"As a result of widespread control by our government in an effort to achieve so called higher objectives we are increasingly subordinated to the point where considerations of personal freedoms are but secondary and tertiary matters. Our liberties are being treated as dirt" - Walter E. Williams

I haven't watched the video yet, but this is definitely how I'm feeling at the moment.

People are so caught up over 'the economy' and 'jobs' and 'the wealthy' and 'the 47%' that they are letting government trample our rights without any resistance.

I'm just standing over here, listening to politicians speak and thinking "please, won't SOMEBODY think of the liberty?" Because even if the government manages to get us out of this economic mess, and we emerge prosperous, it'll be a shallow kind of prosperity where we don't have the right to exercise it. "Yah, I have a job again! Too bad I can't choose how I purchase healthcare." "I'm so glad I don't need food stamps anymore. Too bad I'm not allowed to smoke a plant without risking my freedom."

On the other hand, if you can somehow tie liberties into economic issues (like how marijuana legalization is tied to creating jobs and increasing tax revenue) you might be able to get people supporting them that way.

"Anybody who says the Constitution is a living document is at the same time saying we do not have a Constitution at all because for the rules of the game to mean anything, they must be fixed."

Giving WW a voice on the national, popular scale remains the best thing that Limbaugh has ever done. Williams 2016.

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Liberty is not part of either party's agenda. It needs to break so we can fix it.

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