Those evil radio talk show hosts

It's funny listening to the Left and the Centrists take the opportunity presented by the election to attack Limbaugh, Hannity, Levine, Beck and the other conservative talk show hosts. The narrative is that these talk show hosts gained too much power in the Republican Party and they pulled the party way too far toward the crazy far rightwing. I don't think many of these Leftists or Centrists listen very much to Limbaugh or Beck or understand them if they do listen. The Left and the Center have no sense of humor when it comes to the likes of Limbaugh and Beck, because they see two confident, influential voices that they can't bring down, and it drives them crazy, so all humor is gone. The Left and the Center are so frustrated that they can't do anything to destroy the Limbaugh/Beck voices when they hear that one of these conservatives has said something controversial they spin it in the worst ways possible. They smear the conservative talk show hosts every chance they get.

I listen to Rush and Beck, and I think they make very good points sometimes, and at other times I think they are off base. It's odd that the Left and the Center are so bothered by these radio personalities -- it feels as if they want badly to censor them and are pissed off because they can't. I don't like listening to Rachel Maddow's belligerent bullcrap, so I don't.

It's really amazing listening to the reaction of the Left and Center regarding this election. They must think they have some great advantage to really let it fly what they think about talk radio hosts, Tea Partiers, libertarians, etc. It's all being recorded somewhere, and it'll come back to bite them, but for now, it's amusing, especially given the fact they have no idea how Obama is going to get out of the mess statism has us in, or how Obama will escape the truth about his lies regarding Benghazi. The next 6 months are going to be hard for Obama and co. I guess, hell, the way the media is now they might be able to ignore it for four years.

The Left has lost the private sector

Although Republicans have their share of statists, too many, the Democratic Party and the Left in general are now associated closely with interventionist government. The Left was sure that the march of social democracy was such that collective concerns outweighed private interests, and that our era of abundance had ushered in the economy of free time, universal efforts for social justice and the end of capitalism. The idea of planning and markets as inseperable in the US has led to large, unfunded entitlement programs, failing public education, a too-close relationship between government and the Fed, politicized unions, State capitalism, tight, irrational and over-reaching regulations and a welfare state which doesn't effectively move the poor into the middle class. More and more Democrats are associated with these flaws and failures of Big Government.

As soon as Hurricane Sandy did its damage, politicans and statists of all stripes, mainly on the Left, were hailing the virtues of FEMA and Big Government and rebuking the "limited government" crowd as insensitive to social needs such as disaster relief which only, of course, Big Federal Government can provide. Ask the residents on Staten Island what they think about FEMA. Democrats are quick to embrace this Big Government narrative, so now they are facing the problems that the premature praise of government action has wrought. Chris Christie is likely wishing he had not kissed Obama quite so lovingly.

Big Government is failing at all levels, and Benghazi is a case in point that even our national security is threatened by a government that has grown too big, too secretive, too entangled in foreign affairs, and too powerful. The Afghanistan War, the "good war" as Obama called it, is a failure, but media will not properly report the failure because they're protecting Obama's image. Now that Romney will be President, perhaps media will tell the truth about Afghanistan and Pakistan so Romney can end these wars and get our troops home.

Romney has a big challenge lying ahead -- turning around this Leviathan while whittling it down to appropriate size. Will Romney meet this challenge? He has to, and the American people must insist on it. The Republican Party is best positioned to present a true opposition to statism, because no third party has shown any success so far. The success of the GOP in cutting government and creating the rational playing field for a free market depends on the American people not accepting anything less than limited government and a free market. The GOP's past history of free market rhetoric and statist governance can not be repeated. The two principles of limitations and liberty have been the heart of the American idea that's never been realized. It's time to realize the idea completely. The principles of equality and justice are part and parcel of limited government and a free market -- equal opportunity and justice for all, no favoritism, no protection of large corporations or unions or special interests, no power elite.

The Left has lost the private sector as it, the Left, has embraced interventionist government, and this is the cause of the downfall of the Democratic Party. It might not be apparent to everyone, but anyone paying attention has to realize the failures of Big Government and the need for limits on power. It will soon be painfully obvious, if we don't quickly change.

The Left will reject a Romney win

As it stands, the Left believes Obama will win, and already some are warning Republicans to bow down to the victor and go along with the agenda. The problem is that polls are projecting bad information, and Romney is winning by a comfortable margin. Nate Silve has fed into Leftist and moderate denial and has convinced them that there's no way for Romney to win. Silver either mistakenly believes his model, or he's taking one for the team in a desperate final act hoping to influence the outcome, but then he might just enjoy the attention, and if he told the truth he'd be ignored immediately.

Silver has surely concocted a reason why he will be so wrong. This election, like I've said, is about the direction of the nation, and regardless how cool the Left plays it, claiming that the Right is setting its hair on fire, and there's nothing to worry about, even the debt and deficit, it's not true. We are living in a period in which our economy can implode any minute. The Fed would not pump 30 billion a month into the economy if there's nothing to worry about. The Fed is propping up our economy hoping something happens soon to create growth.

Romney's energy plan alone is enough to get him elected. There are millions and millions of Americans who will quietly go to the polls and vote for Romney and economic expansion. America will once again confound the world and rise above our own internal divisions that have stalled our economy. Obama proved that a minority can be elected President, but he failed to allow the private sector to help him succeed -- that was a big mistake.

Demonizing the Right -- just random thoughts

Despite attempts by some progressives/liberals to obscure the issue by referring to themselves as Left-Libertarians, the only semblance of a home for liberty today resides on the Right, and hopefully a New Right is emerging much like the Old Right of the mid-twentieth century. If the Left truly wants to present liberty in the 21st century, then they'll gave to end the group-think and statist power-mongering. As much as it's tempting to eradicate Left-Right, it would only serve the purposes of the Left since they are more politically adept and would surreptiously take control of the political process. The Left is much better at politics than the Right, thus, the Right is constantly demonized in media, in Universities, in Hollywood and in big cities across the country. The Right is defined in the political realm by its absolute worst flaws. The fanatical Religious Right which wanted to gain moral control of America years back is hardly a factor at all going into 2012, but the Left has framed the Right as anti-women, anti-birth-control and so on. Media sharks needle someone like Rick Santorum constantly and then when he responds and tries to anser their questions, they accuse him of obsessing over social issues. Santorum brings much on himself, and if he continues to draw only from social conservatives, he doesn't stand a chance. The Right is no more hawkish than the Left but every pronouncement by Lindsay Graham and John McCain is prominently reported as if these two dinosaurs represent the Right. 

What should the New Right represent which will counter the political influence of the Left? Well, the Right has to remain in politics as long as the possibility of gaining coercive power is a reality, and it is a reality, and the Left is winning. No, the Left has not gotten its way on many of their agenda items, like Cap and Trade, but, through regulatory back-channels, they are gaining more and more power.

The New Right is at least sceptical of our overseas interventions such as the Afghanistan War. The New Right is cognizant of the problems created by government intervention in the economy. The New Right understands that social issues are best handled in the markeplace of ideas, not through legislation. The New Right understands that embracing a free market is primarily about the concept of economic liberty and a free enevironment, and it's not about particular industries or companies which support Republican causes. Cronyism should be anathema to the New Right. All corporate welfare should be eradicated before a single welfare program for the poor is even considered. The New Right should make it clear that concern for the environment is a number one priority, and, as such, national conversations regarding innovations to reduce pollution should be inspirational and transformative. As we all realize our common relationship with our environment, we can stop the silly notion that a faction of the American population wants dirty water and lung-destroying air.

The New Right should end the game against the Left and become a true opposition force to deceit, propaganda and statist power-grabbing. If there's a true disagreement about the best way to enhance human flourishing, then have the debate, but quit pretending that one side is righteous and the other evil. From my perspective as a proponent of a New Right -- I beleive the Left is just flat wrong about economics and interventionist government. We all want basically the same Big Things, and those who are deceitful and only want something for nothing will have no influence -- this can no longer continue. America has to make serious systemic changes regarding governance. Outside of government, I have very few problems with liberals, but when it comes to government and the economy, I have huge problems, and as the Left goes along with the Democratic Party's foreign interventions, I have problems with the Progressive hawks. It need not be personal -- ideas are important enough.

Libertarianism for non-philosophical independents

Most people just don't know what libertarianism means. Conservatives who claim to "lean" libertarian claim so many exemptions from libertarian ideology, it's basically meaningless, and the Left either outright trashes libertarianism or it only includes civil libertarianism, while pretty much rejecting economic libertarianism.

In order for libertarianism to grow and become a driving force in politics, in other words a driving force that limits government power and establishes an environment for economic liberty, independents will have come on board and gain a working understanding. Most people don't have much patience for philosophsy, so it's doubtful that independents will ever become academic-type libertarians.

Libertarians haven't done a good job making libertarian ideas popular, although some of the main ideas were popularized by the Declaration of Independence. Debates among intellectuals regarding libertarianism often get in the weeds so much that people's eyes glaze. Then, the cartoon version of libertarianism has libertarians as pot-smokers who want to do away with government so that we can all have free sex and spend our time with drugs, music, pornography and prostitutes, or it's the version of the paranoid government-hater in a cabin in Montana with 20 guns and handgrenades.

For popular consideration, though, we don't have to have the debate about government actions to free slaves, or to give women the right to vote, or what would we do if no private investors would bailout a car company. For popular consideration we don't have to ask what would happen if anyone could legally buy heroin, or what we should do if pornography is pushed on teenagers.

We have gone so far with an interventionist government and all-powerful State, we couldn't change over to a completely libertarian government over-night anyway. It's true we need to make drastic systemic changes regarding government intervention in our economy, and we'll probably be forced to make these changes whether we want to or not, but, otherwise, a few principles will suffice for the independents to understand libertarianism and how it can be applied to government.

First we need to understand the direction in which we've been going for decades. Although we've had periods of resistance to too much government power and there have been attempts to slow down the statist direction, our direction has been mainly toward more government control and planning of the economy and, thus, our private lives. If we change the direction by establishing a new mindset, libertarianism can be made more simple and palatable to the ordinary citizen.

Soon, it will be impossible for any sane person to deny our economic problems and that government interventions/regulations have created most of the problems -- and it will be obvious that we are headed toward financial collapse. It will also become apparent that we must empower the private sector in order to recover and head in a new, progressive direction. If we can only change our problem-solving default from government to private sector, we will have made great progress. If there's no way possible for the problem to be solved within the private sector, then and only then would we consider a government solution. This private sector mindset will go a long way toward a change in direction, and as new generations gain problem solving skills, and vision is enhanced and innovation is expected, and as creativity becomes a regular way of addressing reality, we'll surely be amazed at how much better life is when we take responsibility and get fully involved. Independents can get on board with this, right?