Do GOP Victories Merely Represent Rearranging The Deck Chairs On The Titanic?

(From November 4, 2009 Post)
Copyright.Reasonandjest.com

Yesterday in New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie beat incumbent Democrat Gov. Jon Corzine, and in Virginia Republican Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds in those states’ governor races.

More Republican wins yesterday could be foreshadowing a major GOP sweep one year from now. Our country is in desperate need of change, but just how much of a difference will any “Republican Revolution” make? I try to be optimistic, but given the history of just the past thirty years, I’m not too sure.

During the ’80s, Ronald Reagan’s presidency oversaw the biggest expansion in Federal government size and power up to that time, despite his promise to reduce government. Following the 1994 Republican takeover of both houses of Congress, the Federal government continued to grow, as did corruption in Washington, and our liberty continued to diminish. And while George W. Bush gave us some tax cuts, his administration’s spending continued like a drunken sailor, and whatever liberty we had left still continues to diminish. The Fed has also been given increasingly dangerous powers as its and Congress’s actions continue to devalue the dollar and wreck our financial institutions, and have put the country into insolvency.

So, a change in party control of Congress next year could very well mean just another rearranging of deck chairs on the Titanic. Both parties have merged together to be the Statist Party. While Republicans are the “Military Industrial Complex/Territorial Expansionist” Party, the Democrats are the “Welfare State/Government For the Sake of Government” Party, and they really are one big anti-liberty Statist Party. George Washington believed there was reason to be wary of political parties.

Republican and Democrat Statists suck at the nipples of Big Government.

We now have a huge, oppressive Federal bureaucracy concentrated in Washington, DC with too much intrusive power over 300 million Americans. The statist enmeshment of politicians, their followers, lobbyists, lawyers, bureaucrats, big business and other ignoramuses with the Federal government is a sick co-dependence. Repeatedly replacing one party with the other is really just putting a band-aid on the problem. Major systemic and structural changes need to be made to our country to restore our liberty and prosperity, and that may very well require some kind of decentralization. We need our freedom and independence back.

People need to be reminded of these words from our Declaration of Independence:

….That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness….when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security….