Political Divorce

Political Divorce

Americans divorced themselves from the Republican Party. The trouble is they reconciled with their ex-political spouse the Democrats. I hear people everywhere so hopeful that now things will finally change. They will not. They will continue going in the same direction that they have been going for decades – down. Come on and get real! Were we more civilized in 1950? Were there fewer percentages of poor people? Were the children scoring higher on tests? Were there fewer unwanted pregnancies? Was it just plain easier to make a living as long as you were willing to work an honest day's work?

Americans in 1950 were more self-reliant and it showed in the much smaller sized government and tax bills. It was just plain easier to earn a living without the government monkey clinging to your back. But Americans began ignoring the warnings of our founders and started demanding government take responsibilities for everything right up to the type of toilet you can legally put in YOUR bathroom. But Americans have been rendered so brain dead by government schools that all they know how to do now is parrot government reports (lies) rather than think logically and analytically.

Today at least Americans now know something is wrong though most have no clue what it is. It is a road called statism that we are traveling down, whether paved by the Democrats or Republicans that will lead to our eventual demise. It’s all happened before yet we are so smug and ignorant that we think we can follow the Roman model and not meet their same fate.

Say statism was the equivalent of wife beating. A husband beats his wife so she divorces him but she marries her former husband who regularly beat her too. After a few years she is fed up again and divorces him but returns to the other husband. My question to you Cubanos is: Do you think either of these husbands will stop beating this wife?

Just because the two ruling parties have blocked democracy with ballot restrictions, failed to put “None of the Above (NOTA)” on the ballot or refused to announce how many folks like me always write in NOTA when the choice is between the Democrats or Republicans, they still know I’m objecting to their rule. Do they tabulate how many people like me write in NOTA? You bet your ass they do! Politicos are born bean counters. So I will continue to only vote for Jeffersonian or in other words classical liberal, free-market, Libertarian candidates and NOTA the remainder of unacceptable inferior candidates of the ruling class of corporate/statist main parties – Congressman Ron Paul of Texas excepted. So while the majority of you vote for the road to serfdom even though the end of the line is the Cuban model, I’ll vote my principles quietly every time and hope that will at least give me some good karma when the bill comes do. Sure I voted since the 1970’s every election and never even once voted for a winning candidate. But that’s not my fault. That’s your fault if you don’t vote or vote for statists.

Tomás Estrada-Palma