🇺🇸 DOGE Protests 🙄

I watched a video today of Milton Friedman proposing cuts to the government not unlike what DOGE is doing today.

Protests against the government audit that DOGE is driving are, in my opinion, one of the most misguided responses I’ve seen.

The government taxes you every year, and now we are looking into how that money is allocated. How is that a bad idea?

We can debate what should be cut and what should be kept based on our values, but protesting transparency itself is something I struggle to understand.

Additionally, even in that discussion, the cuts Trump is proposing align with the mandate he campaigned on and won the election with. You may not like his mandate, but take a moment to reflect on the arguments you are making against it. If they are the same ones you made before the election, perhaps they need reassessment—because American democracy elected him despite those critiques.

🇺🇸 Trump as a Wartime President

Milton Friedman was a Classical Liberal and a Capitalist.

Classical Liberalism and Capitalism align in their belief that market competition provides an avenue for human aggression to be channeled productively, preventing it from escalating into physical war. Historically, this has led to greater access to freedom and economic opportunity for most.

Nothing unites people like the prospect of profit.

This is evident in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia negotiating peace after Trump introduced the Palestinian Rivieraconcept.

Of course, profit as a cultural value has its pitfalls—it can hollow out the soul if left unchecked.

But it’s undeniable that warring factions often find peace through mutual economic benefit.

Trump is a wartime President—but not like Eisenhower.

• He’s not leading the U.S. to victory through military conflict.
• Instead, he’s shifting global conflict into the economic realm, using market competition as a tool for peace.

This is the only thing that brings dictators and democratic leaders to the same table—a shared desire for economic success.

Trump is a master at presenting win-win deals. It may be messy at times, but it works. His brash, often grotesque demeanor is itself a symbol of capitalism’s ugliness—but it’s an ugliness that is preferable to global war.

🌎 What Comes After the Current System?

I return to the birth of Classical Liberalism and nationhood in the French Revolution—a bloody affair, but one driven by an alternative vision of governance.

Communist revolutions attempted similar upheavals, yet their bloodshed never yielded the ideals they espoused.

So, must the next revolution be as violent? How would it impact economic inequality?

While economic power is still unequally distributed, it is far more decentralized today than in the age of monarchies. Future iterations should continue this trend, but complete equality remains a utopian fantasy.

🌐 At one point, DAOs and Network Nations seemed promising—allowing humans to form value-based nations beyond geographical borders.

• In a world free from physical conflict, those who dislike Trump’s America could create their own experimental governance system.
• However, the reality is that human physical conflict is still very real.
• Existing intentional communities are mere fragments of this idea, but they survive under the protection of larger government militaries.

🇫🇷 The Case Against "Trump Leading to Fascism"

The difference between Fascism and Nationalism is subtle.

• Fascism arose in nations where nationalism was defined by unchangeable traits—such as language or ethnicity.
• In contrast, nations built on specific values are far less prone to fascism.

🔹 France was founded on Classical Liberalism—not just on being “French.”
🔹 Germany and Italy were not.

The abolition of slavery in the U.S. was not an overhaul of its founding values, but rather a reinforcement of them—ensuring the right to freedom, livelihood, and pursuit of happiness.

The MAGA movement rallies around these core American values.

Does this include racists? Of course. Every broad movement will.

Look at the backlash against Sriram Krishnan when he was appointed senior AI advisor—racism is not exclusive to any one political side.

Do we solve racism by yelling at racists?

No—that strategy hasn’t worked.

A unifying movement must include people with ingrained biases—and that’s okay. Everyone has biases.

Does every Trump supporter become a “racist” simply because racists exist within MAGA?

Think about that logically.

In a country of 350 million people with only two candidates, racists will always be present on both sides.

Many darker-skinned individuals I know have encountered offensive behavior from well-meaning anti-racist liberals. Unlike overt racism, subconscious bias is harder to challenge because the person believes they are already “not racist.”

At least with overt racists, you can meet them with an open heart and offer alternative perspectives.