Do You Value Freedom? Let’s See:

Deprogramming Liberalism ^ | 2012 | Jim Autio

[DeprogramLiberalism]

[Written to and for liberals, conservatives will also find this defining, and perhaps useful in challenging liberal acquaintances. A slideshow can be found at the link.]

As a principle, would you prefer others to direct your life, or would you prefer to have the freedom to direct your own life?   

Answer this question and I will tell you who you really are – and who you are not…   

With this question we are reaching down to the philosophical bottom line of your life – the ideological core of your being. Please consciously answer the above question to yourself before continuing to read. (Voluntarily choosing to join the military or other similar controlling group of service to the country is still a free choice to direct one’s own life.)   

Now that you have answered the most important ideological question ever asked of you, I will tell you who you really are – and who you are not…   

If you chose that you would prefer to have the freedom to direct your own life, you are normal (normal people desire freedom). But if you chose that you would prefer others to direct your life (a type of voluntary slavery), you have serious psychological problems and probably need professional help (maybe you would like to reconsider your answer right now – no one needs to know). We can only deal with the choice of desiring freedom here.

Above all, freedom means choice. Without freedom to choose, there is no freedom – there is only slavery (commonly known as tyranny). The more the government restricts a person’s choice, the less freedom a person has to direct his own life. Therefore, the more a person supports government limiting his choice, the more that person volunteers to be a slave to a system of tyranny. It seems hardly reasonable to volunteer oneself to be a slave. It is beyond outrageous to demand that others be coerced and cajoled into that same tyranny.

So, for those of you who are normal and desire freedom, here are the principles of individual liberty:

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life you do believe that what a person can be responsible for in their life, they should be responsible for.

Slaves are not responsible for themselves – the slave master is. Free people are responsible for themselves.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life you do believe that in principle everyone should have the same freedom to direct their own lives.

This point is very important. By choosing maximum liberty for yourself, you also choose maximum liberty for all other citizens. The alternative is the elitist who claims privilege for some, but denying liberty for others, or worse, denying some liberties for everyone. This maximum liberty also applies to domestic companies and associations which are run by and employ the same people deserving of liberty, and are thereby direct extensions of them.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life you do not believe that politically or ideologically based laws, or political correctness should selectively limit the liberty of any person, company or association by jeopardizing the future demographics of the nation.

This is where the wheels meet the road and this is the flip side of the last point. Liberty for one must be the same liberty for all in law and societal mores, preserving a tradition of individual liberty in society for future generations. If it isn’t the same for all in every generation, it isn’t liberty – it is elitism (tyranny). Again, this also applies to corporations and associations by extension from individual liberty.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life you do not believe that collective safety should reach beyond that of policing, emergency response, border control, national security and defense, engineering stipulation, and extreme hazard control.

Each person cannot individually make society safe, so collective safety is allowable, as with police, military, security agencies, etc. But deciding whether it is safe for you to drink a supersized pop is an individual choice. Collective safety is not a legitimate tradeoff for the responsibility of one’s own individual safety. When the government picks and chooses which individual choices are allowable, that is not freedom – it is the tyranny of mommyism.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do believe that government regulations should be minimal yet stringently enforced, limiting as little as necessary your ability to direct your life, and anyone else to direct their lives.

This parallels the last point. Minimal regulation, stringently enforced provides for maximum liberty. Tyrannical regulatory application which unduly limits individual liberty in the name of safety is unacceptable. Government in the area of regulation should operate as a manager. It is not the government’s job to reward some and punish others.

Government is not everybody’s mommy. You can recognize when regulation over steps the bounds of individual liberty when it feels like mommy made it out of an irrational fear for your safety in order to protect you from yourself, or when the mommy next door threatens you with a spanking while her kids hide behind her dress.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do believe in a free marketplace to preserve the liberty of everyone to choose and direct their own lives.

Liberty for all in the marketplace can only be guaranteed in a free marketplace. State interference and manipulation of the marketplace outside of necessary minimal regulation and collective safety selectively limits the liberty of some and privileges others.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do believe that taxes should be universal, but minimal for everyone, including by extension corporations and associations, in order to preserve the maximum individual liberty of everyone.

Maintaining a minimal managerial government and various adequate security apparatus requires tax revenues adequate only for those purposes. Over-taxing that turns managerial government into big-mommy government restricts individual liberties. Taxes should never be automatically deducted. They should always be paid directly by the taxpayer so that they can feel that they have skin in the game every time they pay.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do believe that charity with your money is your business, and not the business of the government. You desire to direct where your charitable contributions go. You do not agree that the government should coercively tax you or others and then direct your and their money to others against your/their objections, whether it is welfare, healthcare, retirement, whatever.

Government is for management and maintenance of a society (including emergency response). When the government steps into redistribution of money through taxation and dispersion, it over steps into removing the liberty of citizens in deciding for themselves where their charity goes. It is not mommy’s job to redistribute a portion of your allowance. Government is not your mommy, and your money is not an allowance – it is your money.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do not believe other countries who do not place the same value on individual liberty should be able to tell your country how to operate.

Individual liberty trumps all other global concerns, since individual liberty should also be all other nations’ number one concern.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do believe that individual liberties should be protected as the fundamental law of the country for all citizens (except traitors to the country), and should be strictly adhered to at all times, under strict penalty of law.

The government should be restricted by foundational law from evolving into mommyism. This principle should be taught in every year of school relentlessly, so that citizens always defend their individual liberty.

Here is the conclusion:

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do not believe in collectivism (mommyism).

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you do believe in individual liberty.

Therefore:

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you are not a contemporary liberal.

• In your core belief of freedom to direct your own life, you are a contemporary conservative.

Yup, you read that correctly. Since you would prefer to have the freedom to direct your own life, in your core beliefs you are not a liberal – you are a conservative. Conservatives believe in the universal individual liberty that you chose. Liberals believe in big-mommy collectivism which is antithetical to individual liberty, and which you did not choose. Contemporary liberalism is anti-freedom.

If after reading all of this you still think you can continue to see yourself as a contemporary liberal or progressive, you either lied to yourself (played stupid) when you answered the original question of this page - that you would prefer to have the freedom to direct your own life, or you are lying to yourself (playing stupid) now - that you think you can both believe in individual liberty and still see yourself as a liberal (or progressive).

This means that you have been captivated by an inverse type of magical thinking that over-rides your natural rejection of cognitive dissonance (believing two obviously contradictory things at the same time). Liberals submit to the principle of collective direction of their lives by big-mommy government (voluntary slavery), while delusionally believing that their submission is an act of individual liberty. (Convoluted much?)

This is a result of societal conditioning. Liberals don’t defend their individual liberty, but in fact, voluntarily give it away in exchange for what they have been conditioned to believe will be a safe utopia where mommy will take care of them. This is nothing more than offering oneself in slavery to tyranny. However, liberals didn’t choose this for themselves – it was chosen for them by the circumstances of their lives and conditioned into them. Everyone should thoroughly understand this process so that this liberal conditioning of accepting voluntary slavery can be eliminated from society.

[deweyfrank]

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[posterchild]

Liberals don’t defend their individual liberty, but in fact, voluntarily give it away in exchange for what they have been conditioned to believe will be a safe utopia where mommy will take care of them.

Or, they believe that they are naturally destined to be that 'mommy' administrator.

[DeprogramLiberalism]

First they give their own liberty away and then some take on this noble attitude that they can and should direct other's lives for them.

[Democrat_media]

to be a democrat you have to believe:

that a liberal using someone else’s money can run your life better than you can run your own life using your own money. and worse yet believe that a single liberal using other people’s money will run all the millions of transactions of the FREE Market better than the free market itself ( when no human can).

[DeprogramLiberalism]

More than that - they believe this is an act of liberty.

[Marie]

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