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Social Conservatives promote healthy communities. Find out how.

Social Conservatives believe healthy communities are founded on healthy markets. 

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We all live in and are part of a community. This community has various levels. We are part of a global community, but we also have a social network that is a community and we have our local community. We live and work in a local community. We love where we live but we notice communities have problems. We think our community is in good shape compared to other places. If asked we might even say our community is a healthy community even with its problems. 

If asked, people would admit they want to live in a healthy community. But what would be the reaction if you were asked if you wanted to live in a utopia? A healthy community is what would normally be called a utopia. A list of features that a healthy community has is the list of features which define utopia. Would you, if asked, say they would like to live in a utopia?

We have listed some features common to a healthy community and utopia. Note, these are factors that are defined pragmatically and therefore are realizable.

• War: War is a state of armed conflict between two political entities. War is politics by other means. That which cannot be settled with diplomacy is settled with bayonets and bombs.

• Unemployment: A healthy community cannot have unemployment. Yet, unemployment has become as pervasive and as normalized as crime. But which utopia has nothing for some to do? The concept of unemployment does not make sense to a rational person. 

• Taxation: Taxation is often referred to as a necessary evil. This defines taxation as an evil. That it is said to be necessary is irrelevant. The same argument is made regarding stealing bread to feed one’s children. It is not enough to justify the stealing or taxation by claiming it lessened a greater evil. One must explain why the evil is permitted to exist. Why are we dependent on the state to produce social goods, that creates a need for taxation? Why does unemployment exists that produces conditions in which people cannot feed their children in any other way than through crime?

• Debt: Debt is an evil people have learned to live with and even embrace to some extent. Borrowing to buy a house, pay for an education or start a business are all considered good reasons to borrow. But debt enables prices to increase to the point where borrowing is needed to buy things we need. Debt creates the problems it is said to solve. 

• Inflation: If a community has debt the community has inflation. If we have the state creating money through the printing press or through borrowing, we have inflation. Inflation is a consequence of the necessary evils. 

• Hierarchy/Inequality: If a community produces administrative hierarchies the community will have economic and social inequality. If there is inequality in a community, it will have hierarchy. One cannot exist without the other. Neither exist in a healthy community.

• Pollution: Pollution is a form of waste. Pollution is an externalization of costs onto society and future generations. Costs are created but not paid. These costs manifest in the form of things left undone, things such as cleaning up the mess one has made or replenishing a resource one has depleted.

• Currency: Currency is an asset used as a medium of exchange. Assets are things with value. The use of things that have value requires the owner be compensated. Assets used as a medium of exchange is the source of all debt. Money is a measure of value. To buy or borrow a unit of exchange is as absurd as buying inches or kilograms.

A healthy community has full employment and no debt. Social costs are symptoms of social sickness. Pollution is identical with fever in a sick individual. If we see pollution, or other social cost, we know the community is ill. 

A community is composed of individuals. Membership in a community means one has an account with the community. The account is a running total of one’s debits and credits.

When a person or organization purchases goods and services, their account is debited. As they create value for their community their account is credited. The accounts of a healthy community tend towards zero.

The income of one person is the expense of another person, and vice versa.

If the accounts in a community are out of wack, the community is harboring a source of infection.

A healthy community creates business through a process of asset transfer. The assets of one company are the sales registered by others.

Regardless of the business to be set up if the assets do not exist in the community, the business cannot be capitalized. Borrowing money from a bank to start a business permits the capitalist to transfer the needed assets from the buyer to the location being capitalized. Regardless of how much money you may have, if the assets do not exist, they cannot be purchased or transferred.

If the assets exist or will exist, they can be transferred. Money is simply a unit of account.

The healthy community is a logical community. It self-validates. If a buyer needs credit it is the community that offers credit. The community acts as a body of believers who care for one another.

They buyer purchases goods and services from the community and so owes the community for what he or she acquired. They buyer does not buy from an individual and so is not indebted to an individual. The buyer does not represent a risk or threat of loss to the seller.

To set up a business the innovator or client merely sets out his or her plan to the relevant individuals. The business is capitalized in the same way GoFundMe projects are capitalized. Individuals with the needed assets provide these assets by transferring these assets from one account to another account representing the business to be capitalized. The community issues credits for the capital donated. 

There is never any risk for individuals because all risk is contained within the community.

Units of account as saleable is the greatest indicator of a sick community. Currency as asset is the greatest source of risk. When the medium of exchange is owned by private or state agencies debt and interest payments are bound to exist.

Nothing is as absurd as having to pay to use currency. Do we buy kilometers before travel? Do we buy kilograms before purchasing meat?

Charging interest is called making money work for you. This is akin to having a ruler made out of slime. How can a dollar measure its own value?

Healthy communities use a unit of account that is based on assets and represents the equity of the corporation or community. Money is a unit of account, nothing more. 

A healthy community issues money as equity based on the business assets. If the community has acquired 300 more units of assets, then it has 300 more units of equity. Equity is issued as preferred shares. These preferred shares can be issued in multiples of a unit in the same way currency is issued in denominations.

Crime is not a factor that defines healthy communities. Crime is a personal decision to break a law created by a justice system. The best community in the world could have crime if one person is mentally unstable. The worst justice system will have crime if one just man decides to rebel against an unjust law. Indeed, the issue of crime divides what a healthy community is from what a utopia is. Ending all crime is an unrealizable ideal.

Most political positions are simple ideas that can be summed up in a few lines. The liberal position is interesting in this regard. It is possible to define liberalism as the promotion of individual freedom. Despite the simplicity of its core position, liberalism spans a wide range of political positions. Liberal ideology extends from the less radical elements of communism to the less extreme libertarian ideas that are supposedly on the right. Within this are the libertines. All of these positions float on ideas regarding personal freedom. Liberty is a fluid that lifts many political boats simultaneously. If liberalism has a weakness it is perhaps the ideal of liberty prevents the establishment of a solid core set of beliefs. Yet, the call for freedom provides a framework in which many disparate elements can find common cause.

Feminism and Black Lives Matter have distinct objectives, but they can identify with the demand for greater freedom and protections voiced by Gays and even Islam.

Conservatives are able to set out a core set of beliefs, but it is these very beliefs that tend to marginalize those with different values. The possession of a core set of values makes fringe groups nervous about getting too involved with conservative movements and leery about identifying too closely with their message. Marriage may be linked to religious beliefs about sexual identity, but concise definitions about what marriage is seems to conflict with people’s desire for personal freedom to generate wide support.

Why fight for a narrow definition of marriage when it forces the protestor to become an advocate for strong and oppressive government interference in people’s lives? The respect on the Right for tradition and core values means conservatives are always viewed as the opponents of progress. Conservatives do not believe in strong government nor in the state infringing on personal liberties. But how do we prevent social change without resorting to draconian legal measures? To advocate for policies that cannot be implemented without strengthening the power of central government is not a course most conservatives wish to take. Thus conservatives are caught between their desire to prevent the liberalization of society and their preference for a small and unobtrusive government.

Social Conservatives must move away from the traditional style of conservatism that attempts to block liberal policy initiatives with the tools of the legislature.

Politics is not about freedom versus tyranny. Political issues do not come down to personal liberty versus intrusive law. Nor does the political divide separate us into those who would reduce government involvement to increase personal liberty and those who advocate for stricter laws and more regulation to prevent moral collapse. In fact, the effort to legislate morality was a tactical error on the part of conservatives.

Conservatives have a respect for tradition and economic independence, but these are not core values. The issue that motivates Social Conservatives is social health. We oppose policies that bring harm to community.

Moral liberty and government tyranny are both indications of an unhealthy community.

Social Conservatives need a better understanding of the parameters of a healthy community. 

Social Conservatism is not a political party it is a Life Management System designed to produce healthy citizens and a healthy corporate body. Social Conservatives do not just develop policies for government we development strategies for healthy living. Healthy lifestyles begin and end with healthy social structures and healthy relationships.

The healthy society can be understood in Christian theology as the church. The healthy church is a healthy community. Social Conservatives value Christian teachings because it is God who tells us how to build the church, as a healthy community. Scripture is valued because the Truths of Scripture provides the framework for creating healthy communities.

The key to a healthy community is the market. The market tells us what we are building and why we are building it. The market displays our values. If we do not value something it will not appear in the market, we use. If we hold it in high esteem, then our markets will give it center stage. Social health has to be primarily about monetary issues. Without the ability to fund its social justice agenda the power of liberalism is eliminated.

This being said, criminals ought not to complain about the cost of the justice system. If our institutions are creating diseased communities then there will be health costs. Many conservatives balk at the cost of public health initiatives. This reaction is only justified if it is possible for individuals to fund their own health care. It is morally wrong to both prevent individual initiative and a public response; one has to give way. 

What if we were able to keep what we earn, so our income could be used solely for individual needs? If you had twice the disposable income you have at present would you need public goods? Would you need a social safety net if your disposable income were doubled? All that has to happen is we eliminate taxation, and everyone would have twice the money in their pocket.

Imagine a policy promoting the social health of communities that ended the need for unemployment insurance. If there was a policy that enabled all of us to keep more of our income and there was no longer a need for unemployment insurance deductions, because there was no unemployment, liberalism would lose support. People would no longer see the need to fund the social goods of government. Socialism would be rendered sterile and irrelevant. Those who were funded by the programs of government would not need the socialism that provided it because they would have the jobs and money to pay for their own needs.

Nothing destroys liberalism like a good job. Nothing destroys socialism like the ability to pay one’s own way. Social Conservatives have the programs that enable good jobs to be created. Social Conservatives have the policies that allow your money to stay in your pocket.