The age-old question in right-leaning politics and political philosophy is how to do more good than harm … or at the very least: how to minimize harm. The libertarian default on legislation or policy revision, rightly born of long study and experience of unintended consequences, is “don’t just do something, stand there.” The default on the Left was once amusingly immortalized by Ronald Reagan as, “if it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; and if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Even cliches, stereotypes, and dogmas have their place of course.
Is there more autism and breast cancer than there used to be? No. There's more talk about it. More venues for information flooding. One reason is the influence of celebrities. When a celebrity talks, people listen. A more important reason is that M.D.s are better at diagnosing these disorders. Are the problems facing America today more numerous and more severe than any in the history of the human race? I wouldn't go that far. In America, life was chancy and difficult in the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and much of the 1900s. Life could be nasty, brutish, and short. This is one area where historical perspective is actually a benefit. If there appear to be many many problems today, then there will be many many eggheads offering many many solutions. And you know what they say about opinions and free advice. Many unskilled people want power because they think they have the answers. And because they are looking for a job. The American tradition has been not that power is all bad, but it needs to be dispersed. John Adams said power was poison. Even if I took that seriously as a political philosophy, which I do, I know that Botox is a poison that can straighten the lines in your face. I know that running for office necessarily means trying to get power. A football coach has power. Parents have power. Power tends to corrupt, and usually does. But that's all the more reason to choose wisely, to place limits, to avoid giving any one person or group too much power. How much is too much? Ask the people involved. Why is the judge's chair higher than the rest of us, so we have to hurt our necks looking up? I don't know. It's wrong. Those chairs should be removed.
Any infliction on the woke left has to be felt. Such as the burning of buildings and physical harm by the Marxist Left BLM. Violence should never be abandoned as abhorrent as it is. Fight back or face defeat. There is no longer time to write Congress letters of distain. The Left believes voting is the pablum of the masses. Civility is over due to the big leftist lie. Civil War must be understood as the only means now to fight the illegitimate Communist government that has taken over DC and is and will continue to destroy this country. Americans are going to have to wake up in the face of the forces of woke evil and be prepared to go to war against the enemy that lies within. And take back the last free nation on earth. Listen to every word of the xKGB Yuri Besmenov’s 1980s interview on the stages of Communist subversion. We are there.
Is there more autism and breast cancer than there used to be? No. There's more talk about it. More venues for information flooding. One reason is the influence of celebrities. When a celebrity talks, people listen. A more important reason is that M.D.s are better at diagnosing these disorders. Are the problems facing America today more numerous and more severe than any in the history of the human race? I wouldn't go that far. In America, life was chancy and difficult in the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and much of the 1900s. Life could be nasty, brutish, and short. This is one area where historical perspective is actually a benefit. If there appear to be many many problems today, then there will be many many eggheads offering many many solutions. And you know what they say about opinions and free advice. Many unskilled people want power because they think they have the answers. And because they are looking for a job. The American tradition has been not that power is all bad, but it needs to be dispersed. John Adams said power was poison. Even if I took that seriously as a political philosophy, which I do, I know that Botox is a poison that can straighten the lines in your face. I know that running for office necessarily means trying to get power. A football coach has power. Parents have power. Power tends to corrupt, and usually does. But that's all the more reason to choose wisely, to place limits, to avoid giving any one person or group too much power. How much is too much? Ask the people involved. Why is the judge's chair higher than the rest of us, so we have to hurt our necks looking up? I don't know. It's wrong. Those chairs should be removed.
Any infliction on the woke left has to be felt. Such as the burning of buildings and physical harm by the Marxist Left BLM. Violence should never be abandoned as abhorrent as it is. Fight back or face defeat. There is no longer time to write Congress letters of distain. The Left believes voting is the pablum of the masses. Civility is over due to the big leftist lie. Civil War must be understood as the only means now to fight the illegitimate Communist government that has taken over DC and is and will continue to destroy this country. Americans are going to have to wake up in the face of the forces of woke evil and be prepared to go to war against the enemy that lies within. And take back the last free nation on earth. Listen to every word of the xKGB Yuri Besmenov’s 1980s interview on the stages of Communist subversion. We are there.
Make them worry about you. Not just with words but deeds.
All battles can’t be won. But battles not fought are never won. Never inflicting cost on an opponent is servitude.
Never give in! Never give up!