I keep hearing about attacks against Trump candidates for office. During the first Trump Administration, the Brett Kavanaugh accusations were motivated politically and a lot of accusations can be made for political reasons. While I think that a person’s morals are important, they are no longer relevant to appointments when baseless accusations are clearly being made to block people. Matt Gaetz just dropped out of the Attorney General candidacy because of accusations. These accusations arose after his candidacy threatened the Washington D.C. establishment. There were no criminal convictions to disqualify him. I think he shouldn’t have dropped out. And I think that entertaining the notion that baseless accusations should be heard is ridiculous. This isn’t the Victorian Era. And the reason that Washington D.C. needs to be changed is because of corruption regarding public service. That’s the kind of corruption that we need to focus on rather than accusations of private impropriety. Let’s stop allowing interested parties to play the game of virtue signalling, chasing down rumors and entertaining falacies for the purpose of blocking needed change.

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If you were in a terrible car accident, would you be able to get the medical interventions to repair your body that you need in order to return to a normal life? Or if you had an unexplained medical problem, could you get the help you need in order to resolve it? Would you trust your doctor to order tests that would help you instead of just ordering as many billable tests as the doctor can to increase their profit? Would the Doctor give good advice if the need was for something simple? For example, if you had sinusitis would he order a CAT scan and surgery if rinsing your sinuses with saline would have been sufficient to repair the problem?

If someone sued you in a frivolous lawsuit, could you find and afford a good enough lawyer to win your case? When you hire someone to work on your house can you do anything if they take your money and run without doing any of the work? What if the work is grossly below standard…could you get your money back from the first guy and still hire the better worker after that?

How much of what you have tried to achieve in life can be protected in a nation that isn’t practicing rule of law governance? NONE. All the good hard work you did in the past just might be for nothing. How can you protect yourself when you do anything now or in the future? You can’t. The reason that I make this point is because Joe Biden is trying to issue a Pardon for his son Hunter Biden retroactive to cover any crimes he may have committed over the last several years. If he can do this, how much rule of law operates here in the U.S.? What can any of us do if there isn’t really legal oversight or legal consequences for certain groups, like politicians, bankers, healthcare experts?

You can keep on going. You can keep on trying. And you will. But there aren’t any guarantees or even realistic assurances when investors can monkey around with real estate prices and double triple or quadruple the prices or the government can regulate cars out of existence or beyond your price range, or taxes keep going up, or groceries cost twice or three times as much, or AI systems boot you right out of any hiring pool of applicants for employment that you are qualified for without explaining their unknown reasons (and 40% of job ads online are fake, but no consequences to advertiser for lying to applicants). Etc etc etc.

Lets hope that things get better.

Our ability to make them better through our work and careful money savings or investment has been harmed by frauds of many kinds and by monopolies. Does making good choices still bring success? Can diligent efforts by ordinary people to do the right thing still work towards bringing them success in a system without virtuous markets or a system without moral politics?

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