Trump: the great global reset

Ironically, Trump, the biggest bullshitter in America since PT Barnum, and the biggest to be president, has called time on bullshit.

These three themes underlie just about all the new Team Reality victories around the world.

So, you don’t have sovereignty if you have unbounded immigration, legal or illegal. That’s a theme Dutton definitely needs to take up. It stands on its own, and it feeds into another major issue everywhere - cost of living.

People can see how bringing a Tasmania’s worth of new immigrants in each year pushes up house prices and rents.

Fantasy is really coming home to roost in the energy area, and people are starting to be realistic about climate change as a result.

We could dismantle our economy and go back to wherever we all came from (or our original Australian ancestor if we were born here) and leave the place as a monument to the first inhabitants, and it would make a couple of weeks difference to global CO2 emissions, and nothing to climate.

When it comes to bullshit, banning it through MAD legislation is just more BS, and in fact a manifestation of the regulation of all aspects of the country which is depressing our productivity, including sending us back to the days of cloth cap unionism.

In fact, banning “misinformation” means you restrict access to truth – today’s fact is often tomorrow’s mistake, and tussling with suspected misinformation is the best mind experiment you can perform to discover truth.

You also need a population that is educated, not trained or indoctrinated. That’s a theme already being picked up in Australia with the school system that went to basics (and the 70s) acing the latest NAPLAN tests.

Everyone is tired of the people who always know better, and always say “No”. And they take far too much tax from those who are productive, to spend increasingly on excess public servants and welfare transfers.

We all have needs, but the country also has physical limits. Both can’t be completely satisfied, and trade-offs need to be made. Personal sovereignty doesn’t just mean being able to say what you think, it means taking responsibility for yourself, and yes, there is a cost which you can’t expect the state to pick up.

Sovereignty also requires a decent defence force. When it comes to wealth transfers, we spend too little on defence, and what we do spend mostly isn’t spent wisely. I’m sure Trump would agree “You want those AUKUS subs? You might need to step up to 3% of GDP.”