Should the Democratic and Republican Parties Disband?

If all the Democratic and Republican Parties are going to do is spend the taxpayers’ money to investigate each other, then maybe both parties should just disband.

Yes, that’s it!

Please do the American people a BIG favor and disband.

 

Yes, I agree. Hyperbole, within reason, is a method used to make a larger point.

 

The BIG similarity between both of the major parties is that they both advocate for government that has a HUGE size, scope, and reach, much larger than what a minarchist, such as myself and others, want, as spelled out by Frank S. Meyer:

"The state therefore has two natural functions, functions essential to the existence of any peaceful, ordered society: to protect the rights of citizens against violent or fraudulent assault, and to judge in conflicts of right with right. It has a further third function, which is another aspect of the first, that is, to protect its citizens from assault by foreign powers. These three functions are expressed by three powers: the police power, which protects the citizen against domestic violence; the military power, which protects the citizen against violence from abroad; and the courts of law, which judge between rights and rights, as well as sharing with the police power the protection of the citizen against domestic violence.
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But since this institution must possess a monopoly of legal physical force, to give to it in addition any further power is fraught with danger; that monopoly gives to the state so much power that its natural functions should be its maximum functions."

- Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo, published in 1962

 

So have I.

"Libertarian Ken Hamilton, who utilized religious imagery throughout the debate, closed by assailing the value of the dollar. Hamilton called for the dollar to be tied to gold and re-appropriated the refrain of William Jennings Bryan's famous 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech.

“How much longer will you continue to allow the federal reserve banking cartel and the Republican and Democratic enablers in Washington to crucify you upon a cross of fiat paper currency?” asked Hamilton."

4th District Congressional Candidates Differ Over Role of Government (ualrpublicradio.org)

 

And from another article about the debate:

' Hamilton repeated previous comments that the federal Constitution does not provide a direct means to give out agricultural subsidies. He invited states to design their own programs, but said as it stands the federal farm bill is "crony capitalism."

Witt and Westerman had a few moments of agreement throughout the debate, including their opposition to legalizing marijuana. Hamilton, however, argued that legalizing marijuana for medical use was humane and a more natural way of treating illnesses.

"God created the marijuana plant and we should utilize it properly," he said. "As long as you're not taking anyone else's property or hurting anyone else, then the government should not tell you what to do with your body." '

4th District debate sticks to issues (arkansasonline.com)