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THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION

While reading The Voluntaryist Handbook, I came across this excerpt from Joseph Sobran summarizing what Hans-Hermann Hoppe believes is the eventual conclusion of all governments (regardless of good intentions), and accurately describes the current situation we’re in—which is why I personally believe we have reached the end of this once great nation.

“Hans argued that no constitution could restrain the state. Once its monopoly of force was granted legitimacy, constitutional limits became mere fictions it could disregard; nobody could have the legal standing to enforce those limits. The state itself would decide, by force, what the constitution ‘meant,‘ steadily ruling in its own favor and increasing its own power. This was true a priori, and American history bore it out.

Waking the Proles

The road to Libertarianism.

Be careful, Matt Walsh. These kinds of emperor-has-no-clothing observations are the first step in the natural progression of reasonable, logical, and critical thought that will eventually lead you from the Republican Party to the Libertarian Party . . . where we’ll be waiting to welcome you. 😀