Topic: Politics
March Came In like a Hermit and Out Like a Delegate
If you are looking for someone to champion candidates who will stand up for limited government, free enterprise and a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government then please pick me as your delegate at the Gilpin County Assembly. I look forward to the responsibility of promoting candidates on these principles on behalf of my neighbors.by Jahfre Fire Eater
(libertarian)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
I moved to this remote mountain community, or lack thereof, just over 10 years ago to get as far away from the bustle of the ant farm called life in the USofA as I could. There is a lot of truth in the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. The fewer people I have to deal with the fewer of them I hold in contempt. The greater the degree to which I'm able to choose who the few I have contact with are, the happier I am. You can easily imagine how annoyed I was to find after moving here that the liberal elitists and socialist/progressive democrats had moved out from their local city enclaves and infested the mountain sides too. Human choke-weed that certainly wouldn't add up to anything good if left unchecked.
Oh, but their momentum!
Voter surfing on the twin planks of perpetual growth and free federal funding, the recent county government has sold the future of our community down the river for personal political glory in the present...and now in the future too as the outrageously irresponsible spender, Jeanne Nicholson, one of our 3 county commissioners is now running for a state senate seat. If her dissatisfied home-county voters can't put an end to her political career then the rest of the state will become subject to her disastrously fallacious perpetual growth and federal funding schemes.
To that end I am hoping to be chosen by my neighbors to go forward in the nomination process as a delegate who will represent a Senate candidate who will oppose and expose the horrible state Jeanne's politics have left her home-county. Letting Jeanne get to the Colorado senate is a consequence I wouldn't even wish on her supporters.
The first step on the road to being a delegate to the Senate, Congressional and State assemblies is to be selected in a precinct caucus. If you don't take that first step the rest of the steps are not possible. Next, our county assembly will choose delegates to the three higher assemblies. It is at those events where candidates are chosen to be on the ballot by the voting delegates who were selected by their neighbors back home.
By participating in this process individuals can wield the most influence over the nature of their future government. This is grassroots politics and representative democracy in ACTION! Words are just words but actions are how change is accomplished.
In Colorado there are candidates in the running who are of the big government liberal variety defined by John McCain. There are also some limited government, fiscally responsible businessmen with young families running who don't want their children to grow up in a state oppression that comes with unlimited government. In my view, if someone claims to like limited government but then also likes the unlimited funding mechanism called fiat currency and the federal reserve banking system then they really don't understand how to limit government. It's the money. Period.
The best government is one that is begging for money and gasping for breath because the people's hands remain at it's throat for eternity.
Here is a simple decision chart I created to help folks understand the value of their participation based on real-world choices and consequences:
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