Source:Chris Littleton– statism: pro-state, anti-freedom.
“Statism: Ideas so good, they have to be mandatory. I had a couple people shoot me a message, and say – don’t you think that picture is a bit extreme?
My answer: No. And, I asked them this very important question – What happens if you refuse to pay taxes or follow some kind of silly or unjust law?
They probably fine you or ticket you first. If you don’t pay these things, they will arrest you. If you resist arrest – they will use whatever force is needed (yes, that means guns, SWAT teams, etc) to bring you into submission, incarceration or kill you while resisting.
When you think of a new law, fine, tax or anything else created by government, remember – it only works through mandate and mandates are enforced through brute strength and the threat of violence.
I am not ok with a world that operates in this manner, and I seek to change it.”
From Chris Littleton
“The principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty. Support of or belief in the sovereignty of a state, usually a republic.”
From Dictionary
This is exactly what statism is a bad idea because it is anti-freedom and is based on the fact that government or a faction of people better know how individuals live their own lives, better than individuals themselves.
Whether statism comes from the Far-Left or Far-Right, both sides ho tend to be paternalists and people who so believe they know what the country should be like and people should live, that they want to force those beliefs on the whole country through law. And their proposals tend to be unconstitutional rather than just bad ideas.
Leave a comment