It Won’t Be Simple, But it will Get Done

In 2003, Joseph Overton, an American political scientist, took off with his ultralight plane in Michigan and crashed immediately after. It was a tragic aeronautical accident for the 43-year-old, a genius libertarian who left the world a legacy with the concept of the Overton Window.

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The Overton Window strives to explain the range and bounds of a group of people’s political discourse, be it a city, a state, a country, or a religion.

It seeks to find what can be tolerated, as opposed to what is considered absurd or radical.

What’s beautiful about the window is that it moves. It can shift, expand, shrink, tilt and everything else you can think of.

In fact, it never stands still.

Crises, prosperity, decadence, poverty, any and all conditions and circumstances can move what is acceptable or radical in society.

It can also be forcefully manipulated by a concentrated effort, coordinated by Big Interest Groups and those with agendas.

In the past 30 years, western society has gradually become such a monopolistic hegemony that an attitude of disrespect towards discipline has festered in discourse.

The feeling of invincibility has made society so unthreatened that the Overton Window has nearly broken. There is no limit as to the ideas that can be entertained, to the point that if one attempts to criticize a foolish notion, he is canceled.

A society’s greatness is measured not by allowing the Overton Window to infinitely expand but by its surgical precision in defining the ideas that should be celebrated and turned into policy.

In other words, one must be on constant guard, erect walls, not just windows, and protect with vigilance those ideas that eventually become habituated.

The fall from grace of The United States of America and of Europe is that what is now considered success is the implementation of the absurd and radical, since it artificially shows how inclusive the soul could be to the broad ranges of philosophies in the human imagination.

The problem is that many ideas are destructive, wrong, regressive and outright dangerous. No one would think to implement a government policy of mandating children touch electrical wires three times a day, even if those advocating for the policy, are offended.

What President Trump was able to do is to stop this process of celebrating the ever-expansion of the Overton Window and the acceptance of ineffective and totally moronic policies, for the sake of entertaining the notions of the unexperienced and progressives.

Instead, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and others are reviving the disciplined narrowing of the window back to the policies that have proven to work.

The government isn’t a giant laboratory, where ideas can be constantly tested at no cost. It surely felt that way for a time, when no one challenged the hegemony of the United States, but what Donald Trump correctly sensed was that if the government continued on this path, the consequences would be a lab explosion.

The time for talk is over, and the time to bring back discipline and celebrate the acceptance of common sense and the rejection of mediocrity is upon us.

This process will stop the nuclear Armageddon that would have befallen upon us, had Kamala Harris been installed president, by applying massive manipulation of the American public, which have collectively lost the ability to discern truth.

We are so back! Now we will see the rebirth of common sense and accurate thinking!

Best Regards,

Lior Gantz
President, WealthResearchGroup.com