"I'd sell out in a second, if anyone was buying." - Tagline, 1994

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Obama says that Chamber of Commerce using foreign funds to influence US Races.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/obama-says-chamber-of-commerce-using-foreign-funds-to-influence-us-elections.html

http://tinyurl.com/2aeno8x



Bill Clinton and the Democrats were doing this 15 years ago -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy

http://tinyurl.com/3am5vh



Dan Carlin's latest podcast -

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php?page=csarchive

http://tinyurl.com/4xv3pa


Dan Carlin, in his latest podcast, points out that that the REASON the GOP shied away from pursuing the "Chinagate" scandal because THEY wanted to be able to slup up Chinese money. They attacked on the Monica Lewiski angle because they figured the salacious details would keep the public tuned in.


Money, money, money, money. You're Going to need piles of it to get elected. If the GOP or Democratic ruling commities have bags of money, then they pick who gets the money, and who gets seen to be chosen in the election.

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This system is so incredibly corrupt that just voting in a new spokes model will never change anything.

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He who ppays the piper calls the tune.



"I'd sell out in a second, if anyone was buying." - Tagline, 1994

Walking the Liberty Path

Tristan Dietz-Band said "There is no mass constituency for libertarianism."

There's no mass constituency for liberty, because it's not a widely understood concept. what "everyone knows" is against us.

We're like people in 1700 who realized that Slavery was awful, vile and wrong. Too few people agree with us to put the realization into action.

In time enough people realized it was wrong so that the institution died.

Mahatma Ghandi was spectacularly successful at offering his ideas as an alternative - in time India shrugged off the British occupation.

So there's grounds for hope.

But when you're in a long term project, you take it one day at a time and do the next right thing. Have faith that doing the right thing, saying the right thing are steps in the right direction.

You can't fix a culutural maladjustment easily. In time someone will climb the mound we have built shovel-full by shovel-full and say "Hey! Wait! using coercion is wrong!"

He'll be lionized as a great liberator and revolutionary.

So. Take a deep breath. Understand that once you see the truth, you can't really un-see it. Get ready for the long haul.

I can't make any promises, except that it feels better inside to do the right thing, even when most folks who don't know any better call you a clown or an idiot about it.