Core 4 Rules of America

If you don’t know the rules, you get chaos. Or even worse -- you get the wrong rules.

[Core 4 Rules of America @thecore4rules]

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[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

I agree with @BernieSanders: we have a fundamental choice to make. We can keep marching down the path looters like him have led us down for sixty years, or we can reject the moral code driving it and return to a free market in healthcare.

Here's the choice he hides. He offers "broken system versus my utopia," but the broken system is the "utopia" he built. Premiums are exploding because of decades of government intervention: mandates, subsidies, and regulations that severed price from cost, flooding demand while choking supply. Obamacare poured on the gasoline.

His fix? Hand the same government that broke it total control. That is not a cure. It is a larger dose of the very thing that made us sick. Every country that tried it rations care by waiting list, because "free" just means you pay in time and shortages instead of dollars.

The real choice is the one he'll never offer: get the state out, let prices fall, let supply grow. The cause of this crisis is not the free market. It is men like Bernie, and more of their poison won't heal us.

[Porter Stansberry @porterstansb]

As we approach our 250th anniversary, I believe it's worth noting that our government is only actually 165 years old.

The American Republic established in 1776 ended in 1861.

The Civil War cost almost a million lives: one out of every five white men of military age in the South and one out of every ten in the North. It destroyed virtually all of the wealth in the South — a 90% reduction to per capita GDP. The South would not recover economically until 1950.

But the real cost of the war wasn't economic. It was political.

The Civil War destroyed the Federalist system that our founders built to ensure the central government's power remained genuinely limited. Not limited by the goodwill of its legislators, which is no limit at all, but limited by the existence of rival sovereign States, which could restrain the central government and each other through competition.

After 1865 the only real limit to federal power was the self-restraint of the men in office. And that didn't last for long...

But, before we look at the long-term impact of America's first war of aggression, let us dispel a critical myth: that the Civil War ended slavery. Slavery was ending because of technology and economics. And it would have ended just as surely if no war had ever been fought between the States.

Britain abolished slavery, without a war, throughout its empire in 1833, freeing some 700,000 people in the West Indies alone. France abolished slavery in its colonies in 1848. Russia — the most backward great power in Europe — emancipated some twenty-three million serfs in 1861, the very year of Sumter. The Netherlands freed the slaves of Surinam and Curaçao in 1863. Across the entire industrializing world, unfree labor was abandoned within a single compressed generation. And, in no other great nation, was war required.

In America, slavery did not end because of General Grant and the boys in blue. It did not end because of a moral awakening. The cause was economic.

Chattel slavery extracts muscle power from human beings. Therefore, slavery only makes economic sense if muscle power is the binding constraint on production. Once machines had multiplied the labor output of muscle by hundreds of times, slavery was not only immoral but inefficient. In an industrial economy a slave costs more than he yields. As a result, capital flees from slavery into factories. All over the world. And even in the South.

Slavery ended everywhere at roughly the same time for the same reason: innovation and economics. It would have ended in the American South regardless of who won at Gettysburg. Even Brazil, the last holdout in the Western hemisphere, freed its 725,000 slaves with the Golden Law of 1888. No war was required: slavery was no longer productive.

With apologies to the celebrants of Juneteenth, slavery was not legally abolished in the United States until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in December 1865. The institution died, not because of the war, but because the world had entered the machine age.

The unnecessary destruction of half of our country and almost a million people wasn't the greatest tragedy of the Civil War. The greatest tragedy was the loss of Federalism and the hard-won liberty Americans won in the Revolution.

The Civil War destroyed the federal structure of the American republic, in which the several States were sovereign in their own spheres, with genuinely different legal systems, cultures, and traditions. The national government was beholden to the States, with only limited and enumerated powers.

The clearest proof of this change lies in our language. Before 1861, the United States was a plural noun. Men said the United States "are." After 1865 our country became singular. The United States "is."

The doctrine that a state could check the central government — by interposition, by nullification, in the last resort by departure — died at Appomattox, and with it the last structural brake on the power of the federal government died too.

The framers had not relied on parchment to limit the government they created. They relied on competition. So long as the States were genuinely sovereign — so long as a man oppressed in one State could remove to another, so long as the national government had to reckon with twenty or thirty rival centers of authority each jealous of its own jurisdiction — the central government could not easily grow into a Leviathan. The States were not administrative subdivisions. They were the Constitution's immune system.

What followed the Civil War was America's first empire -- in the South. And Empire's require a strong central government. Thus began a long erosion of the line between the citizen and the State, and between private institutions and public power.

Twelve years after the war, the Supreme Court considered whether a State could fix by law the prices a private grain warehouse charged its customers. The owners argued it was a taking of their property without due process — that what a man does with his own property, and what he charges for its use, is rightfully his own affair. The Court disagreed. Chief Justice Waite ruled that when private property is "affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only," and may be regulated by the government for the common good (Munn v. Illinois, 1877).

That was the end of private property in America. After all, if the national legislature may decide which property is "affected with a public interest," and may then dictate its prices and uses, there is in principle no property the government may not control.

Justice Stephen Field saw it and dissented with prophetic fury. The doctrine, he warned, "is nothing less than a bold assertion of absolute power by the State to control at its discretion the property and business of the citizen." A legislature that could fix the uses and prices of property "against the consent of the owner" could "deprive him of the property as completely as by a special act for its confiscation or destruction."

New York City's landlords are finding out the truth of this reality. They believe they own their properties. But they are about to find out otherwise, as rents will now be controlled by the mayor, who is a communist. This will spread. A communist ruling over all of America is only a matter of time. Why? Because the law provides an unlimited incentive for such power. There is nothing in America the government cannot take from you. Nothing.

The proof of the unlimited central authority was established in blood. The courts followed where the armies led. And the first American Empire — the North's conquest of the South — led to more such military adventures, which continue to this day.

In its first century, the United States heeded its founders' warnings against entangling alliances, a large standing army, and foreign military adventures. But the creation of the massive Northern army created its own momentum. Only 20 years after Reconstruction, the country clamored for another Empire and war against Spain. America became an imperial power, with possessions from the Caribbean to the far Pacific — Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines.

The consolidated nation that emerged from the Civil War was the precondition for the American Empire that emerged in 1898. Power flows to the center, and the center's reach has no natural boundary.

The Leviathan must be fed.

In 1913, every American became a direct serf to the national government: The Sixteenth Amendment gave the federal government the power to tax incomes directly. The size of a government is set, in the end, by the size of its revenues. The income tax removed the ceiling.

The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified the same year, provided for the direct election of United States senators. Under the original Constitution, senators were chosen by the state legislatures. This was the last vestige of State sovereignty. It could not be allowed to stand. The Senate stopped being the guardian of federalism.

And… then… with these Constitutional impediments finally vanquished, you saw Leviathan act to ensure its permanent dominance: it would control the money supply.

In December of 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve System. The power over money, which the Constitution had strictly withheld from the central government, was enshrined into law. Income tax, a central bank, and the removal of the states from the Senate — all in one year.

The Revolution that began in 1861 was complete. America's Empire had begun.

Munn established that the government may dictate the use of private property. 1898 established that the consolidated nation would project power without limit beyond its borders. 1913 established the revenue, the money power, and the removal of the states from their guard post. The 1964 Civil Rights Act expanded this dictatorial power into every private transaction in America.

Government of the people, for the people, and by the people has been destroyed.

We now live in an Empire, not a Republic.

The Civil War didn't free any slaves; it enslaved all of us.

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Here's one of Michael Crichton's very finest quotes, especially applicable to climate "science":

"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.

I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right ... In science, consensus is irrelevant."

Best to everyone,

w.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.

They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”

Incredible work, really.

Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.

What a beautiful system.

Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”

Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.

A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.

That’s America’s real crisis.

Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.

Consequences.

We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
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[Lucy White @lucyjaynewhite1]

I’ve now been written about in 20+ articles, including The Telegraph, The Guardian & The Daily Mail.

I do not care. I am simply saying what HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people across Great Britain, Europe & the Anglosphere believe.

We will never give up our homelands. Get over it.

[Rebecca Mistereggen @RMistereggen]

Europe was one of the most diverse continents on Earth. Culturally, linguistically, and historically.

In the name of ‘diversity,’ its elites flooded it with mass immigration from incompatible cultures, importing crime, parallel societies, and Islamisation.

They turned a high-trust jewel into a declining shithole.

It’s not too late though, remigration can save Europe.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The left just normalized so much insanity that basic self-preservation now gets called “far right extremism.”

Decades of open borders and failed assimilation delivered parallel societies, welfare strain, and crime spikes in city after city.

Green fanaticism delivered energy poverty and deindustrialization while virtue signaling.

Woke ideology delivered confused kids, erased women, and attacks on national identity.

And the result is voters across France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the UK and beyond are backing the parties the media smears as “far right.”

Those parties are simply saying what was common sense centrist a generation ago.

Secure borders. Citizens first. Affordable energy. Law and order. Protect children. Preserve your culture.

The Overton window got dragged so far left that reality, sanity, and common sense now look radical.

[jjinUK64 @JjinUk64]

I understand, I do.

We aren't in the EU anymore, thank god! ...you're right about much of that though.

What I would say in response is that firstly, it's very f*cking bad idea to wake the Saxons because they're historically slow to action (as compared to the Continentals), but then you'd be best advised get of the way when it happens.

This tiny little island once controlled much of the world. Once had the most formidable Navy on the seas. Seeded a civilisation. Seeded a Commonwealth of Nations that still spans the planet. Gave birth to what is arguably the greatest country ever built, America. Gave the world the gifts of parliamentary democracy, an utterly unique culture, art, music, language, you name it.

Those people — our people — are still here. They're demoralised, they've been suppressed and boxed in and worn down by their rubbish governments for decades now. But we are still those people. We're the same people, the same stock, who built the Empire, spread civilisation from pole to pole, and then managed it all from tiny little England. Astonishing if you think about it.

The task ahead of us now is trivial by comparison. Utterly trivial. We already have the blueprints — we don't need to figure out what works, we know what to do, we were doing it just fine until perhaps 30yrs ago when our leaders randomly decided to commit cultural seppuku for no reason. The thing is they did this without public consent. And now the sleeping Saxon is stirring. Change is coming and it's coming fast.

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

A comprehensive demolition of this reporter, the story, the NYT and fake news journalism in general. But the most interesting bit to me are the pungent criticism of Biden's HHS secretary Xavier Becerra, which accords with my interactions with his flaks on the illegal migrant "children" he was flying into Westchester on charter planes in the middle of the night.
Kennedy says Becerra "almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. [He] reportedly spent most of his term ... in California.
"His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is the way

[Core 4 Rules of America @thecore4rules]

@waltersaysthin1 @RMinarchist @ChristianHeiens We need those things, and we also need to restore federalism, localization of government and the freedom of association.

[Lucy White @lucyjaynewhite1]

The real “ethnic minorities” are the indigenous White British People with English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish ancestry.

Across the UK, there are 50.9 million Native White Brits (2021).

Yet our government & media will lie to us to say that Indians, Africans and whoever else are “ethnic minorities” who “deserve special treatment”. I’m so sick of this gaslighting.

When in fact, the world has 1.48 billion Indians… 272 million Nigerians… 255 million Pakistanis… 177 million Bangladeshis and so on.

Just because a handful of these third worlders were forced into our country without our consent, it does not make them an “ethnic minority” all of a sudden. They are BY FAR the ethnic majorities. Wake up.

The White British people must be protected.

We must turn off the tap and pull the plug on all third world migration into Great Britain.

No more murders, stabbings, rapes, or intimidation from these people. They have made us feel uncomfortable in our own country for far too long. We will not tolerate this anymore.

[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

There's no more accurate a metaphor for the West than slowly bleeding to death by the hand of barbarians while corrupt authorities tie our hands behind our back.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Enough is enough - a deep line needs to be drawn in the sand. Talk is weak. Britain needs to say no more, and mean it.

A Restore Britain Government, with the British people's approval, would put Vickrum Digwa to death.

Henry Nowak was stabbed by Digwa five times, including twice in the back of his legs, once in the face and a fatal wound to the chest.

Rather than calling an ambulance, Digwa filmed Henry.

Digwa gave the knife to his mother and it was found by police at their home along with more than 20 other weapons.

Keeping this savage alive serves nobody.

The police officers on the scene who allowed Henry to die will face criminal charges for gross negligence manslaughter.

Digwa's foreign family will be deported.

Laws will change, the country will change, everything will change.

Order will be restored, the law will be restored.

Britain will be restored.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

For the last century, from the Scottsboro Boys to Emmett Till to George Floyd, American communists have been pounding America and now the world with this brutal, cynical emotional propaganda weapon.

Of course they don’t want their enemies to pick it up and use it on them

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

If you don’t understand that the brutal murder and ensuing police behavior is the RESULT of politics, and that it NEEDS to be politicized, you have learned absolutely nothing.

And it will repeat over and over again until political changes are made to ensure it never happens again.

Henry Nowak’s murder, and the police cuffing him as though he was the criminal while he bled to death, is the direct result of failed immigration policy, and the institutionalization of identity politics and suicidal empathy.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Derek Chauvin was lynched because he was called racist

Henry Nowak was left to die because he was called racist

Donald Trump was lawfared and assassins relentlessly target him because he is called racist

Anti-immigration activists in Europe are imprisoned because they are called racist

Criminals are let out of prison after rape and murder because imprisoning them is racist

The only way to understand the present situation is to accept that racism is a much bigger crime in the West than rape or murder

Once you understand that, everything makes perfect sense

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

Sadly, this does not contradict Plato’s point; it proves it in its bitterest and most ironic form. When the historic American people abandoned politics, they did not merely invite misrule. They permitted the very meaning of America, and of American citizenship itself, to be rewritten around them.

The deeper problem is not simply that too many people are voting, though that is plainly true. The deeper problem is that the native people originally failed to defend the boundaries of citizenship, and now foreign populations, brought in under the language of compassion and progress, are being weaponized to decide the fate of a nation they did not build and to which they often feel no ancestral loyalty. Their attachment is economic and material, rooted less in inheritance than in what can be extracted from the system.

This is why America today is no longer a nation in the truest sense of the word: a united people with a common historical inheritance. It is increasingly a mere country in the administrative sense, a managed zone of competing collective interests, divided along racial and thus political lines, with each group struggling for influence and control over an increasingly bizarre and broken state.

And moreover, this is not true of America alone, but of the West in its totality. What is unfolding here belongs to a broader civilizational pattern: the founding White peoples of the West are undergoing demographic erasure, while the political systems built by their ancestors are being weaponized to administer the entire process of dispossession, manage the decline, extract wealth from it, and present the whole thing as moral progress.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Remember, an institution is only impartial when Progressives win all the time. Otherwise, it’s compromised.

This is just the Neutrality Fallacy on steroids.

What’s the Neutrality Fallacy?

It’s when a Liberal advances an explicitly Progressive conception of how civilization should be oriented while pretending that what they're really doing is advocating for some apolitical or impartial outcome.

But no outcome is ever impartial in politics. That’s what makes something an “outcome” in the first place. Something has been settled. A decision has been made.

Everything the government touches reflects someone's vision of what civilization should look like, and pretending otherwise is how one side ends up ruling everything without ever admitting so.