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There are at least two major roadblocks hindering this needed Freedom Shift.
The first is habit. Our society has become habituated, at times addicted, to certain lifestyles.
For example, when the recession hit, people spent more money, not [...]
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A fifth type of party people, Activists, are usually familiar with the other types but they put most of their effort into influencing state or federal legislative votes, agency policies, judicial cases or executive acts.
They are found at all levels of government from [...]
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In our current two-party system, independents need the two big parties.
There is, of course, an Independent Party, and people have differentiated members of this party from independents by using the phrase “small ‘I’ independents” to denote those who aren’t part of any party.
Few [...]
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Note, in contrast [to conservative populism], that liberal populism typically follows a different path.
Movements such as Abolition, Feminism, Civil Rights and Environmentalism build and build until they are legislated. At that point, liberal populists [...]
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Which group [independents or the Tea Party] is most likely to last? The answer probably depends on upcoming elections.
The Tea Parties are a populist movement, meaning that their popularity requires at least three things:
An [...]
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Much of the media represents what it calls a “third” view as sometimes independents and other times the Tea Party.
In recent elections, these two groups have often voted together. They both tend to vote [...]
In a recent article on National Review Online entitled “The Trouble with Elitist Theories,” Victor Davis Hanson echoes themes from Oliver DeMille’s The Coming Aristocracy.
Hanson, a renowned scholar, Hoover Institute Fellow and the author of 15 books, including one of my personal favorites, The Other Greeks: The Family Farm & the Agrarian Roots of Western [...]
For a nation that has long prided itself on being the personification of freedom in an otherwise unfree world, we’ve been sending some pretty mixed messages lately.
If one is to believe our so-called mainstream and conservative media outlets, we are essentially being offered a choice of aligning ourselves with the lying socialists or the racist [...]
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Generations
Independents are the latch-key generation grown up.
Raised by themselves, with input from peers, they are skeptical of parents’ (conservative) overtures of care after years of emotional distance.
They are unmoved by parents’ (liberal) emotional insecurity and constant promises. They don’t trust television, experts [...]
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It may seem oxymoronic to say that pragmatic Independents have ideals, but they are actually as driven as conservatives and liberals.
Independents want government, markets and society to work, and to work well. They don’t believe in utopia, but they do think that [...]
