I am very unhappy today. I haven’t posted very much lately because I have some ideas percolating in my mind.

I have been wanting to write a major piece on the fact that everyone in politics seems to talk up the “free market” while working very hard to make sure that there is little or no free market activity in countless fields of ende3avor. I wanted to talk about the necessary elements for a free market and how government action is necessary to prevent combinations and price fixing.

(Our current national leadership.)

I also want to severely criticize business schools for their nonsensical devotion to the idea that in some strange way, the teachings of business are generally applicable in all industries and businesses. They are not. An understanding of how, why and a historical understanding of a business is absolutely essential to a successful leadership and day to day running of a company. Any examination of American movies and Boeing aircraft reveal the folly of a general business set of teachings applied where it simply does not belong. And I will get to it. It is a difficult subject.

No, today is a bad, bad day. Jimmy Kimmel has been removed from the air by a state sponsored form of censorship. The FCC threatened to pull broadcast licenses and the network complied with their demands.

These last twenty four hours have changed our futures. If this government, incompetent and pitiful as its is, can successfully tell media companies what is and is not acceptable, we have little chance of having fair election or even intelligent national discussion.

This is a nail in the coffin of democracy.

It is very painful for me to see the end of the American experiment in representative democracy, and I will be in mourning for some days.

I find it hard to believe that that coming elections in 2026 will be anything but a rigged farce and that will be the final act in America’s story.

After that we will live in some kind of 4th Reich.

At the moment, its seems inevitable.

James Alan Pilant