Banning Abortion the Republican Way

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To understand the difficulty in banning abortion one must first realize that there are in fact no genuine conservatives in the political arena.  The posture of being conservative is for appearance and being accepted by members of the group. The people think of themselves as conservatives provided there are no actual conservative things that take place. Evangelical Christians are no more righteous than atheists.  Conservative is all about self esteem and being perceived as being on the right side.

All Republican presidential candidates are pro-life but that is only as long as abortion remains an issue only. For conservatives a law banning abortions would serve only as a social statement. Not one in a million would have any interest enforcing the a law that bans abortion. A pro life conservative uses the  issue only as a way to declare “I am a good person.” Banning abortions would require punishing offenders. Is a $5.00 fine too much punishment? How about just a good finger wagging?

Donald Trump has no understanding of the true incentives that govern human behavior. If he did he would never suggest punishing women for terminating pregnancies. The conservatives he is trying to impress only want to be on the right side of the issue for self esteem purposes. Is there a way to ban abortion and keep it punishment free for women?

Conservatives are fine with the conservative identity. They disappear when it is time to do an actual conservative thing. Notice that Republicans never mention the fact that Trump has suggested closing government agencies starting with the Department of Education. Genuine conservatives would move to the Trump camp like a tsunami upon the very suggestion of closing a government agency. There simply are no conservative Republicans.

 

Just Another Day at the Whorehouse is a timely Curbside Jimmy Tune.

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James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.

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