Divergence

Regardless of who wins what in November, the path forward for people who don’t want their kids to end up as cricket eating, bottom dwellers is to start creating a future with the ingredients needed for human life.  I can see the beginnings of this in places like Florida.  Local leaders will have to think carefully about how to protect their citizens from Washington.

Coming in first place will be education.  The public-school systems are the primary avenue for proselytizing children.  In addition, the education provided has been degraded to the point where graduates are no longer qualified for higher education or even normal positions in business or trade.  The voucher system that some states have come adopted is the correct solution.  These bad schools need to lose their student base and end up closing.  Later on a triage system can be enacted to try and reform some of the public schools that can be saved.  And useful trades should be encouraged as a viable alternative to college.  And the state should review any college curriculum to ensure that it has value and yank the charter of any college that attempts to charge people for learning “gender or queer studies.”

Next up is law and order.  Each state must come to terms with urban areas that have abandoned their citizens into the power of a criminal element.  Prosecutors are allowing those arrested for serious crimes to go free and even some police forces have abandoned their jobs and no longer arrest criminals. The states must take over these areas and clean them up and keep them that way.  Firing and prosecuting district attorneys and other officials who have been criminally negligent in their duties must be performed to prevent this behavior from recurring.

Welfare reform and homelessness must also be addressed.  No one should be paid for sitting around.  Welfare should be reserved for widows and orphans.  Everyone else works or they don’t eat.  If the state becomes the employer of last resort, then let’s make sure the state gets its money’s worth.  Road gangs repairing pot holes and picking up trash have some value.  Small business incentives should be put in place to encourage initiative.

States should pass laws that will allow illegal aliens to be excluded from the benefits of society.  They must be denied any state resources that can be withheld.  Criminalizing all of the statuses that come with being an illegal alien must be pursued as a way to drive the illegals out of the state.  And this should be done despite the federal government’s attempts to protect them.  And most importantly the corporations that employ them must be punished as strenuously as possible to help close up this avenue of funding.

And finally, the state must build a system of policies to promote and encourage young people to raise families.  Everything must be done to provide support to young men who want to work while their wives stay home and raise children.  And the law must specifically require that arrangement.  It must be explicitly tailored to encourage young women to act as housewives and mothers because this arrangement is uniquely suited to provide the maximum amount of harmony and well-being for the whole family.  And the state should fight for this arrangement, tooth and nail.

And all of this is just the beginning.  Each state is going to have to embark on a program to counteract the harmful programs that the federal government pushes.  Each state will have to review all the federal programs and refuse the money associated with those that cause harm.  For instance, a state might decide to forbid the airing of television shows produced by PBS and other government propaganda mills.

And finally, a mechanism has to be instituted to provide the “big picture” planning that currently is done at the national level.  Things like research and development and transportation, highway, urban and environmental planning can’t be left to the feds.  Their priorities and biases won’t allow them to do a good job on these.  Luckily no one state has to take over these functions.  A consortium of states can team up to do this work.

It’s clear that if we don’t want to end up living in a place like California or New York we are going to have to take control of our future and pushing off in different directions from the federal government.  We can’t assume that control of the federal government will be in the hands of rational people.  It’s time to move on.