The video I embedded inwards the postal service below is right away circulating widely. One reply I found especially poignant appears below. Have a await at it:
Now read this:
The Jeffersonian drive toward virtually no regime foundered afterward Jefferson took office, origin alongside concessions to the Federalists...and in addition to hence alongside the unconstitutional buy of the Louisiana Territory. But almost especially it foundered alongside the imperialist drive toward state of war alongside Great U.K. inwards Jefferson’s bit term, a drive which led to state of war in addition to to a one-party organisation which established virtually the entire statist Federalist program.... Horrified at the results, a retired Jefferson brooded at Monticello, in addition to inspired immature visiting politicians Martin Van Buren in addition to Thomas Hart Benton to found a novel party–the Democratic Party – to accept dorsum America from the Federalists in addition to to recapture the spirit of the erstwhile Jeffersonian program. When the 2 immature leaders latched onto Andrew Jackson every bit their savior, the novel Democratic Party was born.The Jacksonian libertarians had a plan: it was to move 8 years of Andrew Jackson every bit president, to move followed yesteryear 8 years of Van Buren, in addition to hence 8 years of Benton. After twenty-four years of a triumphant Jacksonian Democracy, the Menckenian virtually-no-government ideal was to possess got been achieved. It was yesteryear no agency an impossible dream, since it was clear that the Democratic Party had rapidly decease the normal bulk part inwards the country. The volume of the people were enlisted inwards the libertarian cause....But in addition to hence a fateful lawsuit occurred: the Democratic Party was sundered on the critical number of slavery....
[Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty. Emphases added yesteryear FWP.]
How infinitely far the Democratic Party has fled from its freedom-and-limited-government roots! But the impairment is irreversible. There’s no course of teaching left only to brand the Republican Party the Party of Freedom, in addition to to brand certain it stays that way.
