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The Perils of Lawfaremises.org/mises-wire/perils-lawfare
365 sats \ 13 comments \ @Undisciplined 15 Oct Politics_And_Law
By Wanjiru Njoya
One sign of a fraying society is that its laws increasingly become political tools. The latest round involves Democrats trying to use criminal law in a very questionable way to try to put Donald Trump in prison, while Trump promises to retaliate if he is elected.
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34 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 15 Oct
“Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.” This is so realistic, people that are facing death rarely are accepting of it. "There is too much law, and most of it is designed to resolve problems created by having too much law." Our society is showing signs of this, and it is coming around full circle.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 15 Oct
It's probably the main reason I so strongly hope for a national divorce. The union has become far too burdensome and there's no other way out of it. Any useful reforms would face an impossible amount of political opposition, because it would negatively affect the rent-seeking ruling class.
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 15 Oct
Right. Everything supports the establishment.
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23 sats \ 9 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Oct
Ya, beat me to it! I was forgetting if I had posted this one or not.
More importantly, law does not exist for either side to teach a lesson to their political enemies, and it cannot be right for progressives to wage lawfare while expressing concerns about potentially finding themselves on the receiving end of their own methods.
The progressives have let the cat out of the bag. They will cry tears of frustration once this starts getting applied to them. The application is coming soon. I think those lie Elias and his ilk won’t like it at all when they find themselves on the receiving end of the disbarments, the bankruptcies and the jail sentences. This is what they are fully justified in being afraid of if they cannot cheat their way to their tyranny.
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20 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 15 Oct
Do you think we'll actually see it? The right never seems to come through on anything.
I'd love to see widespread criminal investigations into the ruling class, but it seems so far-fetched.
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38 sats \ 7 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Oct
I have my doubts on the ever-caving Republicans. You’re right about them never coming through in the pinch. I do think this is giving the little “l” libertarians a chance to become much more popular. I think that the whole show is rigged to be anti-populist, at the moment. However, world-wide there seems to be a movement towards populism. Do you think populism has a chance against globalism?
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 15 Oct
I do think there's a chance, but I think it will come in the form of decentralization, rather than accountability.
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29 sats \ 5 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Oct
Decentralization? It would be better to move towards agorism or anarchy (in the original meaning) before anything really happens. I really look forward to the common law courts being applied again!
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 15 Oct
Agorism and anarchism are just decentralization taken to its limit. There's no appetite for that amongst the public, though. However, populism might latch onto state and local autonomy movements.
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28 sats \ 3 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Oct
Ah yes, those lovely limits!! Populism may be a good first step in that direction, but, I think that there will be a lot of collapsing very suddenly, real soon now. Agorism and anarchy may be the natural result of the grand collapse. But I think that this is a white pill not a black pill. Do you think those conditions might obtain?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 15 Oct
It probably depends on exactly where you are. My impression has been that state and local institutions are fairly robust (not that they're good) compared to federal. I would expect the states and cities I'm most familiar with to continue on more or less like normal, if the national government falls apart.
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