Imagine if you lived in a free nation… A place where you could live, work, and play without being subject to the whims of a regulator.  Where you could follow your dreams without answering to anyone or anything, as long as your dreams didn’t infringe on the right of others to do the same.   Our forefathers imagined such a place.  After thousands of years of oppressive regimes and states where the lives of the population were governed in detail by the whims of tyrants, they decided to try freedom.  The experiment worked.  For over 200 years, this nation has improved the quality of living in the world on an exponential level unimagined by any ancient philosopher.   Now imagine how you would feel to watch that dream crushed by the same sorts of bureaucratic populist tyrants whose experiments in control and social engineering have crushed the spirits of their people and driven them to your shores for hundreds of years.  You would be angry right? Maybe just a little?

Luckily, you have your 200 year experiment of success all around you and easily googlable.  You wouldn’t have to struggle hard to debunk their sad little twisted talking points taken from the outright lies of the Obama campaign team or the “king’s clothes” intellectuals like Krugman.   You would simply state the facts and maybe sometimes laugh at them a little when the intellectual twister gets over the top.  Instead, what we seem to get are pundits on the right that have a frozen petit mal seizure in the face of an argument and then regurgitate some pre-rehearsed talking point.  And we wonder why the right isn’t as jazzed up as they should be…

Here is how it is done:

Imagine living in a Russian submarine on a dive for three months surrounded by unwashed sailors who only eat raw fish and chain smoke in your 6’ X 6’ bunk bed quarters.  When the submarine surfaces, you get to be the first sailor to open the hatch and take in a deep breath of ocean arctic air in Siberia 300 miles from the nearest town.  Watching the above clip kind of felt like that.

Here is another fresh breath for you:

The master at work.  Krauthammer, Ryan, and West can also get it done, but the list gets short after that….