Bacon, Guns & Whiskey

…and Democrats still have a startling number of socialists and communists in their ranks. We’re screwed, either way.

The best examples of this are the “neocons” now running the country who are advancing fascism with terrifying alacrity and a president who is openly profiting from his position — and talking about it publicly! (Meanwhile, members of Congress are making peasant wages and really need to be allowed to also commit insider trading to be able to survive.) The other is the expansion of the deficit at a rate that has grown larger than our entire economic output and is knocking on the door of the September $40,000,000,000,000 benchmark (that’s TRILLIONS!).

Reagan got it wrong on his “supply side” approach to the economy. Period. But that doesn’t mean he was a bad president. He championed small government and individual liberties. Today those have been replaced by a gestapo-esque central government that sees everything you do. And if your answer to that was “if you aren’t doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear” then YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.

Article 1, Section 3 was designed by the Framers to ensure that states’ rights were protected from federal overreach. The passage of the 17th Amendment nullified that protection, and the use of the Commerce Clause to justify nearly everything Congress does has led to the 10th Amendment’s being ignored ever since.

And while Republicans have been overrun with neo-fascists bent on creating a Christian theocratic plutocracy, Democrats are electing socialists and communists in local government races. The problem here is both are failed models that simply do not work (and never will, because they ignore human nature to want to accumulate wealth) and the overwhelming majority of Americans across all demographic categories find both repugnant (there is a difference between the two).

In a world where there are only two parties and most people believe that voting for a third party is a “wasted vote,” the fact that people are picking socialists over Republicans should be a wakeup call that they have lost their way. Libertarians (little “L”) need to take back the party and return America to the version that defeated the Nazis, created the greatest economy in history, and built things that were unimaginable until we made them and changed the world for the better because of them. It was smaller government and states’ rights that got us here, a central government in complete control will destroy us — and we’re already well on our way there, based on how polarized we have become.