Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.
AUGUST 20. 2024
This nation was supposed to be a republic, under a constitution that strictly defined, limited and decentralized all political power, and minimized the risks of foreign entanglements. The individual citizen was to be simultaneously accountable and free, while We The People, our collective society, ruled our own political system through proxies that we could fire and replace at regular intervals. Under this constitutional republic, We The People would be completely in charge. Politicians would just be public servants, not “elites,” and certainly not “rulers.”
That’s what most people say they want. Unfortunately, we’ve been taught that it’s what we’ve already got when that’s not true at all. Not even close. It is already ours by law, but we’d have to push aside (hopefully peacefully with our votes) the crony crime ring actually ruling over us now.
But OK, let’s go ahead with our political Fashion of The Day, and say that we want “democracy,” …assuming it’s not Ben Franklin’s apocryphal description of democracy as, “two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” Can we agree on what else democracy is not?
I’ll start with the claim that democracy is not the concentration of ever-greater power and decision-making into ever-fewer, ever-more corrupt, and wealthier hands. It’s not Orwellian Ministries of Truth, with roving armed gangs to kick in doors and enforce prohibitions on speech, assembly and protest. It’s not silencing, imprisoning or assassinating political opponents. It’s certainly not election fraud, or importing voters from other countries. And it’s definitely not a crony network of rich elites and foreign government agents, pushing us all toward socioeconomic collapse and WWIII. (I’d call those last two things, treason, personally)
But all that I just claimed is not democracy, is what we’ve got. And our rulers expect you to keep voting for more of it, and oppose those of differing opinions.
I’ve been calling foul on this increasingly destructive corruption and abuse of power for the past three decades. Happily, more and more are awakening to the truth every day. But will we vote like we’re awakening?
I hope so, because what I’m putting on the ballot is still the newest, best and most-proven design for peace, prosperity, security, justice and freedom in all of human history. It’s a Third Way, to unite what our puppet-show politicians have divided, and set this nation right in policy both foreign, and domestic. Let’s talk!
Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
