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Eric Brakey

10 Apr, 7 tweets, 2 min read

The sad reality of political discourse today is that there is little room for serious discussion in the corporate press, and only outrageous statements can gather any notice.

I learned this the hard way during my campaign for US Senate in 2018.

Despite being the GOP nominee and a two-term State Senator with significant legislative accomplishments, the press wouldn’t cover anything about my campaign that didn’t have a sensational edge.

I found that press conferences on my plans to fix healthcare and build a stronger economy went virtually unattended — but holding an AR-15 raffle would make statewide news.

There is nothing wrong with using a little sensationalism to bring attention to an issue you are fighting for.

We need to use the tactics of populism from time to time to bring attention to the causes we are fighting for.

At the same time, we need to ensure that all populist tactics and communications connect back to authentic principles of Liberty.

Populism is not a complete ideology.

I’ve always seen populism mobilizing the people to fight back against the corrupt system around us — but to what end?

That is the open question.

@RonPaul

Dr. @RonPaul has been a pioneer of Libertarian Populism.

Where some sat in ivory towers making the intellectual case for Liberty, Ron Paul went right to the people, told us the story of what’s been stolen from us, and gave us tangible ways to fight back and #RestoreAmericaNow.

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Eric Brakey

@SenatorBrakey

12 Apr

Today, I delivered testimony before the Maine Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee in favor of Representative Heidi Sampson's Defend the Guard legislation:

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Senator Luccini, Representative Ciazzo, and members of the Joint Standing Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs, I am Eric Brakey, former Maine Senator from Androscoggin County, and I am before you today to testify in favor of LD 1285, Defend the Guard.

Do you remember where were you twenty years ago when the first Maine boots hit the ground in Afghanistan?

While I may be a younger citizen than most on this committee, I am old enough to remember the start of that war and the justification for it.

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Eric Brakey

@SenatorBrakey

12 Apr

Tom Bombadil gets no respect. When does he get into a movie?

Watching the 1991 Lord of the Rings film — produced by Soviet Russian public broadcasting.

Woah! Tom Bombadil shows up in the Soviet Lord of the Rings and breaks through the fourth wall, talking directly to the audience.

I don’t know what he’s saying because it’s all in Russian and there are no English subtitles.

This movie is something.

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Eric Brakey

@SenatorBrakey

6 Apr

Today, I delivered the following testimony before the Maine Judiciary Committee in opposition to a trojan horse "Red Flag" Gun Confiscation bill.

My testimony follows: (1/22)

The principle of gun confiscation without due process has been loudly and repeatedly opposed by Maine people and routinely rejected by bipartisan majorities of the Maine Legislature. (2/22)

As I read this legislation, it is in principle a Red Flag bill, using harassment orders as the trojan horse for gun confiscation without notice or due process. (3/22)

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Eric Brakey

@SenatorBrakey

18 Feb

America was not built on “unity” — it was built on the efforts of those with the courage to dissent from the desired “unity” of government officials.

Every would-be dictator has called for “unity.”

But it’s always a one-sided unity that means, “Obey.”

Stalin believed in Unity.

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Eric Brakey

@SenatorBrakey

17 Feb

Celebrating the death of another human being degrades who we are as a people and the value of human life.

Here is a private truth.

Bin Laden committed mass murder against the American people. Justice was necessary and deserved.

Even still, the mass celebration surrounding his death made me uncomfortable because celebrating death changes our character as a people.

Today, we see how the culture of life in America has degraded to the point where not only the deaths of our foreign enemies are celebrated, but also our domestic political opponents.

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Eric Brakey

@SenatorBrakey

17 Feb

The key difference between Marxists and Rothbardians:

Marxists view capitalism as a centralizing force.

Rothbardians view capitalism as a decentralizing force.

Marxists see capitalism akin to gravity — capital attracting more capital, all the wealth gradually concentrating in the hands of the few.

They believe an outside force (sometimes government) is needed to counter this and redistribute the wealth.

Rothbardians view aggression generally (most prominently, the aggression of state power) as the force that concentrates wealth and power in the hands of a few.

We see capitalism as a force akin to entropy — challenging that centralization through the power of the market.

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