“People who are inept with kids and dogs are bad at everything else, too.”
Are your neighbors your property, to be ordered around at your whim? No? Congratulations. You are now an anarchist.
The Marxists have muddied up that word, so you can choose another – agorist, voluntaryist, anarchocapitalist – if you like. The good news is, you have foresworn your criminal past, so you’re one of the good guys now.
Once you look at things this way – government is the criminal imposition of violence upon innocents – you’ll find plenty of government you want to get rid of. And what has the last year taught us but that even well-meant tyranny is still tyranny?
The government that governs best governs least – and that’s why the best government is no government. That requires better fathers, which suggests the first branches of the state to prune. But government infantilizes and enfeebles us in everything it does, so – as the Trump presidency just illustrated – getting rid of it anywhere makes us stronger everywhere.
We cannot be feral, so we must be civil – but we cannot be civil by predation. Yet as logic dictates and Hayek insists, simply by not pushing each other around, we make wonders where the tyrants make nothing but mountainous mass graves.
In other news:
Housing Wire: Mortgage rates remain under 3% for third week in a row.
CNBC: Federal judge overturns national eviction ban.
City Journal: Anatomy of a Crime Wave: Baltimore’s experiment with de-policing has been disastrous—and deadly.
UPI: U.S. birth rate in 2020 saw largest decline in almost 50 years, CDC says.
The Federalist: Critical Race Theory Illuminates Democrats’ Master Plan To End Honest Elections In America.
City Journal: The Federalism Fix: How to bring peace to Washington’s partisan wars.
