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Why I’m not a liberal (simple version)

June 28, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

Was busy outlining a post on this matter when DrewM at Ace pretty much summed it up in a sentence: “It’s funny how the answer to every problem is always more and strong government.”

For every problem it seems, particularly social ones, liberals believe the government should step in and impose a solution. But, as with many (but definitely not all) crises, government is not the solution, but very often is the problem.

In those cases where government is not the cause of the problem, the government solution often exaggerates it.

More on this anon, as necessary, with a possibly related post on why conservative policies are better for gay people (a notion I begin to explore here with Cynthia Yockey doing the same here.)

Filed Under: Big Government Follies, Conservative Ideas, Freedom

Comments

  1. TGC says

    June 28, 2011 at 5:38 am - June 28, 2011

    Why? Easy. You use your mind to think things through rather than being motivated by rage, hatred, envy, fear etc. Without those things, liberals can’t control people.

  2. LiberalPatriot says

    June 28, 2011 at 7:22 am - June 28, 2011

    l dont care why…Im just glad a narrow minded self loathing hypocrite doesnt call themselves a liberal

  3. Pat says

    June 28, 2011 at 7:56 am - June 28, 2011

    TGC, I guess it depends on perspective. That’s sometimes how I view conservatives.

  4. Levi says

    June 28, 2011 at 8:34 am - June 28, 2011

    Let’s see, you drive on government roads, water is pumped into your office by government, you can get medicine that’s been vigorously tested by the government, you can be reasonably sure that the food you’re eating isn’t contaminated because of the government, you can use this great thing called the internet which was built and is maintained by the government, you can communicate with your friends and family all over the country with cell phones that depend on radio waves that the government regulates, people come and help you if your house is on fire, if someone breaks into your house, or if you’re having a medical emergency because of the government, the government maintains a standing army to defend your home so you don’t have to, the government funds scientific, technological, and medical research that directly benefits your life in countless ways, you (most likely) relied on government-funded schooling for your education…………………….

    Oh yes, the government ruins everything.

  5. Eric in Chicago says

    June 28, 2011 at 9:34 am - June 28, 2011

    Oh yes, the government ruins everything.

    Comment by Levi — June 28, 2011 @ 8:34 am – June 28, 2011

    Who said everything? Kindly post evidence of where anyone claimed that.

  6. ILoveCapitalism says

    June 28, 2011 at 9:35 am - June 28, 2011

    A government is: a territorial monopoly on the use of physical force. Its only legitimate purpose is if it serves the People by removing physical force as an issue from their daily lives, so that the People will enjoy effective rights to life, liberty and property and deal with each other only by voluntary consent.

    Levi hates Hardcore lefties hate that, because if people only have to deal with himthem voluntarily, then he loses they lose. Hardcore lefties are the people who have a need to force others to do what they want. The need may economic – as in, it’s the only way they can get a living – or it may be moral-psychological – as in, a hidden lust to revenge themselves on others by wielding power over them.

    But once you understand that their basic motive is the need/lust for power, then their behavior is explicable: their reliance on governmental compulsion in every problem area, their inconsistency (and sometimes, total lack) of principle in the arguments they advance for government interference, their constantly projecting their own bad traits onto others, and so forth.

    As an entity which collects its revenue by force and indeed which embodies force, government ought to interfere with the activities of the citizenry as little as possible, doing nothing beyond the impartial protection of individual rights. A citizen who can get the government to alter outcomes on his behalf (other than the enforcement of universal rights to life, liberty and property) is a kind of tyrant.

  7. Sonicfrog says

    June 28, 2011 at 9:57 am - June 28, 2011

    Well… I guess I’ll have to finish my blog-post with the same title I started two months ago. Will have it done this afternoon.

  8. The_Livewire says

    June 28, 2011 at 9:59 am - June 28, 2011

    godo to know Levi applauds the Patriot Act, the Trail of tears, the Tuskegee experiments, Jim Crow Laws, and all the other ‘great’ things brought to us by government.

    Now hush Levi, adults are talking.

  9. V the K says

    June 28, 2011 at 10:35 am - June 28, 2011

    Levi, once again, illustrates the idiocy of liberal ideology perfectly. He thinks that since there are some things the Government does, the Government should, ipso facto, be empowered to do everything and spare him the inconvenience of having to do anything for himself.

    That ideology, that idiocy, is what drives me away from liberalism.

  10. B. Daniel Blatt says

    June 28, 2011 at 10:48 am - June 28, 2011

    Um, Liberal “Patriot”, who are you calling self-hating and why?

    Please provide the examples which justify your use of this mean-spirited slur. Thanks!

  11. Eric in Chicago says

    June 28, 2011 at 11:04 am - June 28, 2011

    Please provide the examples which justify your use of this mean-spirited slur. Thanks!

    Dan, perhaps it’s time to start enforcing the rules here.

  12. Heliotrope says

    June 28, 2011 at 11:05 am - June 28, 2011

    Glad to see that Levi supports bedrock conservative ideals such as these:

    government roads
    government obtained, purified and distributed water
    medicine vigorously tested and regulated by the government
    food regulated by government for purity and safety
    government regulated monopolies for power, communication, internet
    fire and police protection
    national defense
    public education
    research directly supporting the above.

    Levi fails to mention his bedrock liberal ideals such as these:

    minimum wage (meaning “living” wage)
    subsidized housing
    food stamps
    Obamacare
    retirement security
    government jobs
    endless free education
    free rides
    wealth redistribution
    compensation far every cockamamie victimhood imaginable

  13. V the K says

    June 28, 2011 at 11:08 am - June 28, 2011

    Please provide the examples which justify your use of this mean-spirited slur.

    In his “mind,” the simple fact that you don’t buy into his ideology justifies the slur.

  14. V the K says

    June 28, 2011 at 11:15 am - June 28, 2011

    Another reason not to be a liberal: You don’t want to be identified with these pasty-white dorks: http://www.mrctv.org/video/103140

  15. ILoveCapitalism says

    June 28, 2011 at 11:27 am - June 28, 2011

    Is it just me, or did it smell kinda like Paula Brooks back there? (Speaking of people who hate themselves, needing to lie about their gender and sexuality – and, speaking of people who project their bad traits and mental problems onto others.)

  16. V the K says

    June 28, 2011 at 11:37 am - June 28, 2011

    I think “Paula Brooks” will be the featured speaker at the Middle-Aged White Guys Who Pretend to Lesbians Convention. It’s the only convention of its kind held entirely in an AOL Chat Room.

  17. Peter Hughes says

    June 28, 2011 at 12:00 pm - June 28, 2011

    #2 – Funny, this person seems to encapsulate the phrase “a narrow minded self loathing hypocrite.”

    Thank God they’re liberal. I’d hate to be that person.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  18. V the K says

    June 28, 2011 at 12:54 pm - June 28, 2011

    Liberals at one time used to claim they were the tolerant ones. Now, they spend all their time explaining why it’s OK to be intolerant of people who disagree with them.

  19. Niall says

    June 28, 2011 at 3:06 pm - June 28, 2011

    I want to address a few of Levi’s points:

    “Let’s see, you drive on government roads”
    –These could be run by private sector more cheaper and more efficiently.

    “water is pumped into your office by government”
    –I would say that this is a proper task for government. Some may disagree.

    “You can get medicine that’s been vigorously tested by the government, you can be reasonably sure that the food you’re eating isn’t contaminated because of the government”
    –Our food and medicine is no more safe just because the government tests it.

    “People come and help you if your house is on fire, if someone breaks into your house, or if you’re having a medical emergency because of the government”
    –These could all be supplied cheaper and more efficiently by private contractors.

    “the government maintains a standing army to defend your home so you don’t have to”
    –Well, that is what it is supposed to do.

  20. B. Daniel Blatt says

    June 28, 2011 at 3:21 pm - June 28, 2011

    Levi effectively missed the point of the post. I never said government had no role. I merely faulted the liberal tendency to seek a government solution to every problem.

    Seems some people would rather attack than consider our points. It’s fine for him to disagree, but if you’re going to spend so much at our blog, wouldn’t you want at least to take the time to address our ideas?

  21. TGC says

    June 28, 2011 at 3:49 pm - June 28, 2011

    the internet which was built and is maintained by the government,

    Except that it wasn’t and it isn’t, but it is a liberal wet dream. The private sector made the internet as we know it and made it free for all. The government wants to take it over and tax the shit out of it.

    you can get medicine that’s been vigorously tested by the government,

    They also keep the prices of medicine high and keep a lot of medicines, that people could use, out of the country. The government also keeps the health care prices high be refusing to pay for it, forcing the costs to be spread out over everybody else and then has the audacity to attack and shake down insurance companies for their own failures.

  22. TGC says

    June 28, 2011 at 5:57 pm - June 28, 2011

    you can get medicine that’s been vigorously tested by the government,

    Really, Levi?

    I picked up the phone to call my wife and tell her the news. When she answered, I was too choked-up to speak. The next five minutes were some of the worst moments of my life as I told my wife that bureaucrats in Washington were deciding to take away a drug that was keeping her alive.

    Should a panel of 13 individuals make life and death decisions for 17,500 women or should those decisions best be left to doctors and patients? Are the FDA’s decisions motivated by cost and in fact a form of health care rationing?

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/28/fda-panel-is-deciding-life-or-death-for-my-wife/#ixzz1Qbu5KNnr

  23. V the K says

    June 28, 2011 at 6:02 pm - June 28, 2011

    Levi effectively missed the point of the post. I never said government had no role. I merely faulted the liberal tendency to seek a government solution to every problem.

    Progressives like Levi can’t argue with actual conservative positions, so they make up straw men. A progressive, particularly one with only Levi’s limited faculties, cannot dispute the conservative proposition that Government should be limited to a small range of tasks that cannot be effectively performed by other parts of society. That’s way too hard. But he can claim that conservatives want to eliminate all Government services and argue against that position – which no one on the conservative right advocates – precisely because it is absurd.

  24. Tim says

    June 28, 2011 at 6:18 pm - June 28, 2011

    See this is the beauty of “small government” they can constantly tear down the government and say that it must be smaller, and that government is always the problem. But when faced with all the good that government does they say they weren’t referring to THAT part government.

  25. North Dallas Thirty says

    June 28, 2011 at 6:21 pm - June 28, 2011

    But he can claim that conservatives want to eliminate all Government services and argue against that position – which no one on the conservative right advocates – precisely because it is absurd.

    And as we see in the Obama Party’s desperate attack ads, that’s pretty much all they have left.

    The hilarity is that Obama is shrieking that Republicans want to “end government as we know it” — while people are watching as blunder after blunder after blunder of the all-government, all-the-time Obama Party piles up.

    Which explains why this tactic is boomeranging on them so badly. Republicans are advocating for change, while Obama is pushing the failed policies of the past.

  26. TGC says

    June 28, 2011 at 7:25 pm - June 28, 2011

    But when faced with all the good that government does they say they weren’t referring to THAT part government.

    You mean the “good” like spending $2.6 million on training Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly or the billions in Medicare/Medicaid fraud that liberals don’t give a rat’s ass about? Imagine all the real good that could be done with that money.

  27. TGC says

    June 29, 2011 at 4:29 am - June 29, 2011

    We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand:… an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand… the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education… We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents… The government must undertake the improvement of public health—by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor… by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the… materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good.

    – The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Munich, February 1920

  28. V the K says

    June 29, 2011 at 10:21 am - June 29, 2011

    And Timmeh steps in to prove my point.

  29. North Dallas Thirty says

    June 29, 2011 at 11:50 am - June 29, 2011

    See this is the beauty of “small government” they can constantly tear down the government and say that it must be smaller, and that government is always the problem. But when faced with all the good that government does they say they weren’t referring to THAT part government.

    And here’s a fine example of what Timmeh thinks is “all the good the government does”.

    Liberals like Timmeh are just hostage-takers. They scream and whine and cry and try to use things like national defense to justify their using taxpayer dollars to surf pron sites.

    I say we make them choke on it. Timmeh and Levi support and endorse using taxpayer dollars and equipment to pay fat salaries to government workers who download child pronography all day. They and their Obama Party consider this a legitimate and constitutional government function.

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