Free Indeed

There's been a significant increase in traffic to this blog, lately.  Like, 100x more traffic.  Since I haven't really been posting, that makes it seem a little odd.

The world has been busy since my last post.  Even more so since the last post regarding any topic relating to current events.  Thankfully, there are friends and cohorts to bombard with thoughts and opinions on those events.  As a result, there's really been no need to post about it.

Somewhere around the turn of the millenia, the veil of politics started to lose opacity, and the Liberty movement grabbed hold.  Both of the political parties currently in power in America were clearly corrupt and against the average American.  They simply viewed us as "feeders" to fill their corrupt coffers.  The Liberty movement offered an alternative.

Still, I voted for Bush in 2000.  I was too afraid of a nut like Al Gore, who claimed credit for the internet, and had some scheme to convince simple-minded people that the world would end if we didn't start paying them more taxes.  How taxes made the 'bad' in the environment go away was never clear, but, still, many easily persuaded people fell for it.  I was too terrified of that to flesh out the alternative.

After 9-11, it became clear mistakes had been made.  Laws were passed to steal the liberty and wealth of the nation.  It couldn't have been more damaging to American freedom if had been done by design.

Michael Badnarik was the first candidate outside of the two current parties in power to motivate me.  His lectures on individual liberty and the Constitution were eye-opening.  The internet opened up the world to the ideals of liberty in his campaign.

That was 2004.  Four years later, Ron Paul showed that others were waking up, as well.  Even though he was a Republican, he'd inspired many who saw the two parties in power as the corrupt, exclusive club of elites who saw us as tax slaves to recognize the importance of Liberty.

The first campaign was successful in planting the seeds of a political awakening.  Young people began showing up to rallies in large numbers.  They started political organizations, some of which would inspire others to do the same.

Four years after that, in 2012, the second campaign proved that the two parties would never allow the system to openly return to Liberty.  Some settled on trying to help another party.  Some lost hope and resigned themselves to try to survive the Republicans and Democrats completely destroying freedom and liberty.

Others did not.  Realizing Dr. Paul's steps to work directly inside the system could be thwarted, they reasoned it was more likely to work from the outside.  They'd influence politicians, taking two wins for liberty in exchange for an L.  Then, they'd take that L, and make it one of the two Ws in the next round.

Sadly, the system finally caught on.  Some losses are worth 100x more wins.  Now is the moment for exponential growth for the cause of Liberty.  We'll fight on.  FREEDOM is worth it.