Thanks (once again) to The Divine Sarah at Insty’s, we have this brilliant analysis of how government can totally fuck up the market — any market — by ignoring the effects of pricing, deficits and surpluses.
Now, I know it’s about Britishland, and I know that just this is going to cause some of my Murkin Readers to roll their eyes, mutter something about “foreign entanglements”, and go off to wank over Megyn Kelly’s latest nutjob rant or whatever..
Don’t.
As I have said countless times before, I always look over The Pond to see what the Euros and Brits are doing, because they provide at worst an object lesson on what not to do, and at best a warning that we should never allow our own Gummint to repeat their mistakes Over Here.
And I also don’t want to hear bullshit like “Oh, this could never happen here” because not only can it happen, it’s already happening at the state level (cf. California, New York, Illinois and most recently, Virginia). All it takes is one general election which sweeps the Socialists into power, controlling House, Senate and the White House, and everything bad that is happening in Yurp and Britishland will absolutely happen here, just on a national scale.
So follow the above link, read it, learn from it, and let’s make damn sure that such fecklessness and idiocy can never happen here.
We hear many people reference that there will be/might be a Civil War-2 in our future, and that would be problematic.
My big concern is that things get so bad liberty wise, that a small disagreement that prompts a CV-2 will turn into a REVOLUTIONARY WAR II, and the People will rise up against all forms of government as they exist at that point saying “Be Gone, All Of You!” The question will be, will we have the intelligence to pick a point in the past as a starting reference on a do-over, or will we just become a society of anarchists that will eventually disappear into a lake of blood?
PJ O’Rourke (PBUH) had a quote about the Nicaraguan election back when Daniel Ortega got the boot.
It went something like “Elections are only one of liberties safeguards, and not necessarily the best one, as we’ve got a Congress full of bed-wetting liberals to show for it”.
I don’t know how to do this in practice but it might be time to outlaw certain ideologies. It is hypocritical as hell, but it might be time.