I previously ran in 2020, and in just about every previous election going back to 2002.
The government's response to coronavirus prevented any meaningful campaigning in 2020. No crowded Candidate Forums and S.R.O. Town Hall meetings.
My campaign theme is "LIBERTY UNDER GOD." Sounds conventional. It's not.
Everyone knows I won't win the election. Voters are not rational. Voters are victims of educational malpractice at the hands of a socialist school system.
This month America celebrated "Independence Day" on the 4th of July. Many voters believe that on "Independence Day" we celebrate the freeing of the slaves. If the men who signed the Declaration of Independence could travel through time from 1776 to 2022, they would be appalled, then outraged. The Declaration says we have a duty -- not just a "right," but a duty -- to abolish any government that becomes a tyranny. What would America's Founders think about a government that prohibits local public school teachers from teaching students that the Declaration of Independence is actually true?
I believe every conscientious American has a duty to abolish our tyrannical government, but as a Christian and a pacifist, I don't believe this duty should be discharged using muskets and cannons. We could start following the Founding Fathers by abolishing or defunding all unconstitutional bureaucracies. Republicans have been promising to do this for decades. They never will. Republicans don't want to abolish wasteful, harmful, and unconstitutional bureaucracies. They want to populate these bureaucracies -- with Republicans. Get their friends on the government payroll. You pay the salaries of all those Republican bureaucrats -- whose every action lowers your standard of living.
The winner of this election will take a solemn oath to follow the Constitution. That can only mean refusing to fund unconstitutional government programs. Congress repeatedly passes budgets filled with unconstitutional spending. Abolishing all unconstitutional government programs would mean cutting the federal budget by trillions of dollars. Not just billions, trillions. Neither of the two major parties will ever, ever, even consider doing that. Their solemn oath means nothing.
Thomas Jefferson said we should have a new constitution every 20 years. 19th-century legal theorist Lysander Spooner said that the Constitution "has either authorized such a government as we have, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
But if we followed America's Founding Fathers and abolished the Constitution, what would we replace it with?
Nothing.
I believe the two centuries that followed the ratification of the Constitution constitute a vivid social experiment:
- During the first century after the Constitution went into effect, America had perhaps the most libertarian government in the history of the human race, and America became the most prosperous and most admired nation in history.
- During the second century, the government exploded in size and intrusiveness, and America's prosperity was turned into bankruptcy, and our admirers began to (justifiably) loathe or ridicule us.
The last two hundred years have proven that there is nothing the human race needs to accomplish that can only be accomplished under socialism -- requiring threats of violence from government. Everything human beings require to enjoy a peaceful and prosperous society can be achieved through voluntary cooperation in a Freed Market.
But we must, of course, be a nation "under God."
And that's not "nothing." That's the most important "something" of all, and it's something secular progressives have been working for the last 150 years to eradicate.
But we must, of course, be a nation "under God."
And that's not "nothing." That's the most important "something" of all, and it's something secular progressives have been working for the last 150 years to eradicate.
My opponents seek to mislead you. On the one hand they'll tell you I'm trying to "impose a theocracy on America!" Out of the other side of their mouth they'll tell you I want you to be free from all socialism, and that makes me an "Anarchist!" They say "Theocracy!" so you'll think "legalist!" and then they say "anarchist" so you'll think "lawlessness!" My opponents can't have it both ways.
But I can. "Liberty Under God" is the philosophy that made America the most prosperous and admired nation in history.
You might be asking, "Aren't there already WAY TOO MANY candidates like you, who are Bible-believing Christian anarchists who seek to repeal the Constitution and abolish the government of the United States and make America a Theocracy, who don't believe in "the separation of church and state," but instead believe in the abolition of church and state," seeking hundreds of offices in every level of government from local to federal, in every political party, across this nation.
I get asked that question all the time.
Give me a moment to think of an answer.
(Actually, to be honest, not a single human being has ever come close to asking me that question.)
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