An Ideal World for America
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Notwithstanding all the hoopla that surrounds U.S. presidential races, it is imperative that we libertarians always keep our focus on our goal — the achievement of a free society. That necessarily entails continuing to make the principled case for freedom regardless of who is elected president. In that way, we continue finding people who want freedom and understand what freedom genuinely means. That then will enable us to arrive at the critical mass of people that is necessary to achieve a gigantic paradigm shift toward freedom.
It’s helpful to sometimes imagine what life would be like in a genuinely free society. Given that we all have been born and raised under a statist system, that is a difficult thing to do. It’s even more difficult for those Americans who are still convinced, thanks to the indoctrination and propaganda to which they were subjected in the state’s educational system, that our nation’s statist system constitutes freedom. Those people are the ones who sing to themselves, “Thank God I’m an American because at least I know I’m free.”
Let’s imagine, for example, what life would be like with a foreign policy of non-interventionism. In fact, let’s go even further than that. Let’s imagine life without the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA and the vast military-intelligence establishment that comes with them. Let’s imagine that our nation has restored the limited-government form of governmental structure on which America was founded and that lasted more than 150 years — one that came with a relatively small, basic military force.
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