Never an unintended consequence

You need to become a whole lot more cynical

The term “unintended consequences” began to appear in the late 1960s to help explain how so many vaunted social programs championed by Great Society advocates, do-gooders, and liberals of all descriptions started to go badly wrong. The most celebrated early example was the God-awful Pruitt-Igoe public housing project, opened in 1954, in St. Louis, MO. While originally envisioned as segregated housing, by the time it opened, the development was mandated to be integrated.

Plagued with ridiculous design flaws, including elevators that did not stop at each floor, not to mention deficiencies in maintenance, after a few years Pruitt-Igoe instead harbored vandalism, delinquency, and hopelessness. Ironically, much of the crime came from outsiders, who saw the buildings as tailor-made for muggings—and worse. By 1976, this “urban renewal” eyesore was completely demolished. The city’s namesake, Louis IX, renowned for his charity to the poor and a canonized saint, could not have been pleased.

You would think that the massive failure of this flagship project would give liberals some pause. But, you would be wrong. In fact, you would have no difficulty counting up any number of social programs that made things worse. In the War on Poverty, poverty won despite the expenditure of $23 trillion.

It might be difficult to argue that Pruitt-Igoe was created to go wrong, but it is quite clear that those who planned it felt they knew better. Why, the residents would just love the crowded apartments, poor ventilation, and having to climb stairs even though there were elevators.

However, given the manifold failure of so many federal policies that came later, it is not at all difficult to conclude, using Occam’s Razor and simple inductive reasoning, that they WERE designed to fail.

None other than Debbie Birx, in a patently obvious CYA move, is now saying that “We overplayed the vaccine.” And, not only that. Despite anecdotal reports and later many published studies indicating the efficacy of Ivermectin, the drug is STILL officially demonized. I wonder when Debbie is going to comment on this huge and very positive study?

I challenge you to name one other time when a therapy championed by many doctors was ever suppressed during a pandemic, not to mention physicians being threatened with loss of license for not toeing the official line. Such censorship might have a scintilla of justification if the official therapies and vaccines worked—only they are remarkably weak, if not dangerous.

So, you can only conclude that officialdom WANTS people to get COVID and have bad outcomes. How can this possibly be an unintended consequence?

Meanwhile, my friend Michael J. Goldberg, MD, who has been in the front lines of the autism epidemic, and has also suffered by not going along with the revealed “wisdom,” has argued until he is blue in the face that the symptoms of kids suffering from today’s so-called autism spectrum disorder do not match autism as defined by Dr. Leo Kanner.

Rather, Goldberg speaks of a missed pandemic of a neuro-immune disorder, whereby these kids are medically ill, and are not suffering from some sudden onset psychiatric disease, that can reach one in 44 of today’s children.

Do you really think that the lockdowns were a mistake, rather than an intentional way of inflicting major damage to the economy while affecting schoolkids in untold ways? And, what about disastrous “climate” policies and the deliberate destruction of our domestic energy producing capability?

Nothing unintended here. Not at all. Instead, you are seeing a small army of traitors marching to the beat of the World Economic Forum, to reach their goal of the Great Reset.

If you are looking for good intentions gone awry, you are sadly mistaken.