gun rights.

They can screw up a whole bunch, but it's really hard for them to silence or control us.

Yesterday, I fumbled around making the point that our institutions have become Marxist, this time hating straight, white, Christian men. Marxism always fails. The speed at which things fail varies according to their decision response times. SanFran has taken a while to fall apart. Bud Light was wiped out within a week.

In the Soviet Union, things fell apart at different rates, too, and you have to think the average person noticed it. Since the communists had a monopoly on force, however, they were able to maintain power even as their experiment failed in plain sight.

Here, things are starting to fail, too. Because our leaders can't keep us quiet and can't control us, people are able to react and respond. Dig this.

The Montana Free Press reported, “A seven-member commission voted on Tuesday to immediately withdraw the Montana State Library from membership in the American Library Association, a national nonprofit founded in 1876 that advocates for and provides services to tens of thousands of libraries across the country.

“The Montana State Library Commission’s decision came in response to a 2022 tweet posted by current ALA President Emily Drabinski describing herself as a ‘Marxist Lesbian,’ which quickly drew the attention of conservative media outlets nationwide. In his motion to ‘immediately withdraw’ the state library from the association, commissioner Tom Burnett directed that a letter be sent to the ALA explaining that ‘our oath of office and resulting duty to the Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist.’

 Marxism fails every time and at different rates for different applications, but because we've got huge design margins created by our Founding Fathers, we'll be able to recover from this madness, hopefully without too much damage done. Bud Light was a corrective action by the public. Montana kicking out the ALA was another.

Fight the power, man.