Now that Trump has achieved his well-earned electoral victory, expectations will be high for the Trump team to deliver on its agenda. If past experience is any guide, the greatest danger now facing the Right is for a sense of complacency to emerge within its ranks, following a victory presumed to be an end goal.
Too often, many on the Right disengage from the political process after achieving a given political objective. Meanwhile, the Left never ceases to aggressively engage in the political process irrespective of its victories or losses.
It is not for nothing it is said that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It is a lack of that vigilance (and understanding) required to protect freedom that has allowed the process of state growth to continue unabated.
Thus the years ahead demand a clear understanding of the nature of what we have all been through, in terms of our governments running amok, constantly creating crisis’, and pushing us to the brink of war. To reverse that trend and to prevent it from repeating, we must correctly identify the cause and process that leads to tyranny.
Towards that end our attention was recently drawn to Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State (1974), in which the classic libertarian defined what the state is and is not, along with the step-by-step process that tyrannical governments universally follow to achieve their sinister ends. It is a process chillingly descriptive of today’s political zeitgeist.
Says Rothbard: “We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?”
The power of Rothbard’s description of the State lies in a growing realization that many of the seemingly irrational and bizarre ideologies and actions of the Left that make no sense in isolation, suddenly do make sense when the greater pattern of State encroachment is clearly recognized.
For example, while many cannot see the benefit of America’s senseless wars abroad, Rothbard explains that “War provides many benefits to a State, and indeed every modern war has brought to the warring peoples a permanent legacy of increased State burdens upon society.”
Rothbard asserts that the most powerful weapon of eternal vigilance is freedom of speech: “The greatest danger to the state is independent intellectual criticism.”
Given that free speech is a keystone of the in-coming American administration, the role of independent media will be critical to America’s future as a free and democratic nation. With Trump again at the helm, Americans can at last get back on a footing where their political prospects are pointing in a direction that is Just Right.
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