Political Salvation Is Slow Suicide
The number one threat to our lives and prosperity is the US government.
How could it otherwise be? Loaded with trillions of dollars acquired through legalized theft, the US government has gone beyond mere incompetence and foreign adventurism; it now colludes with other governments to reduce populations through the manufactured covid crisis.
Governments are now killing their citizens . . . deliberately.
Taking the House of Representatives away from the Democrats will not cut it. How many “radical” Republicans have called out the covid crisis as the genocidal program it is? How many Republicans were elected on a platform of eliminating government programs or agencies? How many Republicans see the government, with its power to ignite nuclear Armageddon, as a threat to our lives?
How often have you heard a politician call for more personal freedom? For eliminating the income tax and federal reserve? For disbanding government as we know it and relying on the free market for our safety and prosperity?
What If Life Really Could Get Better?
We have to begin by recognizing the government for what it is. See Robert Higgs’s essay “Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery.”
Admit that freedom is what you want, otherwise you will not know what it is you are after. To believe in freedom is to believe that good government only results in the absence of the state.
What if, as Murray Rothbard has written, the sstate is nothing more than a criminal gang, regardless of which party is in power?
Is it scary to contemplate life without the great god state? Can a state-free economic system provide everything we need? What if it could? What about other concerns such as biological warfare? Do we not need a state to protect us and tell us what to do?
What if we do not? What if we can deal with all threats through market institutions?
What if the state is incompatible with a free society?
What if the stat
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