Welcome to Keith and I don't tread on anyone in the
Libertarian institute. Here's a section from my new
book, Domestic Imperialism 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism.
Consider these two organizations.
Which one sounds more compassionate?
Organization X offers people food in exchange for money.
When people refuse to exchange money for Organization XS food,
Organization X uses their own money to market their products
and reinvest in facilities which entice customers to shop there.
If customers refuse to buy food from Organization X,
Organization X will go out of business.
Organization Q produces food. Organization Q claims that since
food is necessary for life and a healthy populace, people should
be forced to chip in for Organization Q's costs.
Those who do not pay will be put in jail by employees of
Organization Q. And if you resist Organization
QS employees, the employees have a right to shoot you in defense
of their own lives. Which organization sounds more
compassionate? Which organization would you
prefer to interact with? Governments provide many things
such as security schools, intelligence gathering, poverty
assistance programs but none of these are defining
characteristics of government. They can be provided by many non
government actors in society and historically they have been.
What makes government a unique institution in society is it's
widely recognized right to achieve its ends via threats of
violence against non aggressors. This is why you would go to jail
for trying to tax someone's income or if you attempted to
regulate the commercial interactions of strangers or
declared war on one of your foes.
Hence, governmental organizations are more like
Organization Q, and organizations in the free market
are more like Organization X I became a progressive when I
thought that progressivism meant being compassionate.
I stopped being a progressive when I realized that putting
massive obligations on strangers through government coercion was
not compassion. While progressives assume that
they have a monopoly on compassion, the reality is that
compassion can still arise even in the absence of state
coercion. This book will focus on
progressive ideas, which dominate universities K through
12, teaching the corporate press, government's corporate
advertising campaigns, human resource departments, and
Hollywood. Most of the people in these
areas advocate progressives ideas such as state welfare,
state schooling, antitrust legislation, state involvement
in healthcare, state involvement in retirement planning, state
regulation of commerce, and the belief that the existence of
disparities in outcomes is ample evidence of discrimination. 3
things to know before moving forward.
The primary assumption behind progressivism is that government
is the central caretaker in society when it comes to solving
social and individual problems. In America, both Republican
President Theodore Roosevelt and Democratic President Woodrow
Wilson were considered progressives, showing that the
fundamental assumptions within this worldview exists across
party lines. This is why whenever small
government Republicans have been in power, they have never on net
shrunk the size or scope of the federal government.
The progressive mentality tends to assume that inequality and
poverty are unnatural and the result of bad actors, while
equality and wealth are easily achievable with the right amount
of political power. In a world where progressive
assumptions school general public opinion, I wanted to
write this short book explaining why the progressive worldview
should be rejected and the free market worldview should be
embraced instead. Thanks for watching Keith
Knight. Don't tread on anyone.
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