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Really, this whole post just means Woodrow Wilson et. al. never should have messed with the Founder’s system so much and Mises.org is right about everything.
The problem is, our centralized inflationist system turned into pure theft and graft after the USSR fell, NAFTA, China opening up and so forth. Central banks pushing everything around makes crime pay and honest productivity not pay. You have to be stupid to try not to live off of government graft somehow.
Keynesianism, Critical Theory, the Frankfurt School etc. are freight train that takes certain things to derail it. The government is ineluctably running out of money and the economy is regressive and slowing down for actual reasons. Ben Sasse isn’t going to lead us out of this mess.
Reps. Jason Lewis, Steve Scalise and Tom Emmer are trying to overhaul the financial system, which is ground zero.
Honest and smart Democrats are just about more graft and dependency than the GOP is.
Trump is a tool to slow down Critical Theory etc. and the media. The GOP needs to use him to slow down socialism.
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I have a feeling that a lot of the answers are in here.
Just to be clear, this is what I think the priority should be.
People want socialism, fascism, and opioids for good reason. The question is, how do you get out of this mess?
Mary Eberstadt
The Life Of Julia…will run out of GDP to pay for it.
I was going to post this separately but I might as well put it here: Dr. Liliana Stern on Growing Up in the USSR
I am so deeply sorry if you truly believe that. So deeply sorry for you. I pray that some day you can come to grips with the reality that your mind has created, and not let it affect your life too negatively. I think a lot of people on the Right have also created this world in their minds, and it makes your days so hard to get through, I know. You were wrong in 2016, so completely wrong, and instead of blaming yourselves, you choose to blame the person who proved you to be so wrong, and perhaps it helps to relieve your pain. I wish I could wave a magic wand and help all of you see that you have chosen the wrong road to travel, but anything I could do short of that would only make you rebel against us all the more.
We’re winning, the Right is winning, America is becoming great again, and I wish all of you would join the Winning side. I have given up no Principles or Standards; in fact, I am more Conservative than ever. For me, life gets better and better every day and I don’t see that streak ending. I wish I could bring you down here to Texas and show you this greatness. Life is good!
Bannon is as much the answer as McConnell
Holy cow this is exactly correct. I would throw Rep Tom Massy in there too.
Or you could try reading some of Stockman’s actual stuff.
Nice to see you back, my friend.
I hope the producers are working to fix the persistent audio glitches. It’s been happening for many weeks now: someone is in the middle of making an interesting point, and then zap! it’s five or ten seconds later, and we don’t get to hear what was being said…
We’re aware of it. It’s not consistent, which makes it incredibly difficult to debug.
Update: we think we’ve found the source of this issue and fixed it. ?