SAYING WHAT HAS TO BE SAID...IN TRUE LIBERTARIAN FASHION
After watching the inaugural activities last week, one has to wonder what has become of our republic or whether one can even call the US a republic.
The founders of the republic envisioned a nation free of nobility and aristocracy, free of titles and equal opportunity. As our nation has matured we have seen a culture that is easily swayed by celebrity and demagoguery. The case of the presidency is only one of many examples. This is no diatribe against the presidency of Barack Obama. Obama is no different than the 43 presidents who preceded him.
The inauguration of our current president cost over $150 million, including parades, specially designed podiums, serenades by various chorales and all the pomp and circumstance befitting a monarch. Our esteemed leaders are treated more like monarchs with their own special seal and even a theme song. The entire charade is enough to make any true champion of representative goverenment gag.
The founders of the republic envisioned a nation free of nobility and aristocracy, free of titles and equal opportunity. As our nation has matured we have seen a culture that is easily swayed by celebrity and demagoguery. The case of the presidency is only one of many examples. This is no diatribe against the presidency of Barack Obama. Obama is no different than the 43 presidents who preceded him.
The inauguration of our current president cost over $150 million, including parades, specially designed podiums, serenades by various chorales and all the pomp and circumstance befitting a monarch. Our esteemed leaders are treated more like monarchs with their own special seal and even a theme song. The entire charade is enough to make any true champion of representative goverenment gag.
The deed is now done. Barack Obama has taken the reigns as the nation's 44th chief executive. The implications fir our nation are great but in reality we can trust that the nation's 100 year march toward a complete centralization of government authority, which began during the so called Progressive era is sure to continue.
Obama has promised trillions in deficits and an assortment of government programs which promise to greatly expand government at the expense of individual government, but alas we get the government we deserve and given the reality that so many Americans have chosen a politically dangerous statist it seems America's epitaph may have already been written.
Obama has promised trillions in deficits and an assortment of government programs which promise to greatly expand government at the expense of individual government, but alas we get the government we deserve and given the reality that so many Americans have chosen a politically dangerous statist it seems America's epitaph may have already been written.
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