A lot of people know about Ben Franklin’s comment that our founding fathers formed “a republic, if you can keep it.”
With the monster of a federal government that America now is, America did not keep the enumerated powers of the federal government as “few and limited.” We did not keep the constitutional republic and we need to face that truth.
Brutus (aka Robert Yates) was most prescient in his warnings about forming a central government, yet he remains one of America’s most unknown of founding fathers.
Government messes everything up. And creating dependency on the government has made it even worse. So anything the government touches as "affordble" will not work. We need to get rid of most of the federal government!
As a hard-core Libertarian, limited gubmint and taxation is theft are the bedrock of issues I believe in while knowing we have strayed radically from what Our Founding Fathers knew what would happen if we did not strictly adhere to the Constitution…so as you do, I hope and dare I say it, “pray” or continue to have “faith” that we can right the ship of state…jest sayin’
It appears other readers disagree but I think this article is significantly off base. While I agree that Epstein is a symptom of larger problems, the problems occur when capitalism is made illegal, when power is achieved by being well-connected to politicians and bureaucrats.
Yes, some very wealthy people have mental health issues but that doesn’t mean that voluntary cooperation among honest, peaceful adults should be illegal. And it certainly doesn’t mean that the central planners of government should try to fix things by adjusting tax brackets. Eventually, all democracies become tools that the wealthy and powerful use to get what they want. The fact that the US has reached that point doesn’t mean taxes and regulations need to be increased.
What it means is we should establish a proper government, one closer to what the Founders of American envisioned, one with the primary purpose of protecting the rights of liberty and property.
When government is allowed to do more than that, eventually it will try to do everything - except protect liberty and property.
Capitalism was **not** made illegal. It allowed for the massive amount of concentrated wealth and power that allowed the capitalists to seize control of the system. Unfortunately, the only practical solution is to seize the wealth, and therefore the means of control, from the capitalist oligarchs.
Capitalism is illegal. There is almost nothing I can do as an entrepreneur without first getting written permission from a bureaucrat. Democracies are a tool of the privileged, the wealthy, the well-connected. All of the taxes and regulations are in place to protect big businesses from upstarts. In many cases, the regulations are written by business organizations.
If a big business has to employ 10 lawyers and spend $10M, no problem. But that bar is the same for a young entrepreneur. And politicians know that. But they also know that Microsoft is much more apt to donate $10M to their next campaign than I am.
The system is rigged, as all democracies eventually are. Like George Carlin said, “its a big club and you ain’t in it!"
Democracy is a tool of the privileged or would that be oligarchy is the tool of the privileged? In most societies especially above the small village level, power and resources tend to concentrate into too few people, and immoral or unethical individuals, this concentration is usually abused, which is why there are usually commonly held rules, mores, and even laws to limit the individual’s power.
When the concentration is too great, it does not matter what kind of political, economic, or legal systems are being used, the individual’s or individuals’ power overwhelms the system as we are seeing now.
People live in communities and all communities have rules that must be followed or else they are not communities; the difficulty is finding the right balance between control and freedom.
Dr. Frankenstein wants you to believe his creation is the monster, a story told beautifully by Guillermo del Toro. Anyone with a basic understanding of the intrinsic nature of the story realizes that it is the ego that is the demon. What we see throughout history in these recurring power structures and the fall of empires is nature creating and destroying, the divine dance of Shiva and Shakti. The time scales are hundreds and thousands of years, but we are approaching the end of a cycle that hubris cannot see.
How else to explain the fact that no one is ever held accountable., and, even if one (former Prince Andrew) or two seem to be held accountable for their crimes, those are sacrificial lambs (likely with their tacit approval) to enhance the theater that "someone is doing something, finally) while the beast continues to thrive at our expense.
I find the entry perspective and the exploration of this topic highly insightful.
What irritates me is the conclusion on the prospect of more releases and disclosures, Lily.
Last week as we now know there was orchestrated one of the most perfidious traps I ever came across:
All Congress members were granted access to the unredacted files..... On preparated Computers, all recording both the identity of the user and his search history.
Next day, during another Hearing, Bondi produced some Sheets of paper, announcing "this is the search history of Congress member P."
The room went silent and I bet my Grandma dignity that 95% of faces turned pale.
The handful honest, not compromised MoC of course didn't have to worry, but all the others, searching for their own name or of related people were caught in the most deadly trap imaginable.
Why there will be no further releases. Bondi has announced, that with the publication of the 3 Million+ files the DoJ has complied with their duty of transparency.....
What a superb analysis!
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1st time I heard about you or read your work. Huge atta boy for this article. Im gonna hang around for awhile. Thx for what you do.
Thank you for this excellent article.
A lot of people know about Ben Franklin’s comment that our founding fathers formed “a republic, if you can keep it.”
With the monster of a federal government that America now is, America did not keep the enumerated powers of the federal government as “few and limited.” We did not keep the constitutional republic and we need to face that truth.
Brutus (aka Robert Yates) was most prescient in his warnings about forming a central government, yet he remains one of America’s most unknown of founding fathers.
Government messes everything up. And creating dependency on the government has made it even worse. So anything the government touches as "affordble" will not work. We need to get rid of most of the federal government!
And our current reality is proving that Brutus was right about everything: https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/brutus-was-right-about-everything?r=76q58
As a hard-core Libertarian, limited gubmint and taxation is theft are the bedrock of issues I believe in while knowing we have strayed radically from what Our Founding Fathers knew what would happen if we did not strictly adhere to the Constitution…so as you do, I hope and dare I say it, “pray” or continue to have “faith” that we can right the ship of state…jest sayin’
Onward thru the fog, as Oat Willie sez
It appears other readers disagree but I think this article is significantly off base. While I agree that Epstein is a symptom of larger problems, the problems occur when capitalism is made illegal, when power is achieved by being well-connected to politicians and bureaucrats.
Yes, some very wealthy people have mental health issues but that doesn’t mean that voluntary cooperation among honest, peaceful adults should be illegal. And it certainly doesn’t mean that the central planners of government should try to fix things by adjusting tax brackets. Eventually, all democracies become tools that the wealthy and powerful use to get what they want. The fact that the US has reached that point doesn’t mean taxes and regulations need to be increased.
What it means is we should establish a proper government, one closer to what the Founders of American envisioned, one with the primary purpose of protecting the rights of liberty and property.
When government is allowed to do more than that, eventually it will try to do everything - except protect liberty and property.
Capitalism was **not** made illegal. It allowed for the massive amount of concentrated wealth and power that allowed the capitalists to seize control of the system. Unfortunately, the only practical solution is to seize the wealth, and therefore the means of control, from the capitalist oligarchs.
Capitalism is illegal. There is almost nothing I can do as an entrepreneur without first getting written permission from a bureaucrat. Democracies are a tool of the privileged, the wealthy, the well-connected. All of the taxes and regulations are in place to protect big businesses from upstarts. In many cases, the regulations are written by business organizations.
If a big business has to employ 10 lawyers and spend $10M, no problem. But that bar is the same for a young entrepreneur. And politicians know that. But they also know that Microsoft is much more apt to donate $10M to their next campaign than I am.
The system is rigged, as all democracies eventually are. Like George Carlin said, “its a big club and you ain’t in it!"
Democracy is a tool of the privileged or would that be oligarchy is the tool of the privileged? In most societies especially above the small village level, power and resources tend to concentrate into too few people, and immoral or unethical individuals, this concentration is usually abused, which is why there are usually commonly held rules, mores, and even laws to limit the individual’s power.
When the concentration is too great, it does not matter what kind of political, economic, or legal systems are being used, the individual’s or individuals’ power overwhelms the system as we are seeing now.
People live in communities and all communities have rules that must be followed or else they are not communities; the difficulty is finding the right balance between control and freedom.
What an excellent thorough analysis!
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Join the movement here… taxtheshorties. We will try to disclose their games and tricks.
Excellent analysis
Dr. Frankenstein wants you to believe his creation is the monster, a story told beautifully by Guillermo del Toro. Anyone with a basic understanding of the intrinsic nature of the story realizes that it is the ego that is the demon. What we see throughout history in these recurring power structures and the fall of empires is nature creating and destroying, the divine dance of Shiva and Shakti. The time scales are hundreds and thousands of years, but we are approaching the end of a cycle that hubris cannot see.
How else to explain the fact that no one is ever held accountable., and, even if one (former Prince Andrew) or two seem to be held accountable for their crimes, those are sacrificial lambs (likely with their tacit approval) to enhance the theater that "someone is doing something, finally) while the beast continues to thrive at our expense.
I find the entry perspective and the exploration of this topic highly insightful.
What irritates me is the conclusion on the prospect of more releases and disclosures, Lily.
Last week as we now know there was orchestrated one of the most perfidious traps I ever came across:
All Congress members were granted access to the unredacted files..... On preparated Computers, all recording both the identity of the user and his search history.
Next day, during another Hearing, Bondi produced some Sheets of paper, announcing "this is the search history of Congress member P."
The room went silent and I bet my Grandma dignity that 95% of faces turned pale.
The handful honest, not compromised MoC of course didn't have to worry, but all the others, searching for their own name or of related people were caught in the most deadly trap imaginable.
Why there will be no further releases. Bondi has announced, that with the publication of the 3 Million+ files the DoJ has complied with their duty of transparency.....