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The flawed, short old man isn’t the answer. But his message is.

by | 8:07 pm, January 15, 2012

Ron Paul’s success in the Republican nomination process has very little to do with Ron Paul the candidate. It has everything to do with ideas. It has everything to do with a mission. After wandering in the big government political wilderness for over a…

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Reject failure. Envision Success. Don’t quit.

by | 10:10 pm, December 22, 2011

A.  Reject failure.”We live in a two party system! We have to work within it!”That’s exactly what Wall Street, Big Agribusiness, Big Pharma, Big Government Contractors, Big Insurance and all other cronyist corporatist rent-seekers want you to…

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Reject failure. Envision Success. Don’t quit.

by | 10:10 pm, December 22, 2011

A.  Reject failure.”We live in a two party system! We have to work within it!”That’s exactly what Wall Street, Big Agribusiness, Big Pharma, Big Government Contractors, Big Insurance and all other cronyist corporatist rent-seekers want you to…

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"You must unlearn what you have learned."

by | 3:29 pm, November 16, 2010

-YodaThose of us that believe in a federal government limited by the U.S. Constitution are in a small minority. Most Americans want to keep sucking on the government teat until it’s dry. They want to keep running up the credit card debt until they hit…

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Unplug.

by | 4:53 pm, July 30, 2010

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a …

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Physics can not be changed. Reality can.

by | 2:44 pm, July 25, 2010

My small-government GOP friends tell me often that I should accept the reality that we live in a two-party system with plurality voting.They miss the point.I accept reality.They, however, fail to see that reality can be changed. At one time, we were a…

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I heart the UK’s Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats

by | 7:39 am, May 9, 2010

The U.K., like the U.S., has been dominated by a two party political system. The U.K., like the U.S., is in an economic mess created by the two parties.

The U.K.’s two traditional parties are the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. (The Brits like to use the letter “u” superfluously.) Out of the wreckage caused by the two parties, a third party has emerged: The Liberal Democrats.
In the recent election over there, the Liberal Democrats obtained sufficient support to keep either of the two major parties from a majority. A coalition must be formed.
Nick Clegg, the leader of the insurgent Liberal Democrats, has a crucial demand to join such a coalition: ” a change in the voting system to help smaller parties gain more seats in future parliamentary elections.” (See “Electoral Demand Stalls Coalition Deal in Britain.”)
Of course, the two traditional major parties oppose any such change. It would loosen their grip on power. And, like in the U.S., the two major U.K. parties are more interested in keeping power than they are in good governance. If there are those in the power parties that actually believe in good governance, they have failed miserably. They present all the more reason for structural change.
Don’t let us down, Nick. Fight for structural change.

BlueCarp

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Haggis or tripe today, sir?

by | 11:55 am, April 22, 2010

Jonah Goldberg has offered his take on where the Tea Partiers where while George W. Bush was expanding government and spending money he didn’t have. (See “Tea parties a delayed Bush backlash.“)

Concerning W’s Big Government Republican proclivity, Goldberg wrote:
Conservatives didn’t necessarily bite their tongues (remember the Harriet Miers and immigration fiascoes), but they did prioritize supporting Bush — often in the face of far nastier attacks than Obama has received — over ideological purity. Besides, where were conservatives supposed to go? Into the arms of John Kerry?

This perfectly illustrates the problem. With our two party system, we are given two bad choices: Expand government a lot, or expand it slightly less.
As long as we accept two bad choices, we’ll keep getting them. If you keep buying tripe for lunch because the only other option is haggis, guess what you’ll keep being offered? Tripe.
You can gag it down while you tell yourself, “well, it sure beats the hell out of haggis.”
We need more options. We need to be creative. The two party system ain’t in the Constitution. Neither is plurality voting. My immediate suggestion is adoption of approval voting.
I’m open to ideas. I’m begging for ideas! Bring me ideas!

BlueCarp

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Libertarians, third parties, and “splitting the vote”

by | 1:43 pm, March 28, 2010

The Libertarian Party of Colorado just had a tremendous 2010 convention.

We nominated candidates for U.S Senate, U.S. Congress, Governor, Lt. Governor, Colorado Senate, Colorado House, CU Regent and county commissioners from Boulder to Mesa County. (Click here for more details).

For the first time, we will have a state wide primary election. It will be on Tuesday, August 10, 2010. We had candidates get at least 30% of the vote in three important elections at the convention. According to state statute, we must have a primary for those three nominations.

While primaries are a waste of taxpayer money (there is no reason each party should not pay for its own selection of candidates), we are forced to participate by law. Therefore, we will take full advantage of the process to spread the message of small government.

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There is no pendulum.

by | 10:20 am, January 10, 2010

In today’s paper, the Denver Post’s Kevin Vaughan analyzes the Colorado political scene after Governor Bill Ritter announced he would not seek reelection. (“Ritter’s decision throws Colorado into political upheaval once again.”)
Regarding a potential Republican comeback in 2010, Vaugh quotes former state Sen. Mike Feeley, a Democrat, “I think it’s inevitable that the pendulum swings back the other way.”

There is no pendulum.

Instead of movement from one side all the way to the other, political shifts are more akin to a mother moving her infant from one arm to the other. There is a slight shift, but the baby is never far from the teat.
The mother notices the difference, but the baby doesn’t.

BlueCarp

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