January so far has gone much as expected. Interest rates rise, inflation appears out of control (if it really is inflation?), the incompetence of Branden is exposed on a daily basis. The cackling hen of Branden Junior continues to embarrass. Federal agencies made of unelected member of the civil service publish regulations at will, making millions of citizens unconvicted felons overnight. Somehow this is done with no repercussions at all. The incredible debt of the country is beyond control. Thirty trillion dollars. Mathematically impossible to do anything about. The Left continues to be divisive along racial and economic lines. Branden as completely left the border open for two years. Something like three million illegal aliens cross a year. It seems all nations in the world have sovereignty, except the US. Why? All proposals lead to restricted liberty for all and demonization of those of us who prefer to be left the hell alone.
I truly fear a crisis is on the horizon. There is no reconciliation with the Left. When the ideas you propose are antithetical to individual liberty, where is there room for compromise?
There were very few good things to come out of the pandemic years with their unconstitutional lockdowns and restrictions. The greatest of these was that the Left tipped their hand. Statists in power shut down schools and businesses. People were left in destitution. Statists determined what was “essential” and what was not. Here’s a Blinding Flash of the Obvious: all businesses are essential for those who depend upon them. How can anyone not see this and not have a sociopathic desire for power over others.
There was something else I’d mention. Sending people to work from home served as a proof of principle for many. The company I work for sent us home on 23 March 2020 and we were there for a year with few exceptions. My wife’s company sent them home on the same day, and that continues now with only one day a week in the office. I could see this upending the real estate market. Sure, with DSL and internet from your local cable provider this has been available to an extent since the dot com bubble burst. However, assuming there was an employer willing to do this, the employee was limited to availability of network access. Enter Elon Musk and Starlink, you have multi-megabit upload and download speeds over a much greater geographic area. A young couple demonstrated this on the Isle of Skye: Does STARLINK work in a Remote UK Location?
There is no reason for many jobs to not be dispersed. For all their claim to being the party of progress and science, the Left will despise this, just as they’ve despised citizen journalists since Matt Drudge broke a story about a blue dress. To be controlled, people must first be concentrated. It is my belief that Elon Musk and Starlink has demonstrated the possibility of breaking this forever.
