A Libertarian Is A Person Who Believes

I'm Tired Of Being Lied To By Government, By The Media, And By Every Corporation I Have Anything To Do With.

Just As Liberalism Is The Main Force That Drives Conservatism And Maintains Its Popularity In Some Quarters, Conservatism Is The Reason Liberalism Continues To Enjoy The Traction That It Does In Our Poor Civilization.

We Are Expected To Believe That Anyone Who Objects To The Department Of Homeland Security Or The Usa Patriot Act Is A Terrorist, And That The Only Way To Preserve Our Freedom Is To Hand It Over To The Government For Safekeeping.

Psychologist Nathaniel Branden Speaks Of A Benevolent Sense Of Life Possible To Those With Rational, Productive Values, Vividly Contrasted With The Coercive Parasitic Group-culture Of Mystics And Altruists We Live In, Where People All Around You Seem A Burdensome Annoyance, A Threat To Your Survival. Having Been Told From Childhood That Life Is A Zero-sum Game In Which You Owe Everything To Others, At Some Level You Worry All The Time That Someday The Bastards Will Collect. And Collect They Do, Every April 15th. Why Do You Think They Call It Collectivism?

Only Someone As Puffed Up And Demented As John Maynard Keynes, Every Left Wing Fascist's Sainted Mentor In This Connection, Could Manage To Convince Himself That Taxing America's Productive Class Can Restore It To Prosperity. In Point Of Fact, It's Like Screwing For Chastity, Guzzling Alcohol For Sobriety, Or Gorging To Fight Gluttony. It's Like Killing Indiscriminately For Peace - Oops, Democrats, Republicans And Their Moral And Spiritual Ilk Have Devoutly Believed That Particular Bit Of Perverse Nonsense Since At Least The War Of 1812.