Dear Friends,
It seems to me, if we want prosperity, fecundity, and health, we must decentralize power. Experts and elitists will say this is nonsense. Their entire paradigm is built around the notion that experts coupled with governmental money and power will improve the lot of Mankind. They believe that government has a valid role to play in improving people’s lives. These are core principles hammered into the heads of everyone who passes through the government education system. They are sacred cows, so to speak. We all know the best tenderloin comes from sacred cows. We have a century of experience living with an ever-increasing administrative state. A bureaucracy dedicated to improving the lot of mankind by government coercion, media manipulation, and bribery.
We are in the progressive era. It didn’t end with the election of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The Roaring Twenties, a century ago, was a short hiatus. The progressive era came roaring back in the 1930s and has been the dominant ideology of the expert class since then. Incorporating the Frankfurt School, the Progressives encouraged the Beatnik movement in the 1950s and the anti-war pro-communist protests of the 1960s. By the 1970s, people were tired of the communist foolishness so turned it off. The Beatles song Revolution had driven a nail into their movement back in 1968 and the fruit of that song was reaped in the next decade. Then the 1980s came and the Yuppy movement relegated the progressives to the dark corners of academia… where they schemed up woke.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the discrediting of communism by Ronald Reagan, Progressives became rabid. They perverted every institution with progressive ideals. The more unaccountable power in the hands of experts… the better. As Milton Friedman famously said, Once socialism had been discredited, the experts agreed we needed more socialism. Since then our governments have grown in power, scope, and reach. To such an extent our unaccountable elites molest children in government-run brothels, take copious amounts of cocaine, and start wars they have no intention of winning… just profiting from. Meanwhile, crime, unemployment, and drug addiction exploded in Western nations. Results measured against ideals win every time.
The result of all this unaccountable power has effectively proven progressivism a failure. If we measure success as a rising standard of living, low crime, and hopeful people. If, however, we measure success as the elite getting to play god with us as their lab rats… then yes, progressivism is a total success. I however believe the lot of the people is more important than the will of the powerful. If you agree with me, that the progressive paradigm has delivered misery, children who don’t know if they’re a boy or girl, and drug overdoses by the tens of thousands a year… then we might want to try a different paradigm? A system that aligns with the decades of prosperity and not those of poverty, war, and failure. That would obviously be to decentralize power.
The Roaring Twenties was a time of decentralized power… and prosperity. After Harding died, Coolidge’s policies slashed the income tax, cut wasteful spending, and he took government’s foot off the regulatory brakes. The result was worldwide prosperity. Reagan tried to do the same, but progressives in the legislative branch mitigated his efforts. Nevertheless, people prospered. Trump cut regulations in his first term. Then, despite the Deep State’s illegal attacks, the economy prospered. That’s why I say, we should try cutting unaccountable power. Instead of centralizing authority until we have communism, why not decentralize authority until we have prosperity? Mention this to your representative, and we can have a century of prosperity… not just a few years.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
