The welfare state is supposed to signal the existence of the “compassionate” society that provides care for all. However, this “compassion” has resulted in the proliferation of social pathologies that undermine civilization itself.
People claim to support “equal opportunity” over the idea of equal outcomes, but when one examines both concepts, it becomes obvious that neither is possible or even desirable. Murray Rothbard understood more than most that equality of opportunity is a chimera.
While focusing on the Holocaust, people often forget the economic fallacies of the Third Reich. Hitler‘s policies were based upon socialism and state control, and no regime can prosper under those conditions.
It is often asserted without challenge that “life is like a race” and it wouldn‘t be a fair race without the same “starting-line.” While this analogy has some truth, it is largely fallacious and more than implies an ever-present state to provide “equal opportunity.”
Trump’s current drive for lower interest rates and more easy money is doing little or nothing to help the working-class and ordinary people Trump claims he is helping.
The Green New Deal was proposed in 2019 and became the legislative centerpiece of the Biden administration. Like the first New Deal, it has garnered favorable media coverage, legislative hype, unkept promises, and a dismal track record.
The sun finally is setting on the world order that emerged after World War II, including the Cold War. This is not for lack of trying by US and European politicians, but they cannot stop the entire apparatus from collapsing under its own weight.
Despite its many logical flaws, Marxism remains popular in many academic and political circles. However, Marx‘s Labor Theory of Value still undergirds the entire Marxian structure, and debunking it destroys his entire system.
No matter how much good new anti-woke education policies might do, they fail to deal with the real problem, and that is the existence of “public” education itself.
At this point it's clear it was nothing more than wishful thinking to hope that Trump would be a hard-money guy who would rein in monetary inflation.
