Yeah, yeah. He makes the kind of noises that allows him to win a GOP primary, therefore he's easy to demonize. But his policies are Ron Paul's policies, and his honesty is Ron Paul's honesty. So, maybe it's time liberals learned who their friends are, no?
Look, we've been through this, and I thought the answer was obvious. The best thing for liberals--really, the best possible thing--is libertarians in Washington and your Dems or Greens or whoever down at the state capital. This is the best thing. Really.
If health care and regulation and all of that great stuff is handled on as local a level as possible, no libertarian will violate the Ninth and Tenth Amendments by interfering, and the corporations cannot easily distort the whole thing to their ends because to do it would require buying fifty state (and more than half a dozen territorial) legislatures. That's not easy. Washington, on the other hand, is easy. One stop shopping.
One stop shopping. There's your corporatism in a nutshell. Go to Washington and do one stop shopping. Just like that. Fill the legal code down in Washington and every mom and pop down at the farmer's market needs the same fourteen lawyers to do business that Monsanto needs to do business. Let the state legislatures handle it, and (depending on the state) mom and pop need one lawyer, while Monsanto needs at least fifty. One stop shopping.
Keeping Washington honest sounds good in theory. Didn't work. But if you keep Washington small, you don't have to convince twenty million voters nationwide that your local sewers are more important than gay marriage, abortion, and their own local sewers combined. You can just throw out the city council--and it doesn't take twenty million voters to do that.
"I do verily believe that..a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth." -- Thomas Jefferson
How much proof do we need that the man was absolutely right before we pull our heads out and believe him?
No offense, but the Ninth and Tenth Amendments are a better compromise, and a better idea. They really are. We might not live in your liberal state after we work together to get libertarians in office, but no Constitutionalist worth his salt will stand in your way if the majority of the voters in your state want to experiment with socialism.
Hell, with a little healthy competition between the states, you might just make it work halfway well. Europe did, before they had a stupid attack and consolidated their efforts. Now it has all gone to hell...
Please, tell me how I'm wrong about this.
