– Duke, New Orleans and the Floods

I did an article below called “National Geographic Predicted New Orleans Disaster.” This is the sort of thing David Duke, as governor of Louisiana would have worried about.

There is another flood, the flood of third world immigration. It is the sort of thing David Duke worries about a lot.

That sort of worrying is not appreciated by the authorities. After Duke scared them by getting the Republican nomination for governor and sixty percent of the white vote in the general election he was marked man. They spent millions of dollars to get him into a maximum security prison on a tax charge amounting to a few thousand dollars.

Duke would have worried about the precarious condition of New Orleans.

In the Moscow subway a guy was playing New Orleans jazz. David gave him money and you could tell he was deeply moved.. Dave was homesick.

David Duke would have died before he let this happen to New Orleans.

David went to prison because he was trying to protect his homeland. In an American politician that sort of concern is not only unpopular, it is illegal.

Let’s look at the other end of the scale, the politician America admires and loves.

A top-level former member of the Clinton team was caught stealing documents on Clinton’s policy on terrorism. He obviously intended to destroy them.

What if a top member of the NIXON team had been caught stealing original documents and smuggling them out in his coat? It would have been headlines.

So what was Clinton’s attitude on terrorism?

Four more years.

Clinton’s sole interest was avoiding all unpleasantness during his term of office. Disturbing matters like terrorism were simply ignored.

No one denies that Clinton is probably the greatest political genius of our age. No one really doubts that he is a complete sociopath, with no trace of conscience at all.

Decades ago Dale Carnegie made a critical point in his runaway best-seller, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” We can apply it to New Orleans today.

The voters of New Orleans did not care what planning you did for some disaster they didn’t want to think about. So, according to Dale Carnegie, what DID they worry about?

Carnegie said that what happened to one’s family or one’s city was a minor matter. What mattered to a voter was that a politician remember his NAME. Even his greatest critics who met Clinton were overwhelmed by how he gave his whole attention to them as they talked.

Carnegie and Clinton, two men who were at the top of their generations in understanding what makes us tick.

The Carnegies and the Clintons are the people who make every society click along until the disasters strike. And that, brothers and sisters, is where revolutions come from.

Coolidge and Hoover were very popular in the 1920s.

Then the Depression struck.

Hitler and his National Socialists almost disappeared during the 1920s.

Then the Depression hit.

Which is why I did the program called “The Tide of History.”

There are people who are past masters of politics as usual. They are sociopaths who know how to ride the good times. But the abrupt end of the good times is as routine as climate changes.

It seems too late when the disaster finally arrives. But, as the poem said, those who keep their heads in the middle of the storm are the ones who ride it out. Those who keep shouting, “All is lost!” are the ones who drown.

Today the people who keep shouting “All is lost!” think they are saying something new. That poem was old news when it was published two centuries ago.

What did Clinton do about terrorism? He put the question off. What did he do about the flood of third world immigration? He found ways to get votes out of it.

What did the professional politicians do about New Orleans’s impending disaster? They got some good contracts for supporters building flood protection. They got lots of minority contracts.

And they got reelected.

None of them will ever miss a meal because they led their people straight into disaster. None of them will ever miss a night’s sleep. Nor will they care when the revolutionaries actually take over.

They GOT theirs.

Meanwhile those of us who plan for disasters, those of us who warn against disasters, have work to do.

Duke for governor.