Hey all!

Jack in Jersey City here (yes, there ARE people in the NYC metro area that still value freedom in its various forms 😄).

It’s very exciting to see how many people are beginning to meet public media narratives with skepticism. I’m not talking about the people here, either, although I’m sure you’re all great. I’m speaking about all the casual observers of our political theater. Everyday Americans who have never cared enough to do anything besides vote, and sometimes not even that much!

I can’t speak for all of you, but I’m watching people of all ages and backgrounds arriving at the conclusion that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. They don’t have a background in constitutional law or political science, but that doesn’t even matter, because the failure of government has reached such a point where anyone can see that it’s a farce, and they instinctively know that whatever we’re doing as a society…well, we could be doing it a whole lot better!

I’ve found that many people have a knee-jerk reaction to particular politicians’ names, or a particular party, but when the conversation ventures into principles and ideas, all but the most radical statists look at the ideas we believe in and those ideas make sense to them.

“Teaching your kids to truly think? Not imposing your social beliefs on other people? Personal economic responsibility? Yeah, I’m on board with all that, sure!” I’m not sure why those ideas become threatening when people come to understand the things they believe in their heart are rather libertarian. I guess the media has done a solid job painting anyone to the right of W Bush or to the left of Clinton as absolute, tin-foil-hat-wearing looney toons.

I guess I wasn’t supposed to take the values I learned as a child with me into adulthood? Funny…I had the impression they were serving me really well!

Hope all is well with y’all, wherever you are in the nation, or outside of it.