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FREED0ML0VER's avatar

Let's replace every public serpent with a rabid dog....and then shoot the dog.

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Westley Deitchler's avatar

Politics is the branch of each person's philosophy dealing with proper human relationships. One's politics is one's set of concepts of how to relate with all other human beings. Since everyone who relates with at least one other human has some set of concepts of how to relate, then every human being is a 'politician' who acts in accordance with his concepts. Fundamentally, there are only 2 methods of relating - by force or by trade. A political party is a group of people with roughly the same set of concepts of relationships. With only 2 fundamental methods of relating, force or trade, then fundamentally, only 2 political parties are possible for humans, the Force Party and the Trade Party. The Force Party includes all those who believe it is necessary, desirable and acceptable to use force against the innocent to achieve their social and political goals. The Trade Party consists of all those who believe that only trade is legitimate in relating with the innocent. All political parties but my capitalist Trade Party believe in using force against the innocent to achieve their goals. These uses of force always include the crimes of tax extortion, "Pay or we'll hurt you!", and regulatory extortion, "Obey or we'll hurt you!"

Members of those parties, when they achieve power by whatever means they do so, always regard themselves as superior beings above the natural human law that says that harm to the innocent is a crime. And when a 'current' level of their crimes doesn't solve their problems, their answer is always 'more force; rather than less. They act as though they have never heard of the concept of spontaneous order and try to impose order by force which always increases chaos and disorder.

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