This is actually one of the lessons we have learned (perhaps too late) over the past century. There is always going to be some class of people making the decisions on how to rule society. This is inevitable.

A family may be a partnership between man, woman, and children, but eventually someone must call the shots. In a healthily ordered society that will be a man motivated by love for his wife and children. That is the model that produces the best outcomes overall, since it does not benefit a man to be tyrannical or abusive toward a family he loves and wishes to cultivate for his legacy.

In America, we have created a system of electing people to official stations, but these official stations are only nominally related to positions of actual power. The actual power rests elsewhere in an unaccountable network of careerist bureaucrats & managers (& oligarchs) that has grown in society inevitably as part of the trend toward technocratic specialization.

The problem here is twofold. One, the class of people who are actually in charge of society are not benevolent toward the nation as a whole. In fact, they express (for whatever reason) extreme disdain for the actual people of America. The second is that the remainder of this partnership can’t point towards a single point of leadership to actually *hold accountable* for decades of malicious policies that have hurt America. Say what you like about dictatorship, but at least deposing a dictator is a proven way to change the government.

What America wrestles with now is a hydra fueled by hostile foreign magicks that must be beaten severely — But not completely annihilated because destroying it would also destroy the nation. Not at all clear the good guys will win and the consequence of failure is more or less the end of human freedom forever due to advancements in the totalitarian state.

Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas and Newt Gingrich expose Biden for the incompetent phony he always was, and still is.

“Zaphod sent me into the mental equivalent of a **glue trap** talking about Penang… I suddenly found myself watching videos on Hokkien and trying to figure out the difference in tonal systems between it and standard Chinese.”

Mission accomplished!

As they say, “A Language is a Dialect with an Army”, so the Min Language Family (and all the weird and wonderful variants of *it*) go under the broad umbrella of “Fujian Dialect” in China where there is but one officially acknowledged Chinese Language (Putonghua).

Nobody but nobody has a clue what is being said when the Fujianese or Chaozhou types start yakking away…

Difficult for even other Chinese to learn, but not as fiendishly difficult as Chaozhou dialect. Both dialects are of some importance given that they are big in the diaspora — especially SE Asia. And both groups have a penchant for secret society organised crime combined with extreme patriotism — play well with Chinese intelligence work overseas. They’re much more clannish than other Chinese who are already family obsessed — so have very complicated and precise vocabularies to define family relationships out to insane degrees.

Easy to spot when you’re in a Fujianese China Town — look at the romanisations on shop signs and you’ll see lots of ‘Boon’ (Putonghua Wen (writing/culture) phoneme maps to this) and ‘Beng’ (Putonghua Ming (Bright) phoneme maps to this). Actually quite easy to spot them by physiognomy most of the time too… just as a Hunanese looks very different from a tall giant from Shandong.

M J R:

One way I understand the current world is that the global elites, the Davos set, are several steps ahead. It’s all about global control and their biggest obstacle is what remains of the patriotic American middle-class.

They are a coordinating team of Marxists and near-Marxists. I do not keep track of their identities. What they’re planning is an accelerated continuation of Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of the USA into a collectivist, politically correct “woke” dictatorship — a dictatorship of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite — eagerly anticipating the day when the country I (and most of us here at neo’s) once knew, shall have perished from the earth.

They are a coordinating team of Marxists and near-Marxists. I do not keep track of their identities. What they’re planning is an accelerated continuation of Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of the USA into a collectivist, politically correct “woke” dictatorship — a dictatorship of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite, now that the country I and most of us here at neo’s once knew, shall have then perished from the earth.