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RE: Politics, Partisanship, and Propaganda
That doesn't make any sense. Advocating liberty is antithetical to advocating communism.
That doesn't make any sense. Advocating liberty is antithetical to advocating communism.
If your public programs and services are worked and funded voluntarily, your society likely functions something like a commune. Living in a commune doesn't have to incorporate full on communism.
Not at all. If services are funded voluntarily, it is a market service. Some might call that capitalism.
Both could be true in different scenarios. Either way, I hope voluntarily funded services become abundant for you someday, and that somehow, you have all that you need.
This isn't something that can go both ways. Either it is true or it is false that politicians represent people. Either it is true or it is false that taxation is extortion. Either it is true or it is false that politicians exercise legitimate authority. If politicians weren't extorting my wealth and driving up the costs of goods and services through economic intervention, I could fund my needs.
I’m sorry m8, but this absolutist position just isn’t true, and we’ll have to agree to disagree. If you’re lumping Bernie Sanders and Mitch McConnell together for example, and telling me they have the same methods and convictions, I have to call bullshit. It takes no effort at all to take this complicated system and simplify it into convinient true/false statements. It’s lazy and inaccurate, not to mention entirely unhelpful to any effort for change.
Both claim moral authority to rob the people they claim to serve, and coerce those people into obedience. Neither represent anyone but themselves. The nature of politics is illegitimate. No one granted them any authority.
Do I have the right to compel you by force to do anything? Do I have a right to interfere in your life, liberty, or property?
No.
How could I then delegate an authority I do not have to some third party who is a stranger to us both simply by marking a name on a bit of paper?
Check out Lysander Spooner's essay, A Letter to Grover Cleveland, on his false Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People from 1886 for the most thorough dismantling of the claim to electoral representation regardless of the claimed principles of the elected individuals.
To reject the political is not to ignore problems. It recognizes a non-solution built on injustice. There are things that are black-and-white matters of truth and justice. The middle ground can be a fallacious position.