Our rulers always did love dictatorships (a blast from the past)

In addition to letting me sort my old records and cassettes, the Big Cleaning continues to unearth old stories we stockpiled. Quite frankly, I'd rather cover old stories than new stories, even though our overlords have become more extreme and reactionary over the years. These days, they just do all their stupidity in unison, so it's not very interesting. In past decades, they at least put some variety into their idiocy.

But there's one thing that's stayed the same for years. They hate America. They just hate, hate, hate it. They like foreign dictatorships better, and they can't hide it. Nowadays, just like 15 years ago, and just like 30 years ago, they can't shut up about how horrible they think America is because too many Americans have the nerve to demand freedom.

One of the stories deals with topics that were slated to be taken up by Kentucky lawmakers in 2006. There were the usual gripes by Republicans demanding that the school funding formula be changed so that funds were transferred upwards to richer school districts. But there was also a plan to again lengthen the school year. One of the nobodies in the administration of Republican Gov. Ernie "Hey Bert" Fletcher suggested it should be lengthened because China's school year was longer.

And??? Why should America take cues from overseas dictatorships for its domestic policy?

If you like other countries better, move there. The world has about 200 countries. If you don't like America, there's lots of other choices.

This isn't the only issue where American elites supported authoritarian foreign governments. They also praised overseas dictatorships as having a better business climate and being tougher on crime, for example. But some of their claims didn't always line up with the facts.

These caterwauling troglodytes portray America as being full of cowboys and hippies who behave recklessly and care only about their "freedumb." But civil liberties, peace, and economic equality are universal values – which are aspired to by people worldwide.

Our rulers display doublethink. Those who demanded a longer school year because a few other countries were doing it are usually the same people who recently supported closing schools for 2 years. You can't have both – yet they supported these contradictory ideas. This is doublethink just like how they call opponents both "liberals" and "right-wing Trumpers." Everything George Orwell warned us about is taking place now.