The Straussian Two Step
- An interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis).
- In modern politics it's used to create a false reality by asserting something that is partially true (at best) or a truth that you yourself as a person in power created.
Thesis
- The first thing you do is manufacture a crisis that will disrupt the supply of the product you want to takeover.
- You then brainwash and/or gaslight two entire generations into hating themselves for being rich, wasteful, spoiled, alive or worse, just plain white.
Antithesis
- You allow your fake political opponents to produce the opposite argument
- The refiners are just responding to the market
- Once the crisis is here and the rhetorical groundwork laid after months of repeating these lies about the cause of the crisis
- PUTLER DID IT - it's easy to move the conversation to where you really want it to go
- Remember the goal - destroy free markets, nationalize oil and gas
Synthesis
- Put windfall profit taxes on refiners who are taking advantage of the vulnerable and needy common man
- Government is keeping the market in a supply/demand mismatch on purpose
- If Biden wanted lower gas prices he wouldn’t be draining the SPR, he’d be rolling back regulations on refining oil or offering some of that ‘infrastructure money’ to help the industry rebuild post-COVID
High Bid Wins the Prize
- Diesel fuel demand is mostly inelastic, since it's simply necessary for our daily life
- Any supply disruption will cause massive price spikes because people will fall all over themselves bidding up the price of available supply to get what they can
- Everyone does the cost/benefit analysis
- A supply shortage pushes the bids for basic goods up out of necessity
Nationalization: The Next Two-Step
- Windfall profit taxes are already on the way in Germany, 90% of all profits taxed away to the state
- Energy production, when that bill passes, will be nationalized in Germany
- Germany will become another energy subsidizing hellscape like we see all over the world
- The US is pushing for outright nationalization of all oil and gas production
https://tomluongo.me/2022/11/04/the-oil-nationalization-two-step/
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