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Progressives have incrementally eroded away our freedoms for decades. Incrementally, we must begin taking them back.
THE PRAGMATIC CONSTITUTIONALIST IS…
. . . GUIDED in philosophy and political activism by one simple axiom: “There’s the world we want, vs. the world in which we actually live.” Purist libertarian ideologists imagine a world and human interactions in which all beings don’t care what you do with and to yourself — or in interactions with similarly consensual persons — so long as those activities do not negatively impact anyone else’s life, property, or pursuits. In other words: we should, individually, be able to do whatever we damn well please, so long as we don’t “break the bones or pick the pockets” of anyone not also voluntarily engaging in the same, said activities. The “PRAGMATIC” view understands that human nature is not so simplistic. A majority of humanity are going to choose “safety over liberty.” Most people prefer governmental remediation over free-market solutions . . . even though both are ultimately the product of HUMAN ideas and administration. How are humans who run big government any better than humans who run big corporations? How about humans first be allowed to “run themselves”— for better, or worse?
. . . A CONSTITUTIONAL libertarian, but in no way associated with the Libertarian Party. While I hold many things in common with that Party, I have found them to be, well – a typical political party. As such, they are often prone to look more after the interests of the Party, above the interests of libertarianism, or the nation. One visit to a Party meeting, and you might see them more as a social club of political misfits and outcasts than a viable political force, with too many of the Libertarian Party stereotypes on full display. Most “small l” libertarians believe the Founding of the United States was the first true libertarian experiment, and our Constitution is more than just the law of the land, but the guiding framework for the type of small government to which we need return — limiting the interference of government into our lives, but also protecting our individual liberties.
Steve talks about the latest TPC Road Trip, the triple-sabotage of his scheduled Raleigh TPC meeting, finally receiving "that" semi-expected-but-still-a-surprise phone call, the latest attacks on civil liberties from the Biden Administration and Big Tech, the Cleveland "Guardians," (huh?), some COVID news, and more!
In this podcast, Steve give a short Memorial Day tribute to his Great Uncle who was killed in Italy in the waning days of WW2...then covers some of the whiplash COVID news of the week.
Steve is rather riled up today. Only after government officials express suspicions about the Wuhan lab's culpability in releasing COVID on the world are We The People granted permission to discuss the topic on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube without threat of penalties and de-platforming. This has ALWAYS been a 1st Amendment fight with these so-called "private" companies. If you don't see it yet, then you are lost to us.
A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Steve takes a look inside the Covid Wayback Machine, digital privacy, inflation, and a quick update of where we are at the beginning of the TPC Road Trip, Spring 2021.
Steve covers everything related to North Carolina's governor fully reopening the state with no mask mandate and no capacity restrictions. He has questions. Lots of them.
We hope you enjoy the first in our series of letters exchanged between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, read by Steve Baker, The Pragmatic Constitutionalist.
TPC's been off the grid for a few days, but comes back with a classic common sense rant covering everything from Fauci's latest remarks to why we're running out of hot dogs.
In this episode Steve goes after Facebook’s fact-checker with a high-capacity magazine after she labels his recent analysis of an NIH-published paper as “Partly False.” Well . . . it wasn’t the analysis that was partly false, or the study itself. It was the fact-checker, who lazily didn’t do her research, and was totally false.
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Ha! Well...or so some say. In this episode I respond to some of the criticism of yesterday's podcast about the Chauvin trial verdict, the possible "State of Washington, D.C.," the new cop shooting in Ohio, a couple other cop stories, including the new US Postal Service "iCop" division, and more coming Vaccine Passport initiatives.
