Some Thoughts for Our Libertarian Anarchist Allies

Hey---welcome to the Front Porch!! Sit a spell. Share thoughts and comraderie!!

First a note to several political categories:

Some of you are rightfully saying to yourself how could one be an anarchist and not be a libertarian. Ask the socialist/communist anarchists. You know the ones setting fire to policemen. Maybe the self-description of "anarchist" is just another usurpation and obfuscation of the language. Whatever. I'm not talking to the bomb throwers...

I'm addrssing the philosphically and politically consistent anarchists who have a rich, honest heritage, and some compelling arguments.

Chances are, you were not born a 'free market' anarchist, or anarcho-capitalist if you will. You instead, like most of the Front Porch visitors, evolved to your current set of views. In your case, the far end spot of the political spectrum.

I have spent years visiting this spot myself. Recent years have, depending on whether attributed to old age wisdom or senility, rendered me less adamant on the insistence of a stand of limited government versus no government. Let this ol' fart explain why...

What has been the most spectacularly successful political movement of the last century? I say the Progressives. After failing to jam fascism down the throats of late 19th and early 20th century America, they took a different tack---and we should profit by their example.

(Thank you, Glenn Beck) They employed a patient but very practical technique to literally get us where we are today. The concept even has a name, "The Overton Window." It's the inexorable moving of a more and more enslaved and ignorant populace, done in subtle and bite-sized inches instead of miles, with the focus, patience, and surety of the habit of humans to fritter away their freedoms in favor of the illusions of security and 'free stuff' pilfered on their behalf from their neighbors and by their "representative " government.

To accomplish this, they kept themselves in context, rather than immersing themselves in pure idealism of the Evil kind. This is what I mean: the natural state of man has been tribal slavery.

"Constitutional" government conceived by the Founding fathers was barely over a hundred years old. It represented a gigantic shift in the mentalities and values of humanity worldwide. It was, in the words of another author, "The Five Thousand Year Leap." It is utterly amazing that the genius of this construct, the Constitution, thwarted the natural inclination for men to be sheep for as long as it has.

It accomplished this by putting the would-be rulers in a labrynthe of local, state and federal government that was so convoluted that it took them years and years to find thier way back to power and elite status.

Now we are in a battle for our very civilization. It's liberty vs. totalitarianism. Dark vs. Light. Good vs. Evil. And we all know that at some level time is short. In fact it is NOW.

There are lots of reasons that we can win this. We talk about these on the Front Porch most every evening. However, one way we will NOT win is if we do not respect the context of where we are in the evolution of human reception to the desirability of being free, and how that is best accomplished.

Let's marvel at the wisdom of the Founding Fathers.

Let's replicate the patience of the Progressives.

And let's appreciate our allies on this journey with us to bring freedom back to future generations. In that category are limited government advocates, folks who believe rights come from God, folks who believe the other guy has no magical "right" to override our own judgment and command us to self-immolate.

When we're bathed once again in the spiritual and material bounty of liberty, we'll have lots of time to continue our evolution and sort through the nuances...

"Let us all hang together, or we'll all hang separately."

Passing the mike to you...