When these events occurred I had recently finished reading Atlas Shrugged.(link) Suddenly, it was no longer fiction. News reports at the time called attention to how Jane Fonda admired the People’s Temple. (link)
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“From now on I’m thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.” “Then,” said Yossarian, “I’d certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn’t I?”–Catch 22
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1961 was a good year for individualism. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, eight years in the making, was finally published.(link) Robert Heinlein thumbed his nose at the officious editor who’d persistently harried him on the silliest pretexts, and penned Stranger in a Strange Land, wherein Jubal Harshaw confesses:
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity… and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. –Robert Heinlein
Today we vividly remember 2001 as not at all like Arthur C. Clarke predicted. Instead of moon colonies we again got murdering religious fanatics on a rampage combining racial collectivism and mystical eugenics. Yet that was only 19 years ago. In 1961 people remembered with equal vividness the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor two decades earlier. Like when initiation of force and faith brought on the Prohibition and Capitation Tax Amendments, along with World War One. This was followed in two decades by the 1940s alliance of murdering religious fanatics on a rampage combining racial collectivism and mystical eugenics–and brought an eerily familiarity, disconcerting to grownups at the time.
Making the world safe for christian altruist eugenicism
In 1945 the true meaning of Positive Christian altruism, of “the common good before the individual good” was discovered amid starvation and lice. The value of the accepted Eugenic premise that altruism and good were the same thing suddenly had become way too clear when Russian and American troops discovered death camps in and all around Germany. Many of them eventually read Atlas Shrugged, which included a non-aggression pledge penned by Ayn Rand while nazi war criminals were sorted out between the gallows and prison cells. That was at Chapter Ten of an eleven-year writing process. But in 1961,Atlas Shrugged was a new book people had only just read. That was 63 years ago.
Blind faith, fanaticism and the initiation of deadly force, ergo this
In 2001 Soviet communism had collapsed ten years earlier. In 2020, the Libertarian Party approaches its 50th anniversary. American communism pervading the media and Democratic Party, and American nationalsocialist prohibitionism pervading the Republican Party, are dying.(link) Both chose altruism and the initiation of force as standards of value and correctness. Both are better off gone.
Libertarian vote share after Bush asset-forfeiture crash
Just as oil replaced coal, wood and dead whales, and bytes replaced CDs, cassettes and vinyl records, the Libertarian Party is replacing dangerous fossils the way democracies replaced monarchies, sultanates and sheikdoms a century ago.(link) It is replacing the Kleptocracy with a government–not anarchism–to secure individual rights, and not a moment too soon. Heinlein noted that “Man, as a social animal, can no more escape government than the individual can escape bondage to his bowels.” He also observed in a very nuclear age that “Each sunrise is a precious jewel… for it may never be followed by its sunset.” I you vote for the initiation of force, you will probably get exactly what you voted for.
Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the usual beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)
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Republican Party news channel is lambasting ananarchist conspiracy to imperil the lives of jackbooted minions First Responders™ who are simply following orders. The orders sclerotic Kleptocracy parties give to officers is to rush out there with service pistols to initiate the use of force against the peaceful. Unlike Libertarian candidates, they justify this by horrible scenarios of what they imagine would happen without force-initiating laws creating victimless “crimes.”
Those same arguments brought the Prohibition Amendment, and not one of its proponents prophesied the 1929 Crash and Great Depression.(link) They blame THAT on too much freedom as well. Now, when Kleptocracy minions learn about the Second Law of Retaliation, guess who Faux News, MSNBC, CNN and CPUSA will blame?
Pinhead: “Only First-Responder™ endangering Anarchists are Libertarians!” (link)
For the past couple of hundred years anarchist has meant violent communist.(link) But as soon as the Libertarian party platform stopped race-suicide Dixiecrats from threatening doctors and pregnant women, in 1973, communist infiltrators occupied the Libertarian Party and began jumping in front of cameras and proclaiming that only murder-legalizing anarchists are Real Libertarians™.(link)
Importation of undesirables, terrorists, public charges, infected herds–Party Platform contamination!
Democrats and Republicans were quick to agree with this guilt-by-association method of tarbrushing an honest competitor.(link) In 1975, Republican opinionist James Kilpatrick was smearing Libertarians as communist anarchists. Nowadays communist infiltrators posing as candidates, delegates and even directors are rewriting the party platform to redefine all libertarians as bomb-throwing anarchists. With friends like these…
So fifth-column non-libertarians (the Mises Caucus) failed to nominate mental institution candidate Das Boothead for president, but nevertheless foisted his MS male companion and communist anarchist “Spike” onto Jo Jorgensen’s campaign in a blatant act of sabotage.(link) Now the chickens are coming home to roost and Republicans are greeting this imitation game with whoops of joy.
With little effort, Ted Cruz may declare the Libertarian Party the real terrorist organization, arrest our candidates and apologize to Antifa rioters and arsonists for having mistaken them for “Libertarian anarchists.”(link) With our 2016 platform a pro-choice candidate tripled our vote share.(link) Remember that when the communist anarchist takeover and terrorists-without-borders plank plunges the LP back down to the half-percent vote share typical of antichoice candidates running on a pederasty platform.
LP Spoiler Votes WERE increasing by 80% per year…
Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the usual beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)
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Four years ago a woman came within 80,000 votes of winning the presidential election according to Vanity Fair.(link)
Today two males representing looter prohibitionist parties are asking for your vote. Your vote for Trump or Biden’s platforms will keep police looking for ways to shoot your child using plant leaves as an excuse. Should the child survive, that will mean the addition of another victimless person to the world’s largest prison system. Both legacy parties are cruel, dishonest and violent. Thanks to the Libertarian Party may choose between the old coercive kleptocracy and a new dawn–not being bullied at gunpoint.
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The Democratic and Republican parties are about the initiation of force. Any murders, no matter how heinous or cowardly, they will again write of as the price “we” must pay for eugenics, or climate pseudoscience, or the worship of their invisible friends, or some imagined conspiracy by selfish egoists. I say again because this happened before already.(link)
From 1938 to May of 1945, Christian National Socialist Germany systematically disarmed, arrested, enslaved and exterminated millions of Jews on the Eugenic theory that they were born selfish, whereas Christians are born altruists, and the world had to be made safe for altruism. This is still the ideology of the Republican Party.(link)
From 1919 through the 1930s, Soviet communists systematically enslaved and mass-murdered Ukraine farmers to steal their grain. The pretext was that they were selfishly hoarding seed grain from the glorious altruist revolution that just accidentally left everyone but party officials in starvation and pestilence. This is the ideology of the Democratic Party.(link)
Cowards casting votes for either gang of violent looters will of course see these charges not as falsehoods, but as exaggeration or too bluntly put. Republicans will argue that only a few teenagers are murdered by the looter police or coathanger abortions they insist on perpetuating. Dems will likewise claim that all criticism of socialist regimes are lies, fake news, and that even if the Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, East German, Romanian, Cuban, Angolan and Guyana communists hosted “a few” mass murders, their altruistic motives plainly justified those actions.(link)
Republicans agree with Hitler in Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz (the Greater Good before the Individual Good) in the interest of “Positive Christianity,” and Mussolini’s Credere, Obbedire, Combattere. Democrats nowadays agree with nationalsocialists that altruistic motives justify the initiation of force, but that “the” other party “isn’t really” altruistic in its sacrifice of individuals on the altar of prohibitionist purity or in the war on race suicide.(link)
Nineteen million votes said to keep electricity, enjoyable leaves, women’s rights and self-defense uncoerced.
By merely LISTENING to what Jo Jorgensen has to say you undermine the power of these bloated entrenched kleptocracy forces–with their secret police and no-knock warrants–to confiscate everything you own for no reason. Well over 4 million libertarian spoiler votes upset China’s plans to have the Dems ban electrical power. Nineteen million votes from municipal races to federal office were cast in support of the Libertarian Platform. Does spoiler voting work? Seen any draft cards lately? So yeah, let her speak!
Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the usual beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)
Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, each at the cost of a pint of craft beer.
Today Dems and fake Libertarian Delegates favor communist anarchism
Remember comparison shopping? You look at different product features and compare before choosing? Here is a table for voters:
Libertarian
Democrat
Republican
Aggression
No
Yes
Yes
Prohibitionism
No
Yes
Yes
Bombings abroad
No
Yes
Yes
Capitation tax
No
Yes
Yes
Race Collectivism
No
Yes
Yes
Asset Forfeiture
No
Yes
Yes
Communism
No
Yes
No
Fascism
No
No
Yes
Ballot access
Yes
No
No
Censorship
No
Yes
Yes
Anarchism
?
No
Yes
Free markets
Yes
No
No
If you are shocked to see the Kleptocracy’s own media feigning surprise at the initiation of force, aggression and violence sweeping the nation, ask yourself if the aggression you see is not what you voted for. ***
Read pro-American compulsory racial-eugenics appeals touting prohibition and collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)
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EVERY time the word Anarchist appeared in newspapers before 1971 it meant “violent communist.” Thanks in part to Republican Party manipulation of the press, America’s illiterati suddenly decided to believe “anarchist” meant Libertarian, that is, voters who signed the non-aggression principle. But before you consider this the height of criminal stupidity, recall that the same thing happened before, in 1932.(link)
Before 1932, right wing and left wingwere subjective terms used to describe troop movements, and had nothing to do with mercantilism or socialism. But when the Liberal Party published its 1931 anti-Klan platform calling for relegalization of beer, prohibitionists ignored it.(link) They struggled to ignore it until the Liberals donated the plank to the Democrats.(link) Eugenics-minded prohibitionists then adopted Hitler’s use of “liberal” which roughly meant disloyal selfish Jewish communist backstabbers.(link) Then again, in the same newspaper we see Democrats trying to redefine some of their own tarnished hero-images in the funny pages.
Republican-Nationalsocialist redefining of “liberal” was received by repeal forces with whoops of joy as a badge of pride, and has gradually been sculpted to mean Fabian socialist by its defenders and fifth-column communist by Republicans. Teenagers look up the real meaning (libertarian-leaning) in dictionaries and decide it’s a good thing. I certainly did. The thing about generalizations is that any counterexample seriously weakens them–much the way a single dissenter drastically weakens the opinion-shaping power of majority social pressure.(link)
But the dictionary and newspapers in several languages make it equally clear anarchism is a synonym for warfare in general, and communist guerrilla warfare in particular. I have been republishing news clippings like these for years. So when was the last time you sawa pre-1971 article equivocating Ancap or Antifa goons with Libertarians, objectivists or capitalists?
When seventies antichoice Republicans screeched “liberal!” they meant anti-prohibition Libertarians who wrote the platform plank that became the Roe v Wade decision enforcing individual rights. In the 1980s the Republican version of the meaning shifted to include pederasts, tax-and-spend looters and all manner of godless socialists and communists.
At about that time sabotage planks appeared in the LP platform, lending substance to those smears, while unemployed socialists, labor goons, antichoice mystics, communists, malcontents and looters in general “joined” the LP to explain that anarcho-communism is the real “ancap” libertarianism. This lot infiltrates the platform committee to twist the verbiage into something John Hospers–indeed any thinking person–could recognize as sabotage by agents-provocateur.
Democrats today honestly identify Republicans as fascist while Republicans just as honestly identify Democrats as communist-socialists. Yet both parties hotly deny that either label applies to themselves. Impersonation and mimesis have replaced definitions and identification among parasites.
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The 1972 Libertarian Party Statement of Principles is far and away the best such presentation anywhere today. But the clearer we make it the less chance there is for regrettable misinterpretation. The fallacy of equivocation is the assignment of different meanings to a term, usually by accident or oversight. The word in question, however, is the noun form of “right” or “rights” the thing we seek to defend. Here is the correct usage, in which a right is an ethical claim to freedom of action:
We hold that each individual has the right to exercise sole dominion over his own life, and has the right to live his life in whatever manner he chooses, so long as he does not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live their lives in whatever manner they choose.
Compare thatwith Thomas Jefferson’s phrasing:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Jefferson makes a clear distinction between rights and powers. Here is an LP rendering Jefferson could improve by editing:
Governments throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than our own grant to government the right to regulate the life of the individual and seize the fruits of his labor without his consent.
Clearly, this version of a “right” is at best a legitimized power or a deontological arrogation of coercive privilege, and conservatives, fascists, socialists and communists delight in misattributing those meanings to “rights,” just as gleefully as they blur the distinctions between freedom and coercion.
A right is a moral claim to freedom of action was drummed into our UTEXAS Ethics classes by tenured Prof Tara Smith, who dared us to refute it. The definition is consistent with most of our criminal code, Constitution and Declaration. If a right is a claim to freedom (absence of coercion) it can hardly be retasked into a political provision for the execution of convicts, belligerent criminals or enemy combatants, all of which mean the exercise of political power. Even in classical terms, political power in social sciences is the capacity to see to the physical restraint of men, hopefully men who have abdicated their claim to freedom by aggressing against others.
Prof. W. Warthog, PhilbertD.
By analogy with freshman physics, where force times distance is work, and the rate at which work is done is power, political power is the same, with the caveat that since the exercise of physical restraint typically involves harmful and often deadly force, the rate at which that sort of work can be done is people incapacitated/killed per unit of time. Look at comparisons of military force and they are measured and expressed in those terms. So if we want to keep clear the distinction between the exercise of individual rights and exercise of the physical restraint States are tasked with using to secure those rights, we ought to resist blurring the distinction.
On the practical side, the change ought not to cost us any votes. I expect that the added clarity will better attract the support of anyone we could ever hope to attract. Even if the suggestion undergoes defenestration, I would then turn to attempting to replace the equivocated “right” with “legal standing”, “authorized authority” or some other, more appropriate construction. Even the “right” to kill in self defense is only a sloppy expression of the special, often regrettable, unintended and unfortunate case of the freedom or right to act in self defense in situations so fluid and dangerous that a jury might agree that the fatal outcome could be justified in a court of law or court-martial. Nicholas Sarwark is more qualified to expound on that collocation.
Suppose the original idea was to deliberately misuse “right” as a venomous barb on what amounts to a criticism of (imputed) wrongs we hope to right. Then I beg leave to suggest the barb was way too subtle for the opening statements intended to enlist support for us. As a joke it does not translate well. Right this minute there are 20 other countries looking to us as exemplars for the drafting of platforms for advancement of rights and minimization of coercion—even if less than instantaneous. Examining just a few of the “constitutions” those people have to work under makes one appreciate the advantage of a Constitution smaller than 8000 words.
This language is in the original platform, which I cherish and defend, yet would not hesitate to rescue from error. I have always admired Hospers and Nolan and would argue the same point to them. This is something no later platform committee can be blamed for, yet its importance is so fundamental (especially when you contemplate expressing it in other languages), that I feel obligated to advance this suggestion. I of course welcome the most vigorous attacks on its supporting logic and rhetorical usefulness.
I move that the expression be reexamined and incorrect iterations of the word “right” be replaced with “political power” something more appropriate for the description of even the most salutary government coercion. If that motion fails, I would move that the incorrect specimens be placed in quotes.
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Houston, Texas, November 4, 2015 – In a historic win, Houstonians defeated Proposition 1, the Bathroom Ordinance, by a resounding 61 – 39% margin. Proposition 1, supported by Mayor Annise Parker, would have allowed men, who claimed to be women, to use women’s bathrooms, showers and locker rooms. (Parker left office in 2016).
For comparison, Irish voters were gulled into a Constitutional Amendment extending the jurisdiction for political coercion to within an individual woman, not long after the LP got the US Supreme Court to strike down Dixiecrat laws against birth control. Canada followed the LP lead by repealing ALL laws threatening pregnant women or their doctors.
The anti-rights Irish amendment was repealed by a 2/3 majority over a year ago, to the delight of the physicians and women it coerced for three decades. Naturally the Houston provocateurs, whose efforts sought to impose coercion rather than enforce broad individual rights, stank and whined for another election after the 60-40 landslide defeat. Watch this:
The child molesting lobby lost again, and the Dems alienated voters. “Campaign for Houston” promptly went after use of government libraries for indoctrination of children by drag queens. Clearly this was the same sort of set-up Libertarian Party useful idiots fell for in the 1980s, shaving our vote share from 1% to below 0.25% percent by simply adding counterproductive planks designed to irritateparents who vote!
Useful idiots? Hostile infiltrators? Practical politicians? You decide. Eight person-units now seek to tarbrush the National Libertarian Party and all our candidates by injecting the following plank:
1.4 Gender Autonomy plank: Individuals have the sole authority to determine and express their own gender identities. No entity has the power to supersede this individual authority.
A quick Google search for political background on “Gender Autonomy” shows the idea is bandied about in communist circles, albeit in vague mumblings about “women.”(link) When practical applications involve minor child mutilation, discussion is in the spirit of snickering social pressure, like frat hazing to get someone else to put the legal proposal in THEIR political platform. Voteless parties in Europe and Iceland do the same. If you can’t beat ’em, infiltrate them and wreck their platforms.
They bicker about persuading a six year old boy to go under the knife and have a surgeon whack his pee-pee. But this sort of drivel is confined to closet ranting and not put on display by any political party with parents, donors and voters to answer to.(link) The exception so far has been… (wait for it…) yes, the California Democratic Party. Those worthies’ 2018 plank rallies woke collectivists to:
Protect the right of all people to use facilities and participate in all aspects of society consistent with their gender identity, regardless of the gender at birth; (link)
Elsewhere in that pathetique platform a 117-word “Climate” sentence straight out of the Marxist Rules of Style follows an assurance of altruistic intentions. It is as revealing a confession of infiltration as any I’d seen–until they got their boy working on the LP.
The result for the Libertarian Party is as good a voter repellent as can be sprayed onto us anywhere outside of California. The 1984 variant of the Child Molester plank COST the LP 3/4 of the vote total earned in the 1980 campaign–and the damage persisted until after the Bush asset-forfeiture Crash and Depression.(link) Our short 2016 platform, with an improved, pro-choice candidate way more than tripled our law-changing presidential vote tally, and raised our total nationwide to unprecedented heights.
To preserve these gains I move that the dupes and knaves who voted to approve this sabotage plank be removed from the platform committee.(link) That’s Gilson, Knapp, McHoes, Meckley, Morris, Perry, Recuero, Taylor, Cole, Longstreth and Wood. This might make reparable the damage already done by bad 2018 planks AND reduce the number of parents eager to spit on our candidates’ coffins.
Every vote we lose through these antics reduces our law-changing spoiler clout by the equivalent of at least 15 wasted kleptocracy votes. Please donate to State and County Libertarian parties not entirely taken over by ideologues hostile to the increase of freedom. Recommendations will be posted here soon.
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Three of the four categories are Socialist, hence normal and mainstream by looter standards
The Nolan chart made visible the thing that separates Fabian Socialists from doi-disant “conservatives.” But for good measure it also underscored a crucial point on which Libertarians and Totalitarians agree. I refer to the divisibility of freedom.
Biblical mythology tells of an unelected monarch surrounded by concubines and other women and called upon to settle disputes–such as who a child belongs to. By applying the standard of simplistic egalitarian fairness and offering to sever the kid asunder, he prompted the real mother to realize her child could not be divided and live. Her child was prime, indivisible. Its individual life was to her a value, and in acting on those premises she inadvertently identified herself as the true mother.
The pansy “left” and religious “right” reproach each other for hypocrisy or conflicting premises. But listen closely and you discover they are simply quibbling over how best to chop freedom to pieces. “Both” agree on lack of value, vagueness, equivocation, indecision and cowardice as virtues. Both value altruism, albeit distorted by meaningless modifiers. Both seek to send others (tax gougers, doctor killers, thugs with guns) to threaten, coerce and kill if victims need sacrificing.(link)
Both the lay and mystical looters understand that to impress onlookers with the benefits of yielding to social pressure and intimidation, some must be killed as examples. All in the three squares defining those who seek to divide or destroy freedom are willfully blind to any possible alternative to the initiation of force. They also struggle to evade the fact that there is a third choice. Only by casting a libertarian spoiler vote can you confront them with their own self-deception.(link)
Totalitarian communists and fascists cling tenaciously to the revealed faith that coercion is indivisible–so much so that any talk of watering it down with effete compromise is to them not simply heresy, but actual criminal menacing. To them it goes without saying that the very suggestion that there is something wrong with the initiation of force justifies the initiation of deadly force.(link)
1939: Religious Fascism and Socialist Communism, either-or, no 3rd choice, it CAN happen here
Actual libertarians (not Anarcho-communist infiltrators) are no less convinced that freedom is indivisible. They at best pity the conflicted, indecisive looters-mislabeled-as-liberals and mystical bigots unable to settle on whom to sacrifice first for the common “good.” The fundamental conviction–the one that makes a difference–is what to protect from division: life, reward and freedom? or coercion–which requires aggressive killing in order to be taken seriously enough to intimidate the survivors?
Libertarians (in the top square) seek to protect freedom from division. The bottom square is cluttered with communo-fascist socialists–all of them committed to making coercion total, indivisible, all-encompassing–while they pretend to be in the left and right squares. Inability to decide on divisibility is what clutters the sidewalks with the indecisive left-and-right whose votes elect looter parties to rob us. Please listen closely to what the so-called “left,” “right” and totalitarian looters say about each other, then decide whether to participate in their blood feuds or vote Libertarian.
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After the 3-year Depression presaged by the first Prohibition Crash of 1920, Congress reacted to the sudden increase in looter anarchist partisans with the 1924 Immigration Act. Here’s how it worked.
Encouraged by confiscation, fines, asset forfeiture and cruel prison terms imposed on miscreants not shot on sight, religious fanatics turned the force of law against Sunday baseball. They blacklisted merchandise and made a crime–not of violence–but of trade and production.** America then was (thanks to our oilfields) a mystical satrapy more like Saudi Arabia than Iran.(link)
But in a fractional reserve banking system where securities are sold on credit backed by the value of the stock shares, confiscations, fines and asset forfeiture cause depositors to remove money from banks and sell off their stocks. The money supply contracts sharply and a liquidity crunch generates a wave of bankruptcies. Depression results and voters rightly conclude they’ve been had.(link)
This happened in 1907, 1914, 1920, 1929, 1987 and 2008. The mechanism is described in Friedman’s “Free to Choose.” When these events of 1920 and 1929 impoverished the nation, there was no opposition Libertarian Party to turn to. Voters turned away from the failed Kleptocracy and canvassed for communists operating under several different names. Communist ranks increased both times.(link)
Prohibition and eugenic lead to poverty, communism, fascism and war
The Kleptocracy dropped the ball, angry voters went elsewhere and communist membership doubled in the 1920-23 Depression. Communist membership fell when the dry laws were suborned and prosperity returned. But the 1929 Increased Penalties Act crashes caused communist numbers to double by 1932 and increase to five times the 1929 figure by 1937. With still no Libertarian Party to turn to, economic blight brought racial collectivist Christian National Socialists out of the woodwork in the US, Europe and Latin America. Another World War followed. That all changed after 1972.(link)
After George Bush Jr orchestrated the asset-forfeiture Crash of 1980, seizing bank accounts and homes containing a potted hemp plant, the economy went to hell and ku-klux christianofascism suffered a telling blow. After twice failing to elect mystics, God’s Own Prohibitionists hired a trained persuader who was assisted to power by backlash against Global Warmunist pseudoscientists and anti-industrial doomcriers.
Gary Johnson running as a quasi-Republican girl-bullier in 2012 doubled our vote share thanks to the search for outside parties. But when Johnson recognized the individual rights the LP defended for women in 1972, our take went up 328% to 4.5 million votes in the federal elections and another 8 million or so in more important down-ballot elections.(link) The Libertarian Party is growing 80% per year and all the looter parties–communist and fascist alike–are losing members.
Once voters understand how government agent bank robbers and home-confiscators wreck the economy and attract coercive altruism, we stand to add another 8 million votes in general elections for 36 million overall. That kind of spoiler vote clout could repeal the 16th Amendment and free individuals of the IRS. But if the current Libertarian Platform Committee adds idiotic voter-alienating planks, or a conspicuously insane street person or girl-bullying republican gets the nomination, all is lost.(link)
** Ragnar to Hank on conditions of life in the People’s States, remember?
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