Pre-Order The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, by Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch
The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, by Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, will be published by Public Affairs on June 28.
Pre-order your copy now of this season's only political manifesto that name-checks the shock-rock band GWAR's album This Toilet Earth; argues that the survivors will envy the dead in a world where the choices are John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi; and embraces gay marriage, drug legalization, open borders, and casual Fridays.
Written with an engaging touch, The Declaration of Independents puts the pursuit of happiness at the center of a 21st-century American dream while providing an idealistic yet pragmatic blueprint for a country that is tired of debt, recession, and war.
Read this book to learn why:
- Political independents are the largest voting bloc in America and will determine the 2012 election—and whether the country goes belly up.
- We need independence not just in politics, but from politics. We can't pursue happiness if our federal, state, and local governments are bankrupt—and controlling every aspect of our lives.
- Innovators in everything from air travel to craft beer to pop music show how individuals can be trusted to come up with exciting and fun new ways of radically improving living standards.
- The three areas of our lives most controlled by politics—education, health care, and retirement—are the most broken, and can't be fixed simply by spending more money and exerting more top-down control.
- Our potential future is so bright we'll have to wear shades. But it can only happen if we make it happen by banishing politics from the center of our lives and replacing them with the pursuit of happiness, not cheap partisan advantage.
Nick Gillespie is the editor in chief of the websites Reason.com and Reason.tv and Matt Welch heads up the print edition of Reason, which since 1968 has been a "kick-ass, no-holds-barred political magazine" (New York Post) whose "refusal to carry water for the Republicans and Democrats is deeply refreshing in this age of partisan bickering" (Folio).
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Nick and Matt, congrats on your book. Who wrote it?
I have a book. I tried to read it but it’s too hard.
They are called independents, but yet they end up voting only for two possible parties, in a country of over 300 million. There are countries with not even 3 million people with a more vibrant political scene.
I never understood why every one votes Dem or GOP. I almost always vote for a third party candidate. The two party system is ruining this country.
The book is not available at zondervan.com and you said, “Pre-order now at Amazon.com, BN.com, or your favorite online bookstore.”
WTF is a Christfag to do?
Well, it’s too bad the government hasn’t been involved in the housing market, then.
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Oh, that was sarcasm by the way. I thought you might need a hint.
It was the government that was responsible for the theft of Michael Clauer’s house?
It was the government that was responsible for the theft of Wenonah Blevins’s house?
It was the government that was responsible for the theft of Pamela Bernhardt’s house?
Because the Free Market Fairy would never allow private corporations and their lawyers to do such things.
No one knows what you’re referring to. Tune down the crazy a bit.
Michael Clauer has his house back.
Wenonah Blevins got her house back and successfully sued her HOA.
But I’m sure most people here support the right of an HOA to seize $300,000 worth of property to repay a delinquency of $800, sure. God bless Libertaprivatopia.
In some states, HOA foreclosures account for 10% of foreclosures. I’m not sure anyone knows the total number.
Is this the fault of government, or private corporations who have given free reign to their collections attorneys?
No, he’s some kind of hardcore anti-HOA activist. Because nothing says libertarian like forcibly taking someone’s property for minor HOA delinquencies.
He also seems blissfully unaware that when people say housing is broken — in a way similar to education and health care — they’re referring almost exclusively to the mortgage debt market, where the government has almost always backed a sizable majority of loans.
Will you blog about it after you read it?
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Is that so?
thank you
“libertarians” are clever.
Perhaps we should look at whether the people who live in HOAs have voluntarily agreed to contracts that allow the HOA to seize their house to pay delinquencies, no?
I know of two types of Independents. One is like many of my friends (and my wife) who are really Libertarians, hate both parties, and usually tend to prioritize Social or Fiscal issues higher, and vote accordingly for one of the big two.
The other type of Independent is much more numerous. He doesn’t agree AT ALL with the notion that the Government should be restricted. He wishes that more politicians could be like McCain and Lieberman (Social Conservatives and Fiscal Liberals who champion ‘compromise’ to the tune of trillions of dollars each year). He is extremely concerned about whatever problem is at the top of the news networks, and votes for whichever candidate argues the most eloquent ‘solution’. He loves blue ribbon panels, FTC, FCC, FAA and SEC, but just wants them to be better.
So some proportion of Indies pay attention and are disgusted (the former example) but the majority (the latter) don’t pay attention at all and actually hate to see principled bickering.
If Libertarians think they are going to get those center Independents, they are crazy.
If Libertarians really want to capture a proportion of voters, they need to target the ideologues in the parties. They are the ones paying attention.
Any chance of this coming out in audiobook format? That’s how I do most of my “reading” these days, with my horrible commute.