by Joe Siano
Kamala Harris hammered Joe
Biden for his 1970’s position on “busing” during the 2019 Democratic
Debates. Republicans are sure to reprise that to counter assertions of Trump’s alleged racism.
What did
Old Joe say? He asserted that “court
mandated” / “mandatory” (i.e. forced) busing of children many miles from their
homes to achieve the goal racial desegregation would result in “tensions having
built so high that it is going to explode”.
When he’s right, he’s
right. But this is not about race. It’s about force.
What accomplishments can Force claim on its resume?
Force did make Henry Ford
revolutionize automotive manufacturing and, in turn, transform transportation the world
over.
Force did not compel Alexander
Graham Bell to empower people to converse over great distances.
Neither did Force get the Wright
brothers airborne, paint the Sistine Chapel, write the plays of Shakespeare nor
the poetry of Dante. Cultural cross-pollination gave birth to jazz, blues, rock, bluegrass and hip-hop. Not Force.
Force and compulsion, on the
other hand, sent to thousands of America’s young men into battle to be
killed, maimed, mutilated or emotionally scarred in senseless wars. It imprisoned, tortured and murdered millions
in the collectivist experiments of the past century.
Soviet Communism fell under the
weight of inefficiency, despite being a land rich in natural resources. China nearly suffered the same fate until it
imported a veneer of western capitalism.
Even the enforced servitude
of slavery
cannot compete with free labor. Ludwig von Mises
elaborated:
“The abolition of slavery and
serfdom is to be attributed neither to the teachings of theologians and
moralists nor to weakness or generosity on the part of the masters. There were
among the teachers of religion and ethics as many eloquent defenders of bondage
as opponents. Servile labor disappeared because it could not stand the
competition of free labor; its unprofitability sealed its doom in the market
economy.” (Human Action, p. 625)
In this same article, economist Bob Murphy notes this irony:
“it’s just taken for granted that
the North was richer than the South, and that’s why it was able to blockade and
invade it during the (inaptly named) Civil War. If slavery makes your nation
such a powerhouse, why didn’t the South conquer the North?”
So, does force play any useful in
human society? Sure it does. I am
grateful that my Mom and Dad forced me to change my underwear, comb my hair,
brush my teeth, put on clean clothes, do my homework and do countless other things
made me a somewhat functional human being.
But as children grow into adolescence and blossom into adulthood, reason and incentive serve as better motivators than threats and punishments.
In 1978 Senator Biden appeared to
have a brief epiphany, that the use of force to effect social or economic
change is destructive.
It was seed sown on rocky soil. –
or maybe just a cynical ploy to
appease blue collar voters.
Joe never absorbed the essential lesson that force always hurts,
divides, impoverishes and kills. As
a lifetime member of the D.C. shake-down establishment, that’s all he knows –
taxation, regulation, intimidation, lies, deception and war.
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