A recalcitrant Republican….
I wonder often….how I became a Republican. Well not often; …. But….how I became the label…. how I came to believe that unfettered free enterprise would work in a complex world.... How it I think that life was so simple?
I thought it was easy…. I mean how easy can it be to have a small government and just let people solve problems by doing what is in their own self-interest…. Government does not have to think…. We would not need to contemplate an election. After all… why would we need politicians when we are them; ourselves…
Might we understand the Universe by simple arithmetic!
Freedom… liberty ….what do they mean when you are a blue collar worker who has just had his/her job scuffled to Mexico. What does liberty mean when your house is foreclosed? I am sure all those people in line to collect unemployment are spreading their Jeffersonian philosophy as they wait for their checks….
Rich people can think what they want. Rich people are drawn to philosophical agents that propagate richness. My favorites are rich people who have never worked… or owned a business; they are the Libertarians of the Aquarian Age.
Those Republicans whom I had previously had a relationship; I am now divorced; are squandering our ability to create a society that values the individual not as a means to and end, but the end of our means. By what power will a powerless new government have to deal with these problems as the old government tries to write a favorable history of itself. The power is ebbing as the checkbook fails to balance.
Karma: what will be the next life of recalcitrant Republicans like myself. I can only hope that like Scrooge I can change my life and bring the Christmas goose to Tiny Tim… My fear is that many will not only be blind to the error, but will be squished underfoot by a cockroach-searching boot in their next try…
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