In watching the debates relating to healthcare, taxes, guns and well, just about everything, I am struck by something.
There seems to be a pattern in all of the policy debates before us.
Statists identify a problem. They then, naturally, offer a solution which decreases individual freedom and increases central power.
Said solution invariably fails to take into account human nature. Thus the solution fails.
And from these failures come call for a new solution which takes more freedom and concentrates more power.
Break apart the nuclear family through welfare policy and social libertinism and we see horrible social mutations from declining birth rates to rampant fatherlessness. The outcome is violence, declining educational achievement and over reliance on government services.
So for these new problems, new answers? Alas, no.
The solution for violence is restraining freedom, attacking gun ownership and the Second Amendment or Hollywood and the First Amendment. The answer is more centralization, a vast new federal program for security in your local school.
The solution for a defunct educational system? Squeeze more out of the taxpayer and launder it trough the state capital or Washington. Or maybe both, to make sure all the right hands get greased.
And the entitlement programs, which were the last generations' centralized solution to their problems? More taxes. Trap the young in the Ponzi schemes.
And thus we will have more failure and ratchet the constraints on freedom ever tighter.
A more cynical man might think it's a convenient cycle. But it doesn't have to be a conspiracy to be true.
The only answer is refusing to yield to knee-jerk reactions and to scream stop as the elites look to put out the fires they started by drowning our freedom.
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