RE: Smashing Through the Bullshit: An In-Depth, Investigative Look at #Kokesh2020.
If you can post something like this without indicating what type of politician the person was (a Ron Paul? A John Lilburne? A Frederick Douglass? A Lysander Spooner? A Thomas Massie? A Thomas Paine? Pursuing voluntaryist policies? Claiming to to pursue individual freedom the way Obama did --totally self-contradictory and obviously lying from the beginning? Claiming to pursue individual freedom the way Ron Paul did --coherently, but without a radical focus on the courts? Claiming to pursue individual freedom the way Lilburne, MLK, Frederick Douglass, and Rosa Parks did, battling for his and her life against the courts, speaking publicly to huge crowds of the similarly-oppressed, demanding results they would not be paid for? Claiming to pursue freedom like Cobden and Bright did, on stage, coherently, but with little of their own freedom at stake?)
We know literally nothing about your situation. Certainly not enough to judge whether it's one thing(freedom), or the very opposite of that thing(tyranny).
Your friend could easily be a radical freedom fighter, and you a half-assed "fairweather friend" of liberty. ...Or vice versa. There's no way for an informed observer to know from your comment.
...But the assumption that "power is bad" is there. ...The fatal error of the liberty movement!
One type of power stops the big, bold, fat, wealthy S.S. officer from gunning down skeletal Jews and pushing them into a mass grave.
Are you against that type of power? The power wielded by the Allies when they liberated the death-camps?
I'm not.
Justice+Power+slow improvement, slow reduction of political power = freedom.
If the liberty movement has no power of its own, our children will go to the gulag, in chains.
It's as simple as that.
You'd better figure out what would cause you to pick up a rifle, and what would cause you to donate money to what quality of messenger for your ideas: so you don't have to.
If you read the full chain of posts you would know he was a Ron Paul supporter, and I just love how you assume I just misjudged his character. he stabbed me in the back in such a way his WIFE was about to cry. Maybe she misjudged him too, we don't know him like you apparently do.
I don't know anyone on this thread.
I was commenting about one post from cryptosenpai. My focus here is simply to urge people away from the pointless mire of "political fatalism." Humans will always be at war, as long as unproductive parasites can use "feedback-and-correction"-based control mechanisms designed to deal with rights-violations to steal money, instead of earn it.
The famine in the Ukraine and the gas chambers of Nazi Germany are how bad it can get. Poland's Perestroika, the USA's abolitionist movement succeeding at making slavery unenforceable in MA, etc. are how good it can get. Abolishing the DEA and ATF are well within the bounds of the politically possible.
The good in a political world that is full of sociopaths admittedly isn't very good. Lobaczewski, Milgram, and other students of "political evil" were and are right. (But the political good of "true democracy in the proper sense" allows improvement, and rising intelligence.) The bad("totalitarianism") doesn't allow improvement, until we've lost literally everything of good in our lives, and in the lives of our grandchildren.
Most people don't see the huge price-tag cynicism, resignation, fatalism, and political-relinquishment carry until they're in the gulag, paying it. Then, it's too late.
You seem to know this. I don't get the sense cryptosenpai does, since he's spouting off Konkinist assertions.
I dislike Konkinist assertions that detract from serious political involvement. I'd like to see libertarians become as serious as Ron Paul's supporters were, and then, even more serious than that.
Politics is the art of the possible. It requires continual passive support of the best available option, above a threshold of "acceptable." (Hillary, Bernie, Trump, Otter, etc. are all "unacceptable" in my view.)
What's even more unacceptable than that is pretending that one is doing something against the state by "sitting at home on election day." There may not be a good option, but, if so, that's shameful, because our republic is in shambles, dominated by totalitarian sociopaths.