On one end, you have ideological PURISTS like many at Lew Rockwell who fall into the “Mitt Romney is a statist, Adolph Hitler is a statist, therefore Mitt Romney equals Adolph Hitler” trap.

At the other end is the MSNBC-Times through FOX-National-Review PARTISANS who will blow up minute differences between Obama and Romney into some cosmic significance akin to doubling the charge on the electron.

I started my political journey on the RIGHT with the Buckley New York State Conservative Party and watched 45 years of Republicans growing the Welfare-Warfare State. I am too old to cut “conservatives” slack just because a Pelosi or an Obama is willing to defend the same policies the Republicans inevitably go along with.

My ancestral background attests to what tribalism/group-think, inflation (think 1920’s Germany), and unlimited state power can do. Freedom and individual rights afford opportunities for individuals to better themselves without harming others. However, there is always some left-collectivists or right-collectivists (who may invoke words like “toleration” or “family” or “democracy”) who will come after your life or liberty as stated in your book Into The Cannibals Pot.