The Physiocratic Platform

Policy Goals for the Future

It’s the eve of the 2022 mid-term elections in the United States. Both Republicans and Democrats have declared this election a pivotal moment — the last chance to save the Republic. Every election now seems like a Flight 93 election. The Democrats seem particularly desperate, for if the polls and surveys of likely voters are to be believed, the Republicans will enjoy a “Red Wave” that brings the House and Senate under their control.

I do not think this Red Wave will come to pass, at least not so cleanly as the polls suggest, and certainly not without legal contest from the Blue. But, more importantly, I do not think this election will or possibly save or destroy the Republic. Countless problems face the United States. Almost none of the policy solutions for them are within the Overton Window of our discourse. Things will have to get worse before they can get better. They are getting worse.

I do believe they can get better.

As such, I think it worthwhile to explore what a Physiocratic platform might look like at some future date. (Physiocracy, for those of you haven’t slavishly memorized every word I’ve ever written, is my term for my own politics views, situated somewhere between Paleolibertarianism, National Capitalism, and Georgism/Geolibertarianism.)

In writing this, I’ve paid no mind to whether this platform could be implemented today — nothing meaningful can be implemented today, because the American system is broken, and no one can stand to think about how to fix it. As such, this platform is not presented as an exercise of “the art of the possible;” it is more an overview of the necessary.