A Baker’s Dozen ™ reasons tomorrow’s election will make little difference

But don’t let that get you down: Love liberty, love your family, love your nation, and love God.

We are hearing the hype a dozen times an hour on the talk shows, the news shows, and especially the wall to wall ads – print, internet, audio, visual, and more. This is the most important election yet of our lifetime – and maybe the life of the Republic. (Or our Democracy.)

Ignoring the history, here are thirteen reasons, a Baker’s Dozen ™ reasons that the election of 8 November 2022 is going to make little difference in the fate of the Fifty States – or the world as a whole.

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Hey, he has free-speech rights, too!

Many people will agree that Sen. Dick Durbin, Demo of Illinois, is a royal piece of work. He demonstrated that again with his recent attack on the 1st Amendment and free speech. Demonstrated it so well that regressive news reporters (who call themselves progressives) and neo-liberals stood up and denounced him for it.

His claim that Twitter is filling up with hate speech now that Musk has “seized” the social media platform, and that the 1st Amendment does not protect “misinformation” was rebutted by dozens of people. Yet it clearly represents the views of the Democratic leadership and at least a plurality of Democratic voters. His own tweet is clear and unchallenged by other leaders of his party in Congress and the States: “Free speech does not include spreading misinformation to downplay political violence,” he claimed.

But I think we are all missing an important point!

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Politicization of everyday life

A curious incident a few days ago points out the odd (and somewhat frightful) condition of modern American society.

A customer service representative recently received a call from a borrower. He was upset because his payment was late and therefore he had to pay a late fee and additional interest. When she explained that it was clearly stated on his bill that payment posted when received and not based on the postmark date, the borrower accused her of being a “Trump Supporter” because she is not sympathetic and unwilling to treat him the way he believed he was entitled to be treated. If she was a Biden supporter, she would have worked with him and granted him the waiver of fee and interest which he “deserved.”

This strange little incident illustrates what a sorry state we find our society and nations are in.

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Cost-benefit analysis – legalizing cannabis

South Dakota is again facing a ballot initiative to legalize recreational cannabis. The sides are again drawn very starkly, and the propaganda flow is immense.

The Family Heritage Alliance and South Dakota Protecting Kids (SDPK) are two organizations fighting a increasingly lost battle, again. South Dakota voters approved an earlier ballot issue but legal errors saw it repealed The FHA article, at the above link, is a compelling argument that recreational MJ legalization will create significant problems, especially for children in South Dakota.

As far as we here at TPOL can tell, the facts that they present are correct and accurate. The conclusions that they draw are reasonable, reasoned, and likely to happen. Ready availability of marijuana does have significant potential health impacts (both physical and mental) on teens and children. Given our current medical system (and SD is expected to also pass an initiative to greatly expand Medicaid and get all that wonderful “free” FedGov money), there will likely be significant increases in medical costs, an increase in highway (and other) accidents, and other problems.

But…

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It’s a dog-eat-dog world

Those who worship the state – that is, government – often tell lovers of liberty that without mandatory human government, life would be miserable and short and brutish. “Just like primitive cavemen!” They tell us that “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure.” (quoting SCOTUS Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes).

Balderdash!

A recent video by Ron Paul, aggregated by Freedom’s Phoenix talks about the rapid growth of the predator class, especially among “religious leaders” (commonly called “pastors”), medical professionals, and the education establishment among others.

If the government’s role is to protect people from evil-doers, the governments are obviously failing.

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Is it done yet?

Publisher’s Note: Today is Halloween, supposed to be a scary holiday. Perhaps the most frightening thing about this 2022 Halloween is that we still have 8 days to go until the election this year.

Is your brain fried yet? You don’t have to watch television (or news online) or listen to the radio to get bombarded with the junk. Open your mailbox, if you dare. Drive past thousands of yard signs and billboards to and from work or stores. Check your wipers when you get back to your car after going to an office or store: that probably isn’t a parking ticket – its campaign fliers. And watch out for those true-believers crowding the street corners with their signs.

On to the commentary:

We can only wish that this 2022 election WAS over.

The hype is insane: “the most important election of our lifetime.” “Our last chance to save our republic.” And more.

According to a LOT of people, the 2022 election is rapidly approaching being a done deal.

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“Our” “Public” schools – worse than ever

The Price of Liberty has always taken a very hard stand against so-called “public schools” – better described as “government-run, tax-funded” or even “government-ruined, theft-funded” institutions (GRTF schools). (A name and acronym coined by the late Marshall Fritz.) He advocated the separation of school and state, for many of the same reasons church and state are separated.)

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Thus we have a smile over the headline in the local mainstream media fishwrapper, shown above.

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Greasing the slide – UK moving to fully “woke”

As we’ve discussed in recent commentaries, the United Kingdom continues to slide into the dustbin of history more and more quickly. And now, that long playground slide to the bottom has been greased yet again.

The Tory selection of Rishi Sunak, multi-millionaire ($843M per WSJ), former Chancellor (the minister of finance) under the failed Boris Johnson government, and runner-up to Liz Truss’s premiership less than 2 months ago, is yet another nail in the coffin. As more than one news story and commenter has noted in the last 24 hours, Whitehall is firmly in the globalist camp: increasing micro-management of everyday life not just for millions of Britons but for more and more of the world.

Once more the decayed, corrupt British system of government has demonstrated its failure. And no doubt speeded up its collapse. Oddly enough, this man probably would be King Charles’ choice as prime minister if the Tories (Conservative Party) had not served up Sunak to the new king. And strangely, also, this may reduce the effort to again get Scotland to secede from the United Kingdom, while Northern Ireland sees its future becoming more and more gloomy.

Most news stories talk about the failure of the Tories to pay attention to their constituency and voters in general, the push for central bank digital currency (and its great value for social control by government and the elite), and higher and higher taxes. Of course, the Conservative revolt which toppled Truss after just six weeks in office was a rejection of measures desperately needed to revive the British economy and help the ever-more-suffering people of the island (and islands). Supposedly, big business rejected the proposed tax cuts along with the government spenders: after all, the burden will continue to be on small business and consumers: the twin enemies of global big business. (And their hosts as parasites on the economy.)

Breitbart presents this as the completion of a coup and heralding the UK going fully woke, at least in the halls of power. This may not be far off the mark. Or indeed, spot-on.

More and more we see not just the weaknesses of Parliamentary government (which many believe to be the objective of Pelosi and Schumer in DC), but the dangers and weaknesses of mandatory human government. With a possible exception for incredibly-limited forms of government, according to some minarchists. With whom we here at TPOL agree with less and less.

How many bad apples do we have to find in a barrel before we throw it out?

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Urban collapse – Cleveland style

The events are incredible.

This comes from Cleveland, Ohio, and a high school there. We won’t report the details, which you can read and watch (video available) here. In summary: four armed car thieves (in stolen cars) show up at a high school in session. The school security officer locks down the school, but two “assistant principals” override the security guy (on the phone with dispatch getting police to respond) and let the thieves inside the school building (admittedly, just an anteroom) to protect them from the police! Ultimately the thieves try to run from the cops and are captured, apparently without deadly violence.

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Blindness or lies? Government at its “best”

Is government just blind (willfully or not)? Or is it just that government is incapable of telling the truth? Are lies essential to government? Lets look at just one example.

Dr. John Lott at the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has a rather interesting new report. Among other things, the report says there have been “massive errors” in the FBI’s reports on attempted mass murderers. The report is quite damning of the once-respected agency.

Should we be surprised that the Feebes seem to have a strong bias against counting attacks that were stopped by armed citizens? Especially given what the FBI has been doing in recent years – and even more in recent weeks? Whatever trust people still have in the FBI is very much misplaced.

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