Heath Garrett
336 posts
@ThinkHeath
The most important virtue in business and in politics is to think things through.
Huge endorsement in Georgia's race to be Governor:
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I tried to follow Davos. I really did. But I couldn't. Too many fatuous elites (forgive me) lamenting that someone was moving their cheese. You can agree with their concerns over Trump's policies, but you shouldn't take seriously the never-ending, soul-wearying anxiety and moral panic. Anxiety isn't analysis. It isn't a strategy. It isn't going to make the world safer and better. And it isn't a good lens for understanding the things that worry us. The West is led by people who suffer from what French sociologists once called "déformation professionnelle," the way a professional class can collapse in unison into the narrow mental habits and specialized vocabularies of their institutions and professional interests. This is a variant of the "curse-of-knowledge bias," when a class of people raised on a particular vocabulary or analytical framework becomes incapable of observing events outside that specialized framework, or even of imagining how someone who lacks that lens might see things. It's mentally easier to just assume that everyone else, be they working-class Englishmen or Iranian ayatollahs, thinks like them and will ultimately behave as they expect. That's how you arrive at elites across so many Western nations who viewed mass immigration as a mere economic calculation and couldn't see the social and cultural upheaval they were driving. That's how you get a European elite that came to view hard power politics as inherently evil, a boorish misuse of power, and so allowed themselves to grow happily complacent about Europe's dire military weakness -- rather than understand that geopolitics are an inescapable arena in which a weakening of the good guys inevitably means a strengthening of the bad guys. That's how you get a whole class of Western policymakers to whom religious radicalism is assumed to be insincere and performative. The bean-counters and policy-paper writers of Western governments are rarely religious themselves nowadays, so they can't really imagine that anyone else out there takes their religion seriously enough to let it drive policy. It's no wonder such people do such a bad job at running the world. They can't even see it for what it is. Their world is a mirror reflecting their own most self-righteous understanding of themselves back at them. And so they fall back on the only cost-free arrow left in their quiver: Endless, tiresome moral panic. If you want to actually understand the world without the perpetual panic, you need to listen to voices that aren't part of the Davos consensus. Here's one small example. In Winston's latest episode, @MsMelChen describes Trump's strategic vision better than all but a handful of the Davos participants could have (including Trump himself, by the way; that's not his strong suit). And suddenly it makes sense. It isn't just random and malicious nuttiness. Friends, the world does actually make sense. I promise. It isn't disintegrating. Things are less fragmented and dangerous than they look (though real dangers loom, of course). The US is 25% of global GDP. Europe is another 20%. They are mighty enough to build any future they want. They just have to stop pretending they are hobbits and the world is an idyllic Shire, and stop being perpetually surprised to discover otherwise. Less panic, less moralizing, more power and confidence for the good guys. It's a simple recipe, but it'll get the job done.
NYT: We're Living Through "Great Detachment" marked by: ✔️ Just 50% of HS seniors today have dated compared to 85% in 1980s ✔️ Marriage rate down 60% since 1970 such that only 1-in-2 adults are now married ✔️ Total fertility rate has hit record low of 1.6 babies per woman
Today, over 50 sheriffs from across Georgia joined the Carr Pool - sending a clear message about who they trust to keep our state safe. Law enforcement knows I’m the tough, principled, conservative candidate who has their back. From taking down gangs to cracking down on fentanyl, I’ve stood shoulder to shoulder with them to protect our communities. Together, we’ll continue #MakingCrimeIllegalAgain to Keep Georgia Strong! Endorsing Sheriffs: Clark Millsap, Bartow County Lee Cone, Ben Hill County Ray Paulk, Berrien County Mark Crowe, Bryan County Noel Brown, Bulloch County Josh Hilton, Calhoun County Terry Langley, Carroll County Gary Sisk, Catoosa County Raymond Peterson, Clinch County Rod Howell, Colquitt County Lenn Wood, Coweta County Mike Yeager, Coweta County (Fmr.) Billy Hancock, Crisp County Ray Cross, Dade County Brian Robinson, Dodge County Craig Peavy, Dooly County Jimmy McDuffie, Effingham County Mac Edwards, Evans County Dane Kirby, Fannin County Barry Babb, Fayette County Dave Roberson, Floyd County Steve Thomas, Franklin County (Fmr.) Jeremy Kelley, Glascock County Mitch Ralston, Gordon County Robin Krockum, Habersham County Joey Terrell, Habersham County (Fmr.) Gerald Couch, Hall County Stacy Williams, Haralson County Mike Jolley, Harris County Ross Henry, Heard County Cody Youghn, Irwin County Janis Mangum, Jackson County (Fmr.) Preston Bohannon, Jeff Davis County Nick Norton, Lanier County Reggie Rachals, Lee County Michael Moore, Madison County Doug Maybin, Montgomery County (Fmr.) James Hale, Oconee County David Gabriel, Oglethorpe County Terry Deese, Peach County (Fmr.) Donnie Craig, Pickens County Mark Gerrells, Rabun County Shane Tondee, Schley County (Fmr.) Heath Elliott, Seminole County Darrell Dix, Spalding County Sim Davidson, Telfair County Chris Steverson, Telfair County (Fmr.) Thomas Corbin, Treutlen County James Woodruff, Troup County Andy Hester, Turner County Chuck Moseley, Wayne County Glenn Giles, Wheeler County Don Whitaker, Worth County carrforgeorgia.com/georgia-sherif…
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WATCH: Erika Kirk's powerful message to America at the memorial service for her late husband, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk: "I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it's what Charlie would do." "Even in death, I could see the man that I love." "Charlie died with incomplete work, but not with unfinished business." "Everything that Turning Point USA built through Charlie's vision and hard work, we will make ten times greater through the power of his memory."
Antifa and extremist anarchist accounts are calling for their comrades to intimidate GA attorney general @ChrisCarr_Ga and to descend on the Fulton County Courthouse to support their members who have been indicted on RICO, domestic terrorism and money laundering charges. It is one of the biggest cases by prosecutors to break up a violent international Antifa network in the U.S.
