I think most/all of Mises people would agree with you.
But I also think that Mises people and libertarians are a bit all over the place and should prioritize stuff. Stuff you're talking about should be prioritized higher IMO. As well as secession. As well as nullification. The focus should be getting government to be closer to home. Or, worded differently, to truly be a "nation" again - of common cultures/values - and not just a damned "country".
"End the Fed" is important but only autistic nerds will ever understand the importance of it. "$#@! the UN", everyone can get behind, or at least understand.
LPMC is laser-focused on the civic issues that actually matter the most.
- Bribes are the root of all political corruption. "Get the money out of politics" or "campaign finance reform" are just silly slogans so long as the Fed exists. The truth is that the
primary purpose of the Fed's existence -- far and away -- is bribery. We need point no further than the $50+B just shipped overseas to Ukraine as bribes for Ukrainian politicians. From whence does the US government have all of this cash to "assist foreign countries" with!? (As though a government could "help a brother out"!) There is no hope of freeing local US politics of the deep-rooted, institutionalized corruption until the infinite-bribe-cash fountain in DC is shut off. You can't change DC without real change at the local grassroots level, and you can't get change at the local grassroots level so long as the Fed exists. Therefore, Priority Numero Uno:
END THE FED
- Foreign military adventurism, "diplomacy" and "foreign aid" are the black suitcases by which money from the Fed is channeled around the globe. In Rome, Caesar just sent a chest of gold to bribe the local chieftains to do his bidding. But Americans would never accept such an abuse of the Treasury if they knew it was happening. So the Empire had to wrap their machinery of global corruption in a Tor-network of onion-routed bribery. End foreign entanglements, and the chickens will stop coming here to roost. If you're an Iraqi living in Iraq and the US starts dropping JDAMs on your neighborhood from 60,000 feet, you're going to have one of two basic reactions. One is you're going to go down the nearest location to sign up for the resistance. But if you're smart (fighting the world's most powerful military with guns and RPGs is not necessarily the brightest course of action, for a grunt, anyway), you'll have reaction number two, which is to find out how you can influence the US to stop dropping JDAMs on your neighborhood. And so what happens is that our reckless, illegal, and abominable military adventurism has created a ghost army of highly intelligent political immigrants, and other foreign influencers, whose only mission in life is to
change US domestic politics. How about we cut to the chase and change it ourselves? Priority #2:
END ALL US INVOLVEMENT IN ILLEGAL WARS which, currently, is all of them.
There are many other important issues. But those issues will become a
piece of cake when points 1&2 above are addressed. Want the US out of the UN? No problem, when we end foreign military adventurism, the UN will stop being interested in our membership. We can kindly send them back over the drink to London or Brussells or wherever the hell they're from and open a museum of communist atrocities in the former UN headquarters building. Would be a much better use of real estate than the abominations of the gun-grabbing statue and Beast statues currently taking up space there. But I can assure you that it will
never happen so long as the Fed exists and so long as the MIC is running rampant around the world, fueled by DC's infinite printing-press money.
