My Rebuttal The Real State of the Union

My Rebuttal The Real State of the Union: Too Much Power in Too Few Hands

Last night you heard the usual ritual.

The President declared strength.
The opposition warned of danger.
Both promised to “fight.”

But here’s what neither party will admit:

The real crisis isn’t who holds power.

It’s how much power Washington has accumulated.

If one president can move markets with a tariff announcement, redefine emergencies at will, direct federal agencies across entire industries, and add trillions to the national debt without meaningful constraint — that’s not partisan victory.

That’s systemic instability.

Independent voters sense this. That’s why trust in institutions keeps falling.

Both parties defend executive power when their side holds it — and panic when the other side does.

Libertarians reject that game entirely.

We believe no president should have the authority to:

• Wage economic war by executive order.
  
  

• Expand surveillance in the name of temporary threats.
  
  

• Continue trillion-dollar deficits as if debt is imaginary.
  
  

• Pick corporate winners and losers through subsidies or protectionism.
  
  

This isn’t about personality. It’s about structure.

The national debt is now so large that interest payments rival core federal priorities. That burden will not fall on politicians. It falls on savers, retirees, workers, and young families through inflation and slower growth.

Meanwhile, both parties are preparing for the AI and robotics revolution the wrong way.

One side talks about industrial policy and subsidies.
The other talks about economic nationalism and trade barriers.

Neither addresses the core issue: automation will reshape work faster than government can regulate it.

The solution is not more control.

It’s flexibility.

Remove licensing barriers.
Simplify taxes.
Make it easy to start a business.
Stop penalizing hiring through payroll taxes.
End the regulatory favoritism that shields large corporations while crushing small competitors.

In a dynamic century, you don’t centralize more power. You decentralize it.

Independent voters aren’t asking for ideological purity. They’re asking for sanity:

• Stop expanding emergency powers.
  
  

• Stop weaponizing federal agencies.
  
  

• Stop spending money that doesn’t exist.
  
  

• Stop pretending concentrated authority is harmless.
  
  

A free society isn’t maintained by electing better rulers.

It’s maintained by limiting rulers.

If America is to thrive in the 21st century — amid AI, geopolitical tension, and economic transition — it must return to a principle both major parties abandoned:

Power should be rare.
Debt should be restrained.
Liberty should not depend on who wins the next election.

That’s not left or right.

That’s structural reform.

And independents are the only voters positioned to demand it.