The Freedom Fighter Review

What if we were all Democrats?

As a Libertarian I often think what this country would look like if we were all Democrats. What if Big Government ran everything? Would I even be able to blog today? What if the unions had their way with businesses and no one cared? What if FOX didn't exist and there was only MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC? Who would ask the hard questions? What if all the wealth of this country was redistributed from the productive to the non-productive so that no one would work or would move away?

What if fear and envy and altruism and other emotional appeals were used by politicians to to lead a nation's voters to make irrational and uneconomic decisions? What if there were no more businesses left to shakedown by crooked politicians? What if everyone read and watched fiction (or reality shows) instead of learning about our past and our history? What would this country look like?

The answer is Detroit ... a city that has been run into the ground by socialism and Democrats. Democrats can take credit for passing the hugely unpopular Obamacare but they must also take credit for its certain and eventual failure ... as certain as Detroit was to fail under socialism and Democratic rule.

For as much as Ayn Rand is demonized by the Progressives for her purely rational and non-emotional summation and analysis of society, she was right on target sixty years ago in describing what would happen to our once great cities as the result of cronyism and socialism. In Atlas Shrugged, she wrote about a town called Starnesville, a mid-western town, that had been home to the Twentieth Century Motor Company. She wrote:

A few houses still stood within the skeleton of what had once been an industrial town. Everything that could move, had moved away; but some human beings had remained. The empty structures were vertical rubble; they had been eaten, not by time, but by men: boards torn out at random, missing patches of roofs, holes left in gutted cellars. It looked as if blind hands had seized whatever fitted the need of the moment, with no concept of remaining in existence the next morning. The inhabited houses were scattered at random among the ruins; the smoke of their chimneys was the only movement visible in town. A shell of concrete, which had been a schoolhouse, stood on the outskirts; it looked like a skull, with the empty sockets of glassless windows, with a few strands of hair still clinging to it, in the shape of broken wires.

Beyond the town, on a distant hill, stood the factory of the Twentieth Century Motor Company. Its walls, roof lines and smokestacks looked trim, impregnable like a fortress. It would have seemed intact but for a silver water tank: the water tank was tipped sidewise.

This is our certain future under current Democratic rule and redistributive policies. Ayn Rand was an economist and realist, and like the Austrian economists, her predictions are based on rational thought and history ... not emotional appeals for Hope and Change by our politicians. Detroit ended up like Rome for the same political and socialist reasons. Every person should take responsibility for themselves and put their emotions in check and look at our country's perilous condition rationally. We need to nullify politicians who say they have our back when in reality they use that saying (and any other oratory or lie) for their own ambitions and power and greed. The politicians that lie and are not held accountable and are the antithesis of the business owner who is driven out of business for providing poor goods and services. It is time to stop worshipping the politicians who are leading us to certain disaster. It is time to stop vilifying the businesses that provide us with goods and services before the pot runs dry.

Pictures of Detroit