To Make America Free Again
Radical governmental decentralization, including restoring the rights of secession and nullification is a key ingredient of a free society.
A ‘Great’ Article by the ‘Great’ Thomas DiLorenzo. You’ll get the quote marks if you read through - DD
Everyone likes to be flattered by being called “great,” especially Donald Trump. Equally as flattering is to have one’s entire country called “great” if not “the greatest,” “exceptional,” or “indispensable.” Or perhaps even “a shining city on a hill,” reminiscent of “The Emerald City” of The Wizard of Oz.
In the political world, however, there are different meanings of “great” or “greatness.” When the Cold War ended a group of influential, well-funded, and politically-connected pundits and political activists led by Bill Kristol labeled themselves “National Greatness Conservatives (NGCs),” sounding much like today’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
The NGCs announced that with the end of the Cold War, Big Government must be employed to “physically and spiritually unify the nation,” according to David Brooks in a 1997 Weekly Standard article. Brooks, Kristol, and other NGCs called for “grand federal crusades” that would divert peoples’ attention away from living their private lives to such “crusades” as compulsory “national service” for America’s youth, reminiscent of the notorious Hitler Youth; a “mission to Mars”; building a tunnel in the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Europe; and the military invasion of other countries in the name of asserting “moral assertiveness abroad,” said Brooks. Since then, we have seen that “assertiveness” in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the Middle East. Needless to say, all of this is all un-American statist hogwash to freedom-loving Americans who do not want their children conscripted by the state for any reason and who do not want their lives planned for them by the likes of…