REVIEW OF CATO I work full time on the cause of creating a condition of liberty,

REVIEW OF CATO

I work full time on the cause of creating a condition of liberty, through an existential condition of sovereignty. And while I agree that CATO tries to influence policy, I never interact with CATO. I never use research from CATO. And I think CATO’s tepid attempts at educating (as does LvMI) has been one of serial failure.

My position on CATO is that it was formed during the ‘hopeful’ generation. And that we have now transitioned into the ‘hopeless’ generation. And we have moved rapidly into ‘hopeless’ – a cold civil war. And with the next correction or election cycle, we may easily and quickly move into a hot civil war.

So my opinion is that CATO, its members, participants, and donors are as out of touch with the current state of the polity and the severity of the worldwide shift in demographics, economics, real power, and political trends.

And that they are throwing money in a hole in the political water so to speak.

Why? There is no way to obtain liberty except through sovereignty in fact, by the use of a militia as the majority component of the military, the limit of enfranchisement to demonstrated contribution to family, industry, and commons, and a constitution of the natural law of reciprocity, strictly constructed, limited to stated original intent, and textually interpreted, with judicial veto prior to asset, and return-to-legislature for those cases impossible to resolve without juridical discretion.

LvMI starts with the presumption of an impossible condition of anarchy with minimum commons that requires a major state to protect it. Cato starts with the presumption of the possibility of successful classical liberalism despite its demonstrated failure immediately upon the Louisiana Purchase. The Heritage Foundation starts with the presumption of the possibility of reasonable persuasion of the unemployable, marginally employable, single mother, and under classes. But the science is very simple: People vote their evolutionary necessities and meritocracy is only in the interest of those capable of fruitful life in the current international condition.

In that circumstance, the rule of law of reciprocity is adequate defense of the dependent class, but they may not be given offense against the productive classes through enfranchisement. It is not even clear that representative government is even viable beyond the regional government.

The intellectual work to be done is in researching the means by which all discretion is removed from the federal government and devolved to the states or regions, and where the only services of the federal government are those of insurer of last resort: the military, the treasury, the insurance against hardship and catastrophe, and a judiciary limited to conflicts of trade – thereby removing powers of legislation of norms from the central government.

If you are not working on fixing the problem of the failures of the american experiment you are simply wasting time, money, effort, and the remaining capital of western civilization.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute