OldGlory1951 Loc: Burien, Washington

The 40 Iron Laws of Politics in America
John Hawkins
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Posted: Feb 19, 2018 12:00 AM
The 40 Iron Laws of Politics in America
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1) Liberals care much more about policies that make them feel good about themselves than they do about policies that actually make life better for people.


2) That person in politics being compared to Hitler is really not very much like Hitler at all.


3) The bigger government gets, the worse it serves the people.


4) While they are in office, all Republican Presidents will be portrayed by the Left as either evil, crazy, racist, stupid or some combination thereof.


5) For every actual racist act and comment in politics, there are 500 people being falsely called bigots because Democrats believe it benefits them politically.


6) The first concern of politicians is always keeping their job and making the country a better place is not even a close second.


7) The richest, most powerful people in society will ALWAYS find ways to corrupt politicians. That means the best way to limit the power of those people over government is to keep the government small and limited in scope. The bigger and more powerful the government becomes, the more power ends up being given to people with the money to pay politicians to further their interests.


8) The liberal mainstream media covers every story differently based on whether it benefits Republicans or Democrats.


9) The more partisan a district or state, the less responsive the representatives will be to their constituents and the more responsive they will be to special interest groups that can potentially organize and finance a strong primary challenger.
10) You don't win competitive elections by becoming more pure; you win by securing your base and convincing people on the fence to come over to your side.
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11) Government is a necessary evil and anyone who views it as a force for good is not someone you should want in power.


12) Any politician who offers to take away part of your personal freedom in exchange for more security is not your friend.


13) Whether it's a conspiracy theory, needlessly offensive posturing or an unbelievably stupid idea, if there's money or an audience to be gained by promoting it, there are people who will do exactly that.


14) There is nothing the government does more cheaply and efficiently than the private market. Therefore, when the government handles any function that the private market can or has been doing, expect it to get worse.


15) Typically in politics, apologies are treated by your opponents as admissions you did something wrong and need to be punished.


16) Politicians will always gather as much power in their own hands as the people will allow, no matter what the Constitution, customs or laws say about it.


17) A Republican will never be able to give away enough taxpayer money to compete with a Democrat and a Democrat will never be able to cut enough taxes to compete with a Republican.


18) The more loyal a block of voters in politics, the more they get screwed by the politicians representing them.


19) The highest priority of any politician in the spotlight is always covering his own behind.


20) The goal of the mainstream media is not to report the news; it's to further liberalism while reporting the news.


21) Inevitably when politicians try to push new legislation through quickly, it's not because of timetables or emergencies; it's because they know it won't be passed if people find out what's in it.


22) The more money the government takes, the less money there is left for the people to use as they see fit.


23) The more capitalistic a nation is, the richer it becomes. The more socialistic a nation is, the poorer it becomes.


24) There will always be poor Americans.


25) The highest IQ, best education and most thorough research does not enable someone in D.C. to have a better idea of how you should be spending your money than you do.


26) Liberals are incessantly competing with each other in the realm of sensitivity. He who is most offended by the most trivial thing wins.


27) There is almost nothing a liberal can do to a conservative that will draw the scorn of other liberals except making liberalism look bad in the eyes of the public.


28) If you want to understand why something is happening in politics, try to figure out who's making money off of it.


29) The most likable candidate usually wins.


30) In politics, there will always be people who hate you for no good reason.


31) Subtle appeals to self-interest beat suggestions that people should do what's right for the country every time.


32) If it damages America, large numbers of liberals will either subtly try to help it along or support it outright.


33) The party that's out of power in American politics becomes angry, energized and often a little bit crazy.


34) "Moderate" does not actually mean reasonable, consistent or even being in the middle between two positions.


35) Every seemingly radical change in politics was built with many small steps in the same direction that came before it.


36) Conservatives spend an inordinate amount of time trying to explain what they really want to do to the general public while liberals spend an inordinate amount of time trying to hide what they really want to do from the general public.


37) As often as not, the "victims" in politics are the real bullies.


38) Every time the government "fixes" a problem, a new problem is created by that "fix." That leads to new calls for the government to "fix" the problems it created by the last "fix." After this process is repeated a few times, you end up with massive, intractable problems caused by government interference while most of the public has no idea that government interference in the marketplace is at the root of the issue.


39) Gridlock and repealing laws beat enacting new legislation 99 times out of 100.


40) The most "privileged" groups in America are actually the ones you have to be careful about criticizing, not the groups that are mocked, smeared and attacked as "privileged" at every opportunity.

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These laws are Intense!!!!! yet half of our Government does not even follow them, they are too afraid, or they just don't give a darn. Either way y'all look at it, we are having to pay a heavy price, Money wise and with our own life. We are up POOP Creek without a Paddle and a hole in the Boat. We will be on a Sinking Ship without any escape. When y'all read this Post, tell me what y'all think...

CDM Loc: Florida

I think it's the truth; not because that's how I want to think but because it's fact, proven day after day, year after year .... decade after decade.

Couple of comments; Regarding number 7, the solution is to change out the politicians on a frequent and regular basis. Commonly referred to as term limits. This would have a tremendous positive effect on the other 39 laws. However, a possible 41st law is that politicians of any stripe will NEVER allow term limits and the people are too stupid to demand it.

I believe it is an injustice to refer to Leftists as 'liberals' ... There is NOTHING liberal about Leftists! They are the most unforgiving, destructive member of the known animal kingdom. No other living creature behaves with such malice of forethought toward other living creatures that they don't intend to eat.

OldGlory1951 Loc: Burien, Washington

I totally!!!!totally agree with your response to my post!!!!.CDM!!! Good Point!!!!.

Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia

I support the idea of term limits. I have another suggestion that I am not quite sure how to implement. It seems that many of our representatives and senators come to congress rather poor, but leave some years later quite well-to-do. Term limits might help that, but there seems to be an "old boy network" that ropes the nubie into the money skimming process, and thus makes the nubie a member of the clan, and capable of being blackmailed, or made poor again. Inside stock information may be the source of the money. So how do we stop this cold?

CDM Loc: Florida

Term limits would by default address some of the issue you raise by limiting the time for corruption to develop. If a representative's political life span is short and given the slow pace of bureaucracy the opportunities for corruption are, if not eliminated, severely truncated. That was the thinking of Franklin, Monroe and the pro-term limits gang.

Another possible element of cure is to enforce the myriad of laws designed to prevent, among other things, illicit gains from office. The elitist culture (Democrat and Republican) violate these laws with impunity because ... no one is ever punished. Look at current events; there is a plethora of evidence of outright law breaking by Hilary Clinton, by the Democrat Party, FBI management (not all the FBI of course), the DOJ under Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, Barack Obama with full knowledge of violations if nothing else ... But what do we do? We, as a nation, pursue and support obliteration of those outside the elitist circle and who threaten this mantel of protection provided for under the status quo.

In a Democratic Republic; unless the people participate ... demand change ... it won't happen. And given the state of understanding of our nations history, core doctrines and constitutional foundation by the current largest generation ... fully indoctrinated by the Leftist public education system (Oh thank you Jimmy Carter!)... I'm hard pressed to see how to stop it at all much less 'cold'.

Mike Easterday

We have agencies in government that are not even known of and serve no purpose.

Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia

The Louisiana State University (LSU) had for many years a summary of all federal organizations on their website. Their count, if I remember it correctly. was 1124 as of 1999, This included all sorts of named groups that had a budget, staff, housing, a line in the appropriations document, and a mission statement. The types of organizations included agencies, committees, boards, bureaus, commissions, offices, foundations and the like. Under Obama, the sum total of these entities was scrubbed from the site, so to get a good account you had to count the database entries.

It seems that I have lost the link to the LSU data. I tried Wikipedia and got this entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_Statestand https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/
Ronald Reagan tried to reduce them, but only succeeded in killing off about 100, but even then the people were often absorbed into yet another kindred organization and continued on their way. Each of these organizations seemed to have several sponsors in Congress, that would cry bloody murder if their pet board was messed with or dissolved.

CDM Loc: Florida

Here's a look at the subject from George Will who is a fairly decent analyst most times. He makes a good point; Leftists and bureaucrats insist the government is not growing ... because the numbers of employees is fairly static. But look what happens when we start counting 'contract' employees who are paid the same way as direct employees; with our tax dollars ... https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/02/federal-government-growth-continues-while-federal-employee-numbers-hold/