Preserving our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

Sarah Hoyt is writing about

the fact that government is force; and at what point is it moral to use force to achieve even what is perceived as a great social good.

What if we gave a governmental war on poverty and it only got worse?

So, is it only one side that “cares for the poor” – well, no, it’s only one side uses the rhetoric that has worked so well for them since the French revolution, of weaponizing the poor to the get their – bourgeois – way.

Can we do better than that? Probably. If the Federal government stays out of it. If we don’t accept the left’s definition of us. If we stop thinking “well, I’m not like that, but other people on my side must be, otherwise why would they say that?”

They say that because it helps keeps their troops in line. And because a preening “care about others” is part of what they get for voting “right” (Which means left.)

NOT because it touches on reality at any point.

It’s just they have the echo chamber of the media to show it, in entertainment and news and everything. BUT that doesn’t make it true. It just means they drink their own ink and spin further and further away from reality. As this (UN)affordable care act thing is showing.

They can’t even see reality anymore.

Don’t be like them. Don’t buy the lie. Strive as much as you can to believe your lying eyes, and not the opposition’s pretty spin.

Their model has spun so far out it’s about to crash. In the end, we win, they lose, because reality is hard and has sharp corners, and we’ve been getting hit with it for years.

And when the time comes, rebuild a society as individually free and as lacking in perverse incentives as you can; a society of equality under the law and rewards for work and innovation.

It’s the least we can do. For the children. Even the poor children. PARTICULARLY the poor children. The wealthier we can make the entire society, the less deprived they’ll be. And the more universal our laws, the clearer their path to success.

Justice is not one size fits all, but laws should be. And their function is to preserve our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.