When you stop sounding like the contributors on “The Democratic Underground”
You are projecting, Snipe. I am a small-government conservative Republican, in the mold of the Jeffersonian Republicans. It is you who are sounding like a big-government, crony-capitalist, Democrat-Party control-freak. A true abolitionist named Lysander Spooner had your RINO Whig Party nailed, early on:
"Still another of the frauds of these men is, that they are now establishing, and that the war was designed to establish, "a government of consent." The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this – that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. This idea was the dominant one on which the war was carried on; and it is the dominant one, now that we have got what is called "peace."
"Their pretences that they have "Saved the Country," and "Preserved our Glorious Union," are frauds like all the rest of their pretences. By them they mean simply that they have subjugated, and maintained their power over, an unwilling people. This they call "Saving the Country;" as if an enslaved and subjugated people – or as if any people kept in subjection by the sword (as it is intended that all of us shall be hereafter) – could be said to have any country. This, too, they call "Preserving our Glorious Union;" as if there could be said to be any Union, glorious or inglorious, that was not voluntary. Or as if there could be said to be any union between masters and slaves; between those who conquer, and those who are subjugated.
"All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing "a government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats – so transparent that they ought to deceive no one – when uttered as justifications for the war, or for the government that has succeeded the war, or for now compelling the people to pay the cost of the war, or for compelling anybody to support a government that he does not want.
"The lesson taught by all these facts is this: As long as mankind continue to pay "National Debts," so-called, – that is, so long as they are such dupes and cowards as to pay for being cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered, – so long there will be enough to lend the money for those purposes; and with that money a plenty of tools, called soldiers [e.g., a standing army of tax collectors,] can be hired to keep them in subjection. But when they refuse any longer to pay for being thus cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered, they will cease to have cheats, and usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and blood-money loan-mongers for masters."
[Spooner, Lysander, "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority Vol VI." By the Author, 1867, pp.57-59]
You are a fraud, Snipe -- just another big-government control-freak who is clueless about what makes a free republic
Mr. Kalamata