For anyone who cares about this sort of thing anymore. Here is what I would consider "America First" positions.
1. TARIFF EVERYTHING. Only in cases where lowering tariffs would increase the standard of living, wages, and such for WHITE Americans may you CONSIDER lowering tariffs. By default, everything MUST be made in the USA.
2. NO MORE SUBSIDIES OF ANY KIND. These ALWAYS get exploited by bad actors. If an industry is going to fail without subsidies, then get rid of taxes and regulations.
3. Trust-busting across the board. If a single company dominates an industry -- break it up post haste. In fact, revamp the whole concept of a corporation into a government-granted permission to organize economically. As long as the corporation serves the needs of the American people it can continue. When it no longer does, its charter is revoked and it must be dissolved.
4. Just end copyright law. It serves no purpose other than to transfer wealth to copyright holders. We live in an age where things can be copied for practically free. Deal with it.
5. Patent law needs to be reformed too. The purpose was to have Americans as a whole share their ideas in a public forum where everyone can participate. It is now a legal minefield where engineers are told never to look before they leap. Probably get rid of it for a time and then rebuild from scratch. We want an incentive for people to openly share their discoveries and ideas. We don't want to build fences to keep people out of innovation.
6. Stop spending government money on ANY social welfare of any kind. If you are poor, go talk to your local church.
7. DEPORT THEM ALL. ALL illegals. ALL immigrants of any kind whatsoever. Revoke citizenship. End birthright citizenship -- NO ONE who was born here is a citizen unless their parents were citizens or PERMANENT LAWFUL RESIDENTS. Possibly grant amnesty to individuals who (a) speak English FLUENTLY as their primary language. (b) Live according to American culture. (c) Have severed ALL ties to their former countries.
8. Judges who rule illegally from the bench should be put on trial for impeding justice. Judges who get overturned by the SC should be fired. The SC and superior courts should be able to fire any judge below them.
9. Congress needs to be cleaned up. Anyone who has any sort of corruption needs to be kicked out and punished for their crimes. No more welfare checks for former members. In fact, they get paid ONLY when they actually do their job, pass a real budget, pass a drug check and a background check.
10. Hang all the traitors. If you conspired against our nation, you get hung by the neck until dead. Tried by military tribunal, NOT by judges and politicians.
11. Mandatory militia mustering tied to voting privileges. If you don't show up for the muster in your county, you can't vote. If you can't pass the physical, you can't vote. If you aren't carrying proper equipment, you can't vote. ONLY ARMED MILITIA MEN CAN VOTE.
12. Only citizens can own land. If a foreigner wants access to land, they must LEASE it from a citizen. And even then -- citizens can only own as much land as they need for their homestead. Any more land they must be putting it to productive use in one fashion or another. Land that isn't used is forcibly sold after a certain period of time. NO SPECULATION ON LAND. Shit or get off the pot!
13. NO TAXES ON US CITIZENS, PERIOD, FOR ANY REASON. The only tax they might pay are tariffs and fines for not using land they own.
14. END PRACTICALLY ALL REGULATIONS. No more environmental regulations. If you want to protect land as a nature reserve, BUY IT and preserve it. If you don't like what other people are doing to their own land-- SHUT UP. If someone pollutes your land -- THEN THEY MUST PAY TO CLEAN IT UP AND PAY FOR DAMAGES. It's that simple.
1. TARIFF EVERYTHING. Only in cases where lowering tariffs would increase the standard of living, wages, and such for WHITE Americans may you CONSIDER lowering tariffs. By default, everything MUST be made in the USA.
2. NO MORE SUBSIDIES OF ANY KIND. These ALWAYS get exploited by bad actors. If an industry is going to fail without subsidies, then get rid of taxes and regulations.
3. Trust-busting across the board. If a single company dominates an industry -- break it up post haste. In fact, revamp the whole concept of a corporation into a government-granted permission to organize economically. As long as the corporation serves the needs of the American people it can continue. When it no longer does, its charter is revoked and it must be dissolved.
4. Just end copyright law. It serves no purpose other than to transfer wealth to copyright holders. We live in an age where things can be copied for practically free. Deal with it.
5. Patent law needs to be reformed too. The purpose was to have Americans as a whole share their ideas in a public forum where everyone can participate. It is now a legal minefield where engineers are told never to look before they leap. Probably get rid of it for a time and then rebuild from scratch. We want an incentive for people to openly share their discoveries and ideas. We don't want to build fences to keep people out of innovation.
6. Stop spending government money on ANY social welfare of any kind. If you are poor, go talk to your local church.
7. DEPORT THEM ALL. ALL illegals. ALL immigrants of any kind whatsoever. Revoke citizenship. End birthright citizenship -- NO ONE who was born here is a citizen unless their parents were citizens or PERMANENT LAWFUL RESIDENTS. Possibly grant amnesty to individuals who (a) speak English FLUENTLY as their primary language. (b) Live according to American culture. (c) Have severed ALL ties to their former countries.
8. Judges who rule illegally from the bench should be put on trial for impeding justice. Judges who get overturned by the SC should be fired. The SC and superior courts should be able to fire any judge below them.
9. Congress needs to be cleaned up. Anyone who has any sort of corruption needs to be kicked out and punished for their crimes. No more welfare checks for former members. In fact, they get paid ONLY when they actually do their job, pass a real budget, pass a drug check and a background check.
10. Hang all the traitors. If you conspired against our nation, you get hung by the neck until dead. Tried by military tribunal, NOT by judges and politicians.
11. Mandatory militia mustering tied to voting privileges. If you don't show up for the muster in your county, you can't vote. If you can't pass the physical, you can't vote. If you aren't carrying proper equipment, you can't vote. ONLY ARMED MILITIA MEN CAN VOTE.
12. Only citizens can own land. If a foreigner wants access to land, they must LEASE it from a citizen. And even then -- citizens can only own as much land as they need for their homestead. Any more land they must be putting it to productive use in one fashion or another. Land that isn't used is forcibly sold after a certain period of time. NO SPECULATION ON LAND. Shit or get off the pot!
13. NO TAXES ON US CITIZENS, PERIOD, FOR ANY REASON. The only tax they might pay are tariffs and fines for not using land they own.
14. END PRACTICALLY ALL REGULATIONS. No more environmental regulations. If you want to protect land as a nature reserve, BUY IT and preserve it. If you don't like what other people are doing to their own land-- SHUT UP. If someone pollutes your land -- THEN THEY MUST PAY TO CLEAN IT UP AND PAY FOR DAMAGES. It's that simple.
AGREED 1000%.
However, is it NOT the duty of the government to provide that aid. IT IS UP TO EACH OF US TO CARE FOR EACH OTHER.
If there is a poor man in a city, it is the entire city's fault. Read the Bible, God destroyed cities for that sort of thing.
That's right.
But we can better achieve this collectively... as some kind of association... association to which we all contribute...
Which is a government.
> Read the Bible
The Bible literally tells you that you must obey the government under every circumstance (which I certainly do not believe), so perhaps it's you who should ready it.
Where does it say that?
Let me break it down for you, since you can't read the Bible.
V1: All power comes from God. Therefore, we need to subject ourselves to authority (that comes from God.)
V2: If you resist God's authority, then you are resisting God's laws and you are damned.
V3: Rulers who have God's authority are a threat to evil people. Don't do evil things, they won't kill you.
V4: More of the same.
V5: "In conclusion..."
V6: Pay your tribute to the rulers for the same reason.
V7: Pay tribute, etc... "honour to honour". In other words, go through the motions.
V8: The only obligation we have one to another is to love one another (God's ultimate commandment.)
V9: All of the other commandments are basically saying "love on anotther"
v10: If you love someone, you don't try to hurt them. It's that simple. Don't try to hurt people, and you are keeping God's laws.
v11. It's time to wake up and realize that salvation is just around the corner. Stop pretending it's never going to happen.
v12: Stop being stupid.
v13: Don't behave like animals at night. Be open and honest with your conduct.
v14: Your body exists to serve Jesus (by loving one another) not to satisfy your sexual and carnal fantasies.
OK, that's Romans 13. Now, you said "The Bible literally tells you that you must obey the government under every circumstance". And you cited Romans 13, but I don't see what you claim to have seen.
Instead, I see the author telling the reader that:
1. God's authority is vested in certain people.
2. We need to obey those people, pay them honor, etc.
3. The law is really simple: don't try to hurt each other.
4. As long as you're doing that you're keeping the law.
What you said: "The Bible literally tells you that you must obey the government under every circumstance."
Question: What if a government decides that they want to force people to hurt each other and punish those who love and serve one another? Wouldn't that contradict Romans 13?
Yes, yes it would.
That's because people who read the Bible and have 2 brain cells figured out what the intention of the passage really is.
Which is this:
* LEGITIMATE governments are subject to God
* You owe LEGITIMATE governments your honor, taxes, obedience, etc...
* If you can't tell a legitimate from an illegitimate government, it's really easy: God tells us to love and serve each other, not to hurt each other. A government which does the former and not the latter is legitimate; the latter is NOT legitimate.
The Romans at the time of Paul's writings WERE LEGITIMATE. You can go down the list of everything they thought and believed and did and behind it all, they simply wanted a world where people who loved and served each other were protected from those who did not. Granted, in certain times PREVIOUS and times SINCE the Romans were NOT legitimate, and during THOSE TIMES, God revoked his authority and bad, bad things happened.
You think you are smart but you are not. Who is teaching you? They are a bad teacher. Stop listening to them.
No, it absolutely would not. There is no caveat in the passage I refer to. It says that if someone is in charge of the government, that means that God wills it. There is no pilpul that you can deploy to avoid this.
Or are you telling me that, say, Trump won the elections against God's will?
> God tells us to love and serve each other, not to hurt each other. A government which does the former and not the latter is legitimate; the latter is NOT legitimate.
God tells the Jews to exterminate everyone in Palestine, therefore Trump supporting Israel is doing exactly what your book of fairy tales tells him to do. Because it's a Jewish book of Jewish fairy tales, which obviously favors the Jews as they are both the authors and the protagonists.
Besides, you're absolutely wrong. God did not tell us to love each other. Rabbi Jesus told us to love our enemies, but to hate our families.
> You think you are smart but you are not.
I'm like an adult trying to talk to a child. Your whole religion is childish. What the fuck "love each other" even mean? Who is the other? Does it include niggers? Wow, Jesus didn't even say. "Love each other" is what a teacher would say to preschoolers to avoid them bullying each other. It is not a morality that can discipline human interactions in real life. Not even close.