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As this power passes from each individual to a central governing power, individual freedom and liberty is snuffed out, replaced with an arbitrary economic equality as defined, confiscated via progressive taxation and redistributed by those who seek the political power to rule over the lives of others.

The American People are the Problem

In a national epidemic of individual irresponsibility, it has become a national pastime to accuse politicians of destroying America, but it is the American people who are the real problem. To sum it up, politicians can't buy votes that are not for sale.

When the American vote was not for sale, it could not be purchased at any price. When most Americans were real patriots, "a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion" -- they were not so easily fooled by promises of free benefits (paid for by others) and snake oil salesmen promising dancing sugar plums from the campaign stage.

Politicians are a Creation of the People

Politicians are nothing more than a manifestation of the perceived will of the people. Politicians pander. Most politicians don't care what they have to promise to purchase your vote, so long as your vote is for sale.

For politicians, it's all about the quest for political office and the political power and wealth that comes with that office today. For them, the end always justifies the means in their myopic quest for personal power and wealth.

If politicians perceived that more than 51% of American voters would settle for nothing shy of complete individual freedom and liberty, they would pander to that will. As it is, too many Americans, a perceived majority, seem to prefer the promise of free-stuff over the tired old unfair promise of individual freedom, so that is the will of the people which most politicians pander to today.

Slaves to the Sales Pitch

Americans are the most reliable consumers in the world. All they need is a good sales pitch, someone willing to tell them what they want to hear and all the relative facts in the world won't stop them from buying that which is what they think they want.

Americans have storage facilities full of crap they thought they wanted at one point, but have never even taken out of the box once arrived, or unpacked once they moved and forgot they even had it. Today, they will buy something else and tomorrow, something again.

We are natural consumers and slaves to a great sales pitch. That's how a freshman racist nobody with a blank job application is leading the race for the Oval Office right now. All the relative facts state without doubt, that Barack Hussein Obama is patently unfit to be President of the United States. But he sure has a good sales pitch and American consumers are flocking to his side, no matter the mountain of evidence suggesting just how dangerously anti-American and politically inept the man really is.

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