The following article, Built to Fail: How Democrat Power Obeys All the Wrong Laws, was first published on The Black Sphere.
Joe Biden and most other Democrat leaders embody the Peter Principle: the idea that people in a hierarchy rise to their level of incompetence—and then stay there. Biden’s incompetence is not a fluke.
Biden happens when career advancement is based not on results, but on politics, connections, and staying quiet until it’s your turn. Biden has spent five decades moving up by saying very little, doing even less, and being just bland enough to pose little threat to the hierarchy. When Biden’s flaws were placed at the top of the heap, they were no longer hidden and sadly became national policy.
But while Biden drifted in senility, his party remained razor-sharp in their dedication to Gerson’s Law: “The left always sides with evil.”
Hamas? The Left blames Israel. A black cop shoots a white criminal? Crickets. A criminal illegal alien kills a mother of five? They focus on “compassion for migrants.” There’s a perverse consistency to it: if a situation involves a moral choice, they’ll find the most depraved side possible—and throw a parade for it.
Why? Because evil has marketing appeal. It wears victimhood like armor and cloaks power-grabs in the language of “justice.” The Left doesn’t ignore morality. They invert it.
Look at their other leaders. Pelosi made a fortune on the stock market. And let’s not forget that she demanded her hairdresser open her shop during covid. And what of Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, AOC, and the many others.
Even the media operates by a set of laws.
Brandolini’s Law explains why Democrat lies spread faster than the truth can catch them. This law has been codified by the media industrial complex.
It takes seconds to scream “Russia!” or “Nazis!”, but years to unspool the facts. And by then, the lie has already hardened. The same law powered COVID hysteria and the “fine people hoax”, to name a few. The truth behind these rarely get airtime—because lies aren’t just useful, they’re policy.
And the worst part? It works, at least for a while, because Hanlon’s Razor gives them cover: “Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.”
Americans give them the benefit of the doubt. “They must mean well.” “They’re just misinformed.” No. That might’ve flown ten years ago. But after watching COVID lockdowns weaponized, CRT injected into schools, and the DOJ chase parents like terrorists, it’s clear: this isn’t incompetence. This is intent.
The government
Meanwhile, the government grows more complex and bloated, following Gall’s Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.” But Democrats don’t build from simple foundations. They skip to complexity—mandates, regulations, acronyms, alphabet agencies—none of which are accountable or efficient. The result? Nothing works. Healthcare collapses, education erodes, and immigration becomes a sieve. But it doesn’t matter—because bureaucracy was never meant to fix. It was meant to control.
That brings us to Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy: any bureaucratic organization will inevitably be taken over by people more devoted to the institution than its goals. Think teachers’ unions. Think the CDC. Think the DOJ. They no longer care if children learn, if public health improves, or if laws are applied evenly. They care about their funding, their power, their narrative. And anything that threatens that gets silenced.
And just when you think they can’t sink lower, they rely on Sutton’s Law: “Go where the money is.” DEI grift, climate subsidies, COVID funds—Democrats never met a crisis they couldn’t monetize. Follow the money, and you’ll find consultants, activists, and NGOs feeding from the trough while the rest of the country drowns in inflation and fentanyl.
Which leads us to Cynical Law of Government: If the government were in charge of the Sahara, there’d be a sand shortage. And here we are—in a country with vast energy reserves, watching gas prices rise because Biden killed pipelines and begged dictators for oil. He’s not solving problems. He’s manufacturing them—and blaming you for noticing.
Leftist society (minions) are culpable
Let’s not forget Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong one.” Democrats abuse this too. They troll. They lie. Then they wait for “fact-checkers” to come to their defense, turning truth into a battlefield where silence is safest.
Even cultural decay follows a formula. Remember Cicero’s Dictum? A nation can survive fools, even ambitious ones—but not the traitor within. Today’s Left undermines America from within—open borders, selective law enforcement, and policies that punish productivity and reward grievance. That’s not a bug. It’s the point.
We were told Biden was the “moderate.” That was the cover story. The real plan was always the bureaucracy. The unelected, the activists behind the scenes. The Deep State isn’t shadowy anymore—it’s openly posting job listings for “disinformation czars” while censoring dissidents. At scale.
And all of it—all of it—runs on the broken logic of Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Equity scores, climate targets, test score benchmarks—all twisted into quotas, lies, and metrics manipulated to justify power, not truth. A black student graduates unable to read? Don’t fix the system—just eliminate standards.
We’re watching a regime that obeys laws—just the wrong ones. Not laws of justice, fairness, or logic—but the dark, cynical laws that reward failure, elevate frauds, and mask decay as “progress.”
Biden didn’t invent this system. He’s just the mascot of its end stage. And as the walls crack, the only surprise is how long it held up. Because eventually, Reality wins—no matter how many narratives you write to deny it.
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