BILLY BOB THORNTON: “Politically, I call myself a radical moderate… I just look at what makes sense and I think we need a common sense party in this country.”

Thornton on The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast on Friday suggested that both political parties in America do not make sense, and that it should be “pretty easy to figure out.”

Rogan Responded by suggesting the country needs a “non ideologically captured party”.

Joe Rogan gets it wrong again. I don’t think the solution to our problems is to eradicate ideology. Why not? Because ideas are inescapable. Ideas are implicit in every thought, every emotion and every action. A government either bases its policies and legitimacy on the ideas of freedom, individual rights — or on the idea of controlling everyone. Think about it. Would you support a political party or candidate who states: “I have no ideas”? Of course not. The only question is: which ideas? Or whose ideas?

I will always support the candidate closer to the spirit and specifics of America’s founders: the Bill of Rights, due process, private property and individual rights. Today, President Trump and the better Republicans are the only people on earth, of those running for office, who stand for anything like those ideas. Democrats running for office are rabid, psychopathic totalitarians hellbent on implementing the worst ideas ever conceived by human beings. If you think you can escape ideas in politics (or any other realm of human significance), you’re fantasizing.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason