Libertarians...Get to Work!
By, Chris Rossini
The dog & pony show is now over, and it's time to search for opportunity.
I believe that it exists.
With the re-election of Obama, libertarians may have just been handed a gift. For you will not hear free market rhetoric from Obama. No fictitious talk of "smaller government". And no lip service to "The Constitution".
Obama (and all Democrats) tell you flat-out that they'll give you government good & hard.
At this stage in the game, I believe that's what is needed. If libertarian ideas are to succeed, they must take the opponent head on.
Libertarians now have 4 fresh years to showcase the difference between liberty and government control.
After Obama's second term is up, and America is in an even deeper economic mess, the establishment will not have the luxury of blaming "free markets", "deregulation" and "low taxes".
Americans may not be the brightest bulbs on the tree, but they know that Obama is about government control all the way. When his second term is through, it's up to us libertarians to make sure that the fire that Ron Paul started has matured into an inferno.
People tend to change only when they're absolutely forced to. The verdict is in, and Americans are still comfortable enough to buy what the government is selling.
Unfortunately for government, it can't possibly come through. It has buried itself in debts that it can't pay, has mired itself in wars that it can't define, and has made promises that it can't possibly keep.
That the re-elected leader doesn't even pretend to stand for liberty is a good thing for us. It's now a head on battle.
We have 4 more years.
Get to work.
