he is also doing nothing to abort the continuing metastasis of the suprerogatory State, and the continuing deconstruction of the Constitution and its prescription of minimal, properly construed government.
You know I can't argue with you, Duke. But Dubya is an improvement, even so.
Charles Oliver, in writing about the 1988 elections, noted that we freedom weenies were getting about as much as we could reasonably expect with the election of George H. W. Bush. The temperament, preferences, and thought patterns of the country simply wouldn't allow a more dramatic turn toward freedom. I think he had a point.
Douglas Hofstadter, in his great Godel, Escher, Bach, made a similar comment of wider scope: human systems and institutions are not primaries, but consequences of the thought patterns of men. If some unimaginable event were to destroy the American political system this morning, all the way down to bedrock, but leave the rest of the country untouched, We The People would recreate it with an appalling exactitude before dinner.
Progress back toward political freedom will be no faster than the re-acceptance of the rightness and necessity of freedom by the American people. When they stop saying "there oughta be a law" and return to "mind your own business," we'll be able to see some real motion.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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