Ending Civil Asset Forfeiture Should Be a Bipartisan Project

During the seemingly endless run-up to the last election, my partisan friends would often say to me, "politics is binary." Their point is that voters only have two serious choices in any election, the Democrats or the Republicans. We need to pick a side and then, apparently, serve as cheerleaders for whatever that side is doing.

As a libertarian who doesn't like either choice, I often scream in frustration. Baltimore Journalist H.L. Mencken succinctly captures my view of the reigning Democrats and Republicans: "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right." He believed that our political history is "simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds."