Good evening, Robert!
Robert Goodman wrote to everyone...
I just added this to my occasional essays of possible interest to you:
http://users.bestweb.net/~robgood/politic/nolanolo.html . I started
writing it several years ago, just wrapped it up, and decided not to change
the mention of Canadian developments when a relevant bill passed recently.
I've been reading your essay -- actually over the last several
days several times over. I've also been reading the various
comments of a great many here who have also taken the time to
read and respond to your essay.
Sadly, it is very easy for me these days, simply to drop out and
withdraw myself from the American political process altogether.
Honestly. I've had enough of it all. There is nothing left in
this mill of meaningless changes, if everyone's focus remains on
the Democrat and Republican sifts as you have kindly pointed out.
You have all probably noticed that I have dropped out of almost
all discussions here on Liberty Northwest for several weeks, if
not months. I check things out from time to time. But overall,
I see very little, if anything at all, taking place on the
landscape of our political horizon that might give me any hope at
all that liberty will stand any chance of prevailing in my own
lifetime, even in incremental fashion, as you seem to prefer. It
hasn't. It won't. At least in terms of the incremental march to
socialist centralized fascism that our present regime, and the
countless minions of Americans that march to the tune of that
drum beat in terms of defining national security and safety. It
is pure fiction to believe that much of anything at all is likely
to change over the course of several years, that is, baring a
truly global social and economic catastrophe.
That may be coming. Some signs certainly point to such, to wit:
1. The exorbitantly incremental increases in the prices in global
petroleum;
2. The US trade imbalance with China and other so-called emerging
nations;
3. The collapse, if one can dare speak of one, within the
European Union;
4. The US obsession with so-called renigag states such as the
entire Islamic world, Iran, North Korea, et. al.;
AND LOCALLY:
4. The tremendous costs associated with all of the US wars:
a. The War on Terror... no end in sight;
b. The War on Alcohol and Tobacco;
c. Upcoming War on Obesity (that's getting more attention as
the days, weeks, and months go by;
d. I could list countless others here... but the same sense
of ridiculous government meddling in social affairs boggles the
imagination!
I guess that the point I am trying to make is that the US, for
all practical purposes, is on a collision course for
dissentigration, and of all of it's own making. You can add to
that a long litany of other problems that had their genesis
decades ago. The aging population and growing emergence of the
'baby boomers' with all of their expectations for social support
from social security and medical care.
Neither the Democratic Party, or the Republicans, have any
ideological way of critiquing their own fallacious mistakes of
the past. Both Parties are ideological prostitutes to their own
survival, and, as you have noted, often have the same ultimate
goals and objectives of using government, much bigger government,
to achieve their own parochial goals.
What we are dealing with unfortunately, is at least three, maybe
four, generations of Americans who are sold on the idea that
government ought to provide for the 'common good'. Such an ideal
is total government. Government ought to make it possible for
everyone, everyone, to get their own fair share of the pie.
Both the Republicans, as well as the Democrats, have this ideal
as their main justification for entering, and controlling, the
power base.
George Wallace had it right. So did Barry Goldwater. There is
not a 'dimes worth of difference at the higher echelons of the
Republic and Democratic Parties'. You indeed tried to point some
of this out obviously in your essay.
Since you have ostensibly abandoned the Libertarian Party, I
don't know exactly where you really want to go with this. At
least in Idaho, the Republicans are in charge of the government
at all levels within the State of Idaho. Idaho has become a
stinking cesspool of government controlled monopoly, and taxation
is becoming unbearable to all but the rich and famous.
As I wrote in the beginning of this; I've virtually thrown in the
towel. I'm tired of fighting with idiots that have the back
burner goal of using the government to turn things around! The
converse to this is that it is government that is driving us into
the ground! The Republicans and Democrats are destroying Liberty
for the common man. It's their present, and historical, goal to
do so, as you, yourself pointed out, probably unknowingly, in
your own essay.
But since we no longer have a viable Libertarian Party left in
Idaho any longer these days, I've decided personally to spend the
rest of my own life in peace and let the natural course of events
take its toll upon our civilization that is no longer worth
fighting for. It isn't. Our civilization, and I am talking
about the American Civilization, starting of course upon
tremendously great pricicples of personal liberty and personal
responsibility, take it's own nosedive into the world of world
globalism and conditioned monopoly by the powers that be!
The once aspired Libertarian movement is dead in America. If
it's alive anywhere else, I'll move there. Unfortunately, there
isn't anywhere to move to really. Such places, even if they
exist today, have already been taken over by the socialist
parasites that already have their global constraints and
aspirations in place to control the human race.
You, Robert, might want to consider how you, yourself,
contributed to that, by abandoning the Libertarian Party. I'm
still a dues paying party member, of sorts, anyway.
Kindest regards,
Frank
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