The Western ruling class's preparations to create and escalate global war have been yet another Litmus Test of our time...
Revealing that the vast majority of even those commenters who regard themselves as solidly anti-Left "realists", cannot comprehend how bad things really are.
There has been for many years, and it is still increasing, a repetitive trope about how dumb, stupid, and all-round incompetent are the Western leadership class.
Anti-Woke analysts and commenters work themselves into a frenzy of exposition concerning declining IQ, declining competence, and idiotic doubling-down on mistakes.
All this is perfectly true, in itself - but incompetence is not the underlying and causal problem!
The big problem is evil, not incompetence.
The problem is evil motivations.
The problem is what the ruling class want; not their inability to achieve it!
If the ruling class were more able and intelligent (and less corrupt) then they would be using their competence to do more evil.
The reason this is a Litmus Test is that it reflects the inability of most people, of almost everybody - it seems, to acknowledge and recognize the reality of deliberate, purposive evil.
Most people don't even seem to notice that the "incompetence" always works in the same direction (i.e. towards evil) - whereas genuine incompetence would err on both sides of right action, and would sometimes seek good by accident!
And if you can't see evil when it is staring you in the face and doing its best to destroy the world... well, then you are absolutely certain to get it badly wrong about the motivations of the Western ruling class.
