a roster of distinguished speakers will have presented their case for the nomination of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as the Republican Party candidates for running the executive branch of our government. Noticeably absent from these oratories, with the singular exception of Rand Paul, are libertarian leaning public figures.
Mainstream Republicans must figure they are too extreme and scary for mainstream Americans. They might say things like "legalize drugs" or "leave choice to the states" or "shrink the military".
Yet, buried within the subtext of each and every speech given thus far are the precepts of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty, smaller government, and opportunity that are the hallmarks of classic liberal economic thought. I heard it from women, Black, White, Hispanic, and Indian. I also heard it from men, and between the two they covered nearly all of the spectrum of judeo/christian religious belief and even one who grew up Sikh.
A great portion of tea party philosophy has gone mainstream, assimilated, and slipped in the back door disguised as common sense. AT LAST.
We are at a point in this nation where all of our desires to quibble must take a recess, while we focus on saving our republic from the ash heap of failed experiments in political theory.
Our fate is tied to economics, and our population is mainly ignorant of primal cause and effect. Too many of our brethren believe in the notion that the smartest of us must decide for the rest of us and that if we just create the right rules, everything will be fine. We have followed this course now for a century and the end result of the incessant creep of progressivism is that today in America we are nearly bankrupt in every conceivable sense of the word, our economy, our governance, our education, and most importantly our well of eternal optimism as represented in the hopes and dreams of our young people. This is the result of the slow and inexorable decline of liberty for one hundred years!
We must elect leaders who believe in the power of each individual to make her own choices, who believe that the combined potential power of 300 million Americans each making their own decisions in their own interest, so far surpasses the potential wisdom of elite central planners that the comparison is laughable.
We must elect leaders who believe in the principle of equal justice and equal opportunity, not social justice and not selective opportunity. Social engineering as a concept has long outlived any semblance of usefulness, and has now reached such a position of predominance in our society we no longer even perceive it's cumulative corrosive effect.
If you think you understand economics, I'll wager 10 to 1, you have a confused notion, probably influenced by the drinkers of Keynesian Kool-Aid who have propounded the notion that positive interference in the market by the government can right the ship of free enterprise. It is a false hope, proven time and time again in the annals of history. Look it up. Your country is depending on you making informed decisions at this time of extreme peril.
Old Whig Book of the Month: Financial Fiasco by Johan Norberg - How America's infatuation with homeownership and easy money created the economic crisis.
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