Yesterday, 08:41 PM
If you're right, then the main battlefield is spiritual/religious. Which if you take a look over my post history in the last several years, is what I've been constantly harping on. This is not just politics anymore. It's spiritual. We need a renaissance of biblically-based Christianity in this country, because that's what it was built on. We've since gotten distracted with Yoga and Wicca and every new-fangled thing to come down the pike. Sure, the other religious perspectives are free to exist, but they are objectively inferior in terms of not only moral teachings but, even more importantly, their theological view of God, humans and society. A nation of people living in religious delusion is guaranteed to be unfit for a republic based on individual accountability and self-determination.
OK and "First do no harm". The VERY first step is to stop causing new/fresh injuries. If someone is in a severe roadside collision and they are injured and in need of EMT, the first step is to let go of their ankle and stop dragging them along the side of the road causing new injuries to their spine/whatever. So, the first step that WTP need to take is to put a full-halt, forthwith, to all expansionary measures. That means: stop printing new money, stop expanding government expenditures, stop increasing government revenues, stop issuing subsidized credit to banks/etc. stop increasing regulations, stop making new laws, stop approving new weapons systems, stop deploying more troops, stop opening new theaters of war, etc. etc. etc. Also, do not allow the Fed to trigger a deflationary collapse... they need to be "freeze-framed" and forced to maintain exact ceteris paribus until WTP decide through Congress what to do with them and how to disband them. IOW, stop dragging the poor collision victim along the pavement and causing more and more massive new injuries. Once we STOP making new injuries, we can start the discussion over how to prepare for the arrival of the EMT, i.e. how to reverse the past century+ of ever-increasing damage that has been done by layers upon layers upon layers of government corruption and misguided interventions.
That's not what I meant. What I mean is that they are taking a self-solving problem and they are characterizing it in terms of something that "WE need to stop." Self-solving problems can usually just be solved by freeing up private parties to defend their own property. When a homeless person gets shot and killed for trespassing in the loading dock of a local business, and the police arrive and say, "Good job, we need private citizens to defend their property so the whole burden is not on us", and no charges are pressed, the rest of them will flee like a flock of birds to some new destination. I don't have anything against the homeless, I've been homeless myself at one point. It can happen to anyone, most Americans do not realize how thin the line between themselves and homelessness. But these scourges are always the result of prior bad policy, and then the ruling class just uses the scourge itself as excuse to call for even more bad policy to fix the previous bad policy. This is the cycle of modern omnipotent government that has been going on, unchecked, for over a century.
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