Does The Choice Of Parties Really Make A Difference?

By: Les Carpenter 
Rational Nation USA


Today is Monday April 19th and the start of a new week with all the promise, and disappointment it brings with it. The biggest disappointment of course is the American inability to find  common ground from which to solve the problems of We The People.

I am an avowed independent  conservative and believe in the ideals expressed in the Jeffersonian field of political thought... IE: limited federal government, strict adherence to the constitution,  and the sovereign  rights of the several individual states.

To this end I will argue the merits and rational premise on which Jefferson based his beliefs and arguments. I freely acknowledge that Jefferson was, in an historical reference, a liberal. In my view he was in fact a radical in that he believed in the supremacy of the individual and the premise that government was the servant of the people it governed rather than the European belief that the governed were the servants of the state.

I also realize the greatest threat to American security and financial stability is the extreme views expressed by  the democrat/demican party and republican/republicrat party. In reality we have become a one party state.The difference between the two parties is merely a question of degrees. In other words... which party will lead this nation to the same socialist/statist ends the quickest? I  believe all of us know the answer to that rhetorical question.

I was in a rare and unusual mood today and decided to search the web for some rare possibility of bi-partisan  commentary. The following is an example of what I found at Democracy Is Not Freedom.com...


"Because they are not readily visible to the public naked eye, a number of flaws in the “system” have gone unnoticed for many years, leaving most folks deceptively complacent, lulled into an ill-informed acquiescence to what they perceive as an otherwise robust and healthy American institution.
Two Parties—One Fiscal Agenda
It is instructive to observe not only the popularized differences between the two parties that control the “system,” but also the historical patterns and deeds in which they participated with remarkable unity.  Throughout the many decades of their shared domination of American politics, with respect to monetary and fiscal policy (and its long-term effect on The People and their property), both parties have:

• increased federal taxation (including the constitutionally questionable direct “income tax”)
• increased the size of the federal budget
• increased the size of the federal deficit
• increased the size of the national debt
• abandoned the fiscally responsible practice of using a balanced budget
• played an active role in the increased size of the federal government
• created and expanded federal bureaucracies and police agencies to impose innumerable arbitrary regulations and penalties, thereby hindering private commerce and free enterprise
• engaged heavily in the practice of “pork barrel” (tax-and-spend favoritism) politics, including corporate welfare when and where it suited their agendas (i.e., getting or keeping power)

Despite what politicians from either party may say (or have said), neither party, in deed, platform, or policy, has opposed any of the above activities with any compelling measure of consistency or zeal since the late 1800s.  At the federal level, both the Democratic and Republican parties have engaged continuously in creating a bloated, power-grabbing “national” government at the direct expense of The People’s liberty and their property (through excessive taxes and confiscatory statutes).  For example, both parties either largely supported or acquiesced to:

• the creation of the Federal Reserve system in 1913, in which a private bank cartel was awarded unprecedented (and unconstitutional) control over U.S. monetary and fiscal policy
• the (unconsitutional) outlawing of private ownership and coerced confiscation of gold by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
• the (unconsitutional) severing of U.S. monetary policy from the gold standard by president Richard Nixon in 1971
• the plundering of U.S. citizens’ property through government-induced inflation, directly or indirectly resulting from the systematic implementation of the above three acts

Similarly, presidents of both parties (typically with congressional complicity) have:

• repeatedly used “executive orders” and “emergency powers” to wage costly, unconstitutional, undeclared wars abroad against opponents that posed no direct threat to U.S. security
• given away billions in aid and “loans” to foreign governments, much of which has never benefited the people over whom those governments rule
• incurred ever greater national debt, the liability for which rests only with The People themselves, who, given no say in these actions, were instead “persuaded” to “trust the government”

I find the above words true and in some respect frightening. There is considerably more than is presented here at Rational Nation USA. I encourage all with a love of liberty who possess an open and clear mind to visit the sight I just discovered and consider the views presented.

We are a nation comprised of conservatives, liberals, libertarians, anarchists, and more. If we are to solve our mutual problems we must find a way to talk with each other rather than at each other. If we fail to do so we will ALL face the same inevitable end.

Our destiny rests with the individual choices we make. So... what will it be? Liberty, and freedom or reliance on big brother government and the nanny state? The choice rests with us, We The People.

As an independent conservative I know where I stand. Do you?