Washington DC is awash in crony capitalism and the average person is a helpless pawn in their game. Our Republic is a joke.
How does "crony capitalism" differ from old fashioned bribery, other than, perhaps a more sophisticated means of "passing the envelope"?
IOW, Hillary's "cattle futures" were actually a bribe from Tyson. Since "the envelope" was passed through the Futures Market, was this Crony Capitalism, Investment Iniquity or just a slick form of plain old bribery?
“Our Republic is a joke.”
Only if we do not do anything to remedy the present situation. There are remedies at our disposal, are we willing to act on those remedies? No matter what the personal cost?
Our forefathers made that kind of a choice. Are we willing to make the same choice to restore/preserve what they gave us?
That’s why, while moral law is now and forever valid, the legal positivism of Washington is not valid, and choices like tax resistance are prudential choices only, carrying no moral burden we do not already bear in the normal course of things.