Red kool-Aid or Blue - Which Is Better?

So What do you think - Red or Blue? Maybe a better question would be, is Kool-Aid of any color actually good for you?
Which is better is subjective depending upon what a person prefers but whether or not an artificially flavored, sugar laden drink is good for the human body is pretty clear. And yet, with all the historical evidence showing there is no demonstrable difference in how the Republican and Democratic parties govern, the electorate continue to believe that one political party is better than the other as a subjective matter when what they should be asking themselves is is either party good at all.

It’s astounding to me how anyone, at this point, who is forty years of age or older, could possibly believe that the candidates of either party could ever get the country back on track.

What has become somewhat clear in this election cycle, with the popularity of Donald
Trump and Bernie Sanders is that, people are at least starting to see that there’s something amiss and they are supporting what is, at least perceived to be, non establishment candidates. Unfortunately the rhetoric from both sides is nothing new nor is it something old (as in, what is that Constitution thing about anyway?) Neither is addressing what the fundamental problems are with our system. In fact, they don’t address the “system” at all. They don’t address questions of individual liberty; they don’t address what the role of the government should be under the US Constitution; they don’t address the interventionist foreign policy or the illegal wars or the morality of the redistribution of wealth or anything that has to do with individual freedom and unalienable rights.

That the System is broken is evident. It is also evident that a written constitution has not been able to constrain the power and corruption of government which, was actually evident within the second administration of the very first president until finally we have arrived at, what the founders had fought to free themselves from, the tyranny of a dictatorial monarchy. The bottom line is, both parties are detrimental to the cause of individual freedom and liberty.

It has been said that the president of the United States, now wields more power than King George did at the time of the revolution and it is surely true. Regardless of the American people’s belief that they live in the freest country in the world the evidence would suggest otherwise. That people still believe it to be true suggest to me that they’ve been drinking too much Kool-Aid and maybe they ought to consider switching to fresh squeezed orange juice which, to my mind would be analogous to Radical Libertarianism.

The libertarian non-aggression principle, property rights and self ownership most people intrinsically know to be true. I am not a libertarian because I learned it but rather I already believed these principles to be true and discovered the existence of the libertarian philosophy that delineated and expanded upon those principles that I intrinsically knew to be true.

The people of this country should be looking for a candidate that says, like Ron Paul did: “Government is not the answer, government is the problem.”

Here is an article I really like by Lew Rockwell titled “The Libertarian Paradox” in which he makes several cogent points concerning libertarianism, statism and the logic of the libertarian position.

 

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