Trusting Experts?

Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D

As I have said many times: “The Left ruins everything it touches.” One of the primary means the Left uses is convincing us to rely on so-called “experts” when making important decisions in our lives. Marxism is based on the notion that elite experts rather than you as a free person should provide the direction for your life. How is this working out in modern day America? Let us take a look.

Finances: As hard-working individuals, we would like to believe that leading responsible and frugal lives will allow us to accumulate sufficient funds to support ourselves in the present and when we retire. We can only do this when our economic system is predictable and understandable. For example, it used to be the case that one could put extra earnings in a bank and receive a reasonable rate of return at little or no risk. Not so today. For over a decade the “experts” at the Federal Reserve have kept the interest rates at or near zero which could never happen in a true free market economy. As a result, people were forced to seek alternative investments such as bonds, crypto-currency and the stock market. As the recent failure of the Silicon Valley Bank has shown, bonds are disastrous when the experts at the Federal Reserve decide to reverse policy by raising interest rates faster than any time in U.S. history. You, the taxpayer, will wind up paying for the woke policies of this poorly run bank by reimbursing big donors of the Democrat party.

Medical: According to the so-called “experts” (like that fraud Dr. Fauci), all we had to do was wear masks, stay six feet apart and go on lock down for two weeks, and take an unproven vaccine and we would be over the China virus pandemic. If you did not comply, you could lose your job and your business. Well two weeks turned into two years for school children and masks are still being worn by the true believers even though there is no evidence of their effectiveness. Vaccines and boosters are still being encouraged by the experts even for children when there was never any evidence that they faced a serious risk from the China virus.

Environment: The greatest hoax of all perpetrated by the so-called experts, of course, is the belief that climate change is the direct result of the burning of fossil fuels. As if there had never been any climate change before mankind began using this cheap and abundant source of energy without which no modern civilization could exist. The Biden administration’s implementation of “green energy” scams has produced high inflation, robbed every American of their hard earned income, and killed birds/whales, which the fake media hides. We are much poorer as a result, and the reality will get much worse if we continue down the path recommended by the so-called climate experts.

None of us can be experts in every field, but we have to rely on our own commonsense and judgement of the facts. Seek out the truth. Whenever you are told “ …..the experts say…” that should be a warning that the Left is trying to control your life. Make your own decisions. Use your own judgement. It is your life.