The Absurd Report

This election is about more than a change of management in Washington. A revolution is trying to occur, one that will mark the beginning of a new era. Americans are again yearning to be free — this time from their own government.

Whatever justifications there may have been for Washington’s takeover of America between 1935 and 1965, they are long since gone.

Yet many elections later — in a kind of “democratic totalitarianism” — nearly every aspect of life in America is still subordinate to the governmental colossus built by FDR and Lyndon Johnson.

Built on taxes and spending, and home to meddlers of all types, it still insists on running and regulating everything. It treats Americans as if we were a Third World people in need of remediation. It wants us to depend on it for economic sustenance.

In exchange, we must submit to its dictates. It costs our private-sector economy at least $6 trillion per year.

The damage it has done to America’s soul is immeasurable.

Will John McCain lead the revolution? He has every reason to know that freedom is precious, that America is something far greater than Washington and that the power of government must always be directed outward toward those who would harm us, never inward toward ourselves.

The immediate challenge is to rebuild the federal government from the ground up — on a much smaller scale and with a new mission: “Keep us safe and leave us alone.”

The following set of minimalist guidelines may be useful.

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