If you can post something like this without indicating what type of politician the person was (a Ron Paul? A John Lilburne? A Frederick Douglass? A Lysander Spooner? A Thomas Massie? A Thomas Paine? Pursuing voluntaryist policies? Claiming to to pursue individual freedom the way Obama did --totally self-contradictory and obviously lying from the beginning? Claiming to pursue individual freedom the way Ron Paul did --coherently, but without a radical focus on the courts? Claiming to pursue individual freedom the way Lilburne, MLK, Frederick Douglass, and Rosa Parks did, battling for his and her life against the courts, speaking publicly to huge crowds of the similarly-oppressed, demanding results they would not be paid for? Claiming to pursue freedom like Cobden and Bright did, on stage, coherently, but with little of their own freedom at stake?)
We know literally nothing about your situation. Certainly not enough to judge whether it's one thing(freedom), or the very opposite of that thing(tyranny).
Your friend could easily be a radical freedom fighter, and you a half-assed "fairweather friend" of liberty. ...Or vice versa. There's no way for an informed observer to know from your comment.
...But the assumption that "power is bad" is there. ...The fatal error of the liberty movement!
One type of power stops the big, bold, fat, wealthy S.S. officer from gunning down skeletal Jews and pushing them into a mass grave.
Are you against that type of power? The power wielded by the Allies when they liberated the death-camps?
I'm not.
Justice+Power+slow improvement, slow reduction of political power = freedom.
If the liberty movement has no power of its own, our children will go to the gulag, in chains.
It's as simple as that.
You'd better figure out what would cause you to pick up a rifle, and what would cause you to donate money to what quality of messenger for your ideas: so you don't have to.
RE: Smashing Through the Bullshit: An In-Depth, Investigative Look at #Kokesh2020.