Link to Tom Mullen here:
"Contrary to Rick Santorum’s assertion that no society based upon radical individualism has ever succeeded, the libertarian, radical individualist principles upon which the United States was founded were precisely why it succeeded so spectacularly. It was libertarianism that made America different from any society before or since – what made it the “shining city on the hill” as Santorum calls it. It was the collectivist conservative philosophy that helped bring it down – with a lot of help from a third philosophical movement called Progressivism. Neither more conservatism nor more progressivism – nor any combination of the two – can solve the problems that America faces today. If Americans want to see liberty and prosperity restored in the United States, then restoring libertarianism is their only hope."
This is certainly unique to the USA. Although, Republican Rome reads eerily close to American history. It began to falter once the empire consolidated; something Cicero (a conservative) lamented.
Libertarians assume, like all other true believers that they hold the answers to life's great mysteries. In this case, they are right to a certain degree; this country was founded on the basic principle of individual liberty and soveriegnty.
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