MESSAGE FROM A FORMER DEMOCRAT: Why I Joined The Liberty Movement
4 Comments »Giordano Bruno
I believe, deep down, in every era of history, people have known in their hearts that something was not quite right. Our consciences draw from a well of memory that goes beyond what we are taught by our environment. We know, things are not what they could be, and inside, unconsciously, we struggle and writhe against the imbalance that surrounds us on the outside. We long for the truth, and instead are presented with holographic facsimiles, generic imitations, mock ideals and philosophies that distract us from the voice within, that tells us to never compromise what we know to be right.
These “mock ideals” are presented to us in many ways, but most often in the form of political parties, which have over the decades, not only become the false source of our morality, but also where we place our “faith” and “hope”. Political parties have changed from social expressions of law and opinion, into empty dueling religions on an endless and infantile crusade against one another. They stop us from progressing intellectually and emotionally, and as I luckily discovered early in my life, this obstruction of politics was a deliberate creation by men who wished to retain power indefinitely. The distraction, had a purpose.
Up until the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, I had bought into the distraction.
I was a Democrat, and believed wholeheartedly in my party. The line couldn’t have been more clear. Republicans were capitalist corporatist swine. They had consistently defended big business abuses of power and corporate hegemony over the needs of the common man. When I was a boy, Reagan’s “Trickle Down Economics” had made life for the lower middle class dark and uncertain, while Wall Street cowboys reveled in artificially created booms in credit markets and other insanities. Bush Sr. had continued the same policies and sent us into a meaningless war in
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“Why didn’t they just count the votes?” I asked myself. “Why did Al Gore roll over and give in?”
By the time the 2004 elections arrived, it was obvious that Bush Jr. was a monster, using the attacks of 9/11 to manipulate the populace into another unjust war in
Then, something changed.
John Kerry was supposed to be our savior. He was supposed to say what we all knew needed to be said; that the war was a sham, that Bush was a liar, and the Republicans were bloodthirsty. He was supposed to present the opposing view to the now dominant Bush Doctrine. He was supposed to stop the madness and present a voice of reason. He didn’t.
Instead, he mumbled and twisted his way around the important issues. He claimed he wanted to end the war, yet obviously was not opposed to its fabricated premise. He was half hearted and unsure about his position when the truth was right in his face. It was almost as if, he was trying to fail. As if, he didn’t really believe in anything he was saying out loud.
I soon realized that John Kerry was not the opposition to the Bush agenda, he was the Loyal Opposition to the Bush agenda. He was there to make us feel as though we had a choice. The fact was, we had been duped.
The fact that John Kerry and George W. Bush had both been members of the same elitist fraternity, Skull and Bones, whose roots go back to the secret societies of the Nazis during WW II, should have tipped off many people that the left / right paradigm we were being presented with was a farce.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
It didn’t. That was all “conspiracist lunacy”, wasn’t it? Surely, the Democrats were different from the Republicans. That was common sense, right?
When one looks at what opposing politicians say, this appears to be true. But when one looks at what opposing politicians do, it is easy to see that they are not opposing each other at all. The leadership of both parties, Democrat and Republican, were complimenting each other. Passing bills and encroaching on our liberties together. Murdering people in third world countries in support of one another. They were not different. In action, they were the same.
Barack Obama has only solidified my conviction in this. Every “promise” Obama made during his campaign has so far gone without execution. Not only are we going to remain in
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04military.html?_r=1
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6718124&page=1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29898698/
He has supported the continuance of all the laws provided in the Patriot Act, and has sought to increase the government’s authority to spy on us without being held accountable through the FISA bill.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/06/20/obama_supports_fisa_legislatio.html
His economic policies have been identical to Bush’s, except that they are a larger and more damaging version.
Bush was big spending, Obama is big spending. Bush was big government, Obama is big government. Bush was anti-civil liberties, Obama is anti-civil liberties. Bush bailed out the corporate bankers, Obama bailed out the corporate bankers. Bush was pro-war, Obama is pro-war.
For me, ever since 2004, it is often embarrassing to even admit that I was ever a Democrat. And, it should be equally embarrassing for those people who ever supported Bush and the Republicans. We were “sheeple”. We were played, just like everyone at one point or another is played by the system. It was time to find something real, something tangible, something outside of the false paradigm. I believe the Liberty Movement is exactly what we need.
The Liberty Movement is portrayed as many things by the mainstream media. We are called “conspiracy nuts” or “extremists”. We are called dangerous “homegrown terrorists”, or “isolationists”. As our movement quickly grows, the Democratic Party has tried to label us as “hired thugs” for corporate interests. Interesting how they call us “conspiracy nuts”, then claim we are part of some “corporate conspiracy” to derail them. The Neo-conservatives have even tried to Co-opt us using men like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh; ridiculous Fox News clowns who have nothing but the status quo in mind while claiming to support our cause.
The truth is, the Liberty Movement is made up of former Democrats and Republicans. It always has been. We support neither party because neither party represents the average American. We do not want the use of violence to achieve our goals, but we do support every free human being’s right to protect his liberties from men who wish to take them away, just as the founders of this country and the writers of the Constitution did. We fought against the designs of George W. Bush and we now fight against the designs of Barack Obama because those designs are one in the same. Our movement existed before Obama was president, so to claim we are part of some Republican Corporate Conspiracy to defame him is completely unsupported politically motivated tripe. We do not take action at the behest of Fox News. In fact, in most cases, we find Fox News and men like Glenn Beck to be a laughable parody of journalism.
No one decides for us what we support except our own consciences. This is the essence of the Liberty Movement. We believe in the individual, for without individualism, the collective is a hollow mindless mass of nobodies. We believe in personal freedom without the interference of governments, who rarely have our best interests at heart. We believe in transparency, and the idea that governments answer to the people, the people do not answer to the government. We believe in the truth, for the truth is our only purpose. Not power, not influence, not money or ego. Only truth, wherever it may lead us.
As I write this, the Liberty Movement is reaching critical mass. Every month we gain thousands of new supporters. Eventually, the attacks from the false left and false right will reach a crescendo. We will be brutalized in every way by the media, and the authorities. They will try to humiliate us, brand us, marginalize us, and paint us as a horrible enemy to those people still unaware of what is really going on in our world. For those who would hate us without thinking, or label us without knowing all the facts, I have only this to say; we were once exactly like you, Democrat and Republican alike.
Ask yourself, are you really free? Is the world you are presented daily really exactly what it seems, or is there something under the surface that has troubled you for a long time? Ask yourself this, and answer honestly. This is all that we in the Liberty Movement expect of anyone. Hopefully, your search for an answer will lead you to a greater understanding of us, and yourself.
I canvassed for the DNC on behalf of Skull’n'Bones Kerry back in 2004. I switched my party affiliation to GOP in 2007 or 2008 in order to support Ron Paul.
In my short time as an eligible voter, I have played both sides, and then abandoned them.
Both parties need to be completely discredited. I don’t even like referring to them as 2 parties. I call them the Republicrats or the Globalist Party.
Bravo!
I only voted within the phony 2 party system once in my voting life, and that was for Kerry in 2004. It wasn’t because I thought Kerry had the makings of a really great leader, he was just less bad enough than Bush. I didn’t like voting for him, I have never fully bought into the two party system. That feeling that something is wrong has been there for me from the beginning. After educating myself about the Federal Reserve and the incredible manipulation of wealth and power that exists within the ranks of our government, it has become plainly obvious that Individual liberty is the most important cause in our world today. Thanks for your words.
I am the same, although I come from the other direction. I used to think the Democrats were a bunch of globalist, socialist swine that essentially wanted some form of near communism. After supporting Bush like a moron for 2 elections, I looked at what Bush did and concluded it was all a giant joke. It was obvious to me that all the left-right rhetoric was a sham, and that a libertarian author whose books I read on WW1 and WW2 in highschool was 100% correct about things. All the wars we fought since the Revolutionary War were pointless and immoral.
I learned about Ron Paul and his common sense solutions. For example in regards to gay marriage – how about we just divorce the issue from government altogether? This libertarian idea isn’t good enough for the conservative and liberal statists who want to force each other’s views on each other. If we took Ron Paul’s approach we wouldn’t be fighting! I can be against gay marriage and for the abolishment of civil marriage anyway – when did God give the state such power anyway? How can the state claim such a sacred thing? And why shouldn’t gays be allowed to marry each other if they want to, even if me and others consider it wrong? It’s their life, and we’re all free to sin and have opinions on what is right or wrong, as long as respect each other’s right to LIFE, LIBERTY, and PROPERTY.
The shocking thing about the Liberty Movement is that we can all get along. People who are socially liberal or socially conservative can work together for the SAME candidates and agree on the same important issues, and leave social issues outside of government where they can be promoted by churches and advocacy groups.
This is the clearest most beautiful explanation I have ever come across. Thank you so much. I will be emailing this to everyone on my list, “Democrats” and “Republicans” alike.