Politics is indeed a swamp, but it's primarily a swamp because "good people don't get involved." Every single thing that you say that contributes to that fact is one more nail in our grand-children's coffins, more of a certainty that things will go the route of Germany in 1933, or the Ukraine in the same time period.

You wrote: "Of course, she's at the other end of the political spectrum, a Bernie Sanders supporter, but she's stood on street corners waving signs, has signed up to be a delegate and all of that crap and it hasn't done squat."

...Au contraire! Every political action sends out information. Her support for Sanders, along with millions of others' did, in fact, send out information to the central bank that was very useful. That message was: "Rather than support individual rights, the majority of people who claim to be against the system are actually for the very worst aspects of that system. They literally cannot tell the difference between life and death, much less display the resolve necessary to defeat the death-worship we're peddling! We have nothing whatsoever to fear from these people who balefully beg to be disarmed with no more self-interest than the bleating of a sheep before it's butchered."

Western civilization is likely to disappear without a trace. The checkmate was in the 1880s, when parents allowed the government to "educate"(that is, indoctrinate) their kids.

There's no recovering from that deathblow to freedom. Like a cow bitten by a Komodo dragon, we've just wandered off to die of the infection from the bite. ...This has attracted the attention of the other dragons, and America is on its last legs, as libertarians pray to the bitcoin gods, while doing their very best to ignore the laws of cybernetics (steersmanship; control and communication; governance; politics; political technology; political science).

If you are a Jew in Nazi Germany who said "I prefer to stay at home, and eat the food I have purchased," that was a highly political statement. Your political opponents would have then shot you dead, if you resisted their efforts to ship you off to a cattle car (and thus, a death that would draw less attention and avoid the possibility of controversy). Even if you had not seen Kristallnacht coming, if you had kept hold of rifles, you would have had the ability to die with dignity, take a few Nazis with you, and, if you were highly-skilled, perhaps escape and join an underground resistance movement.

Politics may be a swamp, but to say it "always will be so" is to ignore the difference between the Northern USA between 1933 and 1960 and Germany and East Germany in the same time period.

Maybe you should read this, and think about it:
http://jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/survive.htm

You wrote: "You as a citizen are simply a commodity. Either you tithe to the government run corporate interests or you tithe to those business directly. You have no other choice."

No, there is another choice. Google "corpus delicti" for that choice. Then, continue onward to learn about "voir dire" and how it stripped us of proper jury trial. If we can be stripped of proper jury trial, then "a more proper form of jury trial" must have, at one point, existed. ...And, in fact, this is true.

Adam Kokesh is a great option for a political candidate, even if he doesn't know what to say. (The fact that he doesn't know what to say makes him worse than someone who does, but "the perfect is the enemy of the good.")

The good is being able to defend yourself and your family, and not being forced to meekly submit to death in a gulag.

As America's gulag grows larger and larger, the shame of those who once meaningfully called themselves "American citizens" grows larger and larger. That private shame is reaching a zenith, as the libertarian party and movement both adopt a "strategy" of "please, eat me last!"

Adam is not equipped to run for president. But he's doing so anyway. ...And everyone else is too much of a coward to stick his neck out, in similar manner.

I'm grateful that people like Kokesh are sticking their necks out, even if they do so in an inept manner. The more their manner is inept, the less I'm inclined to get involved, but the more I wish them well.

It's the least any of us can do.

I guess the main point is: If you have a real gripe with the Kokesh campaign, then that's awesome: transparency corrects politics. ...But if all you have is bullshit fatalism, and "It's hopeless!" comments, then you deserve to be called out for being a non-contributing, useless fuck.

Throughout all of history, democratic (proper Greek sense, not the 'too-narrow' Hoppean sense) political movements have, in fact, dramatically reduced abusive government power.

That reduction of political power is a wonderful thing, in the rare areas where a people have been self-educated enough to fight for it, and win it.

I wish Adam the best. He's probably right to support Josh Smith for chair. That's where the real battle is, anyway.

I also hope that Adam personally reaches out to this woman and her husband, and helps get them to the convention. You can be damned sure that Fedpath is going to be bringing Weld-supporting delegates to vote for the FBI's favored candidates, and paying 100% of their way.