Globalist Bureaucrats Bring Bad Luck. By Roger Kimball.

“Throughout history,” [writer Robert Heinlein] wrote in 1973, “poverty is the normal condition of man.”

“Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people.”

Then comes the kicker: “Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.”

“This,” Heinlein added, “is known as ‘bad luck.’”

Of course, Heinlein was speaking ironically with that last bit.

The issue was not “bad luck” but virtue-fired stupidity.

All those “right-thinking people” — the people with the socially certified ideas, the kinder, gentler, mask-wearing, anti-fossil-fuel types — are on the ramparts, proudly toppling the atavistic instruments of their prosperity.

Very soon now, they will look around at the wreckage their good intentions have wrought and wonder who is to blame for the poverty, the chaos, the ruins that lay strewn where once, not so long ago, a vibrant civilization stood, supported by a mighty economy.

Bad luck isn’t inevitable, but with the current lot in control it is.