The campaign for the United States 2016 presidential election is now underway. Here are two predictions. First, all of the candidates will be unprincipled, untrustworthy, and hypocritical. Second, many of the victor’s actual policies will be the opposite of those promised.
If one’s goal is liberty, then involvement in politics is worse than a waste of time. It is undignified and counter-productive.
It is undignified because politics is inherently immoral. Politicians seek to harness the power of a criminal organization, the state, to plunder, kill, and coerce.
It is counter-productive because it encourages the false legitimacy of the state. It also creates false hope that the state can be tamed, when it needs to be terminated.
Engagement in politics in the pursuit of limited government is foolish and futile. It is foolish because liberty means no government, not limited government; the state violates natural rights by its very existence. It is futile because the state has no incentive to limit its power, and every incentive to expand its power and steal the freedom of those it rules.
Politics is a path to illicit power, not to liberty. Liberty means freedom from rulers, not rule by purported lesser evils.
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Here is a third prediction. Millions of people will express disappointment soon after their favored candidate is elected and takes office.
Give politicians no credit. Expect the worst, and your expectations will be met — and usually exceeded. Politicians are scoundrels, and politics is for suckers.
