Election Priorities

Inclusive economic institutions rely on the existence of political institutions characterized by power-sharing and wide distribution of decision-making among the elites, businesses, civil society, and, ultimately, individuals. The elite are, in a word, constrained. Unconstrained decision-making, in contrast, centralizes power in the hands of a small elite or, in extreme cases, in one individual. The former fosters competition, coalition building, and accountability. The latter fosters elite predation.--Tupy

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An investigation by CBS News Colorado reveals how state attorneys general, including Colorado AG Phil Weiser, are attending lavish events funded, in part, by companies they’re suing and investigating.

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Half a million jobs would be at risk under EU plans to effectively ban combustion-engine cars by 2035, according to European auto suppliers.

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This year six relevant insurance companies went insolvent, and for Florida underwriting losses have run more than $1 billion for each of the last two years. Not surprisingly, insurers have been cutting back their coverage in the state or leaving altogether. The end result is that homeowners are finding it much harder to get coverage and finding it much more expensive when they do.

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Election Priorities

"The danger to America is not Joe Biden, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Biden presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Biden, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Biden, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president." (Don sent this quote from a Czech newspaper.)

This alarming idea should make one wonder how important the coming election really is. Are people angry over the price of gas or the ideology that encouraged its rise? Is bias in the legal system tolerable in a socially approved cause? Are the failures of the Border and Education really failures of imagination and efficiency? Are the conflicts between the individual and the state resolvable without tyranny?

It is not that these problems are overwhelming, it is they are not considered. Instead, price controls on gas are seen as a solution superior to drilling to get more of it. 

The U.S. needs an intellectual rebirth far more than an electoral tsunami.