A Weak Hand or a Revolutionary?

Every once in a while I check in on one of the thousands of news stories surrounding investigations into Trump and the possible Russia link. From what I've seen so far, there hasn't been any actual proof of anything.

But what we have seen is several people on Trump's team get convicted of a variety of other crimes. This morning I was reading about Papadopoulos and how he was found guilty of lying to the FBI over the timing of talking to a professor from Malta.

To an anarchocapitalist like myself, that's not surprising for a very simple reason: when a person has power, he or she will abuse that power. It's like Acton said in the 19th century, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

In the case of modern politics it means they are all crooks of one stripe or another. Had there been an equivalent investigation into a winning democrat administration a bunch of people would have gone to jail too.

So you might thinking, "OK, so what? They're all bastards. We know that."

What matters is not the telenovela that passes for political discourse in the US. What matters is what you and I are doing to control our own lives.

By which I mean using cryptocurrency.

Because when you control your money, you control your life.

And when crypto becomes widespread the governments that abuse their power will find that they are having trouble paying themselves in their fiat currencies.

Of course, we are a long ways from that point. The bear market we've been in that has seen a lot of cryptos drop 70-80% is flushing out a lot of weak hands. But the tide will turn. Whether you plan for it or not, holding and using crypto is a revolutionary act.