I thought this was an interesting article I liked Ron Paul's vision. I'm wondering about Rand's http://www.businessinsider.com/libe...amentally-changed-the-republican-party-2013-3
That neither party, either Democrat or Republican or Tea or Libertarian, can be trusted to have the people's best interests in mind.
It seems a bit ridiculous that a political party can change at root and branch. It might be that over a particular issue there is more unity.
I agree with your response Mael. I find it very difficult to trust anything that comes out of a politician's mouth no matter which side of it they were talking out of.
Odon, I think UNITY is the Key that unlocks minds from the trap of false hope. There is power in a united effort in this tug of war for freedom
I just think political parties these days are like corporate companies.They have a stranglehold on the debates we can have,as a result of blind historical circumstance.And the kind of people who would be really good at "politics" and effect real change see the political scene for the circus it is and won't have anything with it.And those radicals such as the people in the Occupy Movement are rubbished by most mainstream media as being some kind of idealistic freaks.I despair of it.
Here is something I wrote back in 2008 - * Neo-cons fall, who’ll rise on the right? Here are a few musings - The Bush administration seems to have marked the high water mark of neo-conservative influence within the Republican Party, so what next, what faction will rise while they ebb? To me Sarah Palin stinks of a dead end and I think many on the right smell that too. The religious right seem to be disillusioned and demographic seems to be is working against the old conservative alliances, so what next for the right? Well, there is one group that could pitch themselves as been against virtually everything the neo-cons stood for, while remaining right wing even solidly Republican. There are against foreign entanglements, don’t believe that national security overrides personal rights and although still in favour of a free market they rile against what they call the culture of ‘corporate welfare’ that existing in the US. That means they can tap into all the resentments at failed policies across the board in America and so give back some creditability to a tarnished Republican Party. I’m talking about Libertarian Republicans (sometimes known as right wing libertarians or conservative libertarians). As a faction they could probably gain support amongst the states rights groups and the ‘individualist’ crowd but their difficulty would be with the more religious and traditionalist factions the subjects of contention being such things as drugs, abortion and prostitution where libertarians believing in individual rights as paramount would repeal restrictive laws and live the decision up to the individual. But they could probably ditch the far religious right, knowing they would not vote for Democrats if they could persuade enough people that they were ‘new’ and nothing like the ‘old’ Republican Party (of which a distance from the religious right might help).
I admire Ron Paul but I'll confess I'm suspicious about Rand. Don't get me wrong; I admire his initiating that filibuster against drones as it needed to be addressed! Anyone who's not paying attention to Obama's advocacy of using drones needs to wake up! Our freedoms are disappearing right before our eyes! If we're not careful, we could wake up in a totalitarian state. With that said, I'm suspicious on a few matters with regard to foreign policy and a few other matters.
