“Don’t vote,” anarchists say, “it only encourages them.”
All freedom lovers get a chuckle out of that old chestnut. But it doesn’t take a genius to realize that non-voting by sensible skeptics does more than encourage usurping politicians. It gives them free rein.
Voting in rational self-defense seems like the more practical approach.
Alas, that’s easier said than done.
This weekend’s Townhall column by Yours Truly floats a proposal: swapping votes for freedom.
Politicians swap votes all the time to get what they want. We want less government. Can we get what we want by swapping votes in our way?
Well, read the column, then come back here, and maybe we can make some mutually profitable trades!
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.
Force is no remedy.
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.
