Will 2010 see the emergence of a whole new Liberty Platform from Libertarians, Conservatives and Independents?
Any promises made by candidates running on a liberty platform at all would have to enunciate that they intend to unwind everything the left has done. That means, my friends, everything the left has done over decades. What job security, huh?
I bet candidates running for office can be secure in their jobs of cleaning up the U.S.
by cleaning house first.
Any movement affirming the sovereignty of the electorate over the public servants has to be a sweeping, no-compromise, take-no-prisoners follow-through. It has to be a take-no-prisoners job once elected, and it has to begin immediately upon taking office. No more broken promises.
The United States looks weak around the globe thanks to – well, how do I put this? -- apologies which were never necessary. We don't have to apologize for anything, and a new Congress can make this clear worldwide. One of the best ways to claim this real estate back, is to push a total liberty platform from individual candidates who will sweep Congress this November.
1. Health care reform should be put to sleep. With so many Americans happy with their medical care plans, the only ground left is to cover the interests of those whom we know are under-served. America is aware of these under-served human beings, and she knows that larger numbers are a boondoggle. This number is small, and it is further reduced by the fact that no one in this country goes without care.
Let me say that again: No one in the United States goes without medical care.
That leaves some costs, popular elective procedures and diagnostics which ought to be left to the judgment of the patient's provider, even when practicing ‘defensive Medicine’. These can be dealt with effectively when we make them the only areas of change at all in any sort of reform. The message to the new candidates would come directly from the electorate: "Leave my health care alone!! Focus on the under-served, and be thank you.”
My approach is to whittle reform down to one thing: coverage of those few millions who are under-served. Institute a five-year moratorium on any further reform in order to evaluate American Medical Care and leave it alone. Concentrate on waste, fraud, and abuse during the moratorium for the clearest picture of where the valid remaining problems are, not the political opportunities, and no new mandates for the duration.
Also, no gun laws in health care reform. None.
2. No energy mandates. Let environmental climate change blow over. All the change we see is something we cannot believe in, and all the wind is coming from Congress. Climate change is a scam and new candidates need to understand that. The good-ole-boy network of "Colleagues" has to be restored purely to the oath of office and utter devotion to the Constitution and the people over dedication to each other. Work will get done when the work of the people prevails. That also means transparency, and if Congress lifts the veil of secrecy and exhibits all work on C-SPAN, as they each should promise in their new 2010 platform, you might get the job.
3. Repeal all gun laws. One important thing is that new candidates must enunciate that all gun laws are incompatible with liberty. You can't speak of liberty and still have 20,000 gun laws on the books which do nothing to stop crime, but which do a lot to stop the electorate and pave the way for more boondoggles. Gun bans and regulations interfere with the first line of defense -- the target of violent crime -- and they pave the way for many boondoggles which we are now suffering nationwide as one people. Freshmen need to get over this fallacy that guns are unseemly and have no purpose in a civil society, or that only police and military should have them; the armed citizen is the first line of defense against violence and the armed citizen is the original Homeland Security.
4. Speak to the electorate in terms we understand in being most certain that candidates understand. What does the electorate need most of all right about now? It is to be heard by the Congress and obeyed, and not told by Congress any longer. The word self-reliance has to be tossed and replaced by the word Independence. ‘Self-reliance’ has a vague and preachy tone to it, it has proven to be lip-service, and it gets a little shopworn.
Independence is the better word by far.
Independence from our own public servants is the hallmark of American Liberty, and we have none as long as public officials continue to make new mandates on bogus crises of their own incompetence, or worse, design.
The electorate is now becoming suspicious of such ineptitude, and it doesn't matter whether it is inefficiency or intentional anymore.
Independence says it all, and I expect to hear it a great deal in any planks of a liberty platform. Say it with me: Independence. Independence from our own public servants.
5. School Liberals. You can educate the electorate and invigorate the electorate, but liberals and the left need to be schooled, and upbraided if necessary. This is a job for Bloggers and the New Media. They must be supported by the freshmen congress critters. There is no liberty under liberals.
Any and all content or stumping on the liberty platform has to have these elements in it. To unwind all of the obnoxious intrusions, the mandates, the usurpations of authority and presumptions in ignorance must see the repeal of many, many gun laws, inspire freedom in getting out from under our own public servants, schooling the servants, entirely abandoning environmental psycho-science and fraud, and only a small health care reform for those under-served.
The job of the 2010 liberty platform candidates is to restore limits on the public servants. Limits, and in many districts, heads have to roll.
Then come the safer streets. We won’t get safer streets without first cleaning house.
In restoring liberty to the people of the United States, new candidates must enunciate on their liberty platform that we are a nation who can refuse the U.S. Government if we wish to. We can refuse. As the sovereign --- without permission from anyone and even without evidence in the conventional sense — we may refuse our own public servants everything they wish to ‘give' and instruct them to give out only what we want from them.
Can the new 2010 candidates enunciate these with a deep understanding of Independence the way we the people understand it?
