Larry Blanchard wrote:
Tim Daneliuk wrote:

But, of course, he *can't* make that speech even if he believed it.
His political opponents - who care only about seizing power - will
use it as ammunition to undermine his remaining presidential years
and his political party. It makes no difference that a speech like
this would be good for our entire nation and the West broadly. The
Democrats have amply demonstrated that their interest is not liberty
or even the good of their own nation, but their own callow need for
power...

As opposed to the Republicans, whose need for power is not callow?

C'mon Tim, they're all a bunch of assholes. The system is broken, assuming it
ever worked as intended. Wasn't the first George the one who warned against
the evils of political parties?

'Sorry - I didn't mean to imply the Rs were any better, only that under
the current situation, the Ds make it impossible for W to make
the aforementioned speech. But I don't blame the politicians, I blame
*us*. Politicians will do and say what they believe will get them
elected. The Sheeple are the ones that have demanded what we've
gotten: More government, the illusion of safety at the expense of liberty,
and so forth.


Other than that, I find myself in agreement with a large part of your response
(but not all).

I leave you with two quotes from my favorite political pundit, Will Rogers
(and I may not have the wording exactly right, but the meaning is there):

"Anyone who wants to be elected shouldn't be."


Yup.

"The Democrats want to take my money and give it to the poor. The Republicans
want to take my money and give it to the rich. If I can't keep it, I'd just
as soon it went to the poor."


They are both morally reprehensible. The right choice is for people to
be able to keep their own property and money and do what they see fit
with it including which charities (if any) they support. Charity at the
point of a gun is no such thing and theft is always wrong.
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