Drain the Swamp - In Agreement with Trump
An enduring message from Donald Trump this past eight years has been that the institutions need pruning, if not a simple pruning then a far more rigorous draining of the swamp. In terms of the following arguments there is little to disagree with. Government has become oppressively involved in the majority of the personal, cultural, and economic aspects of our lives. The main disagreement with Trump is that we do not need neo-monarchism to solve it, we need a decentralisation of institutions. The argument presented here is that the most fundamental mechanism of that power grab is the way that institutions are regulated and controlled by government, which in turn permits those institutions (including corporations) to garner the lion’s share of power. This leads to a fundamental corruption of free markets and culture which then results in corporations and institutions being used by government to run our lives. This article will look at the most objective factors, those involved...