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OUR ORIGINAL POLITICAL PARTY

Each of us was born into a community. That was our first political party. The family was the Community Party and parents, whom we did not elect, led. The community grew to tribe and nation, led by unelected chiefs and kings. Leaders set the rules and defined the culture. Thousands of years of habit, acceptance and misery define the Community Party.

Communities, tribes and nations grew larger and leaders did not provide the things needed. Too many mouths to feed and bodies to clothe led to starvation and disease. Communities warred against each other for power and booty. Communities rebel and replace their leaders, but things never improved. The Community Party brought only misery to its members.

One community and its leaders sailed to a land far from the Old World to reestablish it. Starvation and disease forced the leaders to free their people of restrictions and allow self-interest to work. The Old World tolerated a few self-interest people as builders and artisans. In the New World, almost 400 years ago, pursuing self-interest was essential for survival.

Those pursuing self-interest were succssful. They grew in numbers and populated the whole continent. They could feed, clothe, manufacture and provide for everyone. Their economy became so prosperous, people left their Community Parties around the world to immigrate to America and still do.

The Old World Community Party leaders were angry and vowed to destroy the pursuit of self-interest. They sent emissaries to the New World to encourage people to change attitudes toward their self-interest compatriots. They convinced communities in the New World to envy what self-interest people create and for thinking out of the bubble and living out of the box.

The Old World Community Party took control of New World schools and taught children life is best only in community. They eliminated skill training and taught social adjustment. They established labor unions to convince workers to limit creative individuals and take a bigger share of their wealth. They took over communications and entertainment to influence people to fall in line again. They took over an established political party, the Democratic Party. They dedicated it to become an Old World Community Party, where the few manage the many. Their new political party would pass laws to tax away the benefits creative individuals made for themselves and redistribute wealth.

Members of the New World Community Party, the American Democratic Party, forgot the benefits they received from free and innovative individuals' efforts. To satisfy their envy at not sharing equally in the rewards of those efforts, they would destroy them. They failed to look back in history when the world suffered misery without individual liberty. They believe community interests are more important than self-interest.

The fact so many free and innovative people existed in one place, America, and made a better life for all, will be difficult to hide from future communities. Some will surely get the itch to pursue their own self-interests, use their own talents and skills, fulfill their own aspirations, and become successful.

The political evolution of humankind showing communities and free individuals living well with each other, are the recipe for human happiness. A community has no heart, brain, soul or interest. The actions of creative individual self-interests within it shape its interests as well as its prosperity.
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