Guest Post by Jesse
Stocks were able to enjoy another lackadaisical summer day, with an upwards drift.
What is risk? Something that can easily be ignored for the day, until it rises up and smacks us in the face. But while the music plays, the dancing must go on.
Gold and silver caught a little lift on the slightly weaker dollar. I am not so sure about silver, but gold is going to some day express its determined resistance to being treated like just another fiat currency.
Politics continues to distract and divert the public conversation. And much of it is somewhat artificial and even arbitrary, and unrelated to the most pressing topic of the day, which is political and economic reform.
The ‘lesser of two evils’ is a political strategy, an engaging diversion, but not a real choice.
It is a convenient rationale designed to persuade you, the public, to accept one form of evil over another. And if it is allowed to progress, it can lead an otherwise educated and civilized people to tolerate monstrous things— and the unspeakable.
Such pride, such perverted justice, such hypocrisy, is as old as Babylon, and as evil as sin.
How then are we to resist, when most even of the faithful may seem to be falling away?
As I, and so many others have found, both recently and in times past, the only way to fill the emptiness of a heart either broken by loss or made unquiet by worry is with love, of God and God in others. Defy the world with love, and a light will come into your life.
Need little, want less, and love more. For those who abide in love abide in God, and God in them.
Need little, want less, and love more. For those who abide in love abide in God, and God in them. What great words these are.
Amen!
Jesse, buddy, what you and many others never touch is, how do the reforms you want actually happen? wanting is not a strategy. Wanting does not get anything done. I believe the reform is happening right now. I believe Donald Trump is the guy driving. it’s a big job. It’s going to take the better part of a decade. but he’s up to his eyeballs everyday in the actual task of how do you get this done. The path to the top is seldom a straight line. but with enough smarts, and enough grit, you can do the impossible. Ask Elon Musk.
Amen indeed!
Here is where we are:
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
Penn Jillette
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
George Orwell
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
Hunter S. Thompson
Jesse, I thoroughly enjoyed the Mark Blyth video… thanks for posting it.