Radical Islamo-Fascists and Radicalized Marxists in the White Crib are Freedophobes, Libertiphobes, and Capitalistophobes.
Oh, Goody! Utopia is just around the corner!
The writer seems to think that freedom is synonymous with anarchy. Freedom is good and is best expressed through Conservatism. Russell Kirk's ten principles of Conservatism contains this:
NINTH Conservatives perceive the need for prudent restraints upon power and upon human passions. When every person claims to be a power unto himself society falls into anarchy. A state in which an individual or a small group are able to dominate the wills of their fellows without check is a despotism. The conservative tries to limit and balance political power. Power the revolutionaries thought oppressive in the hands of an old regime, can become worse in the hands of tyrannical new masters.
They are creating a false dichotomy that freedom means rotten food or bullies because they aren’t regulated away. The reality is freedom, in a free market, means that the market wouldn’t stand for someone serving rotten food. Instead of imaginary minimums of quality, those competing in the market would compete to provide the highest quality at the best prices as demanded by the consumer. It could actually set the bar higher.
What the article calls “freedom” is actually anarchy. Fact is, there are some “common good” laws needed, but at the state level. One reason for that is that it keeps the bureaucracy relatively small and close, and causes states to compete: If one state has a really “sweet” welfare deal, pretty soon anyone paying for it has moved out.
BTW, life is risk. Freedom really DOES mean more danger. But heck, if we really wanted total security, why would we ever leave home?
I just noticed who the author was. Frank J. Fleming writes political humor at IMAO.us. Most of his writing is a parody of leftist belief.
Frank J. Fleming writes political humor at IMAO.us and has been hostile to reality ever since it took away Santa Claus.
Fact is, Lefties don't really want to regulate everybody - they only want to regulate you. They really do believe in freedom for themselves, and that extends to a complete freedom from the stricture of law and morality, especially insofar as the latter stems from religion. Not for you, however.
Freedom is the reason that my constitution prohibits counties or municipalities from “regulating, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms”* and yet every city- or county-courthouse I’ve seen has a big NO WEAPONS sign on the building.
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Wife and I have often laughed at a mental image of an American bureaucrat in an Asian day market going catatonic from shock at the free and unregulated sales taking place around him.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.
The author shows a true mastery of faulty logic. The opposite of the government over-regulating is not lousy food, people dying of food poisoning, or death on the streets. Undoubtedly liberals will eat it up.