Trump's election confirms the power of the conscious effort underway to recapture our Republic's national conversation, and affirms the actual power of truth and truth speaking, in creating the truth/fact based American reality We the People deserve. The ability of the "managerial bureaucratic elite", and the surveillance psyop they are using to shout down, distort and subvert the human moral reason our founding fathers worked so hard to place in our Constitution, has been weakened by the ascent of subscription journalism. The entire assault on free speech, shadow banning on the internet, life and career cancellation itself, speaks directly to the perp's desperation. Trump won because the lie/psyop became transparent to healthy human reality. Mr. Lyons is correct. Trump is reprieve not salvation.
The six decade class war assault and wounding of the American psyche was inflicted by the people sworn to protect it. As in Nazi Germany, Mao's China and Stalin's Russia, totalitarianism slips easily over the edge from self-serving ideology into murderous pathology. People die by the millions. So far, the UPHEAVAL has been the only site I've encountered actually attempting to explore and reveal the unconscious forces driving the madness and confronting the actual disease. Journalism's exploitation of continual self righteous knee-jerk hysteria at the symptomatology actually encourages convenient abdication of citizen's responsibility to confront the disease itself. In all cases the most difficult aspect of healing a wounded psyche is getting the patient to accept his responsibility in the conflict and accepting the power and agency required to heal.
Conservatives generally view elections as the end: "We won! Whew. Let's take a breather."
Progressives view elections as the beginning: "We won! Let's go get things done."
This makes sense since progressives are revolutionaries at heart (they seek change) while conservatives are reactionaries (they seek normalcy). However, this dynamic has thwarted conservative efforts to roll back the "long march through the institutions" for decades.
I'm tentatively optimistic that there is now an element on the Right that is pissed enough at the Democrats "normal" to sustain revolutionary change in the opposite direction. But we'll see.
Very wise advice for the new administration and their counter-revolutionary allies. My only critique is on the characterization of the neocons. While I agree that some neocons put the interests of the Empire over the interests of the Republic, I think most genuinely believe that maintaining the Empire is in the best interest of the Republic. I am typically not a fan of attributing bad motives to people who may just disagree on policy. It seems that many neocons view the policy preferences of the America First types as naive. Many neocons believe that the first order negative consequences (high defense spending, surveillance, and even sometimes war) are worth the price to avoid second or third order consequences (reduction in American’s economic wellbeing, domestic terrorism, subversion by hostile powers, military threats to allies). While they may be incorrect in their assessment of the costs and benefits of these policies, I do think there is a genuine good-faith argument to be had over isolation/deterrence/intervention, freedom/security, etc. I don’t claim to have the policy answers (I tend to lean more towards the America First side), but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Agreed. I think the Neocons see the Liberal international order as one of a series of concentric lines of defense of the Republic. Certainly they can lose the perspective of what exactly we are defending, but they would not see themselves as motivated by professional self-interest necessarily. Yet the vitriol of some of the connected Never-Trumpers... the fastest way to cause a mortal enemy is to threaten someone's livelihood, after all. That's exactly what Lyon's prescription will be doing, on an unprecedented scale. Yet it must be done.
Best essay I have seen on the current moment and I have read a lot. Way too much triumphalism on the Right. We have won a campaign, not a war. Or to quote Churchill, it is the not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning. Portions of the Left are actually more thoughtful on the theory that you learn more from a defeat than from a victory.
Given that the President has far more unilateral control over foreign policy than domestic policy, I would suggest there be some focus there in spite of foreign policy not being something that the general population is not terribly interested in. #1 on the list is ending the forever wars and Ukraine is the most dangerous. It will be easy to push Zelensky into line but Putin is more difficult since he is far less dependent. We don't really have any useful sticks but may have a carrot in easing the sanctions. We don't really know how much they are hurting Russia and Putin will say not at all, if only as a negotiating point. But restoring respect to Russia as a member of the international system would be a plus. Our so called allies in Europe will have to be curbed or cut loose as those people are completely crazy. Orban is OK and Macron and Meloni may be reachable but the rest are useless at best. As for the Middle East, no boots on the ground ever. At some point, Israel will tire of making the rubble bounce in Gaza (probably just waiting for Trump) and we should try to quietly encourage a wider peace. Saudi Arabia is key here. Big problem is what to do with Gaza when the war ends. Israel will never let Hamas rule and probably not the PA either. Ideally, it would be part of Egypt as it has been on and off for several thousand years. But Egypt doesn't want it. It will take a big bribe to change that. #2 is a combination of immigration and fair trade. Pretty confident Trumpworld knows how to do this based on the first term.
Incredible! This must be distributed to every one of Trump's appointees and should be read as a speech at every conservative gathering, local and national. And it should be given to every conservative talk show host and TV station who might read it in parts and help consolidate their thinking. I will share this with everyone I can.
This was key and the church has a major role here ..."Much of what ails the nation – the widespread alienation and atomization, the spiritual void of nihilism – is the result of deeper disorders brought on by liberal modernity and its decay."
“there is strong, documented evidence that OSF, along with its oligarchic fellows like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Tides Foundation have repeatedly funded…domestic violent extremist groups”
Chesa Boudin, the recalled Soros DA of San Fran, is the son of famous radical communists David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, founders of Weather Underground violent domestic terrorist sex cult in 70s-80s. So yeah the author is not being hyperbolic here.
"Nothing would better secure the counter-revolution than extending Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial founder’s mindset beyond the private sector and into movement building."
I have three words for you, Mr Lyons: Silicon. Valley. Bank.
Please recall David Sacks declaring the entire economy would collapse unless - guess who? - bailed out that bank. A bank that only this 'founder's' class of people had used to manage their finances. When it was time to own up and take their lumps for bad financial management decisions, this 'entrepreneurial founder's' class you think so highly of went all in on demanding a taxpayer bailout of a bank nobody - except David Sacks and his ilk - had ever heard of. And for the good of the country we were told. Right - color me skeptical of them.
Also, RFKJr is a charlatan. He always has been. I understand the politics of why Trump embraced him. But, I'd take Matt Gaetz over him any day - and I think Matt Gaetz is an absolute, self-serving cretin. At least he wouldn't be out there tacitly encouraging parents to forgo polio and measles vaccines for their kids. Children will die of these diseases because of him and the influence he peddles because his last name is Kennedy instead of something like, say, Lyons.
I saw this coming, N.S., but now you've gone completely off the deep end. The overheated, almost hysterical tone of the piece and the giddy anticipation of implementing the most outlandish proposals, mark it, sadly, as almost demented. First of all, Trump did not win in an overwhelming landslide, he did not even win a majority of the popular vote. Second, you seem to think that Trump is a populist. This is delusional. Trump and his billionaire cronies don't give a rat's ass about the working class. Trump is a con man all the way down. The only "policies" that really interest him are those that promote his own self-aggrandizement and revenge. As an example, the Trump tax cuts benefitted corporations and the top 1% but did little to help the middle and working class, while adding about $4 trillion to the debt. As for the national health, you don't achieve it by appointing a nut job and science denier like Kennedy to be in charge of it. Finally, you seem to think that Trump cares about "our republic." What better way to show this than to attempt to overthrow it, as Trump did on Jan.6, 2021 and the events leading up to that day?
Brilliant piece; we can only hope those who occupy the now-in-flux halls of power put their eyes upon it. The path to true greatness is always a perilous and uncertain one. People imagine that it is won at a pivotal moment, yet the reality is the long haul -- what takes place over many years or decades; even generations.
The rectification, restoration, and revitalization you describe are there on the horizon, the gulf between us and them teetering beyond our grasp, but if a new counter-revolutionary elite is to turn the ship around, the battle has -- as you say -- not even started yet. Truly, complacency with momentary victory is foolish.
Probably the most lucid essay I've read on the topic of "the vibe shift." Whatever comes to pass, we are in for some serious turbulence. The final aspect I would add, leading on from your conclusion (last paragraph), is that it is in these times we should come to understand that the reification of "legacy" as a concept should be built on and celebrated. If indeed this counter-revolution is to be truly effective, then it will eventually need new generations to carry it on. It is up to us -- and perhaps particularly, those with children -- to push truth, debate, and open dialogue. People must understand what aspects of liberalism may work and which ones simply must be discarded -- what institutions must be gutted or revealed to all for the grift they dared to so brazenly pull.
If human life and societal structures inevitably follow a cyclical pattern of birth, chaos, death, and rebirth, I’d argue we’re witnessing a reversal of Churchill’s famous words: this is not the end of the beginning, but the beginning of the end.
The forces now unleashed operate beyond the control of individuals, governments, and even the super powers. Resistance to change is a deeply ingrained survival instinct, yet when new technologies gain momentum, they roll forward like an unstoppable snowball, creating realities incompatible with established systems and institutions.
As you rightly point out, now is the time to fight. But if this fight is between two fracturing parts of the same country, doesn’t it already reveal where we are ultimately headed?
I really enjoyed reading this article because it means a lot to me escaping, decades ago, a dictatorial system that eventually got dismantled.
My dad, was telling me about the mistake his generation made in 1947. The early opportunist Socialists under the Stalinist directions were ransacking all the institutions of the country. The educated middle class sat there, like deer in the headlights, and did nothing. They were listening to Voice of America telling them lies, on how the allies, mostly Americans, will come back and save them from the Red Fate. Many of my parents friends ended up in gulags. Only few came back home to die shortly after. Anything from 1947 to 1989 was nothing but struggle to survive, trying to make sense of such kind of life where the State Secret Service was traumatizing everyone around. We always have to remember that the Socialism has not died, and it is just a theory that killed millions, like ants. It is still well and alive in many countries including the affluent West European countries destroying themselves socioeconomically.
University funding shouldn't be contingent on any government prerogative because it shouldn't exist at all.
Leftists tell us that if government doesn't fund something then "we" (the government is always "we" in their minds) don't value it. That is backwards. It is precisely because something is important that government should not fund it.
Government funding has strings attached. It comes with pressures. Conditions. Inefficiencies. Corruptions. Academic funding in particular determines the beneficiaries of academic activity. As the only beneficiaries should be the students, 100% of funding must come from the students. This is the only way to make higher education serve the interests of the students.
State-run education is state-run media, but far worse because of the captive audience in its formative years. We should consider state-run education to be more un-American than state-run media is.
IDK, the hook is set pretty deep. We have to try. Lyons has nothing but good suggestions. But the most virulent ideological adversary is the one Lyon skips over: Modern Medical Science, (MMS). Everyone believes medicine holds the philosopher's stone firmly in its grip. It is the religion, the zeitgeist, of this age. We are in thrall to this new manifestation of Mammon. MMS is the ultimate transactional Idol. You might be able to burn down the universities, I doubt it, but it's worth a torch and a try. No way are they going to let you burn down the hospital.
The growth of Government and the PMC over the last hundred years is nothing compared to the growth of MMS.
The old Roman Emperor said, "pay the soldiers, nothing else matters." The zeitgeist now is, "pay the doctor, nothing else matters." Left and Right believe in MMS. Its the only thing everyone agrees on. If we can't slay/tame the MMS giant we are doomed. Anybody got any ideas? Maybe you think I'm crazy? It's your choice, Ivermectin or mRNA? Who believes you don't need medicine. MMS holds all the keys and all the cards and has a claim to all the gold.
- On November 4th, Lyons last published on Substack -
Lyons said, "It was, frankly, one of the most disturbing talks I have ever sat and listened to. Matthew B. Crawford and I have therefore agreed to both publish Shafer’s remarks"
What Lyons didn't say - but maybe he understands is, MMS is machine-antihumanism. It is our metaphor of meaning and if we can't change the metaphor, we're doomed.
Populist support for cutting medical spending is a negative number, if and when it involves "their" medical. People hate insurance because insurance only pays what it has to pay. It doesn't matter if it is private or public insurance - everybody hates insurance and everybody believes they can't live without it. I think 50% of all Medicare expenditures are spent in the last thirty days of life. The right-to-die movement is also about medical efficiency. End the suffering, but also, end the waste.
Oh, Please. I refuse to become Canada, which legalized and now encourages euthanasia. End suffering, end waste. To paraphrase JD Vance "Do you hear yourself, William?"
One can always write better. I apologize I wasn't clear. I am not in favor of 'healthcare' dominating our understanding of who we are. Nothing about Modern Medical Science helps us in understanding our souls' true condition. Ending suffering and ending waste is the wrong way to think about it. But, it is the only way MMS and the insurance companies can think about it. I am not in favor of such thinking about human beings.
I drop everything when this fellow plopsone out!
A beautiful movement, fulsome and effortless , nothing better: bravo!
Banger as always. The left is a cancer, RINO neocons are AIDS. DOGE is chemotherapy and MAGA/MAHA will restore our nation's immune system.
We have all the right personnel in place to excise the blob, hope they execute well and with joy!
Trump's election confirms the power of the conscious effort underway to recapture our Republic's national conversation, and affirms the actual power of truth and truth speaking, in creating the truth/fact based American reality We the People deserve. The ability of the "managerial bureaucratic elite", and the surveillance psyop they are using to shout down, distort and subvert the human moral reason our founding fathers worked so hard to place in our Constitution, has been weakened by the ascent of subscription journalism. The entire assault on free speech, shadow banning on the internet, life and career cancellation itself, speaks directly to the perp's desperation. Trump won because the lie/psyop became transparent to healthy human reality. Mr. Lyons is correct. Trump is reprieve not salvation.
The six decade class war assault and wounding of the American psyche was inflicted by the people sworn to protect it. As in Nazi Germany, Mao's China and Stalin's Russia, totalitarianism slips easily over the edge from self-serving ideology into murderous pathology. People die by the millions. So far, the UPHEAVAL has been the only site I've encountered actually attempting to explore and reveal the unconscious forces driving the madness and confronting the actual disease. Journalism's exploitation of continual self righteous knee-jerk hysteria at the symptomatology actually encourages convenient abdication of citizen's responsibility to confront the disease itself. In all cases the most difficult aspect of healing a wounded psyche is getting the patient to accept his responsibility in the conflict and accepting the power and agency required to heal.
It's time to get clean.
Conservatives generally view elections as the end: "We won! Whew. Let's take a breather."
Progressives view elections as the beginning: "We won! Let's go get things done."
This makes sense since progressives are revolutionaries at heart (they seek change) while conservatives are reactionaries (they seek normalcy). However, this dynamic has thwarted conservative efforts to roll back the "long march through the institutions" for decades.
I'm tentatively optimistic that there is now an element on the Right that is pissed enough at the Democrats "normal" to sustain revolutionary change in the opposite direction. But we'll see.
Nice to see you here.
Very wise advice for the new administration and their counter-revolutionary allies. My only critique is on the characterization of the neocons. While I agree that some neocons put the interests of the Empire over the interests of the Republic, I think most genuinely believe that maintaining the Empire is in the best interest of the Republic. I am typically not a fan of attributing bad motives to people who may just disagree on policy. It seems that many neocons view the policy preferences of the America First types as naive. Many neocons believe that the first order negative consequences (high defense spending, surveillance, and even sometimes war) are worth the price to avoid second or third order consequences (reduction in American’s economic wellbeing, domestic terrorism, subversion by hostile powers, military threats to allies). While they may be incorrect in their assessment of the costs and benefits of these policies, I do think there is a genuine good-faith argument to be had over isolation/deterrence/intervention, freedom/security, etc. I don’t claim to have the policy answers (I tend to lean more towards the America First side), but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Agreed. I think the Neocons see the Liberal international order as one of a series of concentric lines of defense of the Republic. Certainly they can lose the perspective of what exactly we are defending, but they would not see themselves as motivated by professional self-interest necessarily. Yet the vitriol of some of the connected Never-Trumpers... the fastest way to cause a mortal enemy is to threaten someone's livelihood, after all. That's exactly what Lyon's prescription will be doing, on an unprecedented scale. Yet it must be done.
Zero out NPR.
A masterpiece of analysis and prose. Well done.
Best essay I have seen on the current moment and I have read a lot. Way too much triumphalism on the Right. We have won a campaign, not a war. Or to quote Churchill, it is the not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning. Portions of the Left are actually more thoughtful on the theory that you learn more from a defeat than from a victory.
Given that the President has far more unilateral control over foreign policy than domestic policy, I would suggest there be some focus there in spite of foreign policy not being something that the general population is not terribly interested in. #1 on the list is ending the forever wars and Ukraine is the most dangerous. It will be easy to push Zelensky into line but Putin is more difficult since he is far less dependent. We don't really have any useful sticks but may have a carrot in easing the sanctions. We don't really know how much they are hurting Russia and Putin will say not at all, if only as a negotiating point. But restoring respect to Russia as a member of the international system would be a plus. Our so called allies in Europe will have to be curbed or cut loose as those people are completely crazy. Orban is OK and Macron and Meloni may be reachable but the rest are useless at best. As for the Middle East, no boots on the ground ever. At some point, Israel will tire of making the rubble bounce in Gaza (probably just waiting for Trump) and we should try to quietly encourage a wider peace. Saudi Arabia is key here. Big problem is what to do with Gaza when the war ends. Israel will never let Hamas rule and probably not the PA either. Ideally, it would be part of Egypt as it has been on and off for several thousand years. But Egypt doesn't want it. It will take a big bribe to change that. #2 is a combination of immigration and fair trade. Pretty confident Trumpworld knows how to do this based on the first term.
Incredible! This must be distributed to every one of Trump's appointees and should be read as a speech at every conservative gathering, local and national. And it should be given to every conservative talk show host and TV station who might read it in parts and help consolidate their thinking. I will share this with everyone I can.
This was key and the church has a major role here ..."Much of what ails the nation – the widespread alienation and atomization, the spiritual void of nihilism – is the result of deeper disorders brought on by liberal modernity and its decay."
“there is strong, documented evidence that OSF, along with its oligarchic fellows like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Tides Foundation have repeatedly funded…domestic violent extremist groups”
Chesa Boudin, the recalled Soros DA of San Fran, is the son of famous radical communists David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, founders of Weather Underground violent domestic terrorist sex cult in 70s-80s. So yeah the author is not being hyperbolic here.
"Nothing would better secure the counter-revolution than extending Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial founder’s mindset beyond the private sector and into movement building."
I have three words for you, Mr Lyons: Silicon. Valley. Bank.
Please recall David Sacks declaring the entire economy would collapse unless - guess who? - bailed out that bank. A bank that only this 'founder's' class of people had used to manage their finances. When it was time to own up and take their lumps for bad financial management decisions, this 'entrepreneurial founder's' class you think so highly of went all in on demanding a taxpayer bailout of a bank nobody - except David Sacks and his ilk - had ever heard of. And for the good of the country we were told. Right - color me skeptical of them.
Also, RFKJr is a charlatan. He always has been. I understand the politics of why Trump embraced him. But, I'd take Matt Gaetz over him any day - and I think Matt Gaetz is an absolute, self-serving cretin. At least he wouldn't be out there tacitly encouraging parents to forgo polio and measles vaccines for their kids. Children will die of these diseases because of him and the influence he peddles because his last name is Kennedy instead of something like, say, Lyons.
You're mostly on target, though.
No, children won't die of measles and polio. Dig a little deeper here and look at the research, not the gov't funded propaganda.
I saw this coming, N.S., but now you've gone completely off the deep end. The overheated, almost hysterical tone of the piece and the giddy anticipation of implementing the most outlandish proposals, mark it, sadly, as almost demented. First of all, Trump did not win in an overwhelming landslide, he did not even win a majority of the popular vote. Second, you seem to think that Trump is a populist. This is delusional. Trump and his billionaire cronies don't give a rat's ass about the working class. Trump is a con man all the way down. The only "policies" that really interest him are those that promote his own self-aggrandizement and revenge. As an example, the Trump tax cuts benefitted corporations and the top 1% but did little to help the middle and working class, while adding about $4 trillion to the debt. As for the national health, you don't achieve it by appointing a nut job and science denier like Kennedy to be in charge of it. Finally, you seem to think that Trump cares about "our republic." What better way to show this than to attempt to overthrow it, as Trump did on Jan.6, 2021 and the events leading up to that day?
Brilliant piece; we can only hope those who occupy the now-in-flux halls of power put their eyes upon it. The path to true greatness is always a perilous and uncertain one. People imagine that it is won at a pivotal moment, yet the reality is the long haul -- what takes place over many years or decades; even generations.
The rectification, restoration, and revitalization you describe are there on the horizon, the gulf between us and them teetering beyond our grasp, but if a new counter-revolutionary elite is to turn the ship around, the battle has -- as you say -- not even started yet. Truly, complacency with momentary victory is foolish.
Probably the most lucid essay I've read on the topic of "the vibe shift." Whatever comes to pass, we are in for some serious turbulence. The final aspect I would add, leading on from your conclusion (last paragraph), is that it is in these times we should come to understand that the reification of "legacy" as a concept should be built on and celebrated. If indeed this counter-revolution is to be truly effective, then it will eventually need new generations to carry it on. It is up to us -- and perhaps particularly, those with children -- to push truth, debate, and open dialogue. People must understand what aspects of liberalism may work and which ones simply must be discarded -- what institutions must be gutted or revealed to all for the grift they dared to so brazenly pull.
If human life and societal structures inevitably follow a cyclical pattern of birth, chaos, death, and rebirth, I’d argue we’re witnessing a reversal of Churchill’s famous words: this is not the end of the beginning, but the beginning of the end.
The forces now unleashed operate beyond the control of individuals, governments, and even the super powers. Resistance to change is a deeply ingrained survival instinct, yet when new technologies gain momentum, they roll forward like an unstoppable snowball, creating realities incompatible with established systems and institutions.
As you rightly point out, now is the time to fight. But if this fight is between two fracturing parts of the same country, doesn’t it already reveal where we are ultimately headed?
I really enjoyed reading this article because it means a lot to me escaping, decades ago, a dictatorial system that eventually got dismantled.
My dad, was telling me about the mistake his generation made in 1947. The early opportunist Socialists under the Stalinist directions were ransacking all the institutions of the country. The educated middle class sat there, like deer in the headlights, and did nothing. They were listening to Voice of America telling them lies, on how the allies, mostly Americans, will come back and save them from the Red Fate. Many of my parents friends ended up in gulags. Only few came back home to die shortly after. Anything from 1947 to 1989 was nothing but struggle to survive, trying to make sense of such kind of life where the State Secret Service was traumatizing everyone around. We always have to remember that the Socialism has not died, and it is just a theory that killed millions, like ants. It is still well and alive in many countries including the affluent West European countries destroying themselves socioeconomically.
University funding shouldn't be contingent on any government prerogative because it shouldn't exist at all.
Leftists tell us that if government doesn't fund something then "we" (the government is always "we" in their minds) don't value it. That is backwards. It is precisely because something is important that government should not fund it.
Government funding has strings attached. It comes with pressures. Conditions. Inefficiencies. Corruptions. Academic funding in particular determines the beneficiaries of academic activity. As the only beneficiaries should be the students, 100% of funding must come from the students. This is the only way to make higher education serve the interests of the students.
State-run education is state-run media, but far worse because of the captive audience in its formative years. We should consider state-run education to be more un-American than state-run media is.
IDK, the hook is set pretty deep. We have to try. Lyons has nothing but good suggestions. But the most virulent ideological adversary is the one Lyon skips over: Modern Medical Science, (MMS). Everyone believes medicine holds the philosopher's stone firmly in its grip. It is the religion, the zeitgeist, of this age. We are in thrall to this new manifestation of Mammon. MMS is the ultimate transactional Idol. You might be able to burn down the universities, I doubt it, but it's worth a torch and a try. No way are they going to let you burn down the hospital.
The growth of Government and the PMC over the last hundred years is nothing compared to the growth of MMS.
The old Roman Emperor said, "pay the soldiers, nothing else matters." The zeitgeist now is, "pay the doctor, nothing else matters." Left and Right believe in MMS. Its the only thing everyone agrees on. If we can't slay/tame the MMS giant we are doomed. Anybody got any ideas? Maybe you think I'm crazy? It's your choice, Ivermectin or mRNA? Who believes you don't need medicine. MMS holds all the keys and all the cards and has a claim to all the gold.
- On November 4th, Lyons last published on Substack -
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/machine-antihumanism-and-the-inversion
Lyons said, "It was, frankly, one of the most disturbing talks I have ever sat and listened to. Matthew B. Crawford and I have therefore agreed to both publish Shafer’s remarks"
What Lyons didn't say - but maybe he understands is, MMS is machine-antihumanism. It is our metaphor of meaning and if we can't change the metaphor, we're doomed.
Battachyria (sp?) at NIH is a very promising appt., not to mention RFK.
Populist support for cutting medical spending is a negative number, if and when it involves "their" medical. People hate insurance because insurance only pays what it has to pay. It doesn't matter if it is private or public insurance - everybody hates insurance and everybody believes they can't live without it. I think 50% of all Medicare expenditures are spent in the last thirty days of life. The right-to-die movement is also about medical efficiency. End the suffering, but also, end the waste.
Oh, Please. I refuse to become Canada, which legalized and now encourages euthanasia. End suffering, end waste. To paraphrase JD Vance "Do you hear yourself, William?"
One can always write better. I apologize I wasn't clear. I am not in favor of 'healthcare' dominating our understanding of who we are. Nothing about Modern Medical Science helps us in understanding our souls' true condition. Ending suffering and ending waste is the wrong way to think about it. But, it is the only way MMS and the insurance companies can think about it. I am not in favor of such thinking about human beings.