Libertarian Socialism

[The Grand Nudger]

Count me out of the "fuck you got mine" vision of America too. But you need to understand that individuality is our equality. Equality is each community having the power to make their own decisions. I don't want anybody making my decisions and I don't want to make anybody else's decisions.

Then what you need is a mountain bunker, removed from other human beings. Keeping it at a minimum is pretty much the best you can hope for in a society. The township of Legal Pedo is never going to happen, no matter how many catholics gather in one place, just as an example that shows how stretched the idea of equality as each community having the power to make their own decisions actually becomes. There are limits.

I'm a libertarian socialist because I want my tax money to fund doctor owned healthcare. I want to fund competing teacher owned schools. I want to fund a green infrastructure. I want to fund homeless shelters and free rehabilitation clinics. I don't want to fund WW3.

Get your candidate in office then. -Your- tax money isn't going to build any infrastructure buddy, you aren't that rich. Bet you couldn't even afford the sections of pavement you drive on if you had to pay it's full cost (and I mean the royal you...your whole town). We'll need -everyone- pitching in on that count....and I doubt that everyone is going to agree to it - even if they all use the energy created by it. So whats the deal, we just can't do it unless everyone agrees..-or- we leave some portions of the US (the dissenters) as barren wastelands? Nope, I say we drag em kicking and screaming into a better future. "You don't want green energy? Too bad, go fuck yourself, we already spent your money - and we'll be back for more later". I know, I know, the same could be said of WW3, but them's the breaks, huh? It's just absurd to think that any man, city, county, or state could actually be an island...spending it;s resources (again, unequally distributed) -only- on what it/he/she wants. It's just not that kind of world anymore.

I don't want to

Neither do I, but others do, and they got their boy in office. I don't think that the system is functioning properly atm, but even if it were it would still be possible for things I don't like to occur on my tax dime (if I paid any, suckers).

Does that mean I get to make their decisions for them?

If they make bad decisions, then yes...somebody has to stand up to the tyranny of the majority, if that's a factor.