Do Nothing Conservatives

The conservative mindset is that once enough people believe in the thoughts and ideas they discuss, a magic benevolent being will wave a wand and all will be fixed. Destructive laws will repeal themselves. Liberals will see the error in their ways and the country will “be great again.” Wow, just imagine, free markets and a military that fights for freedom again. All of this will come about without a soul lifting a finger. No wonder so many people are conservatives.

All who work day and night using government as a tool for extracting wealth and income out of others have nothing to worry about. In time perhaps everyone’s opinions will change. Life in the deep state will go on as usual with the absolute certainty that nothing is going to stop them. While conservatives are arguing constantly and showing their colorful feathers, no action will be taken. No government agencies will be closed. No laws will be repealed. Conservatives will still be chanting term limits, term limits, term limits…..throw the bums off welfare…….drug test those mooches…… and so on. The deep state animals continue smiling while picking everyone’s pockets.

Liberals win by default. Conservatives insist that everything must be  done through the formal political process of expecting representation out of elected lawmakers. Representation is transferable so they don’t actually have any. But, that is the way it should be so that is the way it has to be.

So, why do conservatives not do conservative things? On a personal level they have no incentive to. Free markets are great. The best thing for an individual is for everything and everyone else in the economy to be governed by free market discipline. The individual is better off finding a way to exempt himself. Conservatives gain so much from the laws on the books and the various agencies, it would be economic suicided to make any change at all.

Lets suppose the United States adopted a free market system. Who would benefit. In the end, the only ones hurt would be those who give up using government for personal gain. In the early days, the biggest benefit would go to the poor and middle class. The average conservative who votes would be hurting himself financially for an an indeterminate period of time due to lost government benefits. The lack of demonstrative action on the part of conservatives is at least partly due to the fact that most would lose out in the short run.
This is a timely Curbside Jimmy tune. The scene shifts from a regular swamp to the big swamp in Washington D.C

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About Fantasy Free Economics

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.