The heavy Load

While trying to find the source of a comment I had made earlier in the week I ran across a particularly distressing article.

http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/060129-2.htm

The depressing part is not so much the observation and documentation that Stephen Harper 'sold out'. This is fact and of course the selling price is getting higher day by day as we build up to the next election. My issue is the use of this one situation to close off any suggestion of hope against the 'resistance is futile' camp is .. so .. well .. anti-productive. In this case to quote directly: "As I have written many times in QL, partisan politics is a waste of time for people who really want to reduce the size of the state."

Now this attitude of doom and gloom is hardly unique. Many libertarians in Ontario know a certain 'leader' who is a full time advocate of the doom, despair and misery and all is lost and every action is bound to fail school. Well take up knitting or something that is productive then. As the T-shirt says: "Lead follow or get out of the way". Of course change is possible and guess what it is happening all the time. It does take more effort to be creative than to repeat gloom and it takes creativity to be successful, but just watching it on TV or preaching to the converted is not going to change anything.

I truly believe if there was as much effort put into action as there is into moaning and complaining we would be much farther along the road to a freer society than we are now. Matter of fact the political road right now seems to be twisting back to the bad old days of force getting what it wants in public debate and inter-personal affairs. I blame that regression only partly on the people doing the intimidation. Those who stand by and let it happen are partly responsible too.