Ghost of a flea

Experience has long shown that further spending by state-monopoly suppliers of services (if services is quite the word I seek) benefits not the consumers but the providers. And they—ever more numerous—naturally vote for their own providers, the politicians. Thus the NHS has become an enormously expensive method of ballot-stuffing. Personally, I would rather have outright electoral fraud. It would be less expensive and slightly more honest.

I have taken to reading the comments on main stream media articles. Here I find all the letters to the editor that the activists never published during the decades of when rising social spending had no effect on rising social problems, even as activist employment levels rose, and activist pay scales accelerated. Gosh, reading those comments, people sure are angry. I can see why the fringe leftists suppressed the voice of the working class. Aside from the utility of cherry picking public opinion to create the illusion that fringe leftism is mainstream, it also protects our lefty aristocrats from facing the specter of an uprising of the working class. Now we can see that the working class is angry. No work, under employed, taxed, and mocked for their virtues by non-working, over-paid, taxspenders, the working class has found a new technology, the internet, which is as revolutionary as the printing press.