DC May Be Stumbling Upon a Reality the US Just Empirically Knows
I have said for a very long time:
The only two US political battles that currently matter?
Globalist v Nationalist
DC v US
Globalist v Nationalist
Broadly, Globalists are:
“Invade the world - invite the world.”
Coups, invasions, bombings, sanctions, embargoes, etc internationally.
Open-borders domestically.
Free trade on our end - no matter what other nations do with tariffs, import limits and subsidies on theirs.
Broadly, Nationalists are:
Prioritize America and Americans - and leave the rest of the planet to the rest of the planet.
No foreign adventurism.
Little to no immigration.
Actual free trade - relative government parity on all sides.
DC v US
Broadly, DC has been at war with US for decades. DC’s denizens don’t work for US. They lord over US.
And DC has grown very, VERY fat. While the US has grown inexorably starved out.
DC has done this? By slicing the US to the bone - and then selling US by the pound to the planet’s highest bidders.
DC doesn’t create anything. It doesn’t make a dime. Yet as of the 2020 census? Nine of the nation’s twenty richest counties - were DC suburbs. Want to bet that number gets even worse in 2030?
The 2025 federal government spent $7 trillion. And regulated at a cost of another $2 trillion. The 2025 US GDP was $30.6 trillion.
Which means the federal government - taxes and regulates equal to about 30% of the entire US economy.
Gee, I wonder why there are so many rich lobbyists living in DC’s surrounding nine counties?
You want massive lobby and campaign finance reform? Massively shrink the massive federal government. The remora will spend money - in direct proportion to the size of the shark they’re pursuing.
Shrink government? And you shrink the lobby budgets of nigh every company with such a budget.
The chasm between DC and the US is Grand Canyon-esque. And grows larger with each passing day.
To wit: DC is currently nigh entirely consumed with the Globalist Iran war. And the Nationalist US is wondering why the heck Globalist DC is doing yet another stupid thing to drive up US prices.
Of course, there are a great many publications of, by and for DC. That almost no one in the US knows even exist - let alone reads.
In defense of some of these pubs? They exist for the purpose of serving DC. For instance, I don’t think The Hill newspaper is striving too mightily for an audience too far beyond the Beltway - and those nine surrounding counties.
And some pubs exist for DC - and the state and local governments affected by DC.
Which brings us to the pub Broadband Breakfast (BB):
“Broadband Breakfast reports every day on America’s broadband buildout. Broadband Breakfast is the community for Better Broadband, Better Lives.”
That ain’t exactly a Main Street USA publication.
The average US citizen ain’t wondering what DC, state and local governments - and the private sector - are doing to build out the US’s Internet infrastructure.
The average US citizen just logs onto the Internet - and goes about their day.
A problem with a DC-government-sector-centric publication like BB? Is they are are at times cut off from the realities of actual life in the sector it covers. You’re so worried about the forest? You miss all the trees.
To wit:
BB has a feature: The Broadband Question of the Day.
Monday’s question? Inadvertently highlights the DC-US disconnection about Internet connections:
“Is the current level of competition in the U.S. wireless market sufficient to protect consumers on price and service quality?”
The average American would never look at their world through such a prism. And certainly not utilizing that type of language.
And if they did? They would find the question a little…disconnected.
Americans see a whole lot of wireless providers:
“The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), lists approximately 30 facilities-based wireless service providers in the United States as members. Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) has over 1000 members. Aside from the facilities-based providers, there are over 50 virtual operators that use the top three networks to provide service.”
Americans see a chief US indicator of a whole lot of competition:
An avalanche of TV ads - from a bunch of different wireless companies. Including upstarts like Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile and Ted Danson-represented Consumer Cellular - taking incessant potshots at their bigger-name competitors.
Seriously, in the US economy: How many small businesses can afford to take on their big business competitors to this degree? Not many, is the answer. You don’t see the local Mom and Pop Shoppes taking on the likes of Amazon and Walmart. At all.
Oh - and the most important indicator?
Americans continue to switch in droves from wired to wireless for their home and office connections.
Because there are far more wireless providers from which to choose. They are far less expensive. And they provide easier and better connectivity (more and more with each passing day).
All of the above is true - at least in part - due to all the wireless competition driving each competitor to ever-increasing heights of achievement.
Meanwhile, wired is dominated by a few legacy dinosaur companies. NONE of whom are national - instead each dominating their respective regions of the country. And they are wielding outdated, expensive technology - and delivering it to an ever-dwindling customer base.
You would think an Internet-specific publication like Broadband Breakfast would notice all of this.
And know not to ask such an…unusual question.
But that’s what happens when you spend too much time swimming in DC’s waters.
You sometimes forget you’re wet.
IIRC, government expenditures are counted as positives to GDP calculations. Perhaps it is time for that to change.