Notice how the loudest complaints about “broken politics” come from those who lost the debate. It’s understandable for sore losers to rage against the machine. But there’s no need for the rest of us to parrot their petulance.
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They’re just angry that some of us peaceful, honest people have decided that we’re tired of being backed into a corner, and we’re done backing up.
Regardless of the specifics, the fact that only losers complain about a high stakes selection process being broken tells you nothing about whether it is indeed broken or not. Logic says that regardless of the fairness of the process, only losers will complain.
Our political structures are indeed damaged, but not in the way the complainers mean.
They are upset that an adamant group of pols have been elected by an adamant group of aroused citizens for the specific purpose of stopping the further engorgement of the modern welfare state.
This seemingly endless enlargement, stemming from a myriad of political theories and particular circumstances over the last century and a half, has finally reached the point at which its income can no longer maintain its outflow.
In simpler terms, the ponzi scheme has run out of new suckers to fleece so the older suckers can be paid off.
The flaming indignation of the proprietors of the con is equal to their recognition, no matter how desperately they try to hide it, that the game is over, and they have run out their string.
For the last century, and more, we have watched the collapse of one authoritarian system after another, from the aristocracies of the old empires to the “scientific” statisms of the great ideologies.
We are now witnessing another chapter in the “revenge of reality”, in which all the phony compassion and do-gooderism of generations of busy-bodies and power hungry pols finally runs into that most basic of all economic laws—you cannot strangle the cow and expect to milk it the next day.
For generations, the statists placed brick after brick on the backs of those whose creative work produced all the value that made the modern world. And, each time, they winked at each other in the cynical confidence that, no matter what new weight was added to the burden, the bearers would find a way to “do something”, and all would come out all right.
The game is over. The great and complex process of repairing and rebuilding the most powerful economic engine the world has ever known awaits our best efforts.
And, even more importantly, the only truly revolutionary political and social and economic doctrine in human history—that free men and women own their own lives, and whatever they might create is theirs to dispose of as they see fit—must be reformulated and restated in terms so uncompromising and seamless so as to withstand the inevitable counter-attack of the next wave of collectivist urges that attempt to submerge the rights of the individual in the needs of the collective.
These are great tasks, fully equal to the noblest and most important goals ever sought by our ancestors as they fought against this king or that dictator, as they bled to free themselves, or those enslaved within and without.
The future is there for the taking. It belongs to free men and women of independent mind, and a spirit unquenchable in its desire for liberty.
The pearl of great price has been cast into the gutter, abandoned by those who could not comprehend its value.
Pick it up. It belongs to you by all that is right and just on earth and in heaven.