Dear Centrist
Dear Moderate
Dear Mister Incremental Change
Where has your dithering gotten us now?
You believe in the 1787 US constitution.
You say dont blame non voters for our mess.
You say exposing the truth of wrong doing will change hearts and minds.
You say unlimited freedom of speech is worth the risk because the alternative is a slippery slope of death and oppression.
Well here we are.
The republicans know they are lying, and they dont care.
The non voter doesnt care or, worse, simpy does NOT believe their vote can change anything, and, like an anti vaxxer will resist exposure to the truth and do nothing.
Treason, fraud, murder, espionage and extortion are all and have been blatantly exposed and an entire multi BILLION dollar industry exists to perpetuate a lie for the minority: a minority large enough to lock the gears of the antiquated 1789 system.
Do you REALLY think getting money out of politics will fix this?
Get a clue. They will lie more.
Freedom to lie, as allowed by radical interpretation of the 1789 constitution is WHY we are in this mess.
Democracy is a battle of narratives and one of those narratives is a BLATANT DANGEROUS and fascist lie.
Your incremental change cannot fix this.
If there are no more free elections, there are NO MORE INCREMENTS.
If you morally excuse the non voter, the fascist minority UTTERLY PREVENTS amending the constitution to fix this.
The 1789 constitution places enforcement if the law under the executive. It actually says nothing about prosecution but until we legislate to fix the courts as well as the department of justice it is just inadequate.
Unlimited freedom to have your spiritual experience by yourself or to criticize the government as you see fit are needed. Unlimited freedom of the press TO TELL THR TRUTH is needed.
Freedom to lie is toxic to democracy and it is TIME YOU ADMITTED the 1787 constitution can no longer cut it.
Time for a new one.
Sincerely yours,
Harsh Fucking Reality
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Bypass Centrists, Coordinated Non Violent Retaliation
Alright I am saving some of this for the podcast, but there is so much desire for change and so much to do here are my primary thoughts right now.
Bullies need to understand the concept of retaliation; there must be consequences for their violation of norms of our society and if they control the presidency there will be no prosecution of these acts. We can, however, do things like ensure Democratic candidates for 2020 agree to take on AG who will prosecute voting irregularities of 2018.
Centrists and mealy mouthed Civility democrats will say "no we need to be nice to the fascists" but that's bullshit.
YOU MUST NOT ALLOW THESE PEOPLE TO CONTROL THE CONVERSATION. We are all ANTIFA now, even those of us who don't want to go out into the streets or getting added to a DHS/FBI database of 'violent agitators.'
Anti-Abortion terrorists have been using terror against abortion clinics for a long time by printing databases with the home names and addresses of abortion doctors and clinic workers.
Don't worry, pearl clutching liberal friends, I'm not advocating violence, both because it is illegal and dumb, but because I know you literally aren't capable of it until the conservative paramilitaries start killing people in the streets.
But I digress, my point about the anti abortion people is NOT to say 'be violent' it is to say that COORDINATED non violent retaliation IS something we can work together on and if the website hosting this data is not based in the US we can coordinate our actions.
For example; they take out blue state polling stations, give us voting machines that don't work? Well, what happens in 2020 in Red States if a bunch of blue staters who had early voted drove the minimum speed limit on the high way causing a traffic jam in the middle of bumble fuck Wyoming? Sure, early voters would be fine but they still go to the polls like anyone else. Pick the right state where the Senate is in the balance this is a perfectly legal perfectly non violent solution.
We need to do a TON of things like this and do so in a decentralized way so the Trumpistas can't target us.
Bullies need to understand the concept of retaliation; there must be consequences for their violation of norms of our society and if they control the presidency there will be no prosecution of these acts. We can, however, do things like ensure Democratic candidates for 2020 agree to take on AG who will prosecute voting irregularities of 2018.
Centrists and mealy mouthed Civility democrats will say "no we need to be nice to the fascists" but that's bullshit.
YOU MUST NOT ALLOW THESE PEOPLE TO CONTROL THE CONVERSATION. We are all ANTIFA now, even those of us who don't want to go out into the streets or getting added to a DHS/FBI database of 'violent agitators.'
Anti-Abortion terrorists have been using terror against abortion clinics for a long time by printing databases with the home names and addresses of abortion doctors and clinic workers.
Don't worry, pearl clutching liberal friends, I'm not advocating violence, both because it is illegal and dumb, but because I know you literally aren't capable of it until the conservative paramilitaries start killing people in the streets.
But I digress, my point about the anti abortion people is NOT to say 'be violent' it is to say that COORDINATED non violent retaliation IS something we can work together on and if the website hosting this data is not based in the US we can coordinate our actions.
For example; they take out blue state polling stations, give us voting machines that don't work? Well, what happens in 2020 in Red States if a bunch of blue staters who had early voted drove the minimum speed limit on the high way causing a traffic jam in the middle of bumble fuck Wyoming? Sure, early voters would be fine but they still go to the polls like anyone else. Pick the right state where the Senate is in the balance this is a perfectly legal perfectly non violent solution.
We need to do a TON of things like this and do so in a decentralized way so the Trumpistas can't target us.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Proof the Birth Certificates of the NRA Members and ICE are FORGED
Alright, this will seem strange but I'm using this one weird trick, walk with me.
First, background. ICE has recently begun to pretend that some legitimate birth certificates of immigrant citizens are forged.
But this isn't political persecution in a state that the Republicans might lose, oh no! It is Trump's legit religious belief that Birth Certificates are something you must spiritually believe in. Trump didn't believe in Obama's birth certificate even when he showed the long form Birth Certificate on national television to humilate him right before Osama Bin Ladin was killed.
Oh wait, you didn't forget that did you?
I know Trump didn't.
So since Spiritual belief is what matters to Trump on Birth Certificates, and all Trumpanzees Think Like Trump they believe what he believes...
Then the Religious Freedom Act prevents us from applying science to the birth certificates of NRA Members and ICE.
What does THAT mean?
It means that when the court determines that we can't tell if their birth certificates are forgeries placed there due to Time Travel from Russia in the year 2099 to go back in time and infiltrate America to destroy it from within; we can legitimately question their citizenship.
And when their lawyers say that there is no scientific evidence of time travel....we point to the Religious Freedom act, and how they have already involved their spiritual beliefs in science rather than actual fact due to their denial of climate change.
Let me repeat that:
Members of the NRA and ICE are NOT citizens. Their birth certificates are forgeries.
IF you defend them, we might need to check the validity of your birth certificate too.
The Slippery Slope is now a cliff. It's a question of whether or not you're getting pushed off it.
First, background. ICE has recently begun to pretend that some legitimate birth certificates of immigrant citizens are forged.
But this isn't political persecution in a state that the Republicans might lose, oh no! It is Trump's legit religious belief that Birth Certificates are something you must spiritually believe in. Trump didn't believe in Obama's birth certificate even when he showed the long form Birth Certificate on national television to humilate him right before Osama Bin Ladin was killed.
Oh wait, you didn't forget that did you?
I know Trump didn't.
So since Spiritual belief is what matters to Trump on Birth Certificates, and all Trumpanzees Think Like Trump they believe what he believes...
Then the Religious Freedom Act prevents us from applying science to the birth certificates of NRA Members and ICE.
What does THAT mean?
It means that when the court determines that we can't tell if their birth certificates are forgeries placed there due to Time Travel from Russia in the year 2099 to go back in time and infiltrate America to destroy it from within; we can legitimately question their citizenship.
And when their lawyers say that there is no scientific evidence of time travel....we point to the Religious Freedom act, and how they have already involved their spiritual beliefs in science rather than actual fact due to their denial of climate change.
Let me repeat that:
Members of the NRA and ICE are NOT citizens. Their birth certificates are forgeries.
IF you defend them, we might need to check the validity of your birth certificate too.
The Slippery Slope is now a cliff. It's a question of whether or not you're getting pushed off it.
Monday, July 30, 2018
Excision Is The Right Decision
Let us be clear.
NOWHERE in the constitution does it forbid the congress from ceding territory of the United States. A corrupt, and dishonest court, such as the one we have now, could warp an interpretation of Amendment 9 to state that since it isn't mentioned, a state has the right to Secede.
Technically, this is actually correct. The south was well within its right to leave. Then we fought this thing called the Civil War; but make no mistake, this was justified because of the Confederacy's attack on Ft. Sumpter.
But it is not without precident for a Republic to simply EXPEL a member state when it is deemed a threat to the union. What the congress cannot do is split a state. What we need to do is split the country geographically between the third of trump supporters and the two thirds of us who aren't Fascists. Yes, I get that some of this is a fluid thing, but I think a parting of ways is WAY better than a civil war. Before we even TRY for the Article 5 convention we need; let's just PART WAYS with the conservatives before we even try to reconcile with the Progressives and the moderates.
The simple act of congress; the National Excision act would only require a majority of both the House and the Senate and the signature of the president. It could allow a state to divide itself up, by state wide referrendum (yes, a corrupt court could say it has to be a legislature, but the 14th amendment can override that) and basically allowthe majority of a state in cities to remain in the United States while effectively EXPELLING rural territory that does not reflect the values of the American Republic due to TREASON and collusion with a foreign power.
You COULD try bribing corrupt Red State legisulators to accept Federal division of the state by offering to take the debt of those states. But really, state wide referrendums TO ME meet the criteria preventing the Federal Government from dividing a state.
NOWHERE in the constitution does it forbid the congress from ceding territory of the United States. A corrupt, and dishonest court, such as the one we have now, could warp an interpretation of Amendment 9 to state that since it isn't mentioned, a state has the right to Secede.
Technically, this is actually correct. The south was well within its right to leave. Then we fought this thing called the Civil War; but make no mistake, this was justified because of the Confederacy's attack on Ft. Sumpter.
But it is not without precident for a Republic to simply EXPEL a member state when it is deemed a threat to the union. What the congress cannot do is split a state. What we need to do is split the country geographically between the third of trump supporters and the two thirds of us who aren't Fascists. Yes, I get that some of this is a fluid thing, but I think a parting of ways is WAY better than a civil war. Before we even TRY for the Article 5 convention we need; let's just PART WAYS with the conservatives before we even try to reconcile with the Progressives and the moderates.
The simple act of congress; the National Excision act would only require a majority of both the House and the Senate and the signature of the president. It could allow a state to divide itself up, by state wide referrendum (yes, a corrupt court could say it has to be a legislature, but the 14th amendment can override that) and basically allowthe majority of a state in cities to remain in the United States while effectively EXPELLING rural territory that does not reflect the values of the American Republic due to TREASON and collusion with a foreign power.
You COULD try bribing corrupt Red State legisulators to accept Federal division of the state by offering to take the debt of those states. But really, state wide referrendums TO ME meet the criteria preventing the Federal Government from dividing a state.
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
The Patriotic Case for an Article 5 convention to Save America
"We have nothing to fear, but Fear itself," - FDR
Article 5, in the constitution, was written by wise men who wrote a document that was written to fix a broken, totally non functional government that the rest of the world laughed at because it was a pile of shit. That government was called "The Articles of Confederation" and it could not do anything. With the POSSIBLE exception of Switzerland prior to 1850, no confederation in the history of mankind has done jack or shit; not the American South, not the Athenian League, not the EU; confederations DO. NOT. WORK.
The Founding Fathers knew this. And they realized that we would likely fuck things up eventually. Hell, Jefferson felt that we should have a new constitution every 20 years. And we should but instead Jefferson did his job too well and we have a constitution that won't go away even if it needs to.
In THIS post, I'm not arguing about the constitution itself but the simple understanding that a house divided cannot stand. We have two realities, and a recent conversation with an inhabitant of that reality made me remember; no one views themselves as a mustache twirling villain. The nazis, to themselves, were holy warriors fighting for racial purity. The romans enslaved but brought roads and civilization. The british brought order and tea and democracy. America brings McDonalds.
To a Trump supporter; these are not concentration camps for kids but Freedom Cages for the kids of criminals. To a Trump supporter, they aren't traitors collaborating with Russia but Good Citizens who have a good ally and friend in Uncle Putin (and they aren't even working with him anyway). To a Trump supporter, Trump may be crass and anti woman, but at least he doesn't murder babies.
They don't view themselves as monsters. They view themselves as good guys and us as badguys who hate America, hate them, hate kids, hate babies, hate dogs, hate ourselves, hate the truth, hate kittens. WE, the inhabitants of reality, are the real villains and are cartoon characters in their minds; frightened children who need the Gubbamint to solve our problems and are; effectively, zombies in the servants of Soros and the Clintons. Why do you think these people obsesses about the zombie apocalypse? That isn't real zombies they are preparing for but the day when their Leader says it is OK to go out and mow down the evil; rather, "the evil is mowing us down, defend yourselves with extreme prejudice and their kids too just in case." Seriously, these people look at the Republic of Gillean and nod, "We have to do it for God."
You can't reason with that. You can't appease it. You can't even legislate your way around it. It is never, EVER, going to get better and you can't educate around it because their reality filters will listen to what you say and put you in the "Not Human" box and move on.
So, its either civil war or....
An article 5 convention.
We can agree to split ways; let them have their little reality where they put kids in cages and make women use wire coat hangers in alleys and keep black men from marrying white women and gay marriage is illegal. We can do that, and keep ourselves and our cities safe.
You can argue that its horrible to let them do these things but are you prepared to sling a rifle on your back and walk through radioactive mud and live off MRE's for 10 years to make it happen? I bet you are not. I'm sorry but you just aren't.
So if we aren't REALLY wanting to fight the 2nd Civil War; and we don't want the Republic of Gillead, we have to give these people their pound of flesh. We have to let them raise their taxes for the rich and let corporations rule them. We have to let them let their sick racist fantasies become real and separate the country between Red and Blue america and the only real way to do it (without war) is an Article 5 convention.
You can put your fingers in your ears and keep saying "lalalalalalalala" or you can try and find a way besides war. A real soldier avoids war at all costs. Anyone with a shred of wisdom listens to the horrors of others; while I may be no soldier, I listen to them. War is horrible; war is awful and war is what we are going to get if we don't split the country.
But do what you want.
Article 5, in the constitution, was written by wise men who wrote a document that was written to fix a broken, totally non functional government that the rest of the world laughed at because it was a pile of shit. That government was called "The Articles of Confederation" and it could not do anything. With the POSSIBLE exception of Switzerland prior to 1850, no confederation in the history of mankind has done jack or shit; not the American South, not the Athenian League, not the EU; confederations DO. NOT. WORK.
The Founding Fathers knew this. And they realized that we would likely fuck things up eventually. Hell, Jefferson felt that we should have a new constitution every 20 years. And we should but instead Jefferson did his job too well and we have a constitution that won't go away even if it needs to.
In THIS post, I'm not arguing about the constitution itself but the simple understanding that a house divided cannot stand. We have two realities, and a recent conversation with an inhabitant of that reality made me remember; no one views themselves as a mustache twirling villain. The nazis, to themselves, were holy warriors fighting for racial purity. The romans enslaved but brought roads and civilization. The british brought order and tea and democracy. America brings McDonalds.
To a Trump supporter; these are not concentration camps for kids but Freedom Cages for the kids of criminals. To a Trump supporter, they aren't traitors collaborating with Russia but Good Citizens who have a good ally and friend in Uncle Putin (and they aren't even working with him anyway). To a Trump supporter, Trump may be crass and anti woman, but at least he doesn't murder babies.
They don't view themselves as monsters. They view themselves as good guys and us as badguys who hate America, hate them, hate kids, hate babies, hate dogs, hate ourselves, hate the truth, hate kittens. WE, the inhabitants of reality, are the real villains and are cartoon characters in their minds; frightened children who need the Gubbamint to solve our problems and are; effectively, zombies in the servants of Soros and the Clintons. Why do you think these people obsesses about the zombie apocalypse? That isn't real zombies they are preparing for but the day when their Leader says it is OK to go out and mow down the evil; rather, "the evil is mowing us down, defend yourselves with extreme prejudice and their kids too just in case." Seriously, these people look at the Republic of Gillean and nod, "We have to do it for God."
You can't reason with that. You can't appease it. You can't even legislate your way around it. It is never, EVER, going to get better and you can't educate around it because their reality filters will listen to what you say and put you in the "Not Human" box and move on.
So, its either civil war or....
An article 5 convention.
We can agree to split ways; let them have their little reality where they put kids in cages and make women use wire coat hangers in alleys and keep black men from marrying white women and gay marriage is illegal. We can do that, and keep ourselves and our cities safe.
You can argue that its horrible to let them do these things but are you prepared to sling a rifle on your back and walk through radioactive mud and live off MRE's for 10 years to make it happen? I bet you are not. I'm sorry but you just aren't.
So if we aren't REALLY wanting to fight the 2nd Civil War; and we don't want the Republic of Gillead, we have to give these people their pound of flesh. We have to let them raise their taxes for the rich and let corporations rule them. We have to let them let their sick racist fantasies become real and separate the country between Red and Blue america and the only real way to do it (without war) is an Article 5 convention.
You can put your fingers in your ears and keep saying "lalalalalalalala" or you can try and find a way besides war. A real soldier avoids war at all costs. Anyone with a shred of wisdom listens to the horrors of others; while I may be no soldier, I listen to them. War is horrible; war is awful and war is what we are going to get if we don't split the country.
But do what you want.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Nazi Containment - The Case for a Global Lockout of America
Let's start with the simple awful truth.
Trump is not going away. I don't mean the man, I mean the forces that put him in office and sustain him. 40% of America backs him unconditionally. This man is a self avowed murder, adulterer and traitor and yet he has the unconditional backing of more than a third of America. Even if he is removed from office, his backers are chomping at the bit to replace him with an even crazier fool.
America is sick. America is infected. America is beyond saving.
Nothing short of a constitutional convention could deprive these people of their 'rights' and they will not stop demanding the destruction of freedom for the rest of the world. This is not hyperbole. This is not exaggeration.
These. People. Will. Not. Stop.
And of the remaining 60% of America, fully a third has the intelligence of a tadpole and the memory of Dory in "Finding Dory." Republican presidents WILL be elected again and they will all be as filthy as the one we have right now. Waiting for another democrat is meaningless. Any good will or faith in America will be undone the next time White Trash occupies the White House.
So its time to lock America out.
1) Remove America from the UN Security Council. How does America serve the security of the world? We don't. We bomb more people than all other nations combined. America makes the world less secure not more. Fascist countries do not deserve votes on the security council.
2) Remove the Dollar as the world reserve currency. Why in the HELL would ANY country in the world want to use a currency backed by schizophrenic nazis? We will quantatitive ease it. We will dictate what your banks can do. We will fuck your economy for our own.
3) We do not keep our word. There is no treaty conservatives will honor and the will of the non conservative Americans is simply not there to oppose them in all things and reduce them to the legal status of children they deserve. So we will ALWAYS be Trump. We will break our word again and again.
You are a fool to trust America.
4) Our military should be unwelcome in all ports out of the US. Without cooperation from the world, our military is effectively powerless. Does that let Russia and China extend their reach? Yes, it does. Maybe the rest of the world can join up and form a defensive alliance, but YOU CANNOT COUNT ON AMERICA, because America is filth.
Trump is not going away. I don't mean the man, I mean the forces that put him in office and sustain him. 40% of America backs him unconditionally. This man is a self avowed murder, adulterer and traitor and yet he has the unconditional backing of more than a third of America. Even if he is removed from office, his backers are chomping at the bit to replace him with an even crazier fool.
America is sick. America is infected. America is beyond saving.
Nothing short of a constitutional convention could deprive these people of their 'rights' and they will not stop demanding the destruction of freedom for the rest of the world. This is not hyperbole. This is not exaggeration.
These. People. Will. Not. Stop.
And of the remaining 60% of America, fully a third has the intelligence of a tadpole and the memory of Dory in "Finding Dory." Republican presidents WILL be elected again and they will all be as filthy as the one we have right now. Waiting for another democrat is meaningless. Any good will or faith in America will be undone the next time White Trash occupies the White House.
So its time to lock America out.
1) Remove America from the UN Security Council. How does America serve the security of the world? We don't. We bomb more people than all other nations combined. America makes the world less secure not more. Fascist countries do not deserve votes on the security council.
2) Remove the Dollar as the world reserve currency. Why in the HELL would ANY country in the world want to use a currency backed by schizophrenic nazis? We will quantatitive ease it. We will dictate what your banks can do. We will fuck your economy for our own.
3) We do not keep our word. There is no treaty conservatives will honor and the will of the non conservative Americans is simply not there to oppose them in all things and reduce them to the legal status of children they deserve. So we will ALWAYS be Trump. We will break our word again and again.
You are a fool to trust America.
4) Our military should be unwelcome in all ports out of the US. Without cooperation from the world, our military is effectively powerless. Does that let Russia and China extend their reach? Yes, it does. Maybe the rest of the world can join up and form a defensive alliance, but YOU CANNOT COUNT ON AMERICA, because America is filth.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Conservativism is the root of all evil - The individual is all that matters
I consider conservativism to be the root of all evil.
But what does that mean?
Well look at this article, wherein the Toronto Incel Rapist Terrorist (Rapist because he insists women sleep with him against their will making him a Rapist even if he has not been known to rape, and Terrorist because he uses terror as a tactic to promote his political beliefs) justified randomly killing people because women aren't sleeping with him. We can see here that he is definitely selfish, which is at the heart of libertarian and conservative philosophy, as well as a resistance to change, change in this case being that women are getting rights.
I posted in an earlier post that all conservatism is evil and it lies more. Conservatism is resistance to change since change has almost always favored granting more rights, but I do think it important to understand, not ALL change is good. A change BACK to previous conservative times would and should be a change to be resisted. Conservatism is largely about, why the fuck should I have to give a fuck about anyone else?
The problem is, liberalism and very often to a lesser extent progressivism, and certainly what lying libertarians refer to as 'collectivism' has one flaw and that is a disregard for the individual. The individual is all that matters in any philosophy that is inherently evil, and is the root of what you can call good or evil. It is a balance that must be constantly sought and found and then refound to prevent excess.
What do I mean by that? If we call "Greater Good" as doing the most good for the most people possible, then that means just that. PEOPLE. A system unto itself is worthless except to the extent that which it helps the PEOPLE that are part of it. Let's look at the greatest example of 'colletivism' to have a historical model with which to draw example to look for patterns. Routinely, we saw that the soviets in mid level management worked for the good of the system rather than the individuals in it. The reason Atlas Shrugged resonates with young impressionable minds is because this really happened. They can see and sense the truth in it.
If your system does not help PEOPLE, your policy is fuck. Fuck your system and fuck you. But ALL people matter, and that means a lot of things.
Let's look at Health care as a way of applying this. The right to have medical care is a reasonable one, and as I've mentioned in previous posts, the concept of what is or isn't a right is an going on. Natural rights as a concept are garbage. So for health care
*A minority, libertarians have a need for more money than everyone else. The majority, not libertarians, have a need of not dying. You can't just simply write of the libertarian need for more money just because more people need it.
*But some minority rights matter; like religion. That religion might not matter to you but to that minority it is THEIR WHOLE LIFE. And if all individuals matter, then those rights are at a basic level fundamentally important and they need to be protected.
*People change, values change and so what is a right today will change vs tomorrow. If a society is comprised of individuals, then the rights of the current society should constantly be assessed. (I'll leave off argueing for the rights of previous societies (which should be considered but last) and the values of future societies (which should be considered above all but only in very limited contexts) when making this decision.
*A Hierachy of Values is the key to all of this. There will be conflicts, and it is not always a black and white case, common sense must be applied, but the fact is, a society, and at that the majority of a society should get to determine what values matter most and when the needs of the majority can trump the minority, but there is NO SUCH THING as fixed rights which do not go away ever regardless of the minority or the majority.
Using that logic, conservatism is always about trying to prevent the natural reassesment of values by the majority to match the individual needs of everyone. What libertarians argue about in terms of 'collectivism' in this context would be about ignoring the rights of the minority at the expense of the majority in the hierarchy of values, and it is a legitimate point.
Let me repeat that, the SYSTEM is never valuable. It is only the individuals it serves, so if 90 percent tax is actually LEGITIMATELY helping 90 percent of the people and their desires and needs, then it is legitimate BECAUSE it is helping 90 percent of the people despite the whining of the remaining 10 percent. But it has to actually be helping people. A system exists to serve people not the other way around.
But what does that mean?
Well look at this article, wherein the Toronto Incel Rapist Terrorist (Rapist because he insists women sleep with him against their will making him a Rapist even if he has not been known to rape, and Terrorist because he uses terror as a tactic to promote his political beliefs) justified randomly killing people because women aren't sleeping with him. We can see here that he is definitely selfish, which is at the heart of libertarian and conservative philosophy, as well as a resistance to change, change in this case being that women are getting rights.
I posted in an earlier post that all conservatism is evil and it lies more. Conservatism is resistance to change since change has almost always favored granting more rights, but I do think it important to understand, not ALL change is good. A change BACK to previous conservative times would and should be a change to be resisted. Conservatism is largely about, why the fuck should I have to give a fuck about anyone else?
The problem is, liberalism and very often to a lesser extent progressivism, and certainly what lying libertarians refer to as 'collectivism' has one flaw and that is a disregard for the individual. The individual is all that matters in any philosophy that is inherently evil, and is the root of what you can call good or evil. It is a balance that must be constantly sought and found and then refound to prevent excess.
What do I mean by that? If we call "Greater Good" as doing the most good for the most people possible, then that means just that. PEOPLE. A system unto itself is worthless except to the extent that which it helps the PEOPLE that are part of it. Let's look at the greatest example of 'colletivism' to have a historical model with which to draw example to look for patterns. Routinely, we saw that the soviets in mid level management worked for the good of the system rather than the individuals in it. The reason Atlas Shrugged resonates with young impressionable minds is because this really happened. They can see and sense the truth in it.
If your system does not help PEOPLE, your policy is fuck. Fuck your system and fuck you. But ALL people matter, and that means a lot of things.
- It means that you can't write someone off just because their needs are different than yours.
- It means that because everyone matters, the minority can't get a benefit at the expense of the majority.
- It means that you CONSTANTLY have to reasses the benefits of the minority and the majority.
- It also means you must have a HIERARCHY OF VALUES. (Defined below.)
Let's look at Health care as a way of applying this. The right to have medical care is a reasonable one, and as I've mentioned in previous posts, the concept of what is or isn't a right is an going on. Natural rights as a concept are garbage. So for health care
*A minority, libertarians have a need for more money than everyone else. The majority, not libertarians, have a need of not dying. You can't just simply write of the libertarian need for more money just because more people need it.
*But some minority rights matter; like religion. That religion might not matter to you but to that minority it is THEIR WHOLE LIFE. And if all individuals matter, then those rights are at a basic level fundamentally important and they need to be protected.
*People change, values change and so what is a right today will change vs tomorrow. If a society is comprised of individuals, then the rights of the current society should constantly be assessed. (I'll leave off argueing for the rights of previous societies (which should be considered but last) and the values of future societies (which should be considered above all but only in very limited contexts) when making this decision.
*A Hierachy of Values is the key to all of this. There will be conflicts, and it is not always a black and white case, common sense must be applied, but the fact is, a society, and at that the majority of a society should get to determine what values matter most and when the needs of the majority can trump the minority, but there is NO SUCH THING as fixed rights which do not go away ever regardless of the minority or the majority.
Using that logic, conservatism is always about trying to prevent the natural reassesment of values by the majority to match the individual needs of everyone. What libertarians argue about in terms of 'collectivism' in this context would be about ignoring the rights of the minority at the expense of the majority in the hierarchy of values, and it is a legitimate point.
Let me repeat that, the SYSTEM is never valuable. It is only the individuals it serves, so if 90 percent tax is actually LEGITIMATELY helping 90 percent of the people and their desires and needs, then it is legitimate BECAUSE it is helping 90 percent of the people despite the whining of the remaining 10 percent. But it has to actually be helping people. A system exists to serve people not the other way around.
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