I saw the commentary online about a clip of Sam Harris on Triggernometry discussing how he thought it was a good thing that the Hunter Biden laptop story got squashed. Up until yesterday I had not heard more than that particular part of his commentary. Yesterday while listening to Radio Derb, I had the chance to listen to more of the commentary and was struck by two items that both Derb and I thought was far more important than the obvious media collusion.
Harris said that any person off the street would have been better than a second Trump presidency because that person, so petrified by the responsibility of the office, would defer (he said default) to the "experts".
Also that the "rando off the street" would acquiesce to the "political norms".
That, my friends is an admission not only to the existence of a deep state. If you are still in denial about the existence of such a thing then I can't help you.
What Harris has admitted to is that it is *expected* that the president (and other "leadership" I suppose) are there to do what the experts tell them to do. The government is not to be run by the people's representatives who are aided and advised by the best and brightest in their fields but rather the best and brightest in their fields run the country and the "people's representatives" are merely the mechanisms by which they get what they want.
This is and was Trump's crime. At least for them since up to now he couldn't credibly be convicted of any. The recent raid is on another level in which Trump may have been set up by a person or persons in his circle. That's all I can say about that.
I saw a lot of bright people on line during the pandemic argue that the government should be run by a panel of experts. At least in times of emergency (and you know what that means). What these "bright" people fail to understand is that many bright people make awful leaders and are often very poor decision makers. This is particularly true of those with highly specialized knowledge.
This is one of the things that gave Trump the potential to be a great president: He is and was willing to delegate and keep a circle of "experts" around him and then make a decision based on that input. Trump's great fault was that he was bad at understanding that the motivation of political advisers as opposed to employees are very different. Trump got rolled by snakes who Trump allowed into his circle (Ahem..Barr..Ahem) and Jarvanka. This is why I prefer Desantis over Trump (by a long shot) because DeSantis has a crew ready to go who are vetted. But that's another issue.
Harris said the quiet part out loud and I'm thinking too many people were distracted by the "dead children" comment to not hear the REAL problem.
