Welcome, my dear readers, back to the asylum. It seems that Trump has won the White House, and the Red Team has also swept the field. What does this mean? Can we expect our woes to be resolved, world peace, freedom, and a return to the Republic of old? Yea, probably not. While I am cautiously optimistic, if for no other reason than this will slow the globalists down by a few years, I am not holding my breath.
The Republicans have screwed us over as much as the Democrats. They betrayed us with the 1994 Contract with America that won Republicans control in both chambers of Congress. The contract was mainly abandoned shortly into the first legislative session of the term and never reinstituted (here and here). Some will defend this because Bill Clinton was President and would have vetoed the bills anyway. The problem is the deal was Congress would pass the laws. It did not, and in most cases, made no effort to do so. Had the laws been passed as promised and then vetoed, that would have been on Bill Clinton, not Congress. It is possible that, had the laws been passed and vetoed, they might have been a lever that prevented Clinton’s second term. Unfortunately, after all the talk and promises, it was shady business as usual once the votes were cast.
Then, G.W. Bush had a unified House and Senate in 2001. That unholy trifecta oversaw the most totalitarian legislative session in modern history. They gave us the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and several other freedom-stealing, power-grabbing abominations (here, here, and here). These were the very actions that allowed the left and the Clintons to perpetrate the Russian collusion hoax in 2016. Not to mention the unnecessary and unwinnable wars that cost 20 years, trillions of dollars, and thousands of American lives and accomplished nothing except for demoralizing our armed forces and destabilizing an entire region that hasn’t yet found a new equilibrium.
They did a little better in 2017 during Trump's first term, and at least we got a tax cut out of it, but mostly the machine and Trump’s lack of preparedness for the machine kept business more or less the same as usual in Sodom on the Potomac.
Still, I am optimistic and hope things will be different this time. There is a solid chance Trump will get the opportunity to appoint at least one and possibly up to three new justices to the Supreme Court. He has done this exceptionally well by appointing people who understand basic English and original intent. I think there is a mandate for some change that hasn’t been present since 1994, and this time, the White House shouldn’t be in opposition (no excuses). I also think Trump is much more ready to play in the deep end now than he was, so I think he will navigate the dirty politics better now than he did the first time.
Now, what would be ideal to see out of a unified administration and Congress? I think Trump’s platform has some good starting points (here): veteran homelessness, deporting illegals, closing the border, ending birth-right citizenship (is a great idea that can’t be done with an executive order as it was part of the 14th amendment, so it will require a constitutional amendment)to name a few. And then there is a lot of silliness like the fair, national college, and some awful ideas like messing with the economy and housing (government making houses affordable is how we got in the mess we are in). Fully repealing Obama Care would be awesome, but what really needs to happen will be painful, like amputating a cancerous limb. I don’t think Donald nor anyone currently awaiting investiture in Washington dares to do it, but we need a Volcker moment where interest rates go to 20-30% so everything contracts to the point of deflation (the only real solution to inflation). Save no one and let the pieces fall where they may. Then, audit to get an accurate count of the gold we have (There are legitimate questions as to if we still have it or not.) and then undo Nixon’s executive order of August 15th, 1971, declaring we will redeem bonds for gold, but at $5000, $10,000, or whatever an ounce so we have enough to cover it. Then, our foundations will be sound enough to build and there will be a reason for real fiscal responsibility. Is it crazy, maybe, but we are suffering from nearly the same set of circumstances that we were in the middle to late 1970s (massive spending, artificially suppressed interest rates, and low growth). Volcker was half right in his solution. The second half would have been to undo Nixon’s closing of the Gold Window, as that would have probably made the resolution more long-lasting.
Now is the time to go crazy. Over 80% of all voters said they want moderate or significant changes to the system's structures. Only time will tell how much, if any, of the right things they choose to do or if it will just be another opportunity wasted.
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
God Bless you
-Sam