Uniparty Rule
One of the major problem with governance is that conniving sociopaths will always exist, and that they tend to have an endless craving for power (as their sociopathy eliminates the intrinsic satisfaction with life many others have). As such, governments inevitably get hijacked by these sociopaths who gradually normalize the exploitation of others (which everyone else is forced to turn a blind eye to), and then eventually shift from exploiting select segments of the population whose suffering can be kept out of sight and out of mind to broad swathes of the population (e.g., consider the abhorrent COVID-19 vaccine mandates).
Note: an excellent overview of this cyclical process can be found in the (brief) Wikipedia summary of Łobaczewski’s Political Ponerology. A key point that Łobaczewski made is that many of these psychopathic tendencies originate from individuals with brain damage that eliminate natural human empathy—a remarkable insight given that its only recently been possible to prove sociopaths have organic brain damage. Additionally, a strong case can be made that the inflammatory brain damage certain vaccines cause results in sociopathic behavior, as a rippling wave of unprecedented violent crime spread across America in tandem with the adoption of the vaccine which was notorious for frequently causing encephalitis (which I discussed further here).
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Because of this, I’ve spent decades thinking over the competing models of governance and come to the conclusion famously elucidated by Winston Churchill:
Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
More specifically, I believe that since psychopathic individuals will always exist, the best “solution” is to have a form of checks and balances in place where different (likely sociopathic) parties are continually competing against each other for power, and hence “cancel their evil out” by forcing each other to act in a somewhat decent way so they can be the ones to hold into power.
In contrast, anytime healthy competition is eliminated, the quality of government rapidly declines as there is no longer an incentive to do a good job or produce the results the electorate actually wants (which is essentially identical to what is seen in market monopolies—which for example is why American medical care is so expensive yet its results rank last amongst the affluent nations).
On one hand, we have this at a national level, as (at least until Trump’s recent political insurgency) legislators from both parties will consistently vote to spend trillions on abhorrent foreign wars or bank bailouts while simultaneously refusing to support basic necessities that benefit most of the populace. This video for example synopsizes an extensive 2014 study which found public opinion had no influence on the likelihood a bill would become law, and rather, a law passing is entirely dependent upon what the upper class and business interests want.
On a state (and frequently on a municipal) level, we see a similar situation where once one political party becomes entrenched, there is no longer an incentive for them to “do their jobs” and things gradually fall apart as individuals who fail to fulfill their duties (but appease the lobbyists) continue to be re-elected solely due to their party affiliation.
California is particularly known for this issue, as Democrat candidates are typically selected from within the party rather than on merit. For example, Tucker Carlson recently broke down how Kamala Harris had an atrocious performance record, but due to favoritism kept on being promoted within the party and likewise, it’s an open secret that California’s political leadership has often been sourced from four intertwined San Francisco families (e.g., the Newsoms and Pelosis).
On one hand, this has led to the state adopting abhorrent policies that caused many to leave the state (in fact, since 2020, California has been the state with the highest rate of residents choosing to leave). These policies included widely opposed childhood vaccine mandates in 2015, lengthy COVID-19 lockdowns, a poorly worded law banning doctors from discussing COVID vaccine dangers with their patients—which courts later struck down as unconstitutional, or schools concealing children’s gender transitions from parents—which caused Musk to pull his businesses out of California after he could not change Newsom’s mind about that law).
On the other, it’s led to numerous catastrophic bungles which collectively have resulted in higher taxes (California currently has the highest tax rates) and it being harder and harder for residents to stay in the state.
For instance, one of the best known examples is California’s “bridge to nowhere” a project conceived after it was recognized a high speed rail linking the North and Southern parts of the state together would yield tremendous economic benefit. However, unlike China (which has built over 6000 miles of railway in 7 years at a rate of 24.6-48 million per mile), California since 1982 has spent over 23 billion dollars on its high speed rail project, but other than a few unconnected bridges totaling 0.3 miles, no track has yet been laid for it, and despite immense political pressure to finish it, the railway is likely at least 10 years away from the initial parts becoming operational.
Another is California’s recurring wildfire problem. Essentially, due to California’s climate, wildfires are a regular issue. However rather than adopting policies which can prevent these fires from becoming catastrophic (e.g., controlled burns, forestry management, making sure communities have sufficient firefighting water infrastructure or fixing the power lines) more and more money has gone into suppressing the wildfires (which in turn has caused the subsequent ones to burn even hotter).
As such, devastating fires are becoming more and more common, but despite an uproar each time for steps to be taken so the next one does not create profound devastation, nothing gets done and a worse one follows (while spending on wildfire fighting services continue to spiral out of control).
For instance, journalists in the last 24 hours highlighted that:
•Many of the affected communities ran out of water to fight these fires (e.g., the fire hydrants went dry).
•Planned controlled burns had been cancelled.
•Power lines were not de-energized.
•In 2014, a proposition set aside billions develop a water infrastructure for California, yet despite repeated pushes to do so (e.g., from the Trump administration), nothing was ever developed.
•Many home insurance plans in California were recently cancelled due to California enacting laws that capped the prices insurers could charge (hence making it unaffordable for them to offer coverage and insurers simply leaving the state). As a result, many of the homes which burn down likely will not be covered and simultaneously, California’s much more costly state insurance program may collapse from the costs of these fires.
•Los Angeles recently made large cuts to the firefighting services to spend more on homelessness and had shifted its focus from firefighting to promoting DEI.
Likewise, throughout this fire, a common complaint has been that flammable brush that should have been cleared (and was largely responsible for the current fire) never was removed due to poor management by the city and excessive environmental regulations. Now consider this 2009 article:
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire now raging there, The Associated Press has learned.
Months before the huge blaze erupted, the U.S. Forest Service obtained permits to burn away the undergrowth and brush on more than 1,700 acres of the Angeles National Forest. But just 193 acres had been cleared by the time the fire broke out, Forest Service resource officer Steve Bear said.
The agency defended its efforts, saying weather, wind and environmental rules tightly limit how often these “prescribed burns” can be conducted.
Bear said crews using machinery and hand tools managed to trim 5,000 acres in the forest this year before the money ran out. Ideally, “at least a couple thousand more acres” would have been cleared.
Obtaining the necessary permits is a complicated process, and such efforts often draw protests from environmentalists.
Biologist Ileene Anderson with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental organization, said burn permits should be difficult to get because of the potential damage to air quality. Clearing chaparral by hand or machine must be closely scrutinized because it can hurt native species.
“Our air quality, for a variety of factors, doesn’t need to be further reduced by these controlled burns,” she said.
Similarly, in Maui, some of the key issues that led to the 2023 fire were years of neglected brush management (despite everyone warning brush around power lines could spark wildfires), the power lines not being turned off during high winds, neglected infrastructure which caused the fire hydrants in Lahaina to run dry (which has also happened in the recent Los Angeles fires), evacuation routes being blocked by bumped to bumper traffic (due to poor advice from police) and a failure to sound the warning sirens (which led to people not evacuating).
What many do not know is that in 2018, a smaller fire ripped through Lahaina, where concerned residents identified all of these issues, but nothing was ever done to address them (and remarkably, the official report about the 2018 fire failed to even mention any of it).
In turn, I (and many others) believe that if there was any type of accountability (e.g., the other party getting elected after repeated gross failures by the ruling party) these types of things would not happen. Unfortunately, Hawaii, like California, is effectively under Uniparty rule so nothing has ever been done (and to the best of my knowledge, the Lahaina fires did not change things in Hawaii either).
Breaking Points
Most of the systems in our society run well when kept a bit below their capacity, but rapidly start to fail ones overloaded (e.g., too many cars rapidly turn a fast highway into gridlocked traffic). One of the most common themes which occurs in natural disasters is that contrary to what’s promised, once the disaster happens, systemic failures begin to emerge which cannot be effectively addressed by the government.
For example, after the recent devastating hurricanes hit the East Coast (and particularly Western North Carolina), many became trapped and isolated, supplies rapidly ran out, and the expected help from the government never materialized. In fact, even after extensive media coverage of their needs and months of time for FEMA to respond, many survivors are still struggling with housing. Likewise, as I showed in here, an almost identical situation exists for the victims of the Lahaina fires.
Much of this is due to corrupt disaster responses from the government which prioritizing paying off preferred relief suppliers rather than helping those in need. As such, in those situations, individuals typically have to rely upon the community and private donations for help. Remarkably however, in disaster after disaster (e.g., in a recent article I highlighted this trend as far back as Hurricane Katrina), not only does the government fail to provide basic aid to these areas, but it actively blocks private aid from getting there (which in turn requires people who want to help having to come up with elaborate ways to bypass the blockades like covertly doing so by boat).
From all of this, I argued three key lessons must be recognized:
First, to some extent, you need to have a way to take care of your basic needs if the grid fails. For example, one of the factors I took into consideration when picking what I believed to be the healthiest water filtration option on the market (discussed here) was if I could use it in a disaster situation where clean water was not available (as this happens quite frequently—e.g., after the recent hurricane). Likewise, my system of medicine has been heavily influenced by not wanting to be dependent on the medical system (as supply shortages regularly happen), so I’ve been gradually introducing the items I always carry with me (e.g., DMSO) that make it possible to address the majority of issues you will run into (along with a few less portable ones like ultraviolet blood irradiation that can often prevent a patient from requiring a hospitalization).
Second, there is a human tendency to not want to believe something bad could happen and then hence repeatedly put off proactively addressing it (e.g., California and Hawaii’s government not fireproofing high risk areas).
Similarly, in most catastrophic situations I’ve studied over the years, a window existed to leave early on which then later closed or became gridlocked once everyone tried to take the necessary steps to protect themselves. For instance, in Lahaina, many were trapped because they did not leave in time (and the main road out was blocked by police) while in the current fires, many had to abandon their cars and walk out because the roads were clogged with traffic (which subsequently required bulldozers to push the abandoned cars out of the way for firetrucks).
Third, once breaking points emerge, many other things will often go wrong many did not expect. For instance, this was recently shared by one prominent Conservative influencer:
A friend of a friend in West LA just saw looters plunder her evacuated house on her Ring camera. Her friends, including some who voted for Harris, are calling for summary execution of the looters. Turns out, “In This House We Believe” politics disappear when your house does.
Like many others who have spoken out against the egregious pharmaceutical overreach during COVID-19, I believe the most viable solution is to develop local community networks which do not rely upon the predatory system we exist within for life essential resources (e.g., my focus has been on effective treatments that can be obtained outside of the medical system and many others have focused on how to locally source healthy food). This is because restricting the access to those life essential resources has always been one of the key ways we are controlled (and forced to accept very poor versions of those essential resources), so once we no longer “need” them, it creates the economic pressure to produce high quality versions that are affordable to the general populace.
Similarly, one of the most valuable resources we have around us is our community, but unfortunately due to the divisive political messaging we are continually bombarded with and all the things in our society which pressure us to be isolated from each other (e.g., by not being able to speak your mind at work and being encouraged to spend your free time in front of a screen), we’ve been disconnected from all of those we should be seeking out. In turn, what really struck me about the events which transpired in both Lahaina and North Carolina was that (due to the culture of each area) the local community came together to help each other as the government abjectly failed the citizens there. In many ways I felt this was the most important lesson of each event as its serves as a model for what we need to be able to do in the future, and ideally, have in place long before a breaking point is hit.
Wildfire Toxicity
Whenever a wildfire (or another event which releases a significant amount of aerial toxicity such as the twin towers collapsing on 9/11) occurs, we regularly see a significant number of people develop longterm illnesses from inhaling that smoke. Furthermore, individuals who already have sensitivities (e.g., from chronic inflammatory diseases) tend to become significantly worse after these events happen.
Because of this I typically advise doing one or more of the following:
•Leave the area until the fire is over.
•Try to stay inside.
•Wear an N-95 mask or respirator while outside.
•Consider getting a filter for your house (e.g., a decent HEPA filter) that can filter out the smoke particles.
When working with chronic inflammatory illnesses, there are two critical points to understand:
•Everyone has a toxicity threshold. Before that threshold, their systems can essentially compensate for the stresses already on them and new ones added on later. However, once they pass the threshold, symptoms rapidly develop, tiny additional stressors can significantly increase their symptoms, and it can become very difficult to walk them back to where they were before they passed that threshold. Two common (but not the only) things that push patients past this threshold are impaired fluid circulations (e.g., due to poor zeta potential) and impaired detoxification pathways.
This dynamic can be analogized to “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” This concept also applies to many other ailments (e.g., ones that are unrelated to inflammation), but sadly this entire concept is relatively unknown in medicine.
•When an inflammatory illness passes that critical threshold, it disproportionately affects the weaker points in the patient’s system (which will also typically be where their symptoms initially arose, something which for example has frequently been observed after COVID vaccine injuries).
With those exposed to wildfire smoke, colleagues and I have observed the following concerning issues tend to occur:
•Existing circulatory disorders often worsen.
•Patients with pre-existing chronic and complex inflammatory illnesses (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome, mast cell activation syndrome, or Lyme disease) tend to be the most susceptible to becoming ill from the smoke, especially if their system was already caught in an inflammatory loop. When this happened, we frequently observed acute exacerbations of their pre-existing illnesses, something also observed in these patients after they were vaccinated (e.g., patients with chronic Lyme disease often had their disease worsen after COVID-19 vaccination).
Note: This entire situation is analogous to one of the most common side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines: either a new autoimmune disorder or a worsening of a pre-existing condition. To illustrate—an Israeli study found that 24.2% of those receiving a booster developed an exacerbation of a pre-existing autoimmune condition.
•Some people (enough that you will come across them but not enough that it’s a commonly recognized issue) develop chronic illnesses (e.g., long-term fatigue) after the wildfires. I have also noticed other people’s health worsened, but those changes were minor enough that they typically were unrecognized.
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•A doctor I spoke to who specialized in these complex illnesses and treated numerous people during the California wildfires stated that he saw this condition predominantly affect patients he described as “being on the edge.” In those patients, the wildfires tipped them over the edge as their detoxification and anti-inflammatory pathways got overwhelmed, or to quote my colleague: “It’s all susceptibility. If your body has been compensating and you get this big inflammatory trigger, wherever you are going to trigger is whatever the weakest spot is in your body.”
•The earlier you begin treating the wildfire illness, the less long-lasting the effects will be. Similarly, the sooner you get away from the smoke, the less likely the issues are to become permanent (many patients got better once they left the area). The reason why the 2017 and 2018 wildfires in California were so problematic was that, from my colleague’s perspective, they went on forever, so there was enough time to tip patients past their critical threshold. Because of all the unhealthy influences in our environment (e.g., processed foods that create chronic illness), Americans already have numerous stressors on them. As a result, my California colleague often saw something like a divorce or losing a job being the straw that broke their back and thought it was sad to see how often the California wildfires also ended up being that final straw.
•For younger people, the biggest wildfire issues were breathing conditions they were already on their way to developing (asthma and COPD being the most common). For older patients (those in their 60s, 70s, and 80s), the most significant issues were cognitive issues (e.g., my colleague had numerous patients receiving long-term treatment for their cognition who became significantly worse after the systemic inflammation triggered by the wildfires). Heart attacks and strokes could also occur in those predisposed to them.
Note: there is quite a bit of research showing particulate exposure causes cognitive impairment in all ages and accelerates the progression toward Alzheimer’s. Much of this data was gathered in Mexico City when evaluating nano-particulates that are less than 2.5 microns in size. For those interested to learn more, consider reviewing this study, this study, this study, and this study.
