11 thoughts on “The Problem With Politics Today”

  1. Not sure I can agree.

    The problem is when you got one side doing most of the punishing and the other side trying to play nice. It does not work.

    We need to take power away from real fascists (not those we might imagine would like to be.) Everybody is a potential fascists, but not everybody works without a conscience to make it so.

    Fascism today exists across the entire spectrum of politics but isn’t seen as such because “that’s just the way things get done.” It’s supported by a majority, thinking themselves the smartest, who would not only deny any fascist tendencies but would come to blows if you forced the issue.

    The rot goes to the very core and the solution is probably not possible. We can’t get away from it either. All we can do is the little we can and point out the truth when we can. It has to be replaced because it can not be fixed by less than perfect mortals.

    1. We need to limit the power that might be abused to punish the opposition. 70k+ pages of law for the IRS to interpret is far too much bureaucracy and discretion. And those who misuse goobernment power need to face jail time.

      1. Yes, they can hide a lot in bloated laws but the real power comes from wavers. It totally destroys the concept of equal under the law. Instead it weaponizes the law. They could reduce all law to a single sentence “everything is illegal” then use it to punish their enemies simply by not enforcing it on their friends… you know, like a felon that enriched herself by giving secrets and favors to foreign powers?

  2. Some random guy running his mouth on the internet is less troubling than the country wide program of violence Democrats are directing against their opponents. Sure, there elected officials from coast to coast act as if they are part of a criminal gang but much of the violence is being carried out by civilians.

  3. Not everyone is punished. Some are even given places of honor behind the anointed. Alas, if Hillary is elected, her number one priority will be to make dissent illegal.

    1. You’ve identified the exact problem. The right thinks the left fails to see the external enemy. What the right fails to see is first you must, absolutely must, first take out the internal enemy.

      Playing fair is losing. The left has weaponized, govt., the media & our education system. What has the right done about? Whine.

  5. The “enemy” are the thousands of entrenched, unelected bureaucrats who get to write law on a whim.

    They exist because the Feds have their fingers in every pie imaginable.

    If you want to reduce the punishment meted out to the citizens by the Fed then you have to remove the ability of the Feds to affect something that isn’t within their Constitutional purview.

    You have to eliminate whole departments.

    1. You’ve identified the exact problem. The government shouldn’t exist to punish the citizens it represents for a difference of opinion. The federal government has expanded in both power and people under Obama, and has used the power and resources to punish free speech. Hillary has even promised to make it her priority to ban speech for which she disagrees. A smaller federal government would neither have the power or resources to do these anti-civil activities.

      1. It would be nice if some politicians or talking heads could illustrate the relationship between an intrusive government and interactions with the police. The police are just being scapegoated for enforcing the laws passed by their local government.

        Same for trying to open and run a business but many Americans can’t relate just as many actually want to hurt businesses.

      2. Gregg and Leland, you are on the right course but the wrong target. Those govt. entities were created in the first place to sidestep govt. limits on power. They should be eliminated as unconstitutional because they violate the very foundational principles of our country. They eliminate our bill of rights.

        But the real target should be those that instituted them in the first place with immediate impeachment. Every justice on the courts should be required to understand this as a litmus test.

        Trump said he’d like to eliminate many departments of govt., probably without fully realizing how right he is. Rand would then immediately point out that he can’t. Great. So we’ve tied ourselves up with a pretzel of laws to prevent just the actions that are needed.

        How did they undo the Gordian knot? That’s how we undo this one. We the people need to give Trump that knife. It’s illegal? We make it legal.

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