Can you trust what the tea party and libertarians say they can do for America? The evidence says no!
First, there is no evidence a libertarian government has governed for more than a short while. Historically, some revolutions created temporary libertarian conditions, but they ended up dictatorships. No nation in the world today is libertarian. To some degree, Singapore is economically, but socially, it is totalitarian.
The tea party says it wants to go back to post-revolutionary time, ignoring the impotence of the Confederation, President Washington’s limiting citizens’ rights during the Whiskey Rebellion, passing an import tax and signing the Jay Treaty. Some conservatives wanted to impeach Washington because he overdrew his salary.
The most important evidence comes from the world today. Japan shrank its budget for years. That failed, so it changed tactics this year. Europe is in the midst of a severe recession because German and French conservatives wanted countries with large debts to cut budgets. Those countries sink deeper into malaise, with no improvement in sight.
People who are angry at Obama should consider who’s at fault. He’s cut the deficit and added millions of jobs, while tea party conservatives have blocked his bills to create jobs and aid citizens.