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On Apr 27, 2012, at 14:41, [email protected] wrote: > You are currently browsing entries tagged with liberty freedom social justice > Tea Party conservative liberal Republican Democrat left-right paradigm > radical centrism at Just Liberty. > > > Liberty or justice for all? > > November 3rd, 2010 > > > SO AMERICA,Which side are you on? > Did you vote to suffer under the economic tyranny of Big Banking and Business? > > Or is being crushed by Big Government more to your liking? > > Do you like living under ever-growing taxes and astronomically unpayable debt? > > Or would you prefer no public services, no social safety net? > > Do you rejoice to have swarms of Officers to harass you and eat out your > substance? > > Or do you aspire to shrinking opportunity for yourself and your kids, thanks > to a broken free market and predatory capitalist excess? > > Or are you really sick of the false choices politics keeps serving up? > > The recent elections, in large part, were about Americans’ fundamental > beliefs about the purpose of government. (It remains to be seen whether the > “winning” side will actually see their ideals prevail — remember, just two > short years until the next election!) > > The debate is driven by two sets of values which, if you believe the dominant > voices on either side, seem totally incompatible. > > Liberty! That’s what we need. You know: good old-fashioned freedom and rugged > individualism and can-do spirit. We need to buck up!, stop being a nation of > whiners, put our noses to the grindstone. We need to Restore Honor and don > our powdered wigs and three-cornered hats and aim our muskets at those > progressive professors and tools of tyranny and useful idiots who want to > kill America by a thousand cuts of “kindness.” > > Not! We need Justice. We need a fair shot for everybody. We need a safety net > for the poor and the unfortunate, the out-of-work, the down-on-their luck. We > need power to the people on Main Street, rather than derivatives-shuffling, > seven-figure-bonus-making weenies on Wall Street. We must protect the small > people from the gigantic, heartless and greedy corporations merely out to > rape our Mother Earth, use us and abuse us, take our money and run to > offshore tax havens and Asian sweatshops where they enslave children to make > the “cheap” consumer goods we still can’t afford to buy. > > Liberty? Or Justice? Pick one or the other. And while we’re at it, let’s > stereotype each other! > > > > YOU’RE ONE OF THOSE teabaggers? Ah, you’re a hater and an extremist. > Undoubtedly, you are white—and you thank Jesus for making you that way. You > say you “want to take the country back”—which we intellectual types know is > really code for “back to Jim Crow, and maybe even slavery.” You might even be > in a militia that wants to blow up the government! > > To you, “social justice” is a four-letter word, and to hell with all those > annoying poor people who’re too godless, shiftless, and feckless to work, too > stupid to pore through the 50 pages of fine-print legalese attached to their > adjustable-rate mortgages, too unmotivated to pay their astronomical health > care costs, too weak to just deal with the generally rising cost of living. > Let the weak die: that just leaves more for the hard-working and virtuous, > like yourself. > > > > OH YEAH, WELL here’s something for you latte-sipping liberals, you > Obammunists. You are equal part mushy-hearted, mushy-headed Care Bear and > Maoist control freak. You think Utopia comes from the barrel of a gun. You > wield “justice” like a hammer and sickle to pound down the nail that sticks > out, to cut down the poppy that stands a little taller, to level everything > and everyone to a state of uniform misery. You want everybody to wear the > same grey jumpsuit and spend all day in bread lines and wait eight months > praying the government death panel will give them a lifesaving operation. You > want to take everything away from the virtuous, the smart, the hard-working, > and give it all to the irresponsible, the lazy, the losers at life. > > You’d rather have a parental government plan your life than think and > exercise personal responsibility. Perhaps you felt unloved by Daddy and > Mommy, and you fantasize about Barack and Nancy changing your diaper and > tucking you in at night? > > > > Oh yes – one more option: you can be a “centrist” or a “moderate,” which > means you’re allowed to take a little bit of each poison, and then feel smug > about not being an extremist. > > > > OR PERHAPS YOU’D PREFER none of the above. > > Think for a moment: What if the Tea Partiers and the latte-sippers are both > right? > > And wrong? > > Maybe political and economic Liberty—which by definition includes maximum > freedom from government—is absolutely vital. Maybe few—Tea Partiers > included—truly understand its full dimensions. > > Maybe Social Justice —which in its most basic sense, simply means equal > opportunity and equal treatment under law—is just as important as Liberty. > Yet if the Progressives don’t know how to truly achieve social justice, then > their calls for more government, more spending, more regulation and more > taxation may actually wind up destroying not only Liberty and prosperity, but > Justice as well. > > These are serious times. We need serious solutions, not more political party > games that produce more heat than light. We need to deconstruct the > left-right paradigm because obviously it’s not working; these artificial > constructs have skewed and boxed in political debate for too long, and it’s > time to be rid of them. We need to quit attacking branches and twigs, and get > at the root causes of inequality, recessions, joblessness, high taxes, > government bloat, massive subsidies to corporate fat cats, the roller-coaster > economy, and the array of social, health, and even spiritual implications > that flow from these. Only through understanding what drives these issues – > and the solutions proposed – can we solve them. > > This blog will devote itself to just those issues and solutions. As we put > our own ideas out there, we’d like to hear from you. > > What do your solutions look like? > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
