The dependency-zombies

Every so often, when events are confusing and often conflicting, it helps to draw back and view them from a more distant perspective. That's not always easy – but it usually pays big dividends.

That is precisely what all Americans who still want some measure of freedom remaining in their lives need to do. I was going to use the word "Republicans," then "conservatives" – but neither is correct. In fact, I don't think such freedom-loving Americans can be easily pigeonholed.

Freedom, by its very nature, resists pigeonholing. The left has tried this "all for one and one for all" strategy and succeeded – during the election. Now the Democratic Congress is faced with paying off conflicting special interests – and it can't be done.

So how can the freedom coalition succeed where the dependency coalition will fail? The answer is deceptively simple. The left needs government to pay for its dreams. We simply want

government to stand aside and let us build our dreams.

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The dependency-zombies who took over the Democratic Party generations ago believe that America "looks like them," except for pockets of "conservative" resistance. They believe this for a variety of reasons, but exploring those now would be a distraction. For the moment, the common wisdom suffices: "Birds of a feather flock together," and "the apple (or ACORN) doesn't fall far from the tree."

When we step back and view the landscape as a whole, it looks like a gigantic mole infestation. Dependency-zombies are busy digging holes all across the landscape. So busy, in fact, they are quickly disappearing down the holes they are digging. While the altruistic among them may think they are "fixing" a variety of "evils" in modern society, the more worldly know they are angling to control ever more aspects of human life, and in so doing staking out a greater financial advantage for themselves.

Freedom-loving Americans know that if the zombies succeed, the almighty state will pour our lifeblood into the collectivist pot at birth, drain us dry through higher and higher taxes during our working lives, and use these tax-funded bureaucratic empires built with our blood to decide when we have become a burden to the state – and to schedule the when, where and how of our death (to relieve the almighty state of its promised obligations). That's the dirty, bloody underside the dependency-zombies don't want us to see.

When we engage the dependency-zombies molehill by molehill on the battlefield, we do it with our friends and allies. And when we do, we frequently forget another common-sense adage: "When you're up to your neck in alligators, it's easy to forget the objective was to drain the swamp."

Yet if you care about human freedom, draining the money-swamp is the objective. And as the federal government has become the biggest money-sucking machine the world has ever seen, more and more of us have had our interests threatened by its actions. The more money it takes in, the more areas of our lives it demands control over. And the more molehills we find ourselves fighting to take back on the battlefield.

It's a war we can't win. The only way to win is to drain the money-swamp. When the feds don't have and can't get the money – they will try "unfunded mandates." Some states will "find" the money through taxation to comply; other's won't. But without wads of cash to hand out to the dependency-zombies, the feds will find themselves playing to a rapidly dwindling crowd.

The 2010 elections can cut the spigot of federal tax dollars to a trickle. But it won't happen if we insist on electing "conservatives" or "Republicans" or our own unique brand of representative in our district. We need candidates who are serious about advancing freedom by draining the money-swamp.

The candidates who will run in 2010 are thinking about it now. We need a freedom clearinghouse to vet their backgrounds and insure that their past actions mesh with their future promises. We need this before they become candidates. I don't know how – but I do believe the Internet

offers this potential.

Perhaps you know how.