By MamaLiberty
The media, internet and neighborhood conversations are filled with every sort of commentary, boasting, celebrations, protests, analysis, predictions and general hand wringing. I’ve lived through a great many national elections, starting with Eisenhower, and pretty much all the same things have gone on each time, by someone. That this year’s political circus has been more vicious, filled with more stupidity, lies and hubris, I won’t deny. But it is a difference in intensity, not of kind.
The real problem is that all electoral politics are the enemy to individual liberty. All politicians, and all the people determined to keep the ball rolling for them, want to control the lives and property of other people. All of those who support them, cheer them on, and vote for them, somehow believe that they have legitimate authority to do so. They insist that the “boss” they want is the best for everyone… and some are willing to commit violence, vandalism and even murder to promote that.
And that’s the bottom line. Instead of self ownership, self responsibility and actual liberty, these folks (good, bad and indifferent) merely want a different “boss” to control the lives of others. And when the SWAT raid comes to their own house and family, and the latest “environmental” nonsense destroys their jobs, the only thing most seem to think of is that they need a different boss.
Well, folks, a more or less different boss is about to ascend the American throne. Cut all the rhetoric and grandstanding, and he looks very much like many who occupied the “boss” throne before. He has a wonderful plan for our lives and property, and nobody is going to deny him that power, whatever fluffy garments he might conceal it with.
He’s already willing to “compromise” and “work with” those who wish to continue the horror that is Obummercare. Did you really think the new boss was going to eliminate that scourge from our lives? Or any others?
Good luck, America. You are going to need it.
The Price of Liberty 
Election aftermath: an update
By Nathan Barton
It’s Friday morning, and the news reports that anti-Trump protests have continued to spread (CNN). Police (rightly or wrongly) have declared the protests in Portland, Oregon, to be a “riot.” Protesters in Oakland have begun using Molotov cocktails on buildings and police; in various places new cars still in the dealer’s parking lots have been attacked and destroyed. Freeways are being blocked. “Anarchists” are blamed for some of the violence, but it does seem more accurate to describe many of these protests as riots, and certainly NOT as “peaceful” or “non-violent.” And the violence does not seem to be coming just from the police riot squads.
The American media cherry-picks a Trump tweet that the protests are “unfair,” and joins with European media in stating that “Anger has won,” condemning Trump as stupid, inexperienced, incompetent, a liar, racist, sexist, xenophobic “shady billionaire” and blaming him and his stupid, primitive supporters for everything. Continue reading →