802: Is the 2024 Election the Most Important Election of our Lifetime?

Brian Nichols  
This November we face the most important election of our lifetime. Yeah, let's talk about that. Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we're teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics, teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show.

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And that is to learn well, why is it that we are saying that this November, we are in fact facing the most important election of our lifetime? I have some thoughts and of course, I'm going to share them with you. So yeah, this is the most important election of our lifetime. And yeah, I used to scoff at this hyperbolic claim made by traditionally political pundits and partisans. However, hear me out. Given this massive, unchecked expansion of government power in more recent decades. I'm now starting to take this statement more seriously. Each election presents a pivotal choice regarding the scope of authority, and how we allow the federal government to assert itself over society, the economy and yes, our personal lives. Since the New Deal era, the trajectory of American governance has moved steadily toward greater centralized control and planning, administration after administration and congressional session after congressional session. We've watched as Washington accumulates more regulatory power, more bureaucratic agencies, more red tape, and of course more tax and spend schemes. Slowly but surely, government authoritarianism is yes, hurting our economy and the benefits of freedom, which are exactly what made the United States unique and special, among other countries. To begin with. The growth of the federal Leviathan has been enabled by members of not one but both political parties. Democratic administrations have pushed boundaries with proposals like Obamacare, while Republicans have offered half measures at best in response. For example, let's go back to George W. Bush's budget busting wars and entitlement. And how about the entitlement expansions of Donald Trump's soaring deficits and debt accumulation? I mean, yeah, after some short term backtracking in 2010 and 2014, which, yes was sparked by that Tea Party revolution. The GOP has more more or less given up on its promise of limited government since Trump took office and has really taken over the GOP. Yes, elections indeed, have consequences. And with that, federal spending now consumes over 1/3 of America's entire economic output while totaling over an unfathomable $6 trillion per year, the modern regulatory regime has become so vast and so complex, that businesses and individuals can really barely navigate their daily affairs without running into some rule or another. And even suppose it moderates in the Democratic Party like, yeah, is he a moderate President, Joe Biden, envision a dramatic acceleration of governmental authority over private enterprise. And yes, that means you as well, you the individual in your individual life. Given these really stark ideological differences between the two major parties, this November's contrasts constitutes an unusually clear fork in the road for the Republic. And yeah, I know this goes back to a little bit of a contradiction to what I was saying before with where the GOP was, and is for that matter and where the Democratic Party is, but let's be real, let's be honest with ourselves, one path leads to more freedom and flourishing. While the other heads continuously towards stagnation and serfdom under a guise of idealistic central planning. The stakes for the future of constitutional liberty and government could really never be higher. In 2013, our report was commissioned by the Obama administration entitled liberty and security in a changing world where government officials even they acknowledge that the long struggle to balance public order and individual rights was a little wishy washy. In the report, it was written, quote, the makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognize the significance of man's spiritual nature of his feelings and of his intellect. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. This protection is indispensable to the protection of security, properly conceived. The report also goes on to note quote, In a free society, one that is genuinely committed to self government, people are secure in that sense that they need not to fear that their conversations and activities are being watched, monitored question interrogated or scrutinized. Citizens are free from this kind of fear. In unfree societies. By contrast, there is no right to be left alone, there is no right for people to not have to struggle to organize their lives to avoid governments probing AI. The resolution of the resulting unfreedom jeopardizes all at once individual liberty, self government, economic growth and basic ideals of citizenship. Yet over two centuries ago, America's founders devised an ingenious system to disperse government power and provide checks against the over accumulation in any one branch or any one level of a centralized authority. As James Madison assured in Federalist 45, the powers of the proposed federal government would quote be few and defined, while those reserved to the States and localities would be quote, numerous and indefinite. This carefully calibrated balance enabled the young republic to grow and thrive As a beacon of liberty in the world, however, as the federal government has Mr. plasticize over the years swallowing state and local authorities in its wake, that framework is badly eroded, if not completely washed away today. Today, Washington sits as a nearly omnipotent ruler over vast swathes of American life. No, not George Washington, but Washington DC. Yeah, it's dictates shape everything from what types of light bulbs we can buy to the toilets we can flush to the dishwashers we can use in our kitchens. No, no area escapes its growing reach even the most personal realms of our personal health care, family life or even our religious convictions. This contradicts both the Constitution and frankly common sense. As Nobel Prize winning economist FA Hyack. Warned centralized state planning inevitably fails as flawed human knowledge cannot substitute for free people pursuing their own interests. Yet their hubris. Yeah, in their hubris, politicians believe they can successfully coordinate immensely complex modern economies while micromanaging private lives down to the smallest detail. The contemporary failures and wasted government overreach are visible across American life. Just glance at our soaring inflation, our Decarie are decaying public infrastructure are second rate government schools and of course, are skyrocketing higher education costs that taxpayers are now enduring. Look at the tangled web of subsidies of tariffs and regulations that benefit the wealthy and of course, the well connected at the expense of startups of entrepreneurs and consumers. Perhaps Nowhere have the costs of an unchecked government manifested more painfully than in health care. Federal interventions over the decades have so distorted health care markets, that medical costs have spiraled out of control even as

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Obamacare is planned follow up, which was a nationalized single payer system. They'll only make things worse by putting rules and regulations on medicine that are controlled by Washington bureaucrats. And likewise, for years college tuition. And home prices have gone up much faster than the overall inflation rates thanks, by and large to a bunch of federal housing rules and subsidies. In their arrogance, yes, it is arrogance. Politicians now believe no challenge lies beyond their purview, no social ill they cannot hear the Obama administration for example, providing one of the clearest articulations of the the boundless government conceit saying, quote,

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if you've got a business, you didn't build that somebody else made that

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happen. And if you take this ridiculous exclamation at face value, it lets politicians, not you control private businesses in people's personal lives, however they want. It paves the way for a creeping authoritarianism that today, we've seen become into a full blown totalitarian totalitarians state that could control tomorrow. And some citizens may welcome this in the misguided name of some weird sense of progress, or greater efficiency and equity. But as even Ronald Reagan warned that government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. The history of the 20th 20th century totalitarianism arose from similar utopian designs, and here in the third decade, yes, it is the third decade of the 21st century. We stand at a pivotal point in history. So yeah, that's why this November's election offers, I dare say the starkest binary choice, one path leading towards more personal freedom, personal privacy, and individual flourishing where the other you recognize civilly, where the other inevitably will lead towards greater centralization, bureaucratization and serfdom to all powerful warlords in Washington. The political and ideological differences between the two main parties make this November's election, even more important for the future of constitutional freedom. I dare say, without a doubt, this is, in fact, the most important election of our lifetime. All right, folks, that's our episode for today. By the way, that's an article I wrote over at amp America titled Yes, this is the most important election of our lifetime. So if you want to go ahead and check that out, I will include the link in the show notes along with the links to yes and America who we are very proudly powered by here at The Brian Nichols Show. Yo please go ahead support amp America and all the great work they do as well as all the Liberty influencers who are helping produce some amazing content for the Liberty world out there. So I one more time amp America, I'm very thankful to be a part of their team. And I'm very thankful to have you as a part of my team. And that is my sincerest thanks to you. And thank you of course for sticking with us as we've been going through a bunch of changes over the past few years and this being one of the biggest jumping ship and joining the America team. So with that being said, Thank you folks. And if you in fact got some value from today's episode, well, you know the drill Go ahead, give it a share. When you do tag yours truly at BT Nichols Liberty can find me over on Facebook as well as on Twitter, which is now of course x.com Which by the way, we are uploading our episodes in their entirety in the video format over an x.com Go ahead, check us out over there but of course you can find us wherever else you get your video content YouTube rumble also we upload it over at Ben swans sovereign that spelled s o v, r e n which by the way, if you are checking us out over on sovereign wealth, congratulations. You're seeing today's episode before anybody else that's your sovereign exclusive, but we are also wherever you get your podcasts by the way. So YouTube Music Spotify, Apple podcasts, wherever it is, just hit that subscribe button hit download all unplayed episodes because guess what? We have over 800 episodes here of The Brian Nichols Show and I guarantee you go through check out at least a handful of episodes. I promise you a few of them are going to leave you educated, enlightened and informed with that being said follow me again on social media at be Nichols liberty, send me an email Brian at Brian Nichols show.com. And of course, leave us a five star rating and review and support the folks who support us that is our sponsors. So cardio miracle evils and our good friends over at liquid freedom energy tea, please go ahead and give them some love and tell them that yours truly sent the Sencha but that's all I have for you today. With that being said, Brian co signing off. You're on The Brian Nichols Show. Power BI F America. We'll see you next time.

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