"I believe that each of the southern states that border Mexico should consider doing what Texas is doing, and should never have to rely on the federal government to secure their own borders. US states have their own autonomy, and those individual state governments have a responsibility to protect the rights of their own citizens. They shouldn’t need the federal government for anything, because it is a mess and takes too long to do anything anyway.
Very simply, each state within the US should never be in a position where they need to defer to the federal government when it comes to ensuring the safety of their own citizens. Currently, the political situation around something as simple as border security is nothing short of ridiculous. So why wait on the federal government to get its act together? Every state should be confident that they can protect their own people – because one thing is for sure: Washington won’t do it."
Micah Curtis
"Today the states are disunited between blue and red to a far greater extent than they were in 1860. There are two countries today occupying the same geographical location. One, the red states, believe in America and its founding documents. The other, the blue states, believe that America epitomizes white supremacy evil.
The message is clear. From the Democrats the message is that white Americans must submit to blacks whom they have wronged. From the Red States the response is that whites freed the blacks from the slavery that their black brothers sold them into, whites passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution that guarantee blacks equality before the law. The claim that white Americans denied these protections to blacks is a lie by traitors guilty of treason who intend to overthrow the United States of America.
The only way out of this is civil war. We will learn if the red states have enough confidence and will to defend the Constitutional rights of white Americans.
Otherwise we will have, as was predicted some years ago, a 'dispossessed majority.' White Americans could be dispossessed not only of their legal and Constitutional rights, but also of their lives."
Paul Craig Roberts
"The very existence of majorities and minorities is indicative of an immoral state. The man whose character harmonizes with the moral law, we found to be one who can obtain complete happiness without diminishing the happiness of his fellows. But the enactment of public arrangements by vote implies a society consisting of men otherwise constituted; implies that the desires of some cannot be satisfied without sacrificing the desires of others; implies that in the pursuit of their happiness the majority inflict a certain amount of unhappiness on the minority; implies, therefore, organic immorality.
Thus, from another point of view, we again perceive that even in its most equitable form it is impossible for government to dissociate itself from evil; and further, that unless the right to ignore the state is recognized, its acts must be essentially criminal."
Herbert Spencer
"Were we ever to stop being afraid of the government itself and to cast off the phoney fears it has fostered, the government would shrivel and die, and the host would disappear for the tens of millions of parasites in the United States—not to speak of the vast number of others in the rest of the world–who now feed directly and indirectly off the public’s wealth and energies. On that glorious day, everyone who had been living at public expense would have to get an honest job, and the rest of us, recognizing government as the false god it has always been, could set about assuaging our remaining fears in more productive and morally defensible ways."
Robert Higgs
"Every cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."
Eric Hoffer
"Americans have a healthy respect for military service, which I share. But the military today is the opposite of the militias of old. The military in 2021 destroys our freedom; it does nothing to protect it. Today, the American military is basically the armed wing of Sesame Street, a zombie force of woke Storm Troopers ready to firebomb any country (including ours) that doesn’t toe Washington’s utopian-socialist policy line. Anyone who disagrees with the woke agenda is going to get a visit from the army, and probably also from several of the other armed federal agencies (even the Social Security Administration and the post office have their own armed guards). The feds’ rampaging through free people’s land used to happen only in places like Chad, Yemen, Lakota country, and Japan, places that the federals could raze for sport. But now it happens in Washington, too. The militia got co-opted. The minutemen got turned into time-serving Hessians for statists. Patriots became patsies for Jen Psaki and her crew."
Jason Morgan
"Probably the costliest thing to individual Americans is that they do not understand the nature and desire of society and its system, operated by the government. Politicians who are paid by the federal government do the political maneuvering as prescribed by the system to benefit the system. Federal judges channel the legal system to the political and economic benefit of the system.
The more government takes an interest in private affairs, the less individual freedom there is. The greater the government's involvement in regulation, the greater the threat to your life. Massive government spending intended to 'improve' people's lives or correct ailments created by government intervention (see: lockdowns) corresponds directly to the loss of individual freedoms."
Bob Livingston
"Any winner of a war, he writes and enforces history. How would England report the Battle of London if Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had won that war and ruled Great Britain right now? That’s what has happened to the South, our point of view has been excluded. There is no law that says you must exclude the Southern view but everyone in power, money and prestige will not allow our point of view to be exposed, or a very limited exposure. We call it censor by exclusion."
Walter D. Kennedy
"Freedom is the essence of life; it is not a state of mind or a privilege. It comes from no constitution or bill of rights, or any government decree. It is inherent in the souls of man, and if not defended, it will forever be lost. To live free means that each must be willing to defend his freedom at all cost, even death. Americans are now prisoners of their own making, so the choice is clear; either fight to remove the shackles that bind you, or remain a slave to your chosen masters."
Gary D. Barnett
"Once upon a time long ago, we agreed there were certain immutable laws of human nature. These laws were based on facts, reality, and data.
In other words, we accepted common sense about the way the world worked according to logical and even 'scientific' principles. That assumption defined us as 'enlightened' rather than Dark Age reductionists and ideological—or myth-driven zealots.
Not now. 'Progressives,' especially the media, are most often regressive, anti-Enlightenment, and intolerant people, who start with a deductive premise and then make the evidence conform to it—or else."
Victor Davis Hanson
"The need to control others is an aberration, a mental deficiency common to psychopaths, but in the new world, the control freaks are given justification and free rein. The striking irony here is that these people like to control, but they also like to be controlled. They find comfort and safety in their chains. The world is a scary place, and being independent within it takes courage, mental fortitude and a willingness to learn from our mistakes so that we gain wisdom and experience in the process.
The platitudes and pontificating of the leftist mob are an attempt to avoid the tribulations of real life; their submission to the state no matter how dubious or evil is an attempt to feel safe from their own irrational fears and weaknesses."
Brandon Smith
"The left hasn’t and won’t stop at Confederate symbols.
They want it all.
At the end of the day, Yankees need to dominate the government, be it on the left or the right. It’s their driving force. One of my colleagues accurately said that if you want to see what Yankee dominated America looks like, just look around. We have it.
This process began in 1861 and has continued, almost unabated, since then."
Brion McClanahan
"If it does indeed turn out that the lab-leak hypothesis is the right explanation for how it [the pandemic] began — that the common people of the world have been forced into a real-life lab experiment, at tremendous cost — there is a moral earthquake on the way.
Because if the hypothesis is right, it will soon start to dawn on people that our mistake was not insufficient reverence for scientists, or inadequate respect for expertise or not enough censorship on Facebook. It was a failure to think critically about all of the above, to understand that there is no such thing as absolute expertise.
Think of all the disasters of recent years: economic neoliberalism, destructive trade policies, the Iraq War, the housing bubble, banks that are 'too big to fail,' mortgage-backed securities, the Hillary Clinton campaign of 2016 — all of these disasters brought to you by the total, self-assured unanimity of the highly educated people who are supposed to know what they’re doing, plus the total complacency of the highly educated people who are supposed to be supervising them."
Thomas Frank
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