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Jesse Ventura: A Lost Man

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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.   
Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00
Jesse Ventura won't run for a second term as governor of Minnesota. He knows he won't win. His rationalization for stepping aside is: "I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else." Ventura never was a revolutionary. A revolutionary is someone with an explicit philosophy of government. Ventura never articulated any explicit principles as did the American Founders or, on an entirely opposite foundation, the early socialists. What he did express was a strong emotional commitment to reducing the role of government -- and specifically taxes -- in the lives of citizens. This is why disaffected voters put Ventura into office. The so-called "radical middle" realizes that Democrats and Republicans, in practice, stand for essentially the same thing when it comes to expanding the role of government. Ventura betrayed them, and he knows it. He became part of the tax-and-spend establishment when he recently increased taxes in Minnesota, and as a result, his constituency evaporated. Ventura's failure is a case study in why a nation needs not just a candidate but a viable philosophy of government based upon freedom and individual rights and grounded in a respect for reason. Without strict adherence to these ideals, the opposite principles will continue to win.
 

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