I haven't posted on this blog in a while. I think its been almost 4 years. Since then, my political views have changed a lot. I am now a Ron Paul supporting libertarian/constitutionalist that despises ALL corporate media, but more on that later. You will see a lot of this on my blog as I try to post more often.
The subject of this blog is about the aftermath of the election. I'm somewhat bothered by the American people and I have lost hope. We see the same shit (excuse me) from both sides of the aisle. We vote a Democratic majority (we don't like that) so we vote in the Republicans, now we have a divided government and whats worse is that nothing changed at all. Everybody during the campaign season wants change. We thirst for change! Obama was elected on a platform of "hope and CHANGE!" but where was the real change? With a tea party revolution in 2010, we did get a change, but in 2012, where was the change? Everything ended up the same. The Democrats still control the Senate with no real change in the number of seats. The Republicans still control the House- again, with no real change in the number of seats. Obama is still in the White House. And we once again, have divided government. The only real change is if we voted for a third party. There was a time in American history when third parties had a chance although they were never elected but they had a chance, but the establishment learned and they came back with laws regarding ballot access to keep third party candidates off the ballot.
I'm not going to hold back. The American people are officially "insane"when it comes to government and politics. Albert Einstein, once said that the
definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." We keep voting for these "dinosaurs" as Ron Paul called them in a recent interview but we keep getting the same thing. Where's the change? To fix Washington, it is not enough to change the party, we have to change the entire environment and the entire system (bringing back that dusty old document-- whats it called again? oh yeah, the Constitution would be nice but I don't think those people over at the hill and the White House (heck even Supreme Court) ever read it, never mind understand it! Many say that the two major political parties are too different to get together and "compromise" on legislation that will solve the country's biggest problems but the huge gap between the parties is a game because they will get behind closed doors and bang out some kind of deal at the last minute on this fabricated "fiscal cliff" which was man made to begin with because they should have done something about it a year ago. The secret deal that they make will make leadership on both sides of the aisles look like heroes to their respective supporters. When Ron Paul says that he doesn't like compromise and bipartisanship, people jump on him, but these people aren't really listening to what he's saying. He supports coalitions because its bipartisanship that got us into the mess in the first place.. You don't have to agree with everything a member of the other side says. You just need one issue. One example is the bill decriminalizing marijuana on the federal level that he drafted with Barney Frank, a very liberal congressman from Massachusetts who, like Paul, is retiring at the end of this congressional session. The support for his famous audit the fed bill in the House is another example of a great coalition formed by Ron Paul-- a coalition of Progressives, conservatives, and even a man that calls himself a "socialist"-- Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was the sponsor of audit the fed in the Senate before Rand Paul came on the scene to join his father in the fight to put some light on the secrecy of the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul has even formed coalitions with Ralph Nader in an attempt to educate people on the existence of third parties, especially the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, and the Constitution Party.
Ron Paul says that that it is bipartisanship that got us into this mess in the first place. In 1999, Bill Clinton worked with Republicans to repeal a very important piece of legislation that was enacted in the 1930's. It was known as
Glass-Steagall. Wasn't this bipartisanship?
The National Defense Authorization Act (better known as the NDAA) with its controversial provisions on indefinite detention was signed by Obama on New Year's Eve 2011 while the rest of us were out getting hammered. The two parties do agree but the agree on the issues and on legislation that take away our freedom and liberties. They vote "yea" on these bills while smiling and laughing at their counterparts on the other side of the aisle. Who are they laughing at? They are laughing at those who fell asleep. Those of us who still think we are free and those of us who think that the two party system still works but there is no two party system- they are all the same!
Below is that interview with Ron Paul- this could very well be the very last interview that this man gives to the mainstream media. He will now spend the rest of his days as an activist until the day he dies as honorary chairperson of the Campaign for Liberty, an organization he helped create. The Campaign for Liberty has been a useful tool for those in the liberty movement to advance issues important to our civil liberties as well as supporting pro liberty candidates to all levels of government.
Before I end this post, I want to say that neither side should really celebrate victory. Some conservatives are bitching (again, excuse me) that Obama is still in the White House but the Republican Party did not exactly choose a "conservative" to run against Obama. They still have control of the House but time will tell if it is a "conservative" majority. Why did the Republicans lose against Obama? I've heard some (wish it was more) admit (although they didn't want to admit it) that they should have taken Dr. Paul more seriously. It was, after all, Ronald Reagan who said that libertarianism should be a major part of the Republican Party. Now, we have "conservative" leaders like Rick Santorum saying that the Republican Party should get as far away from libertarian thought and Ron Paul supporters as possible. The Republicans have a lot of soul searching to do if they want to remain relevant as a party. If you look at the popular vote for the presidential race. Obama won 51% of the vote while Romeny won 47%. That means about 2% voted third party. Ron Paul supporters either didn't vote or voted libertarian Gary Johnson or Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode or whoever else was on the ballot in their own state. I myself voted for Gary Johnson. A real Ron Paul supporter who truly understands the man they support would not vote for Mitt Romney. A friend of mine, a partisan Republican, blamed me, the typical Ron Paul supporter, for "our" loss. First I told him, "who is "our"? If he is including me as a member of today's Republican Party, I am sorry, I am not one! The second thing I told him was "good! Maybe next time the GOP will take Ron Paul seriously." The next day I saw an article and laughed because this was the exact headline of the story and it went on to blame Ron Paul for Obama's win.
I got two emails about a week ago. One from MoveOn.org, a very progressive organization, and the Nation, a very progressive magazine (the Nation even used the phrase "progressive victory"). They both claimed victory after the elections but where's the victory? Yes, Obama won the election and the Senate is still Democrat-- a real victory would be if they had 60 votes and that every single "D" was a progressive but you cannot always count on that.
Again, I say, no one should be proclaiming victory because whatever happens, the American people lose. When the smoke clears after an election, the only thing that matters in the American people and how they voted-- but with voter fraud and the establishment counting the votes, even the official vote tally can be questioned. I leave you now with a song from libertarian and Ron Paul supporter Jordan Page. It is called "Victory Song" which discusses the exact thing I just talked about in this paragraph. After an election, the American people is what really matters! Did we REALLY get what we voted for? And do we have ourselves to blame for what is coming?
"in wicked men we trust" --- Jordan Page
