2024 Back to the Basics - News With Views

By Lex Greene

October 30, 2024

When all else fails, always go back to the basics to get back on track. Over many years now, I have found a few useful key life practices that have helped me stay on track or get back on track when things started seeming a bit too complicated to sort out.

Rule #1 – The more complicated the circumstances seem, the simpler the solution has to be. Simplify the problem so that you can simplify the solution. Complex solutions never reach the end goal. KISS…” Keep It Simple Stupid” – Simple solutions are much easier to accomplish.

As someone who played football growing up, and raised a football player later in life, I often use football analogies to make sense of things that people have trouble making any sense of. For you football fans out there, this might work for you.

EXAMPLE: Sooner or later, winning teams with all the talent in the world, falter, falling into losing seasons. First one, then another and another, until the coaching staff is fired, and a new group of leaders are brought in. A couple of seasons later, the team is on a winning streak again.

The new head coach that “turned the team around” is being interviewed and they are asked “what did you do to turn things around?” The coach, almost dumbfounded by the question replies, “we just went back to blocking and tackling.” In other words, they tossed out the 300-page fancy play book and returned to the basics of the sport.

Rule #2 – Don’t overthink it!

Most things are actually much simpler than they appear. Think about these examples…

INFLATION is simply caused by “demand” outpacing “supply.” When more people want something than the supply line can offer, prices rise to slow down consumption. Inflation isn’t actually “higher prices,” it’s instead the result of a declining purchasing power of a currency. The same dollar just won’t buy as much. “Economic experts” responsible for the policies resulting in inflation, want you to believe the problem is “too complex for you little people to understand.” But the problem is actually quite simple and so is the solution.

SOLUTION – Freedom is a “consumer-based” economy. Increase supply to outpace demand, or reduce demand, and watch the prices fall.

AN EXPLODING NATIONAL DEBT CRISIS is the direct result of irresponsible governmental policies. Every penny in national (taxpayer) debt is the direct result of “deficit spending,” in simple terms, spending money the government doesn’t have, or government spending outpacing government revenue. Again, the “experts” think you are not smart enough to figure this out.

SOLUTION – Stop spending money you don’t have. If the funds are not in the budget, you can’t spend it, just like your budget at home. If you are personally buried in debt, it’s due to the same problem driving the unsustainable national public debt, spending money you didn’t have, and borrowing in order to do it. The problem is rarely a revenue problem. It’s much more often an irresponsible spending problem. Without debt (deficit) spending, there won’t be any debt. Make government live on a budget, just like we have to! If you can’t agree on where to cut the budget, cut all of it across the board. Make every department take a haircut! Never forget that “the borrower will always be a slave to the lender.”

FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS are simply the absence of true election security. Just as darkness is merely the absence of light, election fraud is just the absence of right! Despite the hundreds of methods used to commit election fraud today, they all fall into just two categories…
Legal legitimate votes which are not properly cast, counted and reported.
Illegal ineligible votes being improperly cast, counted and reported.

SOLUTION – Make sure that every voter proves that they have a legal right to vote and that every legal vote is properly cast, counted and reported in complete transparency, without any foreign or domestic outside intrusion, interference or manipulation. Election fraud is the very worst form of theft and it’s illegal.

MASS VIOLENCE – Happy people are not violent people. Increasing mass violence is the result of a peoples’ unhappiness, a sense of sinking, failing, a futile existence, enemies all around them with no positive future in sight.

SOLUTION – “Where the people fear their government, there is tyranny. Where the government fears its people, there is liberty.” Despite recent “factchecker” attempts to conceal the original source of this quote, usually attributed to Thomas Jefferson over many years, it none-the-less remains true. Only when people lose faith in their ability to survive, succeed and resolve issues peacefully, do they resort to mass violence. Free the people to succeed in their lives, to reduce or eliminate the sense of futility. A mass sense of futility will always result in mass violence.

Rule #3 – All People are Imperfect!

So, the mere notion that anyone will ever find a perfect political candidate is insane on its face. For most of our 248-years, Americans were born knowing that there is no such thing as a trustworthy government or politician.

But in recent years, thanks in great part to government-controlled education, younger generations tend to look at politicians as Gods, people they entrust their futures to, despite the constant public exposure of rampant corruption and criminal activities by the same people they hope will save them.

Just as people have been trained to worship Hollywood stars, sports figures, entertainers and political con artists, they have been trained to look at career politicians as someone worthy of their adulation and trust. Nothing could be further from reality…

Rule #4 – Big Money always attracts BIG CORRUPTION

It’s not money itself that is the “root of all evil,” it’s “the love of money,” in other words, those who make decisions based solely upon the economic impact of those decisions, in a personal pursuit of wealth and power.

Money, like a gun, a pen, a hammer, is an inanimate object incapable of doing anything by itself. Each can be either a tool for good, or a weapon for evil. The determining factor in each case is whose hands hold the tool or weapon. What’s the intended use, by the person in possession?

In the private sector, “dirty business tactics” are the result of “the love of money.” In the public sector, the often-unquenchable thirst for power over others drives the “love of money” needed to acquire that power.

People who think Trump is a God are wrong. So are the people who think Harris, Biden or Obama are Gods. Each is as human and flawed as you and I, most more so. All fall far short of perfection.

Rule #5 – The “lesser evil” is the best we have!

We do not live in heaven but instead, here on earth and on earth, good and evil both exist. If you insist upon waiting for a perfect candidate to vote for, you will never vote.

What separates people isn’t “good people” vs. “evil people,” it’s people who strive to do good, vs. people who thrive on evil. Because no one is inherently good all the time, what separates us is our intentions and actions.

Someone who strives to do good, what’s right for the country or the world, is a “lesser evil” to those who thrive in an environment of evil, willing to say and do anything to quench their thirst for power over others.

Rule #6 – Freedom isn’t for everyone

In the beginning, our Founders, an equally imperfect people, declared that “freedom is only well-suited for a moral people,” and they were absolutely right. Our prisons are filled with “immoral” people convicted of “immoral” acts perpetrated against others. They used their freedom…to in many cases, do unspeakable things. They used the good tool of freedom as a weapon for evil intentions.

The political divide in the USA today is often discussed in terms of Right and Left. But in reality, it is a battle between Right and Wrong.

Likewise, in terms of American voters, some today are simply not well-suited for freedom. As a result, their electoral focus is upon “free stuff” from the taxpayer’s pockets. Most do not realize that nothing on earth is actually “free,” or that if the “free” thing isn’t costing you money, it is costing you something much greater than money!

Rule #7 – If you have no right to what you earn

Then you have no rights at all…

Today, almost half of the country has been Pavlov trained via government-controlled education to believe that they have a “right to equity,” a legal right to that which someone else earned and owns.

So long as the U.S. Constitution remains the Supreme Law of this Land, the alleged “right” of some to take that which does not belong to them, against the will of those who earned those things, will remain unlawful and wrong. Electing someone to steal on your behalf, is worse that having the courage to steal it yourself.

Politicians who seek power by promising to rob from those who earn, for benefit of those who have not, will continue to be “unconstitutional” in the USA, and a plight on all of society.

There are only two solutions to this threat to true democratic self-governance…

We can teach all Americans the true difference between “equity” and “equality” and the benefit of self-reliance and self-governance in a free sovereign society wherein most seek to do good;
Or we will sooner or later, be forced to eliminate the enemies of freedom and liberty, so that good can prevail over evil in our country.

Never forget that as the USA goes, so goes the world.

If the USA is no longer free and prosperous, no place on earth will be! It’s not possible to plunder the assets of the USA to raise the world out of poverty, war and starvation. It’s only possible to bring the USA down to the same unsustainable 3^rd world status, by killing the goose that laid the golden egg. A lowering tide, grounds all ships…

Keep it simple in the 2024 elections… vote for good over evil. Vote for freedom for all! You are a member of the “all” I speak of…

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