As usual, the recent House and Senate elections were a farce.

There was a time (a very long time ago) in America when citizens could vote for men of principle.

They were men who ran on the platform that they would do the best job of protecting individual rights and running America according to the blueprint that set it apart from every other country in history: the United States Constitution.

Today rational Americans have the grim, farcical task of attempting to determine the lesser of two evils since both parties are now almost indistinguishable, as the two explicitly condone the use of force in the affairs of honest men.

This explicit, pervasive physical coercion is based on the philosophical premises that flow like viruses through today's political mainstream: collectivism and statism.

Today's Democrats and Republicans alike are statists of the highest calibre.

Statists do not recognize the principles of individual rights, but rather the anti-principles of pernicious government coercion.