No Replacement For Obamacare? Good

The failure by the congressional Republicans to replace Obamacare is just fine by me, for what they proposed was just another unconstitutional Frankenstein's monster. The federal government has no authority to regulate health care, and it cannot grant itself such authority by dint of the empty suits in the judicial branch.

Such power is reserved to the states, who can experiment with socialistic nonsense to their hearts' content. But decentralized experimentation never appeases socialists, since competition always washes out their hare-brained schemes and leaves them clamoring for more monopolistic power. History and economics are clear that heavy-handed regulations and price controls create shortages, yet this sort of witchcraft passes for sage policy in our new Dark Ages. It appears that the hundreds of millions of souls who perished in the blood-soaked ordeals of socialism during the twentieth century died in vain.

An Apparent Contradiction

For several years I've criticized the federal government as operating unlawfully, and I've called for the states and the people to ignore it while re-asserting more of their sovereignty. More recently, I've been advocating President Trump and delighting in his use of federal power to vex the corrupt establishment and its useful-idiot followers, who comically identify themselves as idealists. So, what's going on here? Am I in favor de-centralization, or do I hypocritically favor centralization when it happens to suit me?

My main concern always has been the American nation, which my ancestors founded as a refuge from the lawless, tyrannical, and immoral hellholes everywhere else in the world. They established the federal government merely as a means to an end, as stated in the Preamble:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The federal government was made to serve me and the other descendants (the "posterity") of that incredible generation. It was made for us, not we for it. Given that the federal government has lost sight of this by exceeding its enumerated powers, abusing us with unlawful regulations and wealth transfers, and exposing us to ruin by opening the floodgates to invaders from around the world, the nation has every right to invoke and reclaim its primacy.

However crude he might be, Trump has given voice to the nation in at least one respect, which is preserving this soil for us rather than let it degenerate into a fleabag hotel for every Tom, Dick, and Harry on Earth to use as they wish. If Trump can make the federal government serve the nation in such a vital matter that precedes all others, I can't help but support him in that effort. I wish Trump were more of a constitutionalist and sought to slash all unlawful federal programs, but the nation has late-stage cancer, and removing that many tumors at once would be too much for any public official to attempt.

Another reason I support Trump is that his enemies, who are legion, are poised to tear the house down around their own ears in order to destroy him. If they fail, the nation will benefit through Trump's efforts. If they succeed, they will merely undermine the legitimacy of the system, and the nation will be emboldened to assert itself more directly.

So, I support Trump because no matter the outcome for him as an individual, the nation as a whole gains ground.  

Trump Wants To Slash Funding For The Arts

Bravo for him. The federal government has NO constitutional authority to spend my tax money on the arts, and whatever the Constitution does not allow the federal government, it forbids and reserves to the several states. This is made clear in the parsimonious language of Article I, Section 8 as well as clarified in the forgotten Tenth Amendment.

What the federal government does have authority -- even a mandate -- to do in Article IV, Section 4 is to protect the states from invasion. As such, if Trump wants to slash funding for the arts in order to provide more funding for a border wall, he is doing a bang-up job of discharging his constitutional duties as president.

The fact that many Americans excoriate Trump for doing such things is a measure of just how ignorant and degraded they have become.

Ben Carson Spoke The Truth

When characterizing American blacks as immigrants. Now, I'm well aware of the official narrative and the virtue-signaling outrage I'm supposed to express on social media. According to this narrative Carson's assertion is contemptible because blacks were dragged to these shores in chains as part of the evil, terrible, oppressive institution of slavery.

But here's the thing. Merriam Webster defines "immigrant" as "a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence." Blacks certainly fit this bill. If that's too amoral to countenance because it ignores the involuntary nature of what happened, consider that blacks routinely subjected each other to slavery, and when the opportunity presented itself they sold each other to slave traders. The slaves could have been slaves either in Africa or in America. The fact that some of them were lucky enough to make it over here is not something to condemn, unless of course one is so callous as to believe that everyone would have been better off if they had stayed in Africa. And I don't notice any mass exodus of blacks back to Africa; they seem quite happy to remain here, at least when they're not complaining about how "oppressed" they are.

Carson's real sin has nothing to do with linguistic or historical accuracy and everything to do with politics. He dared to deviate from one of the commandments of modern, mainstream discourse, which is that blacks are always and forever victims. While this self-pitying stance guarantees that blacks will never achieve equality, that's not the objective here. The objective is at is always was: power.