David Edward Garber (@DaveGarber1975)

Our loving Heavenly Father created us not as puppets or automatons or slaves but as His beloved children with an innate capacity to choose, including to choose how to exercise force over the world around us. The rightful exercise of force is governed by timeless universal moral laws. One common modern way to conceptualize these laws is that we each have equal God-given (or natural) rights, which may be categorized as rights over our persons, rights over the fruits of our labors, rights over our children within reason as they mature, rights to interact contractually with others, and rights to defend ourselves from others' aggression. Exercising these last two rights together, we may justly charter political systems to expertly assist us in self-defense. It seems to me that such offices don't attract liberators as readily as subjugators, who (if elected) tend to corrupt their offices away from their proper defensive role into an improper aggressive role, after which the exercise of corrupt power tends to further corrupt officers who wield it. Such corruption enables our political systems to degenerate from rights-defending servants into rights-violating masters that seek to reign over us with limitless authority in all things---and living in bondage is bad for us. So, to avoid such political degeneracy by default, it's important for us to actively seek-out wise virtuous statespeople to uphold over corrupt cunning statists. Worthy political candidates should demonstrate (through records over rhetoric) both virtuous personal character (especially being honest) and wise political policy (especially upholding the U. S. Constitution in the tradition of America's founders). These two vital qualities aren't usually gained while serving in office---unlike experience, which is a helpful added bonus, but only if it's gained at doing the right things. Also, labels are unreliable, and appearances are frivolous. Having said all of this, please enjoy this StosselTV episode featuring Chase Oliver, who is the Libertarian Party's current nominee for U. S. President. Third-party wins are so unlikely in plurality voting that some people believe that voting for third-party candidates wastes our votes---but I believe that our only wasted votes are for unworthy candidates. We shouldn't demand too much, nor should we settle for too little. Voting for evil is evil, even if it's voting for a lesser evil---plus, lesser evils sometimes achieve more than greater evils, and persistently voting for evil candidates discourages good candidates from campaigning. https://rumble.com/v53ooqj-a-presidential-candidate-who-believes-in-economic-and-personal-freedom-chas.html #USElections #Election2024 #Candidates #ThirdParty #LibertarianParty #LP #Libertarianism #RightfulLiberty #Liberty #Freedom