Now that election season is fully upon us with the completion of state primaries in North Carolina, it might be a good time to remind ourselves that words that come out of political mouths don’t always mean what they sound like they are meant to be.
One such word is “equality.” We are no doubt going to hear a lot from the Democratic side this year about instituting “equality” in our economic system and community life together in North Carolina and America.
What does that mean, exactly? Does it mean that Democrats running for office want to use the coercive power of government in all branches — executive, legislative and judicial — to make sure everyone winds up being as financially successful as, say, Elon Musk or Bill Gates? Such a dream is impossible to achieve, especially by legislative fiat and diktat no matter how great the far left makes it sound when they promise to do it.
It is also financially and economically impossible simply based on the mathematics behind such a utopian dream. There’s simply not enough money in circulation for everyone to own $1 trillion worth of stocks, bonds or property, no matter how fast the U.S. economy can be spurred on to grow.
Sadly, there is one way to make everyone “equal” in an economic sense in a relatively short span of time. If elected politicians don’t focus on the big issues that are important to all of us instead of special interests and identity politics, history proves that failure to do so can wind up making life miserable for everyone, which is a form of “equality” no one on the left wants to admit may happen if all of their policies are passed and enacted into law.
Winston Churchill said in a 1948 speech in Scotland: “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” In a speech to the House of Commons in 1945, Churchill delivered his rhetorical coup de grace: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
The economically unsound policies of the far left — exorbitantly high, confiscatory rates of taxes coupled with much more intense regulations of free business enterprise — would strangle the economy and hurt the very people who need wealthy people to invest in new companies and create jobs for the rest of us.
Compounding the negative impacts of such policies should the Democrats take over control of Congress is the fact that we are starting behind a gigantic iceberg of accumulated debt which is now consuming more than $1 trillion of the budget annually at the federal level simply to pay interest owed to current bondholders, both foreign and domestic. That $1 trillion annually would go a long way toward closing off the borders to illegal immigration of any sort forever.
All the time spent posturing and genuflecting to the gods of sexual identity, racial division and defying the rule of law and authority of state and local police has also allowed elected officials to neglect real threats to our common lives together, which most of us know nothing about.
One of the greatest threats America faces in the aftermath of the current Iran attacks is the vulnerability of our electric grid system, and with it our internet and telecommunications systems by which all commerce is conducted in America today. The Foundation for Infrastructure Resilience has experts in national security around the nation who are working constantly to get legislators to understand the serious threat of electromagnetic pulses initiated by our adversaries that could bring down our national grid. Such a situation would truly make everyone as miserable as people were before electricity was commoditized and made the universal nervous system of productive and profitable Western civilized cultures.
There are broad legislative steps that can be taken to protect our electrical grid system, as well as smaller devices that can be installed in private personal homes and businesses, but so far, no action has been taken.
However, if Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress, they will spend 100% of their time impeaching President Donald Trump yet again and never address the very real threats we face economically and in national security. We could all be faced with equal insecurity, which is the very “equality” we should vote to avoid.
