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Doug Casey on President Hillary Clinton… World War III… and the Deep State

• https://www.lewrockwell.com

I recently sat down with Casey Research founder Doug Casey to discuss this. Doug is a former classmate of Bill Clinton and has met him several times, including once at the White House.

Nick Giambruno: There is a popular conception that only the "best and brightest" go into government. I think this is a sacred cow that needs to be slaughtered. What's your take, Doug?

Doug Casey: It's a real problem when a pernicious myth subverts reality. Everybody believes that the institution of government is like Camelot—a wise ruler assisted by noble paladins. Maybe that meme gained traction in recent times with John Kennedy and his good-looking wife, Jackie. They looked like an ideal couple. They weren't. But they were a lot better than what followed for the next 50 years…

The fact is that the high levels of government do get people with high IQs. They can pass tests. They're skilled at manipulating both laws and people. But they tend to be of a low moral character, number one. Number two, despite their high IQs, they're actually quite stupid. Let me explain these things.

From a moral point of view, there are two types of people in the world. People who believe in coercion when dealing with their fellow humans. And people who believe in dealing voluntarily with their fellow humans.

The government is a force. The essence of government is coercion. So, people attracted to it are necessarily the wrong kind of people, coercion-oriented people. Government draws much more than its share of criminal personalities.

And they're not the most intelligent people—completely contrary to common belief. It's because one sign of intelligence is not just seeing the immediate and direct consequences of an action—any intelligent six-year-old can usually do that. It's seeing the indirect and delayed consequences of actions. They're very bad at that.


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