Matt Loesby

Matt Loesby was born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He earned a bachelor's degree from Chapman University in 2010. His career experience includes working as a software engineer.[1]

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a video game developer and software engineer. My ambition in life is to own a plot of land in the foothills of the Rockies, where I can raise a family, tend a small herd of sheep, trade food and goods with my neighbors, serve God through my local church, and solve interesting software problems to earn money that pays for luxuries.

Unfortunately, we live in interesting times. For my entire life, the US Government has been spending itself into debt, backed by a promise to rob us and our descendants for our entire lives. It has gone way beyond its Constitutional bounds, taking advantage of America's intact industrial base after the second World War to establish the Global American Empire, a massive regime that wishes to rule the whole world through a combination of military power, propaganda, and financial manipulation.

In 2020, the Global American Empire worked through its NGO organs like the World Economic Forum, the Tony Blair Institute, and the World Health Organization to establish a near-global tyranny. The only reason we have escaped that tyranny is because of the bravery of citizens to refuse to comply, and the refusal of some local sheriffs and some governors to enforce the totalitarianism.

I'm running for the US House to throw a wrench in the gears of the totalitarianism, and give normal people the space to rebuild a healthy society.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Stop Doing Evil.

In the past century, the US Federal Government has established the Global American Empire, a totalitarian regime attempting to rule the entire world. It wages war against peaceful people who were never a threat to you and I. It deploys military service members for use in maintaining a global monopoly on banking and expanding the borders of the state of Israel. It promotes selfish, hedonistic, and self-destructive behaviors, and punishes those who attempt to build good, wholesome families and communities. It uses its puppet corporate press and infiltrates social media companies to propagandize us to support it in all these things.

The Global American Empire must end, immediately.Re-knit the Social Fabric.

The biggest threat to government power is a healthy social fabric. When people have happy families, strong churches, safe and friendly neighborhoods, and healthy local economies, they don’t need to rely on a bureaucracy in a swamp to fix their problems.

The Global American Empire has systematically destroyed America’s social fabric. If we are to effectively resist its power, we need to rebuild the voluntary social institutions that can threaten it.

This is a hard task, especially because the GAE is actively suppressing it. We each need to seek out ways to do it. As your Congressman, I can help block and abolish the laws that tear our social fabric apart.Know What Time It Is.

Almost every institution in America is corrupt. The schools and universities. The corporate press and social media. The legislatures, the courts, the administrative bureaucracies, and the elections apparatus. The corporate board rooms, HR departments, and entertainment media. The military brass and intelligence agencies.

In 2020, the full force of all these institutions was turned against the average American. They shut down our jobs. They inflated away our savings. They engaged in a full court press of propaganda to convince us that the greatest threat to our lives was our own neighbors.

Incremental changes and reforms are not going to save us. We live in interesting times, and we will need to be strong to survive.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

The Administrative State - this massive bureaucratic apparatus, operating under the US Executive branch, has tentacles all throughout society, trying to control our lives. It must be abolished so thoroughly as to make Scipio Africanus blush.

The Culture War - this internal conflict throughout the West is being pushed by government entities and government-funded NGO's. They must be shut down and defunded. Social standards should be defined by local communities, not central governments.

War - the Global American Empire uses young American men as the footsoldiers for its imperialism and corporate handouts. The soldiers should all come home and be tasked to defend us against the blowback the Empire has incited.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

The Anatomy of the State, by Murray Rothbard.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Humility. An official should remember that he only has power to the extent that people decide to obey, and that any particular vision of how society should be is unlikely to be borne out in reality.

Honesty. An official should never lie to his constituents.

Liberty. In America, every official should be committed to defending the natural rights of his constituents, and to punishing those who offend against those natural rights.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

The most important duty, which almost no elected Representatives take seriously, is to ensure that no Bill passes the House which contains provisions that violate the US Constitution.

The second most important duty is to enact laws that, when enforced with reason and mercy, will help people coordinate to create a good and just society.

In third place is the duty to hear the needs of our constituents, to ensure that the government does not cause them problems, and focuses efforts on passing just laws that address their most pressing concerns.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I was 10 years old when I walked downstairs to see my mother staring at our television on a Tuesday morning. I watched with her as someone near the TV cameraman shouted "Holy F*****g Jesus," a plane plowed into the second tower, and the world changed.

Like many, I was tricked into supporting the invasion of Iraq based on the lies of the Bush administration. I was not fooled several years later, when the Bush and Obama administrations insisted that the cure to the ailing economy was to print billions of dollars to give to banks, auto manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies. The past decade of a culture war and the totalitarianism and anarcho-tyranny of 2020 has demonstrated that the regime is fundamentally broken and must be dismantled. It creates enemies for us abroad, wastes our soldiers' lives, spends our treasure, and destroys our savings for its benefit.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

National Debt - The government spends $10,000,000,000 every day. To call this unsustainable is a laughable understatement. We must cut back spending drastically in every sphere, not merely reduce the rate of spending increase.

Totalitarianism - The federal bureaucracies already control so much of society through regulation and institutional pressure, but no agency ever hopes to see its power reduced. If they are not defunded and shut down, these agencies will continue to spread their tentacles of control throughout our lives. We have already seen how close they could come in 2020 based on a fear campaign. It must never happen again.

Cultural Fragmentation - There is not one American culture any longer. There are dozens of local cultures whose fundamental incompatibilities are being battled out in America's legislature and courts, and a most vigorous struggle over control of the Executive Branch. This could be defused by an approach of radical decentralization and mutual toleration by the American subcultures, but that toleration can only last if the Federal government does not impose one moral vision on the whole country.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Term limits are the wrong solution to a real problem.

Washington DC is run by corporate lobbyists and unelected bureaucrats. Politicians might face term limits, but the lobbyists and bureaucrats don't; in fact, term limits would increase the power of those corrupt influences, because a freshly elected Republican or Democrat will be very likely to rely on their "legislative expertise," while a more seasoned representative would know how to navigate thousands of pages of legislation without their help.

The real solution to this problem is threefold:

1. Drastically reduce the size and scope of government. When the government has less money and is involved in fewer spheres of life, there is less money for corporations to make by "investing" in lobbying.

2. Increase the number of Representatives. At the founding, the average Representative had 30,000 constituents. At that scale, it is possible for the Representative to properly represent the people of their constituency. When Representatives have, on average, 900,000 constituents, only the most "prominent" in the community (read: those who donate the most to campaigns) can reach their Representative for a meaningful conversation. We should return to the original ratio.

3. Read the Bills. No bill should receive a vote on the floor of the House unless it has been read in full. That means no more 5,000 page Omnibus bills. Representatives should know everything they're voting to approve, not just take the word of the likes of Nancy Pelosi that the bill is definitely a good idea on the whole.

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky is the best Congressman serving today. Representative Ron Paul inspired my entry into political activism. I hope to model myself after both of them.

Tell us your favorite joke.

A man walks into a bar.

Ow.

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Where there is agreement on goals and moral vision, but disagreement on the best strategy to meet those goals in service of the moral vision, compromise is a necessary part of settling on an effective course of action. For example, a married couple might plan a date night in service of maintaining their loving relationship. They could compromise on their choice of dinner cuisine or entertainment, knowing that even if one does not get their top preference, they are working toward their goal of building a healthy marriage together.

Where there is a disagreement in goal or moral vision, compromise is unnecessary and harmful. For example, if one spouse in a marriage wants to maintain the marriage, and the other wants to sleep with a coworker, a "compromise" of allowing both spouses to cheat is not only unnecessary, but is utterly destructive to the relationship.

The Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected?

I would work hard to change House rules to ensure that no bill returned from the Senate after passing the House has changed in its substantial character. This would put up at least one roadblock against today's normal practice, where the House passes a banal bill, then the Senate completely rewrites it into an entirely different bill, usually several thousand pages of spending.

How should the U.S. House use its investigative powers?

The top priority of House investigations should be against Executive officials, including the President, who appear to have acted outside of their Constitutional authority. Given the extreme levels of unconstitutional activity in today's Federal bureaucracy, we could spend all day, every day, impeaching corrupt and overreaching officials. We should.

What committees interest you?

Armed Services - I hope to bring every American soldier home from abroad, so they can be with their families, ready to defend America if we are threatened.

Appropriations - I hope to shut down the gravy train for corporate and regulatory interests.

Rules - If elected, I will be one of very few members who are independent of the Republican and Democrat machines. I need to be in a position where I can wield power effectively and avoid being sidelined for refusing to "play ball" with the power brokers.

What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability?

Transparency is valuable to the extent that it enables citizens to hold their elected officials to account. Even more important, though, is the duty of elected officials to steal and spend so little that the citizens don't need to spend the effort to monitor the spending.

Campaign website

Loesby’s campaign website stated the following:

Stop Doing Evil

The US Federal Government does countless evil things in our name, with our money. All must end.

In the past century, the US Federal Government has established the Global American Empire, a totalitarian regime attempting to rule the entire world. It wages war against peaceful people who were never a threat to you and me. It deploys military service members for use in maintaining a global monopoly on banking and expanding the borders of the state of Israel. It promotes selfish, hedonistic, and self-destructive behaviors, and punishes those who attempt to build good, wholesome families and communities. It uses its puppet corporate press and infiltrates social media companies to propagandize us to support it in all these things.

The Global American Empire must end, immediately. As your Congressman, I will do everything I can to weaken its power.

Re-knit the Social Fabric

The government is good at destroying society, but it cannot and will not rebuild it. That is up to you and me.

The biggest threat to government power is a healthy social fabric. When people have happy families, strong churches, safe and friendly neighborhoods, and healthy local economies, they don’t need to rely on a bureaucracy in a swamp to fix their problems.

The Global American Empire has systematically destroyed America’s social fabric. If we are to effectively resist its power, we need to rebuild the voluntary social institutions that can threaten it.

This is a hard task, especially because the GAE is actively suppressing it. We each need to seek out ways to do it. As your Congressman, I can help block and abolish the laws that tear our social fabric apart. However, it will be up to each of you to rebuild the social bonds in your community.

Know What Time It Is

We live in proverbial Interesting Times. Small tweaks and minor cutbacks will not fix our problems. Major sacrifices are ahead for all of us.

Almost every institution in America is corrupt. The schools and universities. The corporate press and social media. The legislatures, the courts, the administrative bureaucracies, and the elections apparatus. The corporate board rooms, HR departments, and entertainment media. The military brass and intelligence agencies.

In 2020, the full force of all these institutions was turned against the average American. They shut down our jobs. They inflated away our savings. They engaged in a full court press of propaganda to convince us that the greatest threat to our lives was our own neighbors.

Incremental changes and reforms are not going to save us. We live in interesting times, and we will need to be strong to survive.

Immigration

Close the Border. End Birthright Citizenship.

The US Federal Government knows that the American people do not want most of its policies. In this nominal Democratic Republic, that should be a problem that they solve by changing their policies. Instead, they are importing a new population that they think will accept and enable them. This must end.

Libertarians believe in private property. On your own property, the only people who are welcome are the people whom you have invited. In a similar manner, the United States border should be closed to any immigrants, except those who have been invited by US Citizen landowners. Those invitations must carry with them an agreement that the inviter takes financial responsibility for any costs or debts the immigrant incurs. Any uninvited immigrant should be deported to the country they most recently called home. Anyone claiming asylum should be deported to the first safe country they passed through after leaving their home.

The notion that every person born within the borders of the US should be a US citizen is an absurd misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. Congress can change the naturalization law to remove mistakenly-granted citizenship and prevent its further practice. As your Congressman, I will work to do so.

Build Families and Local Economies

The traditional retirement plan for thousands of years has been to have children. Parents who raise healthy, strong, happy children can count on those children to care for them once they’ve lost their ability to work. They can count on having grandchildren to help raise and bring joy and meaning to the lives of both grandparent and grandchild. Wealth transfer programs like Social Security and Medicare have interrupted that healthy relationship and driven a divide between the generations. We must work as families to repair those bonds. Young adults should form families and raise their children well. Retiring grandparents should prioritize supporting their children in forming families, and structuring their wealth so that their children can inherit as much of it as possible.

As your Congressman, I can push to repeal the many laws and regulations that make it so difficult to run a legitimate business hiring American workers, including minimum wage laws and programs like Obamacare that balloon the cost of hiring an employee and shut low-yield jobs out of the legitimate market. I will fight to abolish the Death Tax that discourages parents from building wealth to pass on to their descendants. I will attack the regulatory state that burdens the American entrepreneur and prevents the growth of real wealth that could alleviate the financial stress under which young adults are suffering.

Demographics and the Welfare State

The government has a very strong incentive to import young foreigners en masse. America’s population is aging, and our fertility rate is well below replacement. The New Deal and Great Society wealth redistribution programs presumed that most Americans would die in their 60s and 70s, and the economy would continue to grow exponentially as it did following the end of the second World War.

America has neither the money nor the workers to deliver on the promises the government has made to today’s retirees. Our absurd $34T national debt pales in comparison to the $213T unfunded liabilities; that would be the price of a large house in upper middle class suburbs for every citizen of America. The GAE’s elites hope that by importing the working class of impoverished countries, they can fill the ranks of hospitals and nursing home staff, expand the tax base, and find some way to replace the tens of millions of young people they thought would materialize to take care of them in their retirement. In reality, they will only manage to further destroy the prospects for young Americans to build wealth, and to doom the elderly to die alone in nursing homes, cared for by strangers, as alienated children curse their parents’ names.

Their solution is terrible, but the problem is real. The American Ponzi Scheme is collapsing, and we are going to be left holding the bag. All we can do is try to set ourselves up to survive it. It is not fair that today’s young have been robbed to pay for previous generations’ largesse. We must not make the problem worse and pass it on to our own children.

War

Bring all the troops all the way home. End all proxy wars.

No member of the US military should be deployed anywhere outside US territory. Unless and until the US Congress declares war against another country, they should be at home with their families, commuting to base every work day to maintain equipment and train.

Similarly, the US should not spend a penny to finance other countries’ armies. While individuals are free to travel to a country and volunteer to fight in its army, the government has no business using the resources it stole from the people to support foreign governments. No more cash or weapons for Ukraine, nor for Israel, nor any foreign aid to any country. Those who want to support foreign governments or help foreign people can do so with their own resources.

Welcome the troops home.

Many members of the armed forces have been brutalized by combat in the War on Terror. The government has abandoned veterans, and will not do anything meaningful to fix the situation. It falls to the loved ones and communities of the veterans to help them recover from the damage their government has done to them.

As your Congressman, I can also push for substantial changes to Veterans’ support, including abolishing the VA and spending its budget on direct payments to veterans, to spend on medical and psychiatric care as they see fit.

The government sees you as its enemy.

The Global War on Terror included a great many strategies of “counter-terrorism.” Surveillance, counterinsurgency, infiltration, and assassination have become normal practice for the military and the intelligence agencies.

Now, all that apparatus has turned inwards, directed at the American people. Holding social views which were normal in 2011 will now land you on a government watch list. In this environment, with recruiting coming in way below target, the military is considering the possibility of recruiting foreigners to fill the ranks; all this, while the top military brass receives briefings about the evils of whiteness and the threat of the “far right.”

We need our troops home, and we need them to be an integral part of our local communities, because otherwise, we face the prospect of being conquered by our own government.

Money

End the Federal Reserve. Return To Sound Money.

In 2020, the Federal Reserve created over $6,000,000,000,000 out of thin air. This massive expansion of the money supply, along with the government lockdowns, is the root cause of the massive price increases which we still suffer today.

Since the establishment of the Federal Reserve, the US Dollar has lost 99% of its value compared to gold specie. The Fed finances the government’s massive deficits, putting our grandchildren on the hook to repay debts we never wanted to take out, all while making goods more expensive for us and directing our material wealth toward lobbyists and the friends of government bureaucrats.

As your Congressman, I will push to audit, and then to end, the Federal Reserve and its monopoly on money. I will fight to cut government budgets across the board, not just reduce future increases, so that the real economy stops being crowded out of the market.

Use Currency the Government Can’t Destroy.

The government loves the digital economy run by Visa. Every digital transaction is tracked, labeled, and logged in government databases. On the other hand, it hates cash, precious metals, and privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. If I give you a bar of silver in exchange for a side of beef, the government doesn’t know, and it can’t tax or regulate the exchange.

Use physical cash, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies for your economic activity as much as possible. If you run a business, accept payments in competing currencies. Keep your savings in assets that the Federal Reserve can’t depreciate.

As your Congressman, I can block laws that require additional financial reporting, attempt to institute Central Bank Digital Currencies, and spend money the government doesn’t have.

The banks own the economy and the government.

Those of us old enough to remember the 2008 Global Financial Crisis remember how the government responded in the aftermath. The banks who had made millions of unpayable loans and bet billions on mortgage derivatives, got hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts. The average Joe had his life and savings destroyed. This was not an accident. This happened because the politicians are loyal to the bankers who fund their campaigns.

What is worse, the banks are all too happy to remove access to our savings when the government asks. They will deduct money from your account to pay a fine, even when you refuse to pay and demand to be arrested instead. They will shut down your access to your account if you organize a protest that actually threatens the government’s power. They will organize an industry-wide refusal to accept your business, if you are denounced as anathema by the corporate press.

Divesting from the US Dollar and banking system isn’t an investment decision. It’s an act of self-preservation.

Drugs

End the Drug War.

It is not a good thing that people use mind-altering substances recreationally. These substances are usually addictive and unhealthy, and distract people from working to improve themselves and their communities.

The Drug War is worse. It creates a major revenue source for organized crime, removes the market forces that control for honesty and quality, and uses violence against peaceful people because they made poor decisions about what substances to consume.

Our communities are more dangerous, our families more fragmented, and our drug users in greater danger of overdosing, because of this expensive, intrusive, unhealthy program.

As your Congressman, I will push to de-schedule all substances from the Controlled Substances Schedules, restore your Right to Try experimental medical treatments without FDA permission, and redirect the DEA to directly combat organized crime.

Care for those around you.

Drug addiction and abuse is an illness. Often, people fall into this illness because of chaotic social lives, periods of serious distress, and social pressure.

We can help each other avoid these pitfalls by building wholesome social environments. Churches, sports leagues, enthusiast clubs, and charities can be the centers of community that prevent people from falling into less healthy pastimes. They also offer spaces where recovering addicts can rebuild their lives on a firm foundation, rather than returning to the environment that caused them to use in the first place.

Some people are lost.

Some drug addicts are unwilling to change. Neither community pressure nor government force can separate them from their addiction. These people become the permanently homeless, who live on sidewalks, resorting to begging, stealing, dealing, or humiliating services to fund their habits. One needs only go to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, or Los Angeles to see hundreds to thousands of these poor souls, lining the streets with tents and cardboard boxes.

No reasonable property owner would allow these vagrants to stay on their property. The government, which makes a claim to own the streets, sidewalks, and parks, should act the same way. People camping in public areas not designated for that purpose should be detained and offered three options: a trip to rehab, a trip to a homeless shelter that is willing to take them, or a trip to a city that will tolerate them.

Law

Shut Down the Spy Agencies.

The self-titled 'Intelligence Community' is more powerful than any elected politician. The CIA effectively has a veto on any President’s foreign policy decisions. The FBI is the greatest source of funding for political violence within America. The DHS subjects every air traveler to a humiliation ritual of disrobing and submitting to scans and groping.

None of this makes us safe, and all of it makes us less free. It comes at our own expense, as these organizations oppress us at home, and destroy foreign countries in our name, inviting blowback that kills innocents in America. While the US Military might be the major enforcement arm of the Global American Empire, the spy agencies decide which countries are going to be subjected to that enforcement.

As your Congressman, I will never vote to approve a budget that gives a cent to any of the 17 agencies in the United States Intelligence Community.

Protect Your Communities.

When the American Colonies seceded from the British Empire, George III did not let them go peacefully. American resistance to George’s tyranny was primarily c