I have never believed in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, or that creepy Tooth Fairy thing.
But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t nurtured other baseless, nutty beliefs until some painful paroxysm jolted me awake.
Many years ago, under horrible personal circumstances, I endured the same spiritual upheaval you’re feeling right now. Just as with you, my religion turned out to be a big lie. My false god turned against me, just as it’s turning against you now. So like you, I can no longer believe in the charity, peace and love of …politicians.
While initially painful, there is relief in this truth that sets you free.
But there’s another problem. Nobody alive remembers how liberty works. We cannot imagine how schools, roads jobs, healthcare, or food ever existed without a political genesis, subsequent bailouts, lawsuits and bipartisan bickering. Only if you’re over 100 years old did you even exist when there was such a thing as a free market; with all the innovation, competition and rapid advancement that entails.
So as we endure the agony of Change that’s not working, we must thoughtfully prepare a better way forward. I suggest we first retrieve what we’ve lost from the past.
All federal authority is still clearly written into the Constitution for the United States of America (Article I, Section 8; Article II, Sections 2-4; Article III), which you could read in just a few minutes. All other powers are still very clearly denied by one short sentence (Amendment 10). Similarly, all Indiana government powers are spelled out in the Indiana Constitution, while every other conceivable power is still denied by a single sentence (Article I, Section 25).
No state or federal constitution was ever amended, altered or suspended to authorize most of what governments now do to citizens. Nullification of anything unconstitutional is already law at every level of government in the republic. So we have the right, the power, and the duty, to tell politicians to back off; all the way back to the constitutions.
Here’s a summary of what that means:
1. Citizens can do whatever they want to as long as they don’t harm anybody else, or take what’s not theirs.
2. We’d have no more government than necessary to maintain #1
3. We invite others around the world to emulate our success, but otherwise leave them the heck alone.
4. Your major civic duty is to disobey, invalidate and otherwise eliminate all unconstitutional taxes, mandates, organizations and agents. Yes, civil disobedience is a duty.
So caveat emptor would replace the FDA, FTC, FDIC, FCC and a zillion other agencies. Common sense, family ties, competition, voluntary associations, charity and free market options galore would replace union/corporate monstrosities, Medicare, Social Security, lobbyists, regulations, litigation and price controls. And because of the preceding, you get to keep what you earn, buy what you like (smoke it if you’re fool enough – and as long as you don’t blow it in my face), and live however and with whomever you want…as long as you leave others, and their stuff, alone.
No federal tooth fairies, no President coming down the chimney with treats, no more bogus political promises; just a reality proven to work better than anything else ever tried.
That may not be a Square Deal or a New Deal. But it’s a fair deal, which makes it the best deal in all of human history.
Can you live with that?
People used to call that “freedom.”
And they liked it.
I love my life. If you ask nicely I may be very happy to share a bit of it with you. I think that's how it's supposed to work. We're to enjoy life; and we do that best by the Golden Rule...and with a neighborly fence.
I'm a realist. I know what people have always done to each other under the two-headed idol of "politics" and "justice." So while I, like anybody else, may dream of a perfect way, I can see that ain't happenin' as long as humans are in charge.
So I promote the nonviolence and Rule of Law that has proven to work better than anything else, and I vigorously oppose what has always failed violently.
That's all.
Have a nice day. 
That civil disobedience needs to start on the Gulf Coast, where the health and property of those residents (not to mention the animals and environment) are being destroyed by BP and it’s partner in crime, the U.S. government. The government is disallowing states and private individuals from cleaning up and protecting their personal or shared property in the region. BP and the government are also bullying the media to stay out of places they don’t want them. For the sake of their health, their property, and their planet, these people must resist. They must defend themselves from the invading oil, gas, and Corexit 9500 invaders and–-to use the feds’ own terms–the terrorist country that harbors them. The government and BP are responding to the disaster not with cleanup, but coverup. The people must conduct cleanup and rescue operations without government or BP permission, or this disaster will destroy every piece of land and water in the entire Gulf of Mexico and its coastlines, then spread its destruction into the Atlantic toward the East Coast, Greenland, and Europe.
Well said!!!
As we celebrate “Independence Day” let’s all remove our consent (to be governed) and just see how independent we can be.
The part about one’s duty to be civilly disobedient really tickled me. THANKS!