Here’s the problem with this logic. “Better embrace free markets and free trade” means “better embrace neoliberalism”. And neoliberalism always leads to wokeness.
“Freedom above all” means “freedom from biology, reality, and facts.” No barriers to capital means no barriers to anything else. If country borders are eliminated for capital, they are eliminated for the labor that capital needs. Freedom above all means no boundaries exist for the truly endless and always raging human desires.
It’s not possible to worship “free markets” and oppose open borders, men in women’s toilets, and BLM. They are a package deal. You buy into the cause, you get the consequences.
Yes, it was not clear in 1982 that this was going to happen, that neoliberalism will lead to middle aged men prancing around, forcing us to “affirm” them as little girls. But things have happened since then. It’s time to notice. It’s time to adjust our thinking based on the consequences we have long observed.
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Extreme ideologies always lead to a bad place. Choosing between the far left and far right is hardly a decision worth making.
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2023/07/21/where-does-the-slippery-alt-right-slope-end/
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Would love to see a movement toward… a whole range of things that already exist in philosophical explorations, that do not fit neatly with either end of the artificial left–right spectrum.
Burkean conservatism and distributism come to mind.
Personally, I think the very unsexy ideas of scale and hierarchy need to make a comeback. We have huge problems with this.
Raising 50 chickens and selling the eggs should not come with the same regulatory burden as raising 50,000 chickens and selling the eggs. The hazards for those are completely different. The regulations for manufacturing and selling things within 50 or 100 miles should not be the same as regulations for selling more than 100 miles, or 1000 miles, or globally. Regulation/taxes for selling $100 worth of merchandise should not be the same as regulation/taxes for selling $1,000,000 worth of merchandise. Owning 1/4 acre of land should not be taxed at the same rate as owning 1,000 acres of land. Using a normal average 1000sf-house-typical kwh of electricity/mo should not be taxed or priced at the same rate as using that consumed by a typical 6000sf house.
These are matters that could conserve fossil resources, benefit local economies, and address the massive power imbalance between huge corporations and local producers. Nobody talks about them. If a political party sprung up with *any* such things as a key platform idea, I’d sign up today.
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Yet another demonstration of what a dead end making a particularly shallow form of “anti- wokeness” the end-all be-all of your politics is.
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COVID-level propaganda has been unleashed. It is as unimaginative, repetitive and smug as 5 years ago. And it’s working on the exact same people.
Same time of year as the original COVID panic.
I wonder what kind of a new George Floyd they’ve planned for May.
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