I fantasize often about the revolution wherein the people reclaim their lost liberty. Will it ever happen? How can I help to make it happen? I am pretty sure that petitioning the ruling elites to grant us more liberty isn’t going to work. What would be in it for them except the same liberty as all the rest of us? They might have to work for a living and add value to the world instead of being parasites.
The same goes for most of the intelligentsia and the professional class. It’s not that they don’t realize the true nature of the state and just need to have their consciousness raised in order to embrace liberty. They know exactly what the state is about, and they are hooked into the system of parasitism. There’s little to be gained from appeals to them.
The likely beneficiaries of liberty and the principal victims of the state are ordinary working folks who are rightly suspicious of intellectuals. After all, intellectuals have been screwing them and lying to them all their lives. These folks must be recruited to the cause of liberty, and it is going to take appeals to the emotions to make that happen.
Who am I kidding? Those people don't want liberty. They hate liberty, especially when it is exercised by someone else. The best I can hope for is a tax cut and for the state to be too busy to bother me much.
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Why do we still have (relative0 gun freedom in the country, because the politicians respect that right? Certainly not. It's because, thankfully, the gun lobby is quite powerful in Washington - and it is powerful because of the army of voters behind it.
A strategy like DownsizeDC.org's is to build an army like that. The issues we advocate have widespread support - or would have it if people knew about them. At a certain level of citizen petitioning, members of Congress will have no choice but to take notice and bend to our will.
It's a new strategy for the freedom movement, and it's worth the effort. Nothing else has been very effective so far.
I also prefer sitting back and waiting for the fall. Shouldn't be long now.
Best not to be underneath.
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