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Written by Barry Donegan
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Friday, 03 October 2008 11:09 |
While They Fret About the President, Let Us Take Congress
The machinery behind the creation of a successful United States president was simply not something that could be taken in a single year, even by the most powerful self-created grassroots organization in the history of United States politics. With a century of manipulation by the banking sector already in place, the chances of a massive throng of citizens awakening and changing such a high-profile, window-dressing position overnight are unrealistic. However, while the sheep fret over which image they want to put on the authoritarian oligarchy that rules the land, we will do as the Rockefeller groups did to us, and build machines to influence the government from the ground up.
Without calling to attention specific campaigns, in my local area, I have already seen congressmen from major parties attending Campaign for Liberty meetings, hoping to get an edge in November. Not just guys who dropped their jobs and rushed out to be Ron Paul Republicans, but the stiff-suit career sort. Mainstream-style Republicans are now putting negative stuff about the Federal Reserve and the IMF on their Issues pages on their websites. We saw Congress develop a line in the sand over the recent “bailout” legislation that put far more guys on our side of the line than we probably would have expected. The average liberty-minded thinker these days influences a handful of people in their day-to-day lives, and the dangers of that legislation were effectively communicated to the people, differing strongly from what happened during the passage of the Patriot Act.
If this is the level of change we can create in a year, imagine what machinery and traditions we could create in a decade--especially as the economy slips further and further, and our Austrian Economics fundamentals are proven truer by the day. While protest voting for your favorite 3rd party candidate is an important act, as the metrics that we develop in that can be used for future elections, turn your attention to the forgotten races: Congress and the Senate. The ‘bailout’ bill can be used effectively to cause an anti-incumbent sweep this November, if we choose to work it. Convince your congressional underdog to come out strong against the Federal Reserve and the bailout, and convince them that you will put your Meetup groups to work in the streets promoting them if they do. Even if they differ on other issues, they will respect the fact that your free work helped put them over, and your advice will be far more meaningful to them next time. This is a perfect storm for Liberty. We must get sound money back before we can create the kind of reform we need. Currently, with a bad monetary policy, deregulation in other sectors is only throwing rice into the wind. The market must be allowed to set interest rates before we can begin tearing down departments en masse.
If you do not have a congressman in your district who you are in the streets for, then get on the phone and find out which one you can help. Even if he or she fails to win, you will learn lessons about what to do next time. If no one on the ballot is morally acceptable, then it is your responsibility to file for office next time.
Let them have their CNN and Barack Obama presidency, that’s fine for 2008. We will have the internet, and our new congressional seats. The collectivists’ president will have a hard time creating a bigger government when all he can do is veto the bills our Congress isn’t writing.
To the future...which is ours. |
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