Truth is Killing Trump

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Trump has told the truth a number of times during has campaign.

The truth has no utility in politics! It isn’t used. Voters won’t put up with it. Politics is about people using government to get what they want. Voters vote for fantasies. Donald Trump began his campaign by telling the truth a few times.

After that he joined the others and focused on lies. “Make America great again.” is a lie with lots of appeal. Go back in time and try to find that golden era of greatness and you will never find it. No such time existed. The process of citizens losing freedom and government serving only those with enormous political power goes back to before the American Revolution. Corruption began early and has continued unabated to the present. Trump knows this is dishonest but guess what. People love it.

Trump gets in trouble when he is truthful. The other politicians are experienced so they stick to the lies they know people want to hear. Trump’s remarks on abortion were right on and they hurt him badly. Voters punished him just as is to be expected. Anyone can see the folly of passing a law and then administering no punishment. Voters fantasize about getting what they want without experiencing any inconvenience. Voters fantasize about government using its “magical powers” to seamlessly make abortion go away just by making it against the law.

The truth is not good enough. Sometimes it is harsh. Politicians who get elected come up with stuff that sounds better. If Trump has learned his lesson and sticks to lies, he can still get the nomination on the first ballot.

Here is Curbside Jimmy’s tune. It Seems Like All M Friends Are Dogs These Days.
It Seems Like All My Friends Are Dogs These Days.

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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.

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