SHOOTING THE MESSENGER

        One of the reasons that the United States survived as long as it did as a Constitutional Republic is that our system of Government had built into it various mechanisms for correcting injustices and threats to our Liberties. It worked well until Bush-era Neoconservatism and Clinton-era Neoliberalism (which are essentially the same things and the reason why we have a Uniparty today). Among the multitude of political fabrications that followed Bush Sr.'s declaration of a New World Order was the so-called Unitary Executive Theory, which is a term that the Academic Mafia devised to allow the Executive Branch the authority to rule essentially by decree. The ideologues behind the Great Reset and the Dark Enlightenment (which are also Right/Left terms for the same things) promote updated versions of the same concept: when drawn to its logical conclusions, it basically amounts to a feudal aristocracy with a Managed Democracy for show. 

      In the 19th Century, there was an ongoing problem---brought on by the Industrial Revolution---by which economic planning became more and more of a central issue. The problem was obtaining reliable numbers about the impact on the population of these policies. Fortunately, back then we had actual Conservatives in power who were more interested in solving problems for the Public Good than they were in amassing authority for themselves and serving Globalist Corporations. On June 27th, 1884, President Arthur signed into law the establishment of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (in those days, Congress actually had to ratify the creations of new agencies), which was bi-partisan and appointed to staggered four-year terms to limit Executive interference.

    However, that was then, this is now. The most recent BLS report indicated that our Alpha Leaders' economic policies weren't producing the economic miracles promised. Some of us did try to warn that things like owning the Libs, and sticking it to them furri-ners; and giving arrogant CEOs and vindictive fanatics unrestricted control over the economy wasn't likely to work out very well. The Alphas reacted to the disappointing economic news predictably:

         Firing the head of the Bureau was another 'unprecedented move'---a term used by the sycophantic Corporate Media to describe a blatant authoritarian power-play; however the pretext of deliberate sabotage by the BLS will be wholly supported and cheered by the New Right and their flying monkeys among the Churchians. Experience should have taught us all by now that, as long as the people they hate suffer, the Postmodern Right doesn't mind sacrificing for the cause. 

        Erika McEntarfer, the latest casualty of the New Right's political purges, was one of the increasingly rare cases of a career government employee who was allowed to work her way up to head a department without any interregnum as a Revolving-Door Corporate Lobbyist. She worked over 20 years in the US Treasury Department, the Census Bureau, and the Council of Economic Advisors. The White House and the New Right's paid parrots in the Controlled Opposition Press are making hay over the fact that she was elevated to the post under Biden: conveniently forgetting of course that she's worked in Government since Bush Junior's term and was confirmed by a Republican Majority Senate for BLS Chair by a vote of 83-8. 

      Nobody in the Administration has provided any evidence that the numbers were rigged; and even if they were, the proper course of action would have been to present the findings to Congress and let them investigate. That, however, would have been to acknowledge that the people's representatives should have a say in how the Government operates; besides it isn't Alpha enough and doesn't thrill the True Believers.

     In the Real World, however, the firing was denounced by the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics who issued a joint statement pointing out that "this rationale for firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit and undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics that are a cornerstone of intelligent economic decision-making by businesses, families, and policymakers." Translated into actual consequences, it means that confidence in the American Economy will suffer, as foreign and domestic policy-makers will suspect the credibility of the actual numbers. This is why, historically, dictatorships rarely garnered economic investment from Free-Market economies: nobody trusted their numbers. It's also why dictatorships---as we're well on the way to becoming--- have a tendency to war; because dictators have no problem with seizing what they can't (or don't want) to buy. 

     Aside from undermining American Economic stability abroad, the firing sets a dangerous precedent that began with Elon Musk's DOGE purges and is part of a continuum of increasingly authoritarian acts being carried out by the current Accelerationist wing of the Uniparty. On the domestic economy, the Administration unfortunately has the advantage of both a servile Media and a complacent population, augmented by a Base of True Believers who will either insist that economic concentration isn't really underway; or if it is, it's a good thing because we're deporting brown people and owning the Libtards. What it means for those of us not living in drug or propaganda-induced stupors is that we must prepare ourselves accordingly, and the concept of creating Parallel Economies is one well worth studying.