Michael Mitchell: Archive

Printing "too much" money leads to inflation. Inflation leads to the need for higher wages, i.e., raising the "minimum wage". The whole system is arbitrary, not based on reality, not based on the value of the goods and services that actually exist, because paper money is fake money, has no real value to measure up to its intended equivalent.

It's the same shit with foreign policy. Perception versus reality. They (liberals) don't see it as appeasement because they think a "capitalist" system is immoral. Anything profit-driven is immoral to an altruist/socialist because they think for one person to gain economic value someone else has to lose economic value. They're not standing for American values because they simply don't share them, not because they're weak, because they follow the majority, which in our country is split even, but when you include the whole world in that evaluation, socialism is the apparent favorite and altruism is the dominant morality.

It's all bullshit, though. Altruists, by definition, actually think it's good to lose, better to give than to receive, etc. -- but does that sound like anyone you actually know? No free speech. No free minds. No free markets. Free speech is THE "litmus test" issue for judging governments or the methodological approach to it. Any government that suppresses it or any person who supports its suppression isn't merely against opposing viewpoints, they're against opposing viewpoints they think are more persuasive than their own. It's impossible to formulate a "winning" argument that sacrifice is good for the individual being sacrificed.

How do you even find the "democratic" way, what the majority believes, when no one is permitted to say what they really think? You don't. You have to create it, pre-emptively, like when your mother told you she knows when you're lying. That's our foreign policy, limiting the shit we have to guess at, because, unlike in the United States, free trade isn't a reliable option -- and, unfortunately, it's becoming our economic policy, too. Faking everything to make it look good is not the American way.