Kevin Duffy on open-ended government wars

We should be opposed to all government wars: on drugs, on poverty, on terror, on racism, on climate change and, yes, on Covid. They are always open-ended, unwinnable and come with crushing costs. The only winner: Big Government.

~ Kevin Duffy, tweet, August 13, 2021

Michael Rectenwald on the Trump adminstration and the Left

Most importantly, however, Trump has represented a thin line of defense, however tenuous, of American liberties that stand in the way of global and governmental and extra-governmental order that thrives on lockdowns, masking, muzzling, banning, blacklisting, down-ranking, memory-holing, gaslighting, deleting, canceling, censoring, pre-censoring and obliterating dissent and dissenters. 

~ Michael Rectenwald, "The Google Election," Ludwig von Mises Institute's "Symposium with Ron Paul," 22:20 mark, November 7, 2021

Doug Casey on the culture war in America

Culture is what ties groups and countries together.  When a cultural split develops—such as the one we now have in the US—a country cannot, and, more importantly, should not stay together. 

It’s poisonous to keep different cultures together in the same political unit.  Politics is all about deciding who decides who gets what, how, and at whose expense.  It can be fairly cordial if everybody shares the same culture.  If they don’t, it’s a formula for disaster. 

In the US, politics has become a contest of who gets to impose their will on the rest of the country.  When that’s the case, a country is best off dividing.  It shouldn’t be held together artificially or by force, but voluntarily.  Freedom of association is necessary for a civil society.

~ Doug Casey, "Doug Casey on The Culture War," LewRockwell.com, September 24, 2020

Thomas Luongo on the culture war

This is a war between radicalized lunatics bathed in unquenchable envy and self-pity and those who refuse to act like victims.

But they are victims.

All of us are. On both sides of the divide.

We are victims of a vicious program to divide and conquer the U.S. through a culture war designed to dehumanize each other. We fight among ourselves over scraps while the people who manipulated events to this point walk away laughing at the destruction.

They want the violence. They love it. They relish it. It brings them power and prestige.

~ Thomas Luongo, "After Kenosha - Divided We Stand," LewRockwell.com, August 28, 2020