Liberty Alliance 2008: 2008

The Mission

It has come to my attention that the major real political conflict in this country isn't between "Liberals" and "Conservatives". Those terms are meaningless; rather, it's between authoritarians and those of us who believe in the importance of liberty. The Liberal - Conservative split makes people think there are substantive differences between the major candidates, which allows for anyone who questions the dominant authoritarian ideology to be marginalized and ignored by the media and the political establishment.

This state of affairs is absurd, dangerous, is ruining our society. The time is ripe for those of us recognize the value of freedom to find common cause. Once we are "free to choose," to quote Milton Friedman, the "issues" that divide us will become increasingly irrelevant. For those on the right that think that capitalism is the "end of history," we'll have a chance to see if you're right. For those, like me, who lean left towards a labor-theory of value, authoritarianism was proven to be the anathema of any sort of socialist development by Stalinism. If a socialist future is possible, it'll emerge from a fully developed free market, not the distorted, corrupt, bureaucratic system we now have in place.

Before we can figure out which future is the possible one, however, we need to stop our country's slide towards tyranny. Every consolidation of police power, every expansion of the national debt, and every narrowing of the national debate by the authoritarian media ("Liberal" and "Conservative") is a step backwards towards the abyss of tyranny and barbarism. Let's stop this slide and reignite the fires of human progress and liberty that were once the defining feature of our republic. In 2008 we need to cast aside our arbitrary party loyalties and fight, with all of our strength, for freedom and the future.

Monday, October 6, 2008

New locale

The show that I've been working on in the past few months, American Socialism for the Rich seems to be going well so far. As a result, we've just set up a group blog for the show, and I will be moving my writing over there (and will be attempting to write more regularly :)). The address is http://asftr.wordpress.com . To (hopefully) bigger and better things.