America safest in government gridlock

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for November 17, 2024)

After the election results were in, did you start crying, shaking, and screaming? Did you start threatening those who didn't support your preferred candidate? Did you announce to the world that you are leaving America to escape? Perhaps posting videos of your emotional crisis, whichever form it took, on TikTok?

If you're reading this, probably not.

If you did, though, it's a sign you take politics too seriously and may be allowing a handful of biased national media corporations to make you mentally unwell with their barrage of hoaxes and brainwashing. It's just a suspicion.

Some people say "everything is political", but if that's true, it's only because they make everything political. It's unnecessary and harmful.

I'm neither on the political right nor left, and I only agree with those sides when they are correct, but I've seen how the hyperpolitical left has recently become completely unhinged from reality. Anyone not in complete agreement with their most delusional positions is called "far-right". Apparently, most of those who bothered to cast a ballot in the recent election also noticed.

The political right has its own problems with reality. Tariffs, mass deportation, and dangerous "government efficiency" come to mind. Their bad ideas will give me plenty of fodder over the next four or more years.

When the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, those on the right didn't post videos showcasing their mental illness. They did something else equally pointless-- they went to Washington DC and protested, trying to preserve "our democracy". Those on the left lied and called it an insurrection, then based years of lawfare on the hoax; ruining people's lives for doing things the Constitution protects their right to do, on property they are supposed to own. There are still "January 6" political prisoners being held.

This is simply more evidence of the problems the left has. Mainly, no independent critical thought is allowed. This has consequences; not owning up to it will only help the other side.

Since I'm a libertarian, I'm accustomed to being called "far-right" by the left and "leftist" by the right. It's a normal day for me. Recently, a wide swath of the political middle found themselves called "far-right fascists", or worse, by the left, too. I would be surprised if this doesn't affect elections.

But don't listen to me. I'm just someone who knows America is safest when a divided government results in gridlock.

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Funding inexcusable evil

Hiding “good” ways to spend stolen money in a giant government budget bill doesn’t make you the good guy. Doing the same in a smaller government funding bill isn't any better. Vivek Ramaswami demonstrated you could continue to fund the feral government with a one-page bill. If you were crooked (or dumb) enough to want to do such a thing. There's no good argument for doing so.

First, you can’t do good things through bad methods like taxation or government. The inherent bad cancels out any intended good.

Second, sneaking something like funding for childhood cancer research into a huge spending increase bill just means you’re using kids as hostages or human shields. That makes you a monster who is trying to hide behind sick kids. 

It's not a good reason to continue funding government for even one more day.

Shut it down. Shut it all down.

Government “shutdown”? Make it real and permanent and don’t look back.

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