Hard to imagine a better example of anarcho-tyranny than Democrats simultaneously demanding more gun laws and trying to prevent the police from enforcing the existing laws, or abolish the police entirely.
Although another pretty good example is the Left simultaneously attacking voter ID and pushing for "vaccine passports." Or building walls around the seat of power in D.C. while erasing the national border.
Everywhere you look, you see the Ruling Class nakedly concerned with protecting its interests and enforcing its agenda, not fulfilling any duties or responsibilities to the people. On the contrary, the Ruling Class deliberately stokes anarchy to terrorize the public.
The deliberate blindness of the Ruling Class in the state of anarcho-tyranny is fascinating. Some days they claim they can micromanage the lives of every single American; others they say it's impossible to enforce certain laws because too many people are "living in the shadows."
The burden of the Leviathan State falls increasingly on the poor middle-class chumps who are easiest to track and push around - the people who can't fade into the shadows, who have a lot to lose, who don't riot and burn down cities when the law is enforced against them.
Middle America is the perfect victim. It has money and property that can be easily looted by politicians. It doesn't fight back against the State because it has so much to lose. It complies with the law. It still believes in the social contract, which is becoming a fairy tale.
Most crucially, the middle class has no sense of identity or solidarity. It is a sea of easily looted and bullied individuals. It has been systematically, forcefully purged of any tendency to view itself as a group with distinct interests or organize in defense of them.
In the state of anarcho-tyranny, middle class Americans feel alone and helpless. They have no voice - they've been told it's literally a crime for them to speak up. The nominal political advantage of their numbers has been neutralized by forbidding them from organizing.
So the Ruling Class passes endless laws that it doesn't really enforce against anyone but the hapless middle class. It blames the middle class for all of the nation's ills and punishes them like convicted criminals. Endless demands of compliance, obedience, and funding are made.
But while the middle class is hyper-regulated and micro-managed, the very same bloated super-State says it can't be bothered with monitoring anyone else, enforcing the law against them, or even asking them to make modest civic efforts.
The Ruling Class only cares about what it wants. It sees not one nation it has any sense of duty or loyalty towards, but rather groups and factions, clients and enemies, opportunities and obstacles to its agenda. It has ambitions, not responsibilities. /end
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The U.N. Secretary General wants a "wealth tax" for companies that profited during the pandemic. How about if we tax the wealth of POLITICIANS who profited from the pandemic? They're planning to line their pockets with more trillions as we speak.
The biggest pandemic profiteers are state-owned or state-controlled Chinese businesses, by the way. Good luck confiscating THEIR wealth to fund some globalist effort to alleviate income inequality.
But we should all be sick and tired of this game where private earnings are forever at risk of confiscation by politicians in the name of "fairness," while the immense wealth of the political elite is 100% secure. You can never touch THEIR personal or imperial fortunes.
Western politics in the new millennium is defined by our near-total inability to measure risks against rewards, costs against benefits, promises against unintended consequences. We only have two settings now: PANIC and HYSTERIA.
It comes down to a loss of maturity. The ability to make reasoned decisions by comparing costs against benefits is a defining characteristic of adulthood. Reckless desire and blind panic are characteristics of childhood. Only immature societies live in a constant state of panic.
Immaturity is part of the devolution from independence to collectivism. A society that values independence treats citizens as adults and holds them responsible for the consequences of their decisions. Collectivist societies teach citizens to see themselves as children.
The quest to create New Soviet Man - to re-engineer the human race into something more compatible with collectivism - has never ended, or even paused.
Success may finally be close at hand, as the last vestiges of individualism and objective truth are under attack.
Western culture and politics have degenerated into endless warfare against every barrier that protects individuals from being subsumed into the hive of the centralized State. The key battleground is family: our tendency to bond in a way that makes us independent from the State.
Every piece of heavy artillery in the Left's inventory - culture, academia, politics - is right now trained on what remains of the family unit. The shelling is heavy and incessant. Every single aspect of the formula "boy meets girl and raises family" is under assault.
Debates over big spending bills like "infrastructure" absurdly proceed as if the U.S. government is tiny and underfunded, and this is the first time it has asked the American people for vast sums of money to tackle the problem under discussion.
In truth, the government is floating in a vast sea of money, and billions of it just vanish into thin air - absorbed by staggering bureaucratic costs, stolen by fraudsters, poured into political slush funds. A great deal of that money is weaponized against the American people.
There is absolutely ZERO reason to believe the current administration and federal bureaucracy can be trusted with billions of dollars to build infrastructure. Everything about their track record argues to the contrary. The American people would be fools to trust them.
American culture and politics are largely based on assuming the worst intentions and motivations for everything individuals say and do. Imagine where we could go if we flipped that script and assumed the best: trusting each other, showing patience and forgiveness.
There would be mistakes and debacles, of course. People are not always worthy of trust. They don't always respond to goodwill in kind. Sometimes it's a mistake to assume good intentions. People don't always take the second chance offered by forgiveness.
We wouldn't want to become utterly naive or dangerously ignorant, of course, but in our conversations and culture, we've grown dangerously short of goodwill, and that is a vital resource for a functioning civil society, a nation of sovereign individuals who value liberty.
For decades we argued about the fictitious "wall of separation between church and state," when we should have been building a higher and thicker wall of separation between corporations and state.
What was the point of all that "wall between church and state" stuff? In theory, it's about separating elections and government from not religious FAITH, but religious ORGANIZATIONS. You can't order individuals not to vote based on their deep personal religious convictions.
The fear was that religious organizations would exercise power over the elected government, imposing their beliefs on everyone. The image of medieval popes manipulating European kings was constantly invoked. We supposedly had to be on guard against Bible pages becoming law.