Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The First Step to Recovery

While discussing the nature of politics in this country, the typical refrain heard throughout the populace is that nothing seems to ever change. From one election year to the next, regardless of which party wins, what rhetoric was used or which new crop of politicians are ushered into power, the role of government in our lives essentially never wavers from the usual script: the power of the state increases, the debt skyrockets, old wars are continued while new ones are planned and the liberties of the American citizen dwindle away.

 Despite the numerous promises over the years by Republicans to limit government and reign in spending, and Democrats swearing to protect civil liberties and end no-win wars, both parties consistently fail to stay true to their campaign rhetoric. And yet we as citizens continue to buy into the "Go America" pep rally put on by the candidates and wonder why the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I once had a friend describe this endless cycle of changing parties and little to no change in policies as an "addiction"; an addiction to statism. What was once a genuine political spectrum in American political discourse offering varying and opposing ideas on the role of government has devolved into a fallacious, one-dimensional paradigm in which the options are a party of liars promising to limit government while expanding the state more than any administration since LBJ or the "opposing" party that openly admits to having little to no interest in protecting the liberties of individuals by defying an unprecedented grassroots movement throughout the nation and forcing through ObamaCare. Some freedom.

The intention of this blog is to bring to light and expose the lies and misdeeds of our wise overlords in an attempt to rehabilitate the "limited government" movement in America. And while there may not be a 12-step program to alleviate our withdrawals of state dependency, one thing is certain: The first step to recovery is admitting we have a problem.