Sen. Jim DeMint Explains His Fight Against Obama and Socialism

It's obvious that anyone we elect is not going to do what we want them to do. We are going to keep progressing towards a state of complete government control, whether you vote on the right or the left. Bush took away many of our own rights solely for national security, when there were plenty of other viable, more sensible options on the table.

The fact that we're engaging in two wars and probably going to start a third, is just completely ridiculous. We are pissing off the rest of the world with our imperialistic foreign policy. We think democracy is the best thing out there, yet our own citizens are being ignored by whomever we elect into office.

We can't afford to cut taxes anymore. We need to get this deficit under control. This means withdrawing all our troops from the 98+ countries that they are stationed in, so we can spend less on national security and have a more secure homeland. We also need to end this ridiculous war on drugs, because having a black market for these drugs is what is financing terrorists in the first place. If we destroy the source of their massive profits (the black market of drugs), then we take away a lot of their power and influence in the world. Instead, we've been fighting a drug war for over forty years that we haven't gained any ground on, at all...

DeMint is not going to change policy. No one we elect is going to change policy. The constitution is merely a historical artifact as it stands today. Haven't you noticed that whomever runs for president always promises all these great things and changes, yet they never happen? In fact, the opposite almost always happens. Bush said he would protect us from terrorist attacks, and in his first term, we had the largest terrorist attack on American soil. Obama promised healthcare reform, and since the Republican and Democratic parties are like matter and antimatter, there will be no change. They always disagree with each other solely for the purpose of disagreeing and winning support from their party base. It's getting ridiculous.

Axe the DEA, the CIA, merge the National Guard with the NSA, destroy the black market of drugs that finance terrorists (since drug users will use drugs regardless of the law--and we have about 20+ million regular illicit drug users in our country). Doing all this would eliminate the national deficit, and we will no longer need to worry about national security threats, because we would have plenty of troops at home protecting our borders, and we would save billions of dollars a year by ending funding for a war that cannot be won (the war on drugs), and we wouldn't need to mettle in other countries affairs. That's why we are so widely hated around the world. We are viewed as the "policing country" on Earth when we have no just cause of doing so. Just eliminate the war on drugs and all of our seemingly large problems will be solved.

The end. Too bad it will never happen. In 100 years the U.S. won't exist, if we continue on the path we're on.

Brian Crouse of WA 7:51PM February 25, 2010