[DoughtyOne]

With the mismanagement of the populace, I think it’s going to be a lot harder to have a libertarian of the Founder’s type. I’m not even sure I fully accept that title either.

We have stoked race relations so that it is at a boiling point.

We have moved a population base into the nation that has terrorists seeded in it.

We have created more problems in the last 20 years than we have resolved.

Hopefully Trump will come in, spark a revival of sorts and folks will get busy and not have as much time for strife.

[snarkpup]

Most of my current reading list is centered around the writings of the people I call the Founding Grandfathers (e.g.: Sidney, Locke, Trenchard & Gordon). In England at that time, there were three major factions that have analogs in today's Republican Party: 1) Crony capitalists ("private interests and government cooperating to fleece the people"), 2) corrupt clergy that turned the religion developed by "the gentlest man who ever lived" into a farce and power base, and 3) the reformers. I think we have the same ideas about who the modern versions of these factions are.

It is interesting to see how the reformers dealt with these other two factions 300 years ago. Like Donald Trump, these Founding Grandfathers were politically incorrect and faced ferocious denunciation by their opponents. Yet they somehow managed to lay the groundwork for what later became the United States.