LP Mises Caucus features in SPLC "Hatewatch" hit piece

[nobody's_hero]

DC is a swamp (literally) and I don't think anyone will shed any tears if it just happened to slide off into the Atlantic. We never needed DC for anything. The US is a union of 50 states. After establishing their infinity-cash machine in 1913, the Feds have proceeded to act as if they are Literally God. Well, they're not.

I dunno. It was honestly somewhat impressive how the Federal Reserve managed to recoup its credibility after the 2008 housing market crash. That should have been the end of it then.

Here we are with another potentially massive bubble in the housing market (though perhaps this time caused as much by artificial material scarcity as easy money). It's only been a little over a decade and we've learned nothing. And no one is even talking about the Fed these days.

People are idiots, and among idiots, the people in DC might as well be gods.

 

[nobody's_hero]

If the local GOP machinery wants to reform itself and expunge the Judases from its midst, they can make themselves a part of the inevitable change that is coming, whether they join or not.

To that I would say that Georgia made an attempt at that earlier this week in the primary. It's now estimated that well over 100,000 democrats crossed over to vote in the GOP primary for the establishment candidates, tipping the scales. Not illegal to do in an open primary state, of course, but the civil war within the GOP is none of the left's business and they are quickly defining themselves as unthinking defenders of the establishment, and therefore much more useless to the liberty movement (if it still exists) than average GOPers with at least one eye open.

 

[ClaytonB]

I dunno. It was honestly somewhat impressive how the Federal Reserve managed to recoup its credibility after the 2008 housing market crash. That should have been the end of it then.

A lot of things should have ended a long time ago. No problem, the final court of appeal is the Great White Throne and it is approaching us on wings of lightning...

Here we are with another potentially massive bubble in the housing market (though perhaps this time caused as much by artificial material scarcity as easy money). It's only been a little over a decade and we've learned nothing. And no one is even talking about the Fed these days.

Well, the Fed is the core of the political rot, but it is not the core of the rot. The core of the rot is spiritual, and it goes allllll the way back to the Snake in the Garden. They may succeed at deflecting the arrows from striking their Fed Idol... but at what cost. The end is inevitable, even more inevitable than death itself...

People are idiots, and among idiots, the people in DC might as well be gods.

If you really believe all your countrymen are idiots, then of course you will acquiesce to Federal power, because all the "smart" people are already in DC.

That's why reading the enemy propaganda is so dangerous. After a while, you start believing it if you're not careful...

 

[nobody's_hero]

If you really believe all your countrymen are idiots, then of course you will acquiesce to Federal power, because all the "smart" people are already in DC.

Fair enough. It isn't all of them. Only half of them. Then half of the other half.

About 1/3 to 1/2 of the GOP knows that at the very least, something is deeply wrong, they just need better guidance. The left is just gargling the establishment's c**k at the moment and I've not much sympathy for them.

I'm not inclined to write off the GOP because what I see today versus what I saw 14 years ago shows promising improvement, yet I would not complain if the awakening could happen a bit faster. I don't think it is going to be enough. In any case we are in no position to refuse divine intervention should it happen.

 

[ClaytonB]

I'm not inclined to write off the GOP because what I see today versus what I saw 14 years ago shows promising improvement, yet I would not complain if the awakening could happen a bit faster. I don't think it is going to be enough. In any case we are in no position to refuse divine intervention should it happen.

The knees of the GOP ought to be shaking at the thought of divine judgment, not delusionally imagining itself as the vehicle of divine intervention. No strategy is more effective at stopping the forces of good than securing the cooperation of internal turncoats. As far as I can see, the GOP, certainly at the national level, is packed like sardines with turncoats. Are there a few good apples in the barrel of rotted applesauce vinegar? Perhaps. God does do miracles. But that barrel of rotten apples that we call the GOP has done more damage to liberty than any other single organization in the world.

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
― Confucius

 

[nobody's_hero]

This is turning into a long debate, but I would like to remind you that recently 57 Republican congressmen voted against spending $50+ billion we don't have and sending it to Ukraine for a war the US helped cause when the US instituted regime change in the 2014 coup. 11 Senators voted against it. Again, republicans.

NOT ONE DEMOCRAT voted against it. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

Where are the democrats who will oppose this evil? It has become incredibly one-sided (+many old guard GOP) but the only sign of resistance I'm seeing right now is all coming from the right.

And yes, you could argue that they're only doing this because Biden is taking up the war position. That may be. But those 57 congressmen would never have been able to vote like that and survive re-election a decade ago. That's probably because the voters in their districts have changed. People in the GOP who wouldn't have given the libertarians the time of day in 2008, are now at least listening to once-"kooky" ideas about non-interventionism. And if you phrase it in terms they understand, which, admittedly ends up dripping with nationalism but at least showing how military adventurism abroad actually weakens America and does *not* make America Great (*GASP* He's right!), you'd be surprised how many find the concept of a less militaristic foreign policy appealing. The lightbulbs come on. There is sign of intelligent life. Try making the same argument to a liberal and they just screech at you and call you a Nazi.

But you know what the funny thing is, the leftist comes over to assist the GOP establishment in a massive chorus and wants to evict those sensible representatives from government even if it potentially replaces them with warmongering neoconservatives.

So to hell with them.