What do the Paris riots, Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, the dusky gopher frog and Peter Wallison's new book “Judicial Fortitude” all have in common? They are all signs that the peasants have had it with the bureaucratic state and the smug elitists who have been ruling the globe. Despite never-ending attempts to quash it, the basic human desire for liberty keeps re-emerging.
Kings and assorted tyrants have attempted to rule their fellow man from the beginning of time. Democracy was created as a way of allowing the people to express their grievances and obtain change without violence. Constitutional republics, such as the United States and Switzerland, were created as a way of restraining government's ability to diminish the liberties of the people. The forces of control retaliated by empowering bureaucracies to ignore the will of the people.
Read Full Article »