Some people’s purpose in life seems to be to provide an example to others of what not to do.
Isiah Chance is a great example of this.
You may be thinking, “Who the hell is Isaiah Chance?” Well, Isaiah Chance killed a rapper that I had never even heard of before named Julio Foolio. Apparently, Julio Foolio was a member of a rival gang, and Chance, along with some other members of his gang, murdered him in a hotel parking lot.
This kind of thing probably happens every weekend in Chicago, but what really caught my attention about this case was when Chance said this in court:
“It ain’t worth it… the dissing, the beefing, the shooting. For what?”
It’s like, how is he just figuring this out? How does everyone not know this already?
Believe it or not, despite the fact this guy was wearing an ankle monitor at the time, he was still good with murdering someone in a hotel parking lot and apparently never really considered how badly this could go for him until it was too late.
Sometimes, even if you can’t excuse stupid things that people do, you can at least SORT OF understand it. Maybe they’re an addict, doing something in the heat of the moment, or they’re really young and have trouble understanding the long-term ramifications of their actions.
On the other hand, Isaiah Chance was 21 years old when he participated in the murder of Julio Foolio. Every 21-year-old, even if they’re not all that smart, should have a pretty good idea of where the gang life ends up. Either you end up dead, in a wheelchair, or in jail. Even if you make it to old age, you’re still a gangbanger who probably doesn’t have sh*t except a lot of people trying to kill you.
It’s a loser’s game.
The thing that’s so mind-blowing is how many mistakes we’re making in our society that are just as obviously dumb as what Isaiah Chance did.
For example, how is it that in 2026, in the country with the highest level of disposable income on earth, we’re having to refight a battle over whether socialism/communism is better than capitalism? This is as close to a settled debate as you’re going to find in history and economics. There is no real argument to be made that socialism/communism is going to produce more prosperity or lift more people out of poverty than capitalism. There are no smart, well-meaning people who will tell you that communism or socialism would improve most people’s lives in America (and if they do say that, either they’re not smart, well meaning, or maybe either). Yet…
We could ask the same kind of questions about our national debt. Everybody knows it’s insanely high. Everybody knows the deficit is out of control. I think most people accept it as a genuine threat to the future of our country. In fact, both parties also use it as a campaign issue when it’s convenient and, of course, ignore it when it isn’t:
Yet, whenever someone (and for the last few decades, that person is always a Republican) tries to do something about the debt, the pushback is enormous and the reaction from the American people is so toxic that nobody is even willing to try anymore other than, God bless him, Elon Musk who faced a literal terrorist campaign from the Left against Tesla as a “thank you”:
We could say the same kind of thing about the border and immigration. If we don’t control our borders, anyone from foreign agents to terrorists, to drug runners, to criminal gangs can walk into our country and do whatever they want.
Yet, the Biden administration alone just allowed millions of illegal aliens to cross into our country, get welfare at the local level, and now are giving welfare to the little anchor babies they had here. We’re also bringing large numbers of Third-Worlders with no skills here legally and immediately putting many of them on welfare long-term.
How could any intelligent person (or even an unintelligent person) think this is a good idea? It’s obviously, incredibly, stupid, and the only reason it’s not destroying the whole country… yet…is because we’re so wealthy.
In Europe, where this policy has led to mass rapes, riots, no-go zones for police, huge increases in the welfare rolls, and talk of violence and civil war, they mostly seem to be giving up and preparing to die:
Palantir CEO Alex Karp notes that when he talks to a lot of European elites, many of them don’t think much of Europe will exist in 50 years. Does he mean this literally? Figuratively? Because it is genuinely possible that many European nations won’t exist in 50 years or will exist in name only, while they’ll be nothing but deeply declining babysitting services for immigrants who consider them to be suckers to be fleeced and care nothing about their nation.
Of course, it’s not like it’s fate or something they can’t do anything about. All they need to do is fix their immigration policies, lessen the power of the state, and loosen up on the regulations so their entrepreneurs can innovate, and they’d probably be fine. That’s essentially what JD Vance and Donald Trump have been telling them, but what has the reaction been? Moaning, crying, and whining while they wait for their nations to fade away and die.
The same can happen here. In fact, the same thing WILL HAPPEN here if we don’t bring some sanity back to our immigration policies.
In the end, all it will take to ruin America for future generations is to stay on autopilot and continue to studiously ignore all these issues that aren’t hard to see at all. It’s like being on the Titanic and debating whether the biggest danger is from giant squids or sea mines when everyone can see you’re steaming toward an iceberg at full speed. For God’s sake, stop the ship and at least change direction away from the icebergs we can all see before worrying about everything else.
I said it 50 years ago: Government is a magnet for thieves and con men (and women) looking only to enrich themselves at the expense of the country.
When there are no consequences for the grift, only the worst enter the club. Look at the Congress and the denizens inside the beltway for proof. There are no Jeffersons, Hancocks's, Paines, Adam's, Franklins or others of distinction and honor.
The "representatives" of today are a reflection of the voters, immersed in their devices oblivious to how government works or even who their representative even is. You can't understand economics if you can't make change without a calculator.
The indoctrination centers exist solely to dumb down the populace so they don't recognize the outright theft of the public, and personal, treasure. The country has nowhere to go, but down ... by design. As goes Europe, so follows America.
One would have to conclude that governments in general, for reasons I can’t fathom, want the dissolution of civilization. Is that out of stupidity? I don’t think so. Venality? It is for some. Last stages before collapse? It’s happened before. I wish it wasn’t happening now.