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All You Democrats
By L. Neil Smith - Sierra Times

I can't remember ever writing an essay like this, directed to Democrats, whom I've always pretty much regarded as a lost cause, at least as far as the values that I treasure are concerned. I've written rather a lot for the benefit of Republicans, because I used to believe that there was something there that might be salvaged. However in the time that's passed since September 11, 2001, I've learned that I was wrong.

It's time for what was once fashionably termed a "paradigm shift", and the paradigm that needs to shift is yours. You made this mess we live in today, and justice demands that you do something now to unmake it. The alternative is a future too terrible to contemplate, a future of "Homeland Security" (an open confession of pure fascist intent if I've ever heard one), a future of slavery and terror and torture and death.

It's intriguingly symmetrical that the Stupid Party thinks everyone is evil, and the Evil Party thinks everyone is stupid. We need a party that believes that we are neither stupid nor evil.

Let's begin by writing and introducing an "Emergency Restoration Act" in Congress, designed to do two things. First, it would return the relative size and scope of government in America to what it was, say, in 1912, before the Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax allowed it to begin a surge of growth that can only be referred to as cancerous. Any law passed after 1912 would be reexamined. Unless it won the support of 99% of both houses of Congress, that would be the end of it. Finally, there would be a 100-year-long Moratorium on the passage of any laws at any level of government, during which the human race would blossom as never before in its history, and reach out to the stars.

posted by A Curmudgeon 9:48 AM