Why the Left hates liberty

[FakeNews]

Queers for Palestine, pro-sharia feminists, legal citizens advocating for open borders – what motivates people to take up such suicidal causes? Who seeks to be ruled by tyranny? To that point, how does one view slavery as liberation? How is it that in the United States of America, free speech has become something to malign? Why do Americans have more empathy toward foreigners than their own countrymen? Why is it considered a moral good to steal from the few to reward the many? In the country that invented freedom, why is libertarianism so rare? Why do Leftists hate liberty?

Liberty is difficult to achieve because it requires a system of principles supporting it. Self-ownership is paramount; the individual is best directed when self-directed. Unlike faux-liberals, libertarians practice true tolerance: the ability to work alongside and co-exist with truly diverse peoples. The dutifully liberty-minded recognize the interconnectedness of society, and the significance of their decisions. Such decisions are significant because of the impact they may have on others. Poor decisions make for harsh consequences. For liberty to exist, empathy must persist.

And yet there is a logic in their cause: Leftists cannot survive in a free and open market. When true competition is encouraged, their products and ideas fall by the wayside. In a culture of freedom and choice, Leftists suffer an existential question, “How do I get attention when people are no longer forced to stare at me?” Freedom is a severe threat, as they can only live in a prison. They desire to be slaves of the powerful, and to lust after them. Leftists cannot know liberty because they cannot free themselves of these desires. While Liberty-minded individuals fight to be free of centralized power, Leftists being the tyrants that they are, want a total monopoly on power. For these reasons (and likely others), Leftists hate liberty.

https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/left-hates-liberty-opinion/

 

[richard_daily]

That may be one of the worst written articles I've ever seen.

Thanks cowardly alt!

 

[BotanyBoy]

That may be one of the worst written articles I've ever seen.

Thanks cowardly alt!

Poorly written yes, but not entirely wrong either.


"Leftists cannot survive in a free and open market. When true competition is encouraged, their products and ideas fall by the wayside. In a culture of freedom and choice, Leftists suffer an existential question, “How do I get attention when people are no longer forced to stare at me?” Freedom is a severe threat,"


And that's the bottom line right there.....

 

[Hypoxia]

That may be one of the worst written articles I've ever seen.

Thanks cowardly alt!

The excerpt was crappy enough. Its many null words render it semantically meaningless. Its premises are bullshit. Add some radishes and Ranch dressing and we've got a fat word salad. Don't swallow it.
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Freedom is nothing left to lose, as a West Point grad pointed out. We are free to live or die, to eat or starve. We can jump off the bridge anytime we want.

Liberty requires responsibility. Your freedom to swing a fist stops at my nose. Our liberty stops when we no longer honor the liberty of others.

Those are my views. Here's what Wikipedia sez:

Liberty, in philosophy, involves free will as contrasted with determinism. In politics, liberty consists of the social and political freedoms to which all community members are entitled. In theology, liberty is freedom from the effects of, "sin, spiritual servitude, [or] worldly ties."

Generally, liberty is distinctly differentiated from freedom in that freedom is primarily, if not exclusively, the ability to do as one wills and what one has the power to do; whereas liberty concerns the absence of arbitrary restraints and takes into account the rights of all involved. As such, the exercise of liberty is subject to capability and limited by the rights of others.

One of my sisters, the uptight one, and her odd husband call themselves 'libertarian' but don't much respect the rights of others. And she's stopped sending birthday cards. But I love her anyway.

 

[richard_daily]

Poorly written yes, but not entirely wrong either.


"Leftists cannot survive in a free and open market. When true competition is encouraged, their products and ideas fall by the wayside. In a culture of freedom and choice, Leftists suffer an existential question, “How do I get attention when people are no longer forced to stare at me?” Freedom is a severe threat,"


And that's the bottom line right there.....

Leftists (egalitarians) have survived in a "free market" before Adam Smith was a glimmer in his father's eye.

It's poorly written, based on wild falsehoods, and filled with nonsense that has no factual basis.

I can see why you're on board with it. It talks badly about leftists...


Let's stick to talking about guns.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Leftists (egalitarians) have survived in a "free market" before Adam Smith was a glimmer in his father's eye.

It's poorly written, based on wild falsehoods, and filled with nonsense that has no factual basis.

I can see why you're on board with it. It talks badly about leftists...


Let's stick to talking about guns.

Only at the will and charity of those who aren't egalitarians

The leftist can't get along any other way, or they would be a capitalist.