Three New Alternatives To The Two Party System

The Democrat-Republican two party system has let us down for decades & it has never been more evident than the last two years.  In 2025 we had avowed socialists elected mayors in NYC & Seattle & in 2026 more avowed socialists have won Democrat primaries in congressional districts in NY, Colorado, & Pennsylvania.  All of them are expected to win in November - Raab in Philadelphia is even running unopposed.  Most of these winners are members of or associated with the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) which is not a political party but an activist organization with over 120,000 members & chapters in all 50 states, making it the largest socialist organization in U.S. history.  Even @ that the DSA only has a 21% favorable rating among registered voters (Marquette poll) so their candidates are punching way above their weight.

In addition, far left Democrat candidates, whether they self-identify as progressives or DSA members, but definitely not centrist candidates, have won statewide primary elections - something many strategists thought they couldn't do.  Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democrat Senate primary by 1% espousing all the DSA views, but says he is a capitalist so Michiganders have to be careful not to fall for double talk.  Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democrat Senate primary handily by 19.6% after espousing progressive & DSA views although she never identified as a Democrat Socialist - what's worse is that Flanagan is Tim Walz's lieutenant, which is not an honor with all the meal, housing, & Medicaid fraud that took place right under their noses this past year in Minnesota, & yet she won.  And although she didn't win the Wisconsin Democrat Gubernatorial primary DSA member Francesca Hong certainly made her presence felt losing by only 3,796 votes out of 792,009 ballots cast - Hong a Wisconsin state representative & part time bartender who earlier had called for defunding & abolishing the police & canceling Thanksgiving came within 0.5% of winning the nomination.

Centrist Democrat political pundits are minimizing the DSA results by just considering El-Sayed's narrow victory & Hong's narrow loss as a wash proving that centrist Democrats still hold sway in the party.  But if you combine the more extreme Flanigan blow out victory in Minnesota & count the three states as a region, which they pretty much actually are, the DSA espousing candidates won 52.7% of the head to head vote over the centrist Democrat's 47.3% thereby showing that DSA candidates can hold their own in a region not just a particular state.  And both the losing candidates in Michigan (Stevens) & Wisconsin (Hong) joined the victorious candidates in their states for a unity breakfast just hours after the elections were called showing the Democrats are focused on winning & that there's not a dime's worth of difference between a DSA candidate supported by Gen Zers & a centrist Democrat supported by older life-long Democrats when you get down to it.  Meanwhile Republicans are focused on asking who won the 2020 Presidential election.  See table below for Democrat primary election results.

Political Race	Candidate	Votes	%	Vote Difference
MI Senate	El-Sayed	743,455	48.5	15,697
	Stevens	727,758	47.5
	Other	61,407	4.0
		1,532,620	100.0
WI Governor	Crowley	315,308	38.8	3,796
	Hong	311,512	38.3
	Oher	165,189	20.9
		792,009	100.0
MN Senate	Flanagan	411,541	59.0	136,900
	Craig	274,641	39.4
	Oher	11,145	1.5
		697,327	99.9
DSA Aligned Candidates	El-Sayed, Hong, Flanagan	1,466,508	52.7	152597
More Centrist Candidates	Stevens, Crowley, Craig	1,313,911	47.3
		2,780,419	100.0

I used to long for a hypothetical choice - something like Ronald Reagan versus Steve Lonegan where the citizenry couldn't lose.  Instead we had the nightmare reality of Trump versus Kamala Harris where we could not win.  And the voters in Texas will have a similar no-win Senate election in November between James Talarico & Ken Paxton.

Now there is real discontent in the country & primary results show no incumbent is safe - 15 term incumbent Colorado Congresswoman Diana Degette was first elected to the seat in 1996 - four months before the victorious DSA candidate Melat Kiros was born.

It is not hard to see why the electorate has awakened.  Crossing the red line of affordability provided a sudden awareness that it was a loser to have paid tens of thousands of dollars per year for a college education that is now valueless to an employer who prefers robots.  The problem compounds in that grade inflation masks whether or not the student is prepared to go into the world @ all or if he can think.  This leads to the attraction of young people to socialism especially if they were never taught the dangers of socialism, or even what it is, & that freedom & capitalism are the basis of prosperity.

The problem begins in K-12 where Neal Boortz told us over twenty years ago that the teachers unions & government schools are more dangerous to America's future than al Qaeda.  We may be just beginning to fully understand Neal's point.

Professor Friedman put it this way, writing in the Cato Policy Report, March/April, 1999 - "Any institution will tend to express its own values & its own ideas.  Our public education system is a socialist institution.  A socialist institution will teach socialist values, not principles of private enterprise."

What should we expect from adults when over 50% of them read @ an elementary school level.  These adults are the people who 35 years ago were eighth graders reading @ a fourth grade level & now they are the parents of the young socialists.  This degradation of parenting has gone on for decades & the power of the teachers unions throughout the country is the result to our detriment.  When their children also learned @ an unsatisfactory level the poorly educated parents blamed the teachers who defended themselves through their unions.

That voters don't like the deal they are getting from the two party system is confirmed by Gallup's finding that 27% of voters self-identify as Republicans, 27% as Democrats, but 45% as Independents.  In breaking away from the two major parties these voters are looking for a certain degree of normalcy, but would still like to see something positive get done.  This is true because many primaries produce extreme candidates from both parties in very low turnout elections, partly the result of Independents being precluded from voting in closed primaries.  (As of February 2026 Independents are afforded some primary participation in 10 states, where state law requires semi-closed primaries for congressional or state-level offices & in 12 states, at least one major political party conducts semi-closed primaries for congressional or state-level offices.)

And voters aren't finding that normalcy in older progressive candidates or younger DSA candidates both of whom campaign for universal single payer healthcare, free child care, free buses, state owned grocery stores, abolishing ICE & the Border Patrol, a four day work week, rent control, wealth confiscation of the rich & corporations, ending U.S. aid to Israel, solidarity with Palestinians, & any other purpose that does not create things of value.  This list makes it easy to see why "socialists eventually run out of other people's money."

And they're also not finding that normalcy in the chaos that Nikki Haley warned us follows Trump & the MAGA movement - such as 1) the bad feelings of allies over tariffs arbitrarily imposed plus the added cost Americans are paying for the imported goods & services subject to the tariffs, 2) the loss of stature & cost of the war with Iran that Trump unilaterally started or the humiliation that the theocratic terrorist regime not only withstood the American military might but has actually increased its influence in the Middle East as a result of the war that has now produced sailor exhaustion & declining morale including reports of suicidal thoughts on the USS Abraham Lincoln (& probably other ships as well) - deteriorating living conditions (food rationing & lack of personal supplies like toothpaste & soap, & water contamination) & a worsening mental health environment during the ship’s 200+ record-breaking consecutive days @ sea without making a port call that has experienced @ least one man trying, but prevented, from jumping overboard with one man succeeding & being rescued, 3) the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund Trump plans to use to compensate people who assaulted police officers & marched to the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to harm Mike Pence & many of the Members of Congress  who are still in office but are also still too spineless to vote to stop this self-dealing outrage of Trump suing the government that he runs & then dropping the case when his DOJ agreed to the creation of the fund & providing Trump et al. income tax audit immunity for past tax returns, or 4) Trump's preoccupation with the construction of a ballroom, a 250 feet tall "triumphal arch" located between the Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery, & algae growing in a reflecting pool on the mall all demonstrate how tone-deaf Trump is to Americans' troubles.  Note - with regard to point 3: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, in order to secure the votes of Senators Tillis & Cornyn to move his nomination for Attorney General forward, signed a piece of paper supposedly providing assurances regarding concerns of Trump's self-dealing income tax audit immunity & the anti-weaponization fund being dead is not worth the paper it is written on since Trump has never agreed to any such arrangement.

Recognizing how lousy the 156 million Americans who are entirely out of the stock market feel about their paychecks not stretching to always cover the essentials of life, several groups have been formed to try to meet both this economic need to get something positive done & the need for normalcy, summarized as follows: 

1.  Our Republican Legacy (ORL)

ORL was founded in 2024 by former Republican senators Danforth (MO), Cohen (ME), & the late Simpson (WY) to function as a "shadow RNC" focusing on unity, fiscal responsibility & discipline, the free market, constitutional due process, & strong foreign alliances (such as NATO).  This active national organization is dedicated to restoring traditional conservative values & challenging & providing an alternative to the current GOP's populist & MAGA aligned direction.

2.  The Forward Party

Forward recognizes that almost half the voters are not affiliated with either major party & in the spirit of getting things done says "It's time to move Not Left, Not Right, but Forward."  The Party points out there are 520,000+ elected positions in the U.S., but under the current system, 70+% are uncontested.  They ask "How’s that working out for us?"  One of Forward's main points is that the two party system excludes more than thirty million Independent voters from the primary process across the country – this in & of itself has given rise to the success of candidates representing the DSA, most famously AOC in 2018, who won her primary by 1.9% after receiving 7.4% of the total registered vote in an election with 12.9% turnout.

Forward's website includes a list of candidates for some of the 520,000+ positions mentioned above - Independents, Forward Party, & unaffiliated.  I was interested to see that Ken Block was listed as an unaffiliated candidate for Governor of Rhode Island.  Readers of RTE may remember that Ken was the data professional hired by Trump's lawyers to provide technical evidence that Trump won the 2020 election, which of course he didn't because he couldn't.  Click on A Data Professional's Analysis Of The 2020 Presidential Election to refresh your memory.  The title of Ken's book on the subject, which I read before making the post, tells the story:

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Ken seems like a square shooter & the voters in RI should give him a good look before casting their ballots for Governor.

3. Promise To America

Not meaning it to be a left handed compliment, this is the best presentation I have seen Democrats make in decades.  Led by Representatives Tom Suozzi (NY) & Adam Gray (CA), "A Promise to America" refers to a centrist political pledge signed by 13 House Democrats & candidates.  It is an obvious challenge to progressive DSA candidates, so good for them for fighting back.  The pledge explicitly rejects socialism, endorses secure borders, champions capitalism, promotes confident patriotism as an alternative to extreme partisan divides, & honors America's exceptional character & extraordinary achievement.

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All three of the above groups seem sincere & I hope people will check out candidates aligned with them in both the 2026 midterms & the 2028 presidential election.  I have posted for years that we really have one big government party with two wings who take turns in power with a constant incremental movement to the left - a slow burn losing proposition.  In a narrow majority Congress (i.e., nearly evenly divided), a small handful of people can control a lot of what happens or equally as important a lot of what doesn't happen if neither of the two major parties can muster enough votes to move their agenda forward.  The Freedom Caucus recently protected us from bad legislation by holding significant influence while numbering just two & a half dozen members.  As I researched the above three groups I thought of a similar arrangement if they live up to their mission statements - but they give us a chance to look @ something other than candidates from the Democrat & Republican parties where we waste our votes choosing somebody we don't believe in.

Over the years I have supported, worked for, &/or voted for people I thought would make a difference such as Dave Corsi, Stan Serafin, Steve Lonegan, Mike Agosta, Anna Little, Jim Gawron, Jim Poesl, Murray Sabrin, Tod Theise, Alan Keyes, Ben Carson, Richard Luzzi, Steve King, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Chase Oliver, Mike Huckabee, & Steve Forbes.

Some of these people are still friends.  But all of them are people I believed in so I never cast a wasted vote.

The Story Of America - Hillsdale College Videos

Sixty-one percent of Gen Z (18 to 29 year olds) did not know what America's 250th anniversary commemorated.  That number is 46% for all adults.   Those are a small sliver of responses from a Cato Institute poll conducted in collaboration with Morning Consult of 2,253 Americans ahead of July 4th & America's 250th anniversary.  The poll was released on July 2.  

I have never seen clearer statistics that show how perilous our future is - since young people know nothing about the country they can be told anything & they very well may believe it. 

More knowledgeable respondents (57%) to the poll questions believe the U.S. has moved away from its founding principles (you think) & 56% worry the country could lose its freedom in the next 50 years.  

For the rest of us who want to continue the semiquincentennial celebration of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 click on this series of Hillsdale College videos that tells the story of America starting with how a rag-tag army defeated the British Empire.  Episodes include "The Shot Heard Round The World," "The Battle Of Bunker Hill," "Crossing The Delaware," "The Second Continental Congress," & "George Washington."  There are 19 videos in all, organized so you can watch them in any order or selectively.

The most important point in bringing the results of the Cato poll & the Hillsdale videos together is that a great number of Americans need to learn from the videos so that the worry about America losing its freedom before the tricentennial doesn't occur.

Hillsdale College encourages passing the videos on.  And so do I.

Pledge Allegiance To The American Republic This Independence Day

Academic research has shown that special days like birthdays or New Year's are the best time for people to review their plans or make new goals.  For people who have strayed from America's founding principles of limited government, personal responsibility, & free enterprise, what more special day will we ever have in our lifetimes than the nation's 250th birthday to rebuild & refresh the vitality of our patriotism & appreciation for our country?  

As we mark the nation's semiquincentennial anniversary this Independence Day, the first point to celebrate is that our Founding Fathers in the Second Continental Congress by unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America had in mind creating a limited government of enumerated powers, such a government deriving its just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.  

In so doing our Founders most definitely did not create a democracy - they created a constitutional representative republic.  Every time you hear a Democrat talk about "saving our democracy" or some similar statement they are trying to brainwash people into thinking the United States is a democracy where citizens vote on every issue & therefore the mob-majority always rules.  Democrats know they will always be in the majority just by the sheer numbers of poor & downtrodden people they play for, who they never want to help lift up, but rather want to keep poor & down trodden to use as pawns to reach their goal of political power thereby stifling the rest of us. 

So when you hear a Democrat, like Schumer or Jeffries, talk about "saving our democracy" substitute to yourself the words "saving our republic" & then disregard whatever else he says because you know he has already tried to mislead you.

In fact, the word democracy does not appear anywhere in the Declaration Of Independence or the Constitution.  The Founders were against a pure democracy because they feared the tyranny of the majority, where the rights of minority groups & property owners could easily be trampled.  A democracy will not exist beyond the point that the voters realize they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury via the candidates who promise the most benefits.  This process has always resulted in collapse due to loose fiscal policy ending in the tyranny of a dictator.

On April 15, 1814 in his letter to Virginia politician & writer John Taylor of Careline (county), John Adams confirmed the Founders' skepticism of a pure democracy when he wrote  "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, & murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy.  It is not true, in fact, & nowhere appears in history."

An important safeguard the Founders provided against democracies' mob-rule-tyranny was the Guarantee Clause, Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, that guarantees to every State of the Union a Republican form of Government.  The Founders knew this clause was necessary to protect the nation from internal tyranny that could result from direct democracies in a state.

At one point I was going to call this blog "Death of Democracy" but Carol thought it was too depressing so I settled on the subheading "A Libertarian Web Log Dedicated To Stopping The Death Of Democracy Of The American Republic."  She thought that summed it up nicely.

The Declaration holds that all Men are created equal & that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights - specifically Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness.  At this point the document acknowledges that Governments are instituted among Men to secure these rights - not to confer them.  Rights are secured through the rule of law after Men leave the state of nature.

Progressive Democrat Socialists Bernie Sanders & AOC intentionally mislead by conflating securing God given rights described in the Declaration of Independence to mean conferring rights by government, like claiming healthcare is a right that can be signed into law by politicians.

Healthcare is not a right, it is a good like food, shelter, & clothing.  Click here to hear Judge Napolitano explain that a right is a gift from God that extends from our humanity, natural rights that we were born with - the government does not give them to us, the government does not pay for them, & the government cannot take them away unless a jury finds we have violated someone else's rights.  The judge goes on to explain that a good is something we want or need starting with our parents buying us goods & then in adulthood we buy for ourselves for existence.  In summary, a right stems from our humanity; a good is something you buy or someone else buys for you.

Thomas Sowell asks "why would you expect someone else to provide for you what you do not provide for yourself?"

There are many strong indications that Gen Z & Millennials have increasingly favorable views of socialism including the elections of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC & Katie Wilson as mayor of Seattle, both taking office on January 1, 2026.

In an interview with Jacobin, Wilson said "I was a socialist when I moved to Seattle back in 2004. ... as a socialist, I believe that the profound changes that need to happen in our society & our economy can only be accomplished through the organized power of working people."

Now that is about as socialist as you get comrade - right in line with AOC's similar thoughts:  "There's a certain level of wealth & accumulation that is unearned.  Right?  You can't earn a billion dollars.  You just can't earn that.  You can get market power.  You can break rules.  You can do all sorts of things.  You can abuse labor laws.  You can pay people less than what they are worth, but you can't earn that.  Right?  And so you have to create a myth that since you didn't earn that - you have to create a myth of earning it." 

There is a term for what Wilson & AOC are talking about.  And that term is the central concept of Karl Marx's critique of capitalism written in 1867 in Das Kapital, the foundation work of communist theory - it is called surplus value.

Surplus value is the cornerstone of Marxist economics.  Marx asserts that workers are the true source of all wealth.  However, under capitalism, they are paid a subsistence wage while factory owners (capitalists) extract "surplus value" - the extra worth generated by workers' labor that is kept as profit.  Accordingly, surplus value is the difference between the wealth workers generate through their labor & the actual wages they are paid.   Everything in the national income that doesn't go to the worker constitutes surplus value.  This uncompensated value is taken by business owners as profit, forming the engine of capitalist accumulation.

In September, 2011 Elizabeth Warren gave BO a similar socialist lesson in her "you didn't build that" speech - "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces & fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come & seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory & it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God Bless!  Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that & pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

And BO learned his lesson well before reversing himself because he didn't think the country was ready.

But boy do we seem more than ready now.  

Not only do we have the two avowed socialist mayors mentioned above elected by the votes of thousands of people, we have a Democrat Senate candidate in Texas, James Talarico, saying "There are many more than two biological sexes, in fact there are six."  Also consider former congresswoman & current incumbent mayor of LA Karen Bass's support for Fidel Castro - after receiving heavy criticism for her statements in sympathy for Fidel Castro, following his death in 2016, that caused her to be dropped from consideration for Biden's VP selection in 2020, Bass has since walked back her praise for Castro for obvious reasons.  Bass's November opponent, Democrat Socialist of America candidate Nithya Raman, is even further to the left than Bass.  And Mamdani, in a blatant display of not representing all his constituents, did not attend the Israel Day parade in NYC on May 31 preferring to concentrate on the Nakba, an Arabic word for “catastrophe” that is used to describe the displacement of an estimated 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment.  Mamdani has also endorsed three socialist candidates for congressional seats (seventh, tenth, & thirteenth districts of NY) - two of the three won in landslides in NY's June 23rd Democrat primary & the third was a closer victory over a five term incumbent who was the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.  And in a ranked choice voting system DSA candidate Janeese Lewis George won the Washington DC primary on June 16.   

Now the above words & actions of AOC, Katie Wilson, Elizabeth Warren, BO, James Talarico, Karen Bass, & Zohran Mamdani when coupled with critical race theory, the 1619 Project, preferred personal pronouns, the woke ideology & Democrats' intolerance for dissent for anything unwoke, free healthcare for illegal immigrants, abolishing ICE, defunding the police, free government childcare, free college, packing the Supreme Court, a national wealth tax, & Democrats having a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism not only adds up to an unhappy & disunited country celebrating its 250th birthday but it shows clear examples of the nonsense that Democrat socialists speak - but it is a dangerous nonsense that makes imbeciles out of their followers.

Republicans do no better in their practice of idolatry of Trump.   We will pay a tremendous price for Trump's selfish, narcissistic, vindictive, delusional presidency for a long time to come.  

Whether it's 1) the bad feelings of allies over tariffs arbitrarily imposed plus the added cost Americans are paying for the imported goods & services subject to the tariffs, 2) the loss of stature & cost of the war with Iran that Trump unilaterally started or the humiliation that the theocratic terrorist regime not only withstood the American military might but has actually increased its influence in the Middle East as a result of the war, 3) the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund Trump plans to use to compensate people who assaulted police officers & marched to the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to harm Mike Pence & many of the Members of Congress  who are still in office but are also still too spineless to vote to stop this self-dealing outrage of Trump suing the government that he runs & then dropping the case when his DOJ agreed to the creation of the fund, or 4) Trump's preoccupation with the construction of a ballroom & a 250 feet tall "triumphal arch" located between the Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery all demonstrate how tone-deaf Trump is to Americans' troubles.

Trump has abandoned America on the affordability issue satisfied that the stock market's record highs - the NASDAQ, S&P 500, & DJIA simultaneously hit record highs on the last trading day of May - equate to outstanding 401(k) performances that he claims credit for without presenting one thing he specifically did to propel these indices that were really the result of the AI mania that also propelled these indices to new highs during the woeful Biden years as well.

There are approximately 70 million people who have 401(k), 403(b), or IRAs with median balances of $30,000 to $87,000 depending on the specific age demographic considered - i.e., a small amount in the overall swing of things for millions of Americans meaning Trump's bragging about 401(k) increases is not being experienced in a meaningful way by the great majority of people.

People are interested in affordability - not ballrooms & arches.  For over 75% of owners of 401(k)s there is no immediate impact for the stock market's positive performance.  The immediate impact of wages not keeping up with inflation is the problem.  For both April & May inflation outpaced wage growth, inflation was higher in March, April, & May than when Trump took office, & labor's share of gross domestic income in the first quarter sank to 51%, the lowest level since records began in 1947.  Source Greg Ip, WSJ, May 29, 2026.

When the Founding Fathers in the Second Continental Congress mutually pledged to each other their Lives, their Fortunes, & their sacred Honor in forming the new republic they had no idea how long the republic would last.  And neither do we.

Our situation is the opposite of the Founding Fathers' who were declaring the causes which impelled them to seek Separation from Great Britain, abolishing & throwing off a long Train of Abuses & Usurpations from an absolute Despotism form of government while we are facing the onslaught of deceptive, manipulative propaganda campaigns designed to bring about dissatisfaction & influence public opinion against America.  Examples of these propaganda campaigns have been documented hereinbefore by Democrat Socialists, Marxists, progressives, &/or populists, in order of mention - Schumer, Jeffries, Bernie, AOC, Katie Wilson, Warren, BO, Talarico, Bass, Mamdani, & Trump.  All of these people have great admiration for dictators & @ one point in their careers, including now for some, aspired to be tyrants, despots, caliphs, or otherwise people who rule the world themselves. 

From the beginning of civilization up to July 3, 1776, over six thousand years of human history, slavery had been the norm - places like Babylon, Athens, & Rome all had massive enslaved populations.  As did Native American tribes.

But all of this entrenched slavery had a chance to end – a beginning, a start to being able to change with the signing of the Declaration Of Independence & the founding of the United States Of America on July 4, 1776.

During the Jefferson administration Congress prohibited the importation of slaves effective 1808 – but there was smuggling thereafter.  The process of obtaining freedom for all men continued with the Missouri Compromise of 1820 in which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state but slavery was prohibited in all the western territories.  And of course the fighting of the Civil War resulted in the ratification of the thirteenth Amendment which banned slavery in the entire country.

 

Although Lincoln certainly wanted to preserve the Union, the Civil War was fought for more than just the secession of eleven slave-holding states from the Union.  Lincoln believed  that free men should not be free to choose slavery for others.  Lincoln knew that the United States Republic was the only noteworthy free country in the world in the early 1860s & he believed that a significant portion of the young country could not abandon its founding principles & survive for long. 

JCo, a long time subscriber to this blog commented on July 4, 2020 to that year's Indepence Day post, "Human trafficking and sex trafficking are the concerns that should be focused on, not in the slavery that was abolished 155 years ago.  Because Thomas Jefferson or other historical figures owned slaves simply states a fact that slave ownership was common in that era. But as one of my history professors said, '"Judge history on its own terms, not by today's standards."'  JCo went on to write "It's curious why if we live in such a racist, sexist, and oppressive country, why people want to get in, not out."

The common sense of this statement goes a long way to undo the propaganda espoused by the socialist agitators cited above.  If you are among the 39% of adults who have a favorable opinion of socialism (or 67% of college students who do) be sure to take into account the freedom you are throwing away.  You won't have that freedom when the central government directs the economy by controlling the means of production that it owns.

When F. A. Hayek dedicated "The Road To Serfdom" to "The Socialists of All Parties" he was not talking about today's agitators presented hereinbefore because they all know better than the nonsense they speak.  AOC, Bernie & the lot all broke their oaths of allegiance to the Constitution & want to change the country from one of personal responsibility to one of dependence on government with them being the government.

No better proof of this than to hear it in AOC's own words - "They assume that my ambition is positional.  They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat.  My ambition is way bigger than that.  My ambition is to change this country.  Presidents come & go.  Senate, House seats, elected officials  come & go.  But single-payer healthcare is forever." 

And just how qualified is AOC to change this country?  When asked "Would or should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move" AOC haltingly responded - "Um, you know, I think that, uh, this is such a a you know, I think that this is a um, this is of course a very long standing, um policy of the United States, a, & I think that what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure we never get to that point.  And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic, research, & our global positions to avoid any such confrontation & for that question to even arise."

In writing this Independence Day post I call on the actual type of socialists that Hayek dedicated his book to in 1944 - well-intentioned individuals who were unwittingly building the infrastructure for the very tyrannies they despised by not realizing that the loss of economic freedom inevitably leads to the loss of political freedom.  Hayek's dedication was not meant for socialists like AOC, Bernie & the rest who know communism, fascism, and state-socialism all stem from the exact same root: collectivism & state control over the individual, which is their ultimate plan.

Look over the propaganda documented above & be sure you understand where it breaks down so that when you pledge allegiance to the American republic this Independence Day it will be stronger than ever because other snake oil salesmen will surely follow to try to once again turn people against America.

"As a city, Babylon exists no more.  When those energizing human forces that built & maintained the city for thousands of years were withdrawn, it soon became a deserted ruin."  - George S. Clason, The Richest Man In Babylon, page 138 – first published in 1926.  Mr. Clason's description of Babylon is one that every one of us has a vested interest in preventing happening to the United States.

How long do you think the republic will last  if it is up to you alone,  if it is up to only you?