RE: Wisconsin Protests: State Police Pursue Democratic Lawmakers Boycotting Vote
February 24, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Gentlemen, you can't fight here! This is the WAR room!
Snark aside, I believe that the epic struggle today is not between right and left wing, which have more to do with economic policies, but between authoritarians and libertarians.
It doesn't help that a great many authoritarian, fascist-like republicans claim to be libertarian (case in point - tea-partiers railing on abortion instead of jobs, government, etc,.).
If anything, there needs to be a unification between left wing and right wing libertarians. If you support personal freedom of your body, to smoke what you want, to control your reproductive cycle, you're libertarian.
If you wish to control others, regulate their behavior, you're a authoritarian.
These are by definition.
While I believe in government as a tool to regulate the markets and ensure fair competition, restrain environmental damage (the government is all of us, therefore we must act as a whole to preserve our environment within reason), etc,.
Government should not regulate my behavior and actions as a citizen except within criminal confines. Government should not poke it's head into my home and spy on me. Government should not hold areas where our consitution is suspended, secret or overt (Guantanamo Bay, I'm looking at you).
While the right and the left wing disagree on social policy, like a safety net for people who cannot obtain employment but are looking for work (I still believe in the hard working man, because I am the descendant of a familial line of them), and where our taxes go to, allying with each other against fascism would improve our situation dramatically.
Such a shame, though, that a great many "republicans" will not see eye to eye with their democrat brethren, who are in the midst of running away because they can't stomache deciding whether they believe in personal freedom or government control.
Snark aside, I believe that the epic struggle today is not between right and left wing, which have more to do with economic policies, but between authoritarians and libertarians.
It doesn't help that a great many authoritarian, fascist-like republicans claim to be libertarian (case in point - tea-partiers railing on abortion instead of jobs, government, etc,.).
If anything, there needs to be a unification between left wing and right wing libertarians. If you support personal freedom of your body, to smoke what you want, to control your reproductive cycle, you're libertarian.
If you wish to control others, regulate their behavior, you're a authoritarian.
These are by definition.
While I believe in government as a tool to regulate the markets and ensure fair competition, restrain environmental damage (the government is all of us, therefore we must act as a whole to preserve our environment within reason), etc,.
Government should not regulate my behavior and actions as a citizen except within criminal confines. Government should not poke it's head into my home and spy on me. Government should not hold areas where our consitution is suspended, secret or overt (Guantanamo Bay, I'm looking at you).
While the right and the left wing disagree on social policy, like a safety net for people who cannot obtain employment but are looking for work (I still believe in the hard working man, because I am the descendant of a familial line of them), and where our taxes go to, allying with each other against fascism would improve our situation dramatically.
Such a shame, though, that a great many "republicans" will not see eye to eye with their democrat brethren, who are in the midst of running away because they can't stomache deciding whether they believe in personal freedom or government control.
