The coronavirus crisis should spell the end of "sanctuary cities." Anyone who tries to establish one should be arrested by federal law enforcement and removed from office immediately.
Obviously it has to be the end of globalist economic policies and open borders as well. We're paying a horrible price for decades of a dominant ideology that treated everything that makes our society and economy stronger as sinister "nationalism" that had to be destroyed.
Of COURSE American government and business interests should put America first, but it goes beyond that to the health and freedom of the entire world. Compartmentalization is so important to containing a crisis, as any submarine crewman can tell you.
Everything from economic health to pandemic management boils down to information - good data processed quickly and accurately. We're getting a hideously powerful demonstration of that principle right now with the coronavirus.
All of these globalist delusions - open borders, sanctuary cities, pursuing cheap labor and profits in totalitarian nations, all of it - boil down to corruptions of our information system. They all push bad information into the system and produce garbage output.
We can't know what's really happening in a place like Communist China. Open-borders lunacy has made it impossible to know what's really happening in some of our own cities. We need good information to make good policy decisions, guide law enforcement, and allocate resources.
Decentralization is vital to getting good information and acting on it quickly, both in the constructive pursuit of opportunity and when dealing with crises. Communist China's handling of the coronavirus was a nightmarish example of failed centralization.
There must be a federal government, of course, but it should be small and focused on essential duties that can't be handled locally. The coronavirus is exposing how bloated and distracted almost every federal agency has become.
The Beltway peddles a myth that only with more funding - up and up, forever and ever - can we deal with problems more seriously. The truth is that beyond a certain point, funding becomes counterproductive. The money gets poured into distractions and hires excessive management.
Bloated with insane amounts of cash, vital federal agencies hire armies of bureaucrats who become mission creep specialists, forever expanding the agency's agenda and diluting its focus so they can show Congress they're perpetually underfunded.
This, again, is a corruption of the data stream. Excessive bureaucracy creates obsolete systems of government that can never be updated or rebooted. Centralized power leads to agenda-focused tunnel vision and churns out politicized analysis.
To gather and process information quickly, we need funding and power to be distributed to the smallest local level possible, trimming the federal government down to a lean and focused partner for state and local governments - and most importantly, private citizens.
It's not just morally appropriate and the system that best respects our freedoms. It's the most efficient and powerful way to process information, tapping into the massively powerful distributed intelligence of free people making their own choices.
Government is our operating system, and a good OS should have a light footprint, consuming minimal resources with high resistance to crashes. We're closer to the opposite right now, and Communist China just showed us what the literal dead end looks like.
Centuries before computers existed, America's founders laid out the blueprint for the most efficient and resilient data processing engine the world has ever seen. It was ruined by perverting its code and stuffing it with garbage data. Let this terrible moment be our reboot. /end
