Letter I sent to the Pueblo Chieftain

The Pueblo Chieftain published a story about the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2. This is the letter I sent them in response:

Thank you, Pueblo Chieftain for telling the unvarnished truth about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Most Americans usually give him a pass on his imprisonment of Americans of Japanese descent because they believe in the Roosevelt myths: that he ended the Great Depression, and that he saved the world from Nazism.

If public schools taught the unbiased facts about Roosevelt, Americans would know that the New Deal was an abysmal failure. Roosevelt’s economic advisors thought that the cause of the Depression was low prices. To solve this ‘problem’ the New Dealers embarked on an aggressive plan to shift the supply curve leftward, resulting in higher prices, thus stimulating the economy.

To this end – with Americans literally starving in the streets – New Dealers burned thousands of mountains of potatoes; plowed under millions of acres of crops; slaughtered six million piglets; and arrested tens of thousands of American small business owners for the crime of charging too little.

Not surprisingly, that destruction didn’t lead to greater prosperity. Unemployment never went below 14% during Roosevelt’s first two terms and the average over his entire reign of error was 17% causing Treasury Secretary Morgenthau to lament “We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started, and an enormous debt to boot.”

FDR’s devoted himself to Stalin more than five months before Pearl Harbor and his love for Stalin approached the level of insanity with Operation: Keelhaul, in which some two million Russian soldiers, who wanted to overthrow the Soviet regime, were arrested and turned over to Soviet officials.

Roosevelt’s actions allowed the Soviets to enslave an additional five hundred million people under communism’s cruel heal. He was not a great president: he was one of our worst.

I am hereby dropping out of the race for US House of Representatives, Colorado District 3

I have decided to end my little-noticed bid for US House of Representatives in the 3rd District in Colorado. The main reasons are personal, but there is another, less important reason, but one that has been on my mind ever since my first public appearance as a candidate. That reason can be summed up as follows:

The average American, in my opinion, is a complete idiot.

In talking to people over these last few months I have come to the realization that I cannot possibly pretend that I respect the average voter. I think the average voter is an imbecile whose brain has been practically marinated in statist doctrine. This makes me a very, very poor candidate.

In the last month or so, as I talked to people, it has occurred to me that these people have gotten exactly the government they deserve. They have voted for crooks and gotten crooked government. I have neither the time nor the patience to educate 9/10s of the voters in this district about liberty. They fear freedom. They want the welfare/warfare state.

I am not the guy. I wish Wayne Wolf the best of luck in his bid to unseat the despicable John Salazar.