Why I Left the Libertarian Party for the GOP

I didn’t leave the Libertarian Party because it was doing poorly, or because anybody was especially wrong about anything. I’ve certainly built a lot of relationships over my thirty years in it. I love Libertarians. The party’s been good to me. Very good.

Sure, I was tired of fighting their emphasis and priority on things that shouldn’t even be any part of a political discussion.  Even they’d agree that sex and drugs are personal, moral, or even church issues, and government shouldn’t be involved. But they’ve raised sex/gender and drugs so prominently into everything for so long, that I, as a conservative Christian, felt just as repulsed, as most of the rest of the electorate, by messaging repetition and perverse moralizing. To me, and many others I know, the Libertarian Party, as a general message, promotes immorality and self-indulgence at the expense of real problems that need to be addressed.
Before I ever got to discuss what I think needs to be discussed, I was always having to reply to voters that, “No, I’m not THAT kind of Libertarian…I don’t want gender-changing hallucinogenic drugs trafficked across open borders.” And also, lately, “No, corporations are NOT ‘private’ business; they are corrupt government that should not be building flock cameras feeding an AI surveillance and citizen control network that will control our movement, trade, money, and…behavior!” …Dammit.

So, in failing to open their political eyes and ears to address real legal and civilizational needs, the national party made made itself worse than irrelevant.  While after thirty years it breaks my heart to say so, the LP has become a painful distraction and waste of my time and money (and my wife’s long-suffering support), and I can have nothing more to do with it. I really am sorry. Very sorry. My name and reputation has been attached to the Indiana Libertarian Party (which is vastly better than the national party – Congratulations to my friend Evan McMahon) for thirty years, so this really is painful.

Ironically, libertarianism, in economics and war and constitutional policy, is demonstrably correct. I still say that, philosophically, I AM a libertarian.  But the party’s oft-stated priorities are embarrassingly, shockingly wrong on the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs. And in a few respects, like Gary Johnson’s “Bake the Cake” nonsense, the LP has become anti-libertarian.

So…fine. All that said about why I left the LP, WHY IN THE LIVING HECK did I join the GOP?

That’s a really good question, considering that the GOP, with a total lock on state and federal power, is increasing corruption, war, spending, debt, inflation, social division/ tribalism, foreign influence, pushing us toward Technocratic Dystopia, and the destruction of literally everything that made the USA special to begin with.  And while I was at a Meet & Greet on Saturday, some people were congratulating themselves, and a few were grumbling, over affirming “traditional marriage” in the EIGHT PAGE party platform overflowing with platitudes and principles that the party clearly rejects in action. Many Republicans are happy that the very best US House Rep we’ve had since Justin Amash and John Hostettler, Thomas Massie, was defeated by a candidate heavily backed by a foreign government.

The GOP, like both the Democratic and Libertarian parties, seems absolutely blind and deaf to the fact that MOST people have real issues that nobody’s addressing. They’re ignoring the monetary/military/technocracy monster that’s making young people hate us Boomers. And the GOP’s about to get smacked upside the head for it.

The GOP really needs a return to core constitutional principles and fundamental law, obviously, and I bet all Republicans would agree to that with their mouths.  The party should draft a new, short, direct, simple mission statement (one full page max) as the party platform to let everybody, including we Boomers, that the party’s had a mea culpa change of heart, and mind.

Great.
Fine, you say. Andy’s mad at the GOP, too.
So the question remains, WHY IN THE LIVING HECK did I join the GOP?
After all the preceding, it may seem to make no sense.

Some of my reasons are personal, some pragmatic, some based on probably unreasonable hope:

  1. I promised loved ones (one unnamed wife in particular) that I was done with the LP, and I’m finally keeping that promise.
  2. Trouble is coming. It’s too late to avoid it. We need to get closer to community, and I, personally, would like to get known, and hopefully liked, by the politically active people on at least the local and state levels. We’ll need strong relationships to police, church and voluntary association leaders, local politicians and administrators, as well as neighbors, to survive what’s coming. And after what’s coming hits us everywhere from the wallet to the dinner table to the face, maybe people will be ready to listen to reason, and better ideas, than what got us all screwed up today.
  3. The GOP is about to get shellacked…maybe even here in blood-red Indiana. There may come an opportunity for a recasting of characters. Not that a Boomer like me would stand a chance in any official role, but maybe I could help in debates to reform the party into what all the Republicans I know say they want it to be. Maybe the spanking the party’s about to get will be a great thing. Self-discipline would’ve been better, but, OK, punishment is sometimes a blessing.
  4. MOST of my favorite people in the world, in both family and friend circles, are Republicans. Some of them…many, in fact, are the kind of Republican that I …am. Lots of people prefer Republicans like Ron Paul, Thomas Massie, Justin Amash and John Hostettler, to…well…I’ll just say it…Donald Netanyahu Epstein Trump. People who really WANT the Republic that our constitution authorizes, and that Ben Franklin dared us to keep. That may be an opportunity for change.
  5. So…in that sense of a constitutional republic, a republican form of government guaranteed to all the states, philosophically and pragmatically, I AM a Republican.
  6. And I’m also demonstrably prone to unreasonable hope. That hope sees possibilities…

That’s why.

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Andy Horning
Freedom, Indiana

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On Mistakes: Admit. Learn. Never repeat.

I wrote the following, and it was published as a letter-to-the-editor, when I lived in Houston around 2009/10. It may not specifically mention the “issues” that are on everybody’s lips these days. But it does address what’s at the core of all of what some call “issues,” but what I call symptoms of a horrible, pernicious disease that’s plagued mankind since Cain slew Abel.

It is the current fashion to blame “big corporations” and “the influence of money” on our social problems.  But this is a dangerous self-deception.

Corporations are not monsters of an “unregulated free market.”  Rather they are inherently political creations with special legal privileges intended to suppress the absolute accountability in true free markets.

Corporations can’t buy influence that’s not for sale; and politicians are the influence peddlers.  Politicians are in fact the agents of all large-scale injustice.

Yet Americans have no problems that voters haven’t repeatedly chosen with a greater-than-98% incumbent reelection rate!

We citizens need to understand our power and accountability.  The last thing we need is an imaginary whipping boy.  Governments are invariably a reflection of the people. They have no power but what we have given them through our ignorance and complaisance, and our economic and social troubles will abate only when, or if, we come to our senses, act like grown ups, and quit putting our faith in politicians.  Politics isn’t cool and it’s never safe.  After all, the history of politics is the history of oppression, slavery, genocide and war.  The whole point of constitutions is, in fact, to put politicians (not corporations, and certainly not you) on a leash.  

In 1813, Thomas Jefferson said, “[Every citizen should] be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free State.”  The hard truth is that professional soldiers don’t fight for your freedom.  Only citizens can do that.  And we haven’t been doing that.

Do something unusual on Constitution Day.  Read the Constitution.  Denial might feel good in the short term, but in the long term, only the truth can set you free.

Andy Horning
Kingwood, TX 77345-1607

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Epstein Files: We need to make a very hard choice

November 18, 2025

Epstein Files: We need to make a very hard choice

With a sigh, and a hard swallow, we should recognize that:

  1. The actual victims of the Epstein financial/ sex-trafficking/ blackmail network will never see justice or compensation for their personal tragedies.  At this point, it’s too clear that the network’s puppet strings are everywhere, and the people behind the network are thus very powerful.
  2. Epstein was just one facilitator – just a part of a much bigger, older problem.  The people behind the global network are without doubt still actively creating and pulling strings, and this should be our primary focus. 
  3. The puppets, no matter their crimes, should no doubt be quite willing to “cut a deal” in order to be free of those strings.  This is the hard pill to swallow for everybody.  But the disease of corruption and control is tearing this nation apart.  And let’s not fool ourselves.  No problems died with Epstein.
  4. To tear away the “national security” curtains, reveal the puppet masters, and end their ongoing horrific crimes and control schemes, we must sacrifice the past, for the ongoing present, and future of this nation.

So, given the extreme level of corruption, both corporate and foreign, destroying our nation’s laws, principles and societal function, I recommend a very distasteful course of action:

  • Realize that a lot of people who want, and get power over others, are at least as motivated by sex and money as the rest of us, let’s cut a deal the way we often do with other organized crime actors.  Assure a “witness protection program” and anonymity, if necessary.  This isn’t forgiveness, it’s necessary compromise to get the worst of the worst, and clean out our government’s den of snakes.
  • Get the monsters who’ve been building our nation’s funeral pyre, and setting it ablaze, across many generations now.

I’m certainly open to other ideas.  But what we’ve been doing certainly isn’t working.  And we need to get something working correctly, and pronto. This is, after all, war. Against us.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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Our most dangerous abstractions rule us

November 10, 2025

Our most dangerous abstractions rule us

It’s easy to see why socialism is appealing to young folk.  Too many of us have been taught by schooling, entertainment, and even art, that “unregulated capitalism” is causing inflation; and a whole generation is suffering a unified system of corrupt politicians and businesses working against them.  They are in fact right to blame “corporate greed” and corrupt politicians for at least most of our nation’s ills.  And they are right to criticize the misled conservatives and libertarians among us who think that “Public-Private Partnerships” and “privatization” are the panacea. 

On the other hand, the conservatives and libertarians who think that Big Government and socialism are to blame, are right, too. 

Democrats are right to blame corporations for buying our politicians, while Republicans are right to blame politicians for selling us to corporations.  There is common ground among all of us if we’d wake up to one very simple misunderstanding that has led to catastrophic consequences:

Corporations are not humans.  Corporations are, in fact, government.

Corporations are, like government, legal, collective abstractions.  They are chartered, regulated, empowered and protected by government laws for mostly good reasons.  But corporations were foolishly and controversially bequeathed “human rights” in the 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.  While most corporations are still beneficial, the difference between some corporations, and organized crime, is little more than some paperwork, and campaign donations that are made above, as opposed to under, the table.  And the “Public-Private Partnerships” actually (not exaggerating or making this up) fit a large part of Mussolini’s definition of fascism – the bundling, or fastening of socialism, nationalism and corporatism.  A hand-in-glove crony system of political armed force and greed with collectivized risk and “privatized” profit.  And it gets worse.

A few ominous government surveillance programs like “Total Information Awareness” had been rightly shelved.  But they were then “privatized” with CIA funding and technology in the ominous form of, for example, Palantir Technologies Inc, Google and Oracle.  Dystopic DOD programs have been updated by the sci-fi dystopic Anduril Industries, and SpaceX, as well as the usual “Military-Industrial Complex” and “Scientific-Technological Elite” corporations that Eisenhower warned us against.

Politically powerful Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, and perhaps most egregiously lately, asset management corporations like Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard, along with a certain foreign government colluding with the “Deep State,” have bought out, taken over, and stolen, our nation’s wealth, health, security and freedom.  And they’re not done yet.

That’s what the rapid buildup of AI “data centers” is all about, in case you’re wondering. It’s not just about storing puppy videos and porn. They, along with the flock cameras popping up like dandelions, are all about watching, cataloguing, and controlling…you. Your money, your movement, your trade…everything will be under supervision. …By the people, and their AI, that actually run the government.

Almost all of us understand that our government is corrupt.  Most of us see the obvious relationship between campaign donations and their results in governance.  Very few of us, however, vote like we know any of that.  And so, only a tiny few of us in any way oppose what I believe is the biggest political threat we humans have ever faced – a very quickly unfolding AI-powered dystopia ruled by a universally global network of billionaire technocrats who espouse a Malthusian, eugenicist/ transhumanist “dark enlightenment.”  Many of the “tech bros” ominously refer to creating the “Antichrist,” “Mark of the Beast,” and even the ancient Golem myth – a man-made slave monster that turns on its makers.  

But, “you will own nothing, and be happy!”

Our new ruling class is, in other words, howling-at-the-moon crazy.

I suggest the following:

  1. Recognize that We The People, overwhelmingly, voted for this mess.  We didn’t have to.  And we don’t have to in the future.
  2. Vote against it.  Fire incumbents; both the politicians and the parties’ corruption networks, follow the money, and vote for only those who don’t, in very real terms, work against you. Thomas Massie, for example, is one of very, very few US congress critters that deserves to keep his job.
  3. Actively search for better representatives; ones who promote sound, constitutional money, peace, and sound technology (e.g., permissionless blockchain, instead of “stablecoins” and total surveillance and control).  Talk them into running, or run yourself.  Use our Power of Peaceful Revolution as intended, at long last.
  4. Only if this doesn’t work, should we discuss Plan B. 

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, IN

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USA’s Military/Monetary Hegemony is Over

September 6, 2025

We Forced the World to Unite…Against US!

Freedom, Indiana – Our nation’s founders warned us.  Eisenhower warned us.  Innumerable politicians, economists and even losers like me have warned through generations and decades, against central banks, empire-building, entangling-alliance meddling, nannying, and military/monetary bullying.  Our costs are rising, our standard of living is falling, and the recent meeting of international leaders, and expo of military might in Beijing, presaged that USA’s costly exertions of global domination will end, one way, or another.  As all proud empires fall, so shall ours. 

It’s not all Trump’s fault.  Our century-old fiat currency system and Federal Reserve Bank cabal doomed us to the twin perils of the Cantillon Effect, which made the rich, richer at the expense of the non-Investment Class; and, since the Breton Woods Agreement after WWII, the Triffin Paradox, which describes the inflation and inevitable collapse of the dollar’s dominance as the global Reserve Currency.

But Trump’s manic gyrations of military and monetary bullying, piling on more international sanctions on everybody, particularly after the EU/Biden freezing of Russian assets, and recently, the helter-skelter tariffs and regime change efforts, accelerated moves already begun by nations around the world, to end our empire’s destructive carrot-and-mostly-stick manipulation and subjugation of the planet.  Economic alliances like BRICS and ASEAN, and a new military axis of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, now comprise most of the world’s population, and economic production.  We’ve funded, armed and trained our enemies, and betrayed our friends.  We turned against what made this nation successful, and subjected ourselves to demagogues and plutocrats.  We have literally forced most of the world to turn against us. Who can blame them?

But we can come out of this OK if we do a few things that should’ve been done long ago.

First, stand-down our Military-Industrial Monster, and focus on free trade.  Real free trade.  Now.  Today.  Globally.  We ought to publicly issue a very humble and honest mea culpa that we’re broke, and that we can no longer govern, aid, punish, defend or nanny any country but our own.  Peace, Commerce, and Cautious Friendship with All Nations, Entangling Alliances with None. Not even Israel. Sorry.

Second, End the Fed, and reestablish a sound, and BTW, constitutional, monetary system.  G. Edward Griffin wrote a workable, stepwise plan to do this in “The Creature from Jekyll Island.”  I’m not aware of a better plan.

Finally, and this is the hardest sell, but must happen if we’re to avoid casting our seniors into ditches.  We must phase-out and privatize both Social Security and Medicare.  I’m on SS and Medicare myself, and I’m certain this would be a massive improvement for all of us, not the catastrophe our rulers would have you believe.  This would stop our slide into destitution, and start us marching toward real prosperity. 

If we’d prefer to continue our acceleration toward destitution and the sociopolitical drainpipes of history, we can of course keep reelecting the corrupt millionaire politicians that are protecting the Epstein files and care more about Netanyahu, than you. 


But if you give anything I’ve said above any credit at all, please start pressuring the politicians we’ve been reelecting, AND start looking now, today, for better replacements.  Encourage people that you know would be moral, responsible, constitutional public servants to run for office, and/or run yourself.

We can fix this, or at least clean up a big mess and avoid real catastrophe.  But the clock is ticking, and the USA now has real competition for King of this rock.  And that doesn’t have to be the end of the world.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, IN

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Epstein is Not About Epstein

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Contact: Andrew Horning
July 21, 2025

Epstein is Not About Epstein

Freedom, Indiana – On Saturday, July 26th at noon, we will assemble at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis, to demand that our government stop lying, and stop keeping secrets about its corruption, blackmail, and a widespread ruling class culture of theft, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and rape.

It’s easy to see that promises to audit the Federal Reserve and Ft. Knox, major news stories like the Las Vegas mass shooting, catastrophes like 9/11 and the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. appear, disappear, and feed conspiracy theories.  It’s also easy to see that our government, while building a digital panopticon to monitor and control us, has itself become opaque and out of control.

From past revelations, we’ve already learned that our government has performed radiation and medical experiments on soldiers and citizens, has even started wars on lies, leading to uncountable needless deaths.  We’ve been warned from our nation’s founders through Eisenhower and JFK about nefarious actors building a shadow government in violation of constitutional and basic moral laws.  We did not heed their warnings.

While the proof is withheld from us, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that today our government is not merely corrupt, but also under the control of international actors with sick and murderous proclivities.

We’ve never had so much evidence of deceit from the self-contradictory mouths of our politicians.  We’ve never been closer to socioeconomic collapse, or WWIII.  We’ve never had a better reason to protest, and demand answers. 

We need revelations much more extensive and complete than the too-limited and quickly aborted Church Committee findings of 1975.  We demand our politicians open up and finally tell us the truth about who and what our government is, how it actually operates. We need to fix this mess before it collapses around us in the greatest tragedy of all – the end of the USA’s experiment with free people and a government on a leash of written law.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
7851 Pleasant Hill Road, Freedom, IN 47431
(812) 585 0902

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Rally to Release The Secrets

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Contact: Andrew Horning

July 18, 2025

Rally to Release The Secrets

Freedom, Indiana – On Saturday, July 26th at noon, we will assemble at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis, to demand the release of all information regarding Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and what we have very good reason to believe is a government riddled with corruption and blackmail.

While the proof is withheld from us, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that our government is not merely corrupt, but also largely under the control of international actors.

How can voters vote responsibly, when critical information about the condition and operation of our government is withheld by that government?  On what are we voting if, increasingly, our government knows everything about us, but we know nothing about its reality?

The highly suspicious story of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has been very well-documented by, among many others now, Whitney Webb in her two-volume “One Nation Under Blackmail.”  It’s a story that goes back to at least our country’s first co-mingling with the Jewish and Italian Mob Bosses in NYC a century ago, and it’s not just about the usual sort of carrot-and-stick buyoffs and blackmail.  We don’t doubt there could be an Epstein replacement operating today.  We’ve seen evidence of massive corruption, and our citizens need to finally know about it.

We’ve never had so much evidence of deceit from the self-contradictory mouths of our politicians.  We’ve never been closer to socioeconomic collapse, or WWIII.  We’ve never had a better reason to protest, and demand answers.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

P.S. The event was initiated and is promoted by the Libertarian Party of Greene County But it’s open to all, of course. We’ve all been hoodwinked long enough!

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Here’s what the GOP should do now

For Immediate Release


November 7, 2024

Here’s what the GOP should do now

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning was a candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024, and is now, and henceforth, just Andy.

Congratulations, Republicans!  The people chose you in what must be considered a strong endorsement and mandate.  And I understand why.  I know y’all have been at least half our troubles for a long time, but in hopes that the people’s trust means something more than donors’ dollars this time around, I have a few recommendations and requests:

First, don’t try to “go after” all the cold Malthusian eugenicist psychopaths currently running the world.  They’ll kill you all (remember JFK?).  Just peacefully defund, disempower and disentangle their global web.  Stand down our global “military-industrial complex” and “scientific-technological elite” monsters Eisenhower warned us against almost 64 years ago.  Stop the covert surveillance state, put all spying powers under direct, regular military control and strict congressional supervision, and let’s move on with a more open, constitutional government.  Forget revenge or “justice.”  Let the evil rats slip away into darkness.  But in humble mea culpa honesty, open the vaults to truth with a more in-depth Church Committee-style revelation, so that we can see what our government has become …so that it never becomes that ever again.

Get OUT of NATO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the UN, and nullify all anti-constitutional agreements (like Agenda 2030)!  I suggest Peace, Commerce and Cautious Friendship with All Nations, Entangling Alliances with None.  End every military action that wasn’t directly authorized by specific congressional vote as either a declared war, or under letters of marque and reprisal (every overt and covert military action since WWII has been unconstitutional).  And let’s face the truth that our shamefully-numerous economic sanctions are, in fact, acts of war that have killed and impoverished countless millions worldwide.

Next, make good on your trans-generationally-broken promises to dismantle the bureaucracy.  Only lawmakers can make constitutional laws – no more edicts from unelected bureaucrats in executive agencies.  End all agencies not specifically authorized by the federal constitution.  I said “specifically authorized.”  Re-read the tenth amendment, please.

End the Fed.  This will be complicated, but we’re doomed if we don’t kill this arachnidian creature that monetizes political debt.  Let the free market determine what it wants to use as money, of course, but make sure that all government-issued money is constitutionally legit.   All federal money should be issued by only the Treasury, under total congressional control, as demanded by the federal constitution.

Here’s the hardest one: We must deal with the national debt.  I’ve suggestions to fix Social Security and Medicare, of course.  But we’d still need to repudiate a lot of debt.  We have to.  We should never have bailed out the banks.  We should never have let our politicians and the Fed get us into such a dilemma.  But the past is the past, and the present is about to kick our whole nation into the past, if we don’t wake up and smell pleuro$i$.  We’re going to either go through an intentional and orderly bankruptcy-like process, or we’re going to crash to a depth of widespread poverty and destruction that no “Western Culture” has ever experienced.

In summary, do constitutional rule of law, as is your oath and bond of office.  Nobody has ever come up with anything better, you know; and it still is the only thing that authorizes the existence of any USA government at all.  It is both the fundamental charter that protects us from you, and the law that protects you, from us.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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You ain’t seen nothin’ yet

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

October 23, 2024

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024. 

No matter the outcome of the election, pain is coming.  I of course hope it won’t be in the form of another “forever war” in the Middle East… or worse, nuclear Armageddon, but it’s already too late to prevent a socioeconomic catastrophe that, to too many of us, will be just as deadly.

Assuming the “military-industrial complex” and “scientific-technological elite” plutocracy Eisenhower warned against, and that now own and operate the Democratic or Republican parties, don’t get their warmongering way, and we somehow avoid radioactive self-destruction on the altar of Israel; it’s already too late to stop massive inflation and monetary collapse.

The facts:  The USA has, for generations since the Breton Woods Agreement, benefited from the “exorbitant privilege” of the US dollar’s reserve currency status, to both enrich the investment and donor classes at the expense of the lower and middle classes (see the Cantillon Effect), and charge other nations for the use of our currency at the expense of domestic inflation (see the Triffin Paradox) and eventual collapse.  The short-term “bonus” has been that we could de-industrialize and become a consumption and financial service-based economy. We found cheaper labor overseas for maximized profits, and cheap stuff we could purchase domestically. The longer term, however, has been catastrophic.

The interest on our national debt is now our #3 federal budget expense – ahead of national defense, and just behind Social Security and Medicare, and growing fast.  The BRICS economic block is meeting this week in Russia to admit Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to the original nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.  Turkey, Azerbaijan, Venezuela and Malaysia have filed for admittance as well.  The ASEAN alliance is growing in importance as well, and includes manufacturing giants that actually produce things we want and no longer produce ourselves.

This rapid growth was accelerated by the USA’s theft of other nations’ dollar assets, particularly Russia’s, and the literally thousands of sanctions we’ve placed on others as financial acts of war.  Understandably, several nations, including western allies, started pulling away from obviously insecure US Treasuries and dollar dependencies which make them susceptible to our incessant sanctions.  ASEAN and BRICS’ goal isn’t hostile; it’s merely self-defensive against the USA’s weaponized monetary aggression.  Dozens more nations want to join the growing economic bloc, to throw off the USA’s global monetary/military sanctions and coercion.  Many nations, even “petrodollar” nations like Iran, have already begun de-dollarizing their transactions, including the purchase of oil, erasing the power of our petrodollar system.

What this means:  In the words of economist Herbert Stein, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”  The inevitable and calamitous collapse of our nation’s economy and global empire has already begun.  Democrats and Republicans have proven unwilling to cut spending and government’s destructive size; and even their not-so-covert plan to reduce Social Security benefits while raising the age of retirement, won’t help much.  So, short of defaulting on our nation’s financial obligations, that leaves only The Fed’s usual solution – print more fiat currency to pay debts, which makes each dollar worth less and less.  And that means that, in terms of inflation rates, and loss of whatever it is you think you want from government, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. 

What I propose: We immediately do what’s proven to be the best design for society in all of human history, as I’ve been offering for decades.  That’d include, of course, a MASSIVE reduction in government spending and debt. It’d be rough for probably several years; but only by what only I’m proposing in the US Senate race, can there be a better future on the other side of what’s surely coming.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

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MAKE PEACE, YOU FOOLS!

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

October 4, 2024

MAKE PEACE, YOU FOOLS!

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024. 

Through three decades, I’ve written, spoken, sued and campaigned against corruption, the danger of war, collapse of the dollar, rise of BRICS against us, and in general, the fall of the USA Empire.  I’ve exhaustively proven that the unconstitutional, self-appointed and inherently-divisive “Two Party System” our founders warned against, has to go.  And for thirty years, I’ve been proposing solutions that are not only different from what the crony parties foist upon us, they’re also proven to work better than anything humans have ever tried.  Of course, for thirty years, I’ve also been fighting an organized system of deceit and mind-hacking.  Sigh…

But all of that was in a looking-forward, prepare-for-the-future mode that is now too late.  It’s too late to avoid major financial calamity, social unrest and, well…political governments do have a 100% eventual failure rate, after all.  No matter what we do now, USA hegemony is done.  Our standard of living will fall. …As it has begun falling already.

But what then?  We’ll have an awful mess to clean up.  How big a mess?  Will we clean it up?  Can we come back, better-than-ever?

That depends upon what we do with foreign entanglements and what Eisenhower called “the military-industrial complex,” and the “scientific-technological elite,” right now.  More importantly, it depends upon how We The People decide to live, right now.  And I mean, like, right now – before self-immolation in nuclear war.

I of course hope I’m wrong about the war with Iran that’s been on the Greater Israel Plan list of nations to destroy for decades. But Iran is powerful in its own right, and has strong ties to both Russia, and of increasing importance, China. A war on Israel’s behalf could end up a global catastrophe. It will at least be a tragic mistake with long-lasting consequences…at the very least will be debt, inflation, and skyrocketing fuel prices.

We The People have always had the numbers, and power, and accountability over everything.  We have both weapons of peaceful revolution in our votes, but also the power of nullification in our actions.  It’s only by ignorance and passive obedience that we humans are ever oppressed, enslaved and murdered by the millions, by the governments we empower.

It’s time to choose.  What next, my fellow citizens?

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

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