Guest Post by John Stossel
People want politics to be simple. Left vs. right. Clinton vs. Trump. My side vs. your side. Elect the right guy, and things will be good!
The truth is more complicated.
Influential political philosophies created the mess we live with today, not just a political “left” and “right.” There’s socialism, conservatism, populism, progressivism, liberalism, scientism (eugenics), Marxism, totalitarianism, nationalism, fascism, Islamo-fascism, Nazism and probably others I missed.
But only two “isms” work well for ordinary people. More on them in a moment.
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It’s in the interests of politicians and activists to tell us society is divided into two armies, one good and one evil, with crushing defeat for one side just about to happen. When primitive parts of our brains see the world as “us vs. them,” we’re ready to fight each other.
We may not realize until it’s too late that all those ideologies will reduce our freedom and increase the power of politicians.
Matt Kibbe, head of the group Free the People, calls them “the Deadly Isms” in a new series of online videos.
He urges people to stop wasting time worrying about which “ism” is on the left or right and worry more about how all threaten individual liberty.
Stalin was not the opposite of Hitler. Both were mass murderers who censored the press, seized control of industries and murdered innocent people. We don’t benefit by choosing between communism and Nazism, or between the milder forms of them that still find adherents today: socialism and fascism.
Whether government gives you orders in the name of the working class or a superior race, it still takes away your right to do as you please.
On the other hand, there is an ideology that does leave us mostly free to do what we please. John Locke called it liberalism, saying that: “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man.”
We need some government to do some things — keep the peace, for example — but otherwise, government should mostly leave us alone.
Unfortunately, today’s liberals stole Locke’s word. Now liberalism means regulating most every detail of individual behavior and dividing people into grievance groups that use government to take each other’s money and freedom.
Conservatism claims to love freedom, but its advocates don’t mind government starting wars and crushing civil liberties of unpopular groups like drug users, immigrants, gamblers, sex workers and pornographers.
Today, both liberalism and conservatism are guilty of encouraging another ism: corporatism. That’s what we get when government doles out special privileges to corporations and people who have more lawyers and lobbyists than you do.
A genuine free market rewards entrepreneurs who serve customers well. A government that hands out farm subsidies, wind-farm tax credits, mortgage deductions, etc., skews the economy in favor of those who are already rich. That’s corporatism, or crony capitalism, or “crapitalism,” and that’s basically what we’ve got in America now.
Donald Trump practiced crapitalism. That’s why cronies like Bill and Hillary Clinton attended his wedding. I don’t blame Trump. When government has its fingers all over the economy, developers are smart to get cozy with the political class.
But when Trump ran for president, he didn’t call himself a crony capitalist; he said he was a “populist.” Sometimes he called it “popularist.”
Populists are angry at the establishment.
But populism offers no solution. It leads instead to people following the will of self-appointed leaders who say they share the mob’s anger. Bernie Sanders is called a populist, too.
Trump complains about regulations one day (I cheer), but then he complains about free trade the next. He seems to go wherever his moods, and the public’s shifting moods, suggest. The anger is constant, but individual liberty suffers.
The only ism that doesn’t threaten your freedom is liberalism (as originally defined) — libertarianism, as we call it now.
Let’s take power from the other deadly isms and leave people free.
THE DEADLIEST ISM THAT CREATED & CONTROLS ALL OTHER ISMS
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Most widely held works by John Claudius Pitrat
Paul and Julia, or, The political mysteries, hypocrisy and cruelty of the leaders of the Church of Rome by John Claudius Pitrat( Book )
9 editions published in 1855 in English and held by 110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Americans warned of Jesuitism, or, The Jesuits unveiled by John Claudius Pitrat( Book )
13 editions published between 1851 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 50 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pagan origin of Partialist doctrines by John Claudius Pitrat( Book )
12 editions published between 1857 and 2014 in English and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The religious belief of partialism states that not everyone will achieve salvation in God’s eyes. Because they subscribe to the notion of hell and eternal damnation, many Christian denominations can be said to hold to the doctrine of partialism. In this book, theologian John Claudius Pitrat contends that this belief system is actually a holdover from pagan times and does not reflect the true nature of Christianity
Review of the speech of Hon. J.R. Chandler of Pennsylvania on the political power of the pope, delivered in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1855 by John Claudius Pitrat( Book )
2 editions published in 1855 in English and held by 30 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Come and hear! : Rev. J.C. Pietrat, formerly a Roman Catholic priest will lecture at the town hall, on Tuesday even’g Aug. 8th.( Book )
2 editions published in 1854 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
PAUL AND JULIA, OR THE POLITICAL MYSTERIES, HYPOCRISY, AND CRUELTY OF THE LEADERS OF THE… CHURCH OF ROME (CLASSIC REPRINT) by John Claudius Pitrat( Book )
1 edition published in 2016 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Paul and julia by John Claudius Pitrat( Book )
2 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Americans warned of Jesuitism,: or The Jesuits unveiled./ By Claudius Pitrat by John Claudius Pitrat( )
in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
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PAGAN ORIGIN OF PARTIALIST DOCTRINES (CLASSIC REPRINT) by John Claudius Pitrat( Book )
1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
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1 edition published in 2016 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide. Americans warned of Jesuitism,: or The Jesuits unveiled./ By Claudius Pitrat by John Claudius Pitrat( ) in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJH2497.0001.001.
Is there any way to keep maroons like this Tim White jackass from cluttering up a thread with his mindless mental vomit?
GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU IGNORANT MORON
Tim White
GOT A REAL NAME COWARD BOYSCOUT ?
Please Stop. Mindless dribble is always appreciated but you don’t need to waste space. It makes scrolling all that much harder.
“Society,” the fused patriarch\matriarch of all us•ery, is opposed to individuals, liberty. In that, it has never, ever been “divided.”
If only Mr. Stossel actually believed in libertarianism. But hey, claiming to be one gets him a lot of viewers.
If belief has anything to do with it, all is lost before anything is even begun.
Which is why all is lost, rotationally, over & over again: world is full of rationalizing believers.
Most if not all of these ISMs have one thing in common.They are based on Godless Idolatry and Godless ideology that promotes even more Evil in society. Usually the lie of evolutionary biology.
I am convinced that Nothing will save our Republic unless the Christ bearing race returns to our one True Way.Only then will the majority of whites begin to wake up from their slumber.This is our only hope.
CRAPitalism. Ha. I like that.
Once you cut through the crap, there is only one “ism”. —- me-ism.
All humanity is inflicted with it.
Would it were. We-ism, us•ery, is the perennial human affliction.
Socialanimalism.
Which is, of course, anti-social.
Americans from both parties have gone too far down the rabbit hole.
Republicans will never see it the way democrats see it and vice versa. I’m a member of the libertarian party only because I gave up on the two parties back in 2010, yeah, yeah, I’m a slow learner.
I heard on the news this morning that Trumps approval rating is in the tank, and I wondered how democrats must be laughing, then the announcer said that hilary’s approval rating was worse than Trumps and I wondered how much further this country can go before erupting…….fourth turnings, I never knew what one was before I found TBP, guess I’m going to find out pretty soon.
WTF…you left out the two most important “isms”. How is that possible? They are: 1) Talmudic Judaism and 2) Zionism…and they are closely related.
One John Stossel article in the hand is worth a dozen doom porn articles in the bush.