Welcome to Keith and I don't tread on anyone in the
Libertarian Institute. This is a section from my book
Domestic Imperialism 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism.
I always admired progressives unapologetic opposition to
unjust ideas. Progressives could correctly
identify unjust ways of operating society.
But today, whether it's colonialism, racism, sexism,
classism, xenophobia, or the military industrial complex,
progressives have embraced all of those vicious ideas and have
made them the center of their campaigns.
They explicitly embrace colonialism by supporting the
federal government centralization of control.
They judge people by race, gender, and class.
They negatively generalize stupid Americans and evil
Russian interferers at every opportunity and wish for the
state to have more money and power, knowing that a large
portion of that money and power will be directed to military
industrial interests, leading to the mass murder of innocent
human beings. Progressivism survives by only
looking at one side of the equation when it comes to social
and economic issues. They see the large amounts of
revenue that organizations like Amazon have and conclude that
Amazon must be vilified. They seldom, if ever, asked, why
do so many people voluntarily choose to spend their scarce
money in exchange for so many Amazon products?
How many people with lower incomes have had greater access
to products as a result of Amazon services thanks to
Amazon? How many more options does the
average person have to choose from just by scrolling on his
phone or computer? How many authors and small
businesses are empowered by Amazon Marketplace instead of
having to go through a major publishing house or having to
open up their own warehouse? It's common to see progressives
who offer me no job, no products, and no services claim
that my real enemies are people who voluntarily offer me those
things, like a jealous spouse. They become abusive when they
feel insecure rather than do the work that it takes to improve
themselves. It's noteworthy that Amazon has
voluntarily chosen to enact a $15.00 an hour minimum wage, the
very thing progressive say can only be achieved by a state
coercion 0. Sum thinking is defined as
situations in which one person's gain would be another's loss.
If progressives could clearly differentiate between mutually
beneficial exchanges and coercive parasitic transactions,
they would cease to be progressives.
Unable to move beyond zero sum thinking, progressives will
abandoned any sense of gratitude for the society around them,
making it highly improbable that they will be able to test
theories empirically about what makes societies thrive and which
policies or institutions lead to the impoverishment of society.
Progressives should appreciate that genius comes in many
different forms. Socrates, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Dave Chappelle, Michelangelo, and Nikola Tesla were all
geniuses. Genius also comes in the form of
ideas regarding how to innovate and produce things which people
want, and to do so in an affordable way so that the
products can be accessible to the masses.
Progressives making enemies of the great voluntary innovators
in society is not just unnecessarily divisive, it
stopped the rest of us from having access to the fruits of
those innovators talents. Looking at the monarchical
systems of the past, many intellectuals incorrectly blame
the shortcomings of said monarchies on the elitist,
arbitrary characteristics of the kings and Queens who flaunted
their royalty while others lived in poverty.
The problem with monarchy is not elitism or some people having a
huge sway in society. As the Iron Law of oligarchy
teaches us. Anytime people organize, a very
small portion of them will have most of the power and influence.
The problem with monarchy lies in the fact that one
organization, the state, has an exemption from morality by
having a monopoly on violence within a geographical area.
The government has a recognized right to perform actions, impose
taxes, regulations, and declare wars that would clearly be seen
as criminal if any other organization engaged in them.
Imagine the Catholic Church, or any person or group of people
doing what the state does every day.
Everyone who doesn't give the Catholic Church 25% of his
annual income every year will be put in jail.
If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has a right
to shoot him. Everyone by law must contribute
to the Catholic Church school fund, and if parents don't send
their kids there, they will be jailed for truancy law
violation. Most people need a license by
force of law from the Catholic Church in order to work.
This way the church can keep you and other customers safe.
All humans have a nine digit Catholic security number, so the
Church knows who's who. If the Catholic Church decides
to wage war on the Church of Scientology, everyone must be
forced to fund the war and men ages 18 to 45 will be
conscripted to perform forced labor against their will.
The problem with this situation is not that we don't get to vote
on who the Pope is once every four years, or that the votes
need accurate counting. It's that some people claim an
exemption from common sense morality by engaging in non
consensual activity. The solution is to decriminalize
all capitalist acts between consenting adults and cease to
have moral double standards for elites and laymen.
True empowerment of the economically vulnerable comes
from economic freedom, not from getting to choose which
politician gets your one vote every few years.
In short, privatize everything. Incentives of profit and loss
allow you to harmonize individual self-interest with
collective well-being. The free market approach is the
only morally justified system since it relies on volunteerism
while recognizing the right of self-defense.
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