"Inflation Is Your Fault" And Other Self-Loathing Liberal Lies
(Quoth The Raven) Hell hath no fury like a New York City limousine liberal full of self-guilt, ready to submit to their overlords in the government and media, even if it means blaming themselves (and everybody else) for problems that have absolutely nothing to do with them.
But, rather than try to deal with the mindset of those malleable enough to walk around accepting blame for problems others have created, I wanted to write this article to go right to the source. This weekend, that source was The Atlantic. Yes, the same publication that got down on its hands and knees and begged us for Covid amnesty after being part and parcel with an authoritarian group of psychopaths, who were happy to abscond with the civil rights of everybody around them, unilaterally now wants to blame us – everyday Americans – for inflation.
How do I know this? They wrote a fucking article called “Inflation is Your Fault” and titled it in all capital letters, in the douchiest Serif font they could find:
The article’s subtitle, written in the same pretentious style that suggests it’s some type of peer reviewed scientific revelation, is: “If people are so mad about high prices, why do they keep buying so many expensive things?”
The irony here is widespread. First off, fucking everything is expensive. So the answer to the question of “If people are so mad about high prices, why do they keep buying so many expensive things?” could be anything. It could be because people need to wipe their ass with something. It could be because people need bread to eat. It could be because they need to put gas in their car. It could be because they need laundry detergent, or a winter jacket. All of these are “expensive things” nowadays.
Second off, I don't know anybody that takes their social cues from what people write in The Atlantic. A fancy typeface can only cover up so much inane, lobotomized bullshit, and the print over at The Atlantic has done about as much heavy lifting as it possibly can.
Third off, I can't think of anybody less qualified to offer commentary on the state of the financial world than people on the left side of the aisle. Sure, Republicans contributed to our current inflationary crisis by helping unleash trillions of dollars in new money during Covid, but the Biden administration has also, over the course of the last four years, run the US national debt up to $34 trillion and shown zero semblance of fiscal discipline, spending restraint, or comprehension of the sovereign debt crisis that the country is heading toward.
And now, this same lot is not only going to explain to us why inflation is persisting, but also start casting blame on the American middle and lower class for it? The same middle and lower class who were disproportionately shit on by the same money printing that both caused inflation and widened the wealth inequality gap over the course of Covid? I don’t think so.
As you would expect, the thesis of the entire Atlantic article is that because Americans are spending too much on items that are high-priced, inflation is persisting.
First, this is obviously a giant misunderstanding of where inflation comes from to begin with. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon that comes from the expansion of the money supply. We expanded the money supply by double digits over the years during Covid; hence, we find ourselves on the brink of a newfound inflation problem. See if you can spot where the M2 money supply took off:
Second, most Americans aren’t chasing the price of discretionary items higher anymore. As credit card debt skyrockets and personal savings hit a trough, average Americans have been primarily focused on household goods and everyday items. To the extent that Americans are spending more on these items, it’s only out of necessity.
But this is hardly a ‘chicken and the egg’ conundrum. Prices started to skyrocket because the Federal Reserve unleashed trillions of dollars in new cash, disguised as loans and stimulus, during Covid. As usual, corporations reaped the biggest rewards, with billion-dollar companies like Target allowed to stay open while small businesses were forced to close. Remember when hedge funds were cashing in PPP loans while the everyday American just tried to keep food on the table and keep their job? I wonder if The Atlantic would tell us that government mandated shutdowns during Covid were our fault, too.
Remember, as Americans were spending like crazy prior to the Covid crisis, the main problem was that we didn’t have enough inflation. Central Bankers were telling us we couldn’t figure out how to generate inflation and we were scared that inflation would never happen again.
In other words, this ‘missing inflation’ gave monetary policy 'experts' carte blanche to pull whatever strings they thought they had access to during Covid, and now we’re reaping the results of what we have sown. And by 'we' have sown, I don't mean the everyday American — I mean the hundreds of PhD economists at the Fed that collectively still can't figure out when a recession is coming, why market cycles take place, why they’re necessary and generally what the fuck is going on at any given point in time
But trillions in money printing didn’t stop some faux-intellectual, professor-like liberal from donning their spectacles and putting pen to paper on an article that makes the blame for the government's inflation problem communal.
Get this: the same group that flips out when privatizing profits and socializing losses happen on Wall St. is now running the same exact scam for the government. They claim victory when the government does something good, but it’s everybody else’s fault when the government does something wrong. Just more cruel irony.
