Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

THERE ARE PEOPLE I READ AND ADMIRED LONG BEFORE I CAME OUT OF THE POLITICAL CLOSET: People who kept me sane when I was terrified anyone would find out. People who were companions in the fight even when they were — objectively — unaware I existed.  Blake Powers was one of those people.  And he’s run into some pretty heavy weather. I mean, literally, having been struck by lightening, which led to cardiac issues and other problems.  He’s trying to put his life back together.  Of course, bloggers don’t have insurance. Only they kind of do. It’s people like you — and me — and yes, I know, I asked for help recently, and was overwhelmed at your generosity.  Well, Blake needs help, and he’s not someone who asks lightly.  It’s been an incredibly rough few months. However bad your 2021 was, his beats it.  So, he wrote about it here, and he’s asking for help.  A New Life.

Donate if you can, and if you can’t, spread the word as far as you can.  In the end, we only have you. And each other.

ONE DAY THE VETERANS HAD HAD ENOUGH:  The Military Suicide Epidemic.

Coming back from a war they weren’t allowed to win….

Starship Troopers — right now a best case scenario.

I’M SURE THAT’S WHAT THE LEFT IS AIMING FOR:  Depressing article by Joel Kotkin, “Welcome to the end of democracy”.

But what you have to remember is that they and for that matter Kotkin have no clue where their food comes from. Stuff like food production, distribution, etc, is a mystery to them. (Heck, I have a vague idea, mostly by knowing how complex it is, but not the details.)
When I read one of Alvin Toffler’s books in the 80s, I was seized with the idea one day everyone would work remote from a computer. This lasted until a friend smacked me with “you can’t. Food has to be grown and transported, and real things have to be built.”

Kotkin’s apocalyptic vision is of the same order. This would all be true and very scary if “green” energy produced even the modicum necessary (or more than it costs, really) to keep a miserable existence going; if the technocrats understood anything about food production; if socialism actually could work in any way shape or form.

Nah. It’s not the end of democracy — which I’ll note the US isn’t — what we’re seeing is the end of socialism. It’s ending fast and ugly, and it’s going to hurt us on its way down, but in the end what never worked can’t work, and they’re already losing.