Now would be a good time to listen to the real Adam Smith

I trust you will indulge me if I ask you to once again consider the words of Adam Smith

"Society, however, cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another. The moment that injury begins, the moment that mutual resentment and animosity take place, all the bands of it are broke asunder, and the different members of which it consisted are, as it were, dissipated and scattered abroad by the violence and opposition of their discordant affections. If there is any society amongst robbers and murderers, they must at least, according to the trite observation, abstain from robbing and murdering one another."

There is a very powerful society of robbers and murderers in both the UK and the USA that has developed efficiently and powerfully since Smith's day, the political class. They have their own respective meeting places, in the UK it is called Parliament and in the US it is called The White House and Congress. A close federation has developed historically between the two parcels of rogues that traditionally looks after each other's interests in addition to their own. However at this moment in our respective histories a radical movement within each society of robbers and murderers has emerged that have decided to begin robbing and murdering each other. In the UK this movement is known as the Brexiteers and in the US it is known as the 45 and his supporters in the Republican Party. I will refer to both groups as Tories for convenience given that a Tory was the Irish term for a robber or brigand and was the label attached to those Americans loyal to the British monarchy during the War of Independence, in short, in both our societies they continually work against the interests of the people and in favour of a very narrow sectional and class interest. Indeed they are deliberately working against the interests of their own respective parties. What we are witnessing in both our nations is a perilous division being deliberately fostered and manipulated by those Tories who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another for their own personal interests irrespective of the damage that is being, and will continue to be, done to the rest of society. 

In both Britain and the US our nations are riven with mutual resentment and animosity, and the peculiar phenomenon we are witnessing is that this is largely taking place within the Tory orbit of influence in both countries and the radical elements within the Tory group in both nations are quite deliberately and systematically breaking asunder the bands and different members that hold our respective societies together in peace and stability. Their attitudes have percolated down throughout each society as both factions systematically attack the norms, values, legal systems and institutions of society. In both societies they relentlessly attack those who disagree with them. Today we had the 45 calling the Democratic Party treasonous in the same week he called the FBI and the Department of Justice scandalous and a disgrace. In order to save his own skin from future public accountability he is destroying the fabric of American society. If this continues America must inevitably face either a dictatorship or very ugly civil unrest.

In Britain Brexiteers have attacked the judiciary calling them the enemies of the people, attacked the medical and legal professions, the BBC and all media outlets that call for proper scrutiny of the Brexit process. They have stimulated hatred and division with one Labour MP being shot and stabbed to death and others telling us they wish to kill prominent public figures like Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan as I reported to you recently. We have a right-wing media in both societies that are now, in my opinion, openly fascist, with the standard bearers being Fox news and the Daily Mail. I ask you to heed the words of Adam Smith - society cannot subsist in such conditions. Both America and Britain are in great peril because of the behaviour of the political elite. They are out of control and in open warfare, amongst themselves, and with the rest of society who disagree with them. At the apex of both our societies we have a collection of lunatics, incompetents, pathological liars, and serious psychopaths driven by a poisonous ideology who are determined to get their own way irrespective of whatever constraints that society, legal processes, constitutional norms and values or public opinion, stand in their way, and they will say and do anything to succeed. This is the lasting legacy of Thatcher and Reagan, of Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek and Ayn Rand. It is the end product of political and economic free market neoliberalism that demands unregulated and unrestricted freedom of action for the economic and political elite. Brexit and the 45 will destroy both our societies unless we say that enough is enough. I will leave you with words of Adam Smith I have used here before, but they are taking on a frightening significance in today's world 

"the great never look upon their inferiors as their fellow-creatures.........Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence, but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it. Justice is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society, that fabric which to raise and support seems in this world, if I may say so, to have been the peculiar and darling care of nature, must in a moment crumble into atoms."

We live in a world today that is profoundly unjust, but a world where the elite and their lackeys continually glorify injustice and continually tell us that it is actually a good thing. The removal of justice today is deliberate and systematic and it is a brave or foolish soul who would doubt that the fabric of human society is not beginning to seriously fray at the edges in both nations. You have been warned

Your Servant

Doktor Kommirat