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A new year challenge to all those who love liberty
Can you imagine, in pre-WWII America, anyone raising issues such as Medicare or the creation of a welfare state, the federalization of education or federal subsidies for student loans and corporate farms. The socialists imagined it and today these things are reality. Murray Rothbard, in his seminal scholarly work "For A New Liberty," argued that the middle is moved by the radicals, not the compromisers. The socialist had ideals and they have never compromised on those ideals; as a result, much of their agenda has become part of mainstream political life. He called for Libertarians to stick to their principles and never compromise. After all, we know what you call a Libertarian that has compromised their principles, that's right...a Republican. Today, The Ludwig von Mises Institute re-released Rothbard's call to mobilize and radicalize if America is ever to be rescued from the drift towards statism. I employ everyone who loves liberty and believes in small, accountable government and free will to take the time to read "The Case for Radical Idealism." I personally want to call on Libertarians and redeemable Republicans and Democrats to stand up in the new year and oppose vigorously the efforts of George Bush and the new statists of the right to rob us of our personal freedoms, expand the federal government and run rough shod over the sovereignty of foreign nations. Say no to Patriot Act II, further military misadventures, the federal effort to use the Commerce Clause to insert itself into state and individual rights and the inevitably disastrous Social Security "reformulation." (End it, don't mend it) Libertarians are making real progress. Medical marijuana and the end of federal minimum sentencing guidelines are steps towards ending this insipid and destructive war on drugs. Oregon has decriminalized the right to die (can there be a more fundamental right then control of one's own life?) Sodomy laws are now all but a relic of a less civilized past. Around the world, inefficient and corrupt state-run industries are being sold into private hands. Taxes are down and a great deal of control over a variety of issues have been handed back to the states; and to the people. We may only be 2% of the population, but revolutionary change does not come from the disengaged and the easily distracted. It comes from committed citizens ready to stand up and take responsibility for the kind of country we want to leave our children.
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