Choose Your Tyrant Wisely

3 months ago

America has one choice for 2008: Tyranny
The State must be destroyed and begun anew, lest we leave disastrous consequences for our future descendants. America is choosing tyranny again this November, but will it choose freedom again in the future?

I actually really enjoyed this whole article, only disagreeing on this final paragraph. The state must not be begun anew. As the article points out, the classical liberals, in all of their wisdom, were unable to construct a state which would not grow unbounded into a tyranny. If the author truly thinks that there is some possible way to write a constitution that will not be corrupted by the power seekers, or to construct a government which will not bring into its fold the power hungry, he is simply deceiving himself.

The only way to prevent the cycle of tyranny is to learn, as a people, that government is evil in every possible way. We must unlearn the idea that we need government. We must unlearn the (religious) idea that humans are born as sinners, as evildoers. It is this idea that people are inherently bad that drives the modern liberals (those who generally distance themselves from religious affiliation, mind you) to say that we need government programs to ensure that we share and treat our fellow man fairly.

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