PERNICIOUS MENDACITY AND BAD FAITH.

James "Long Emergency" Kunstler asks several pertinent questions.

1. Are you against the principle of free speech?
2. Is it okay for these government agencies to spy on US citizens without any legal predicate, except their being political adversaries?
3. Are you against reason itself?
4. Are you in favor of Antifa riots and the BLM hustle?
5. Are you in favor of cancel culture?

Read the post for elaboration, and stick around for the bull session.  It's really a warning about how parties that form governments run with a bundle of policies, and those bundles are generally unwieldy.

The Democratic Party supports all this pernicious mendacity and bad faith, and more. Joe Biden is the current figurehead of the Party. Mr. Biden pretty clearly has insurmountable defects of his own, first as an international grifter while holding national office, as well as the misfortune of his cognitive decline, which is not his fault, but disqualifies him for high office. As for everybody else in the party, I don’t want such a reliably dishonest gang to be in charge of running the American government.

That's not that the other pole of the binary is any better.

The USA is headed into a terrible ordeal of economic disorder that I call the long emergency. Mr. Trump won’t stop it, and it may yet make a fool out of him. But the Democratic Party’s agenda would add an extra layer of tyrannical and sadistic insanity to the process that will only bring more suffering to more people, and I don’t want that to happen.

Make that layer tyrannical, sadistic, and corrupt.  David "Voluntary Xchange" Tufte explains.  "Joe Biden’s not a crook, he’s a willing shill."  For Communist China.

Lost among the salacious revelations about laptop provenance is the more mundane reality of influence and money of major United States political figures. Ill informed accusations of Russian hacking and disinformation face the documented reality of a major Chinese state financial partnership with the children of major political figures. A report by an Asian research firm raises worrying questions about the financial links between China and Hunter Biden.

Beginning just before Joe Bidens ascendancy to the Vice Presidency, Hunter Biden was travelling to Beijing meeting with Chinese financial institutions and political figures would ultimately become his investors.  Finalized in 2013, the investment partnership included money from the Chinese government, social security, and major state-owned banks a veritable who’s who of Chinese state finance.

This is not a Pajamas Media, Breitbart, Fox News report. "Balding is a well-respected, occasional blogger, and frequent Bloomberg contributor, mostly on subjects Chinese. He is a non-Chinese business school professor who has worked and lived in China for about a decade."