Reply #29: Cat herding.

[ElboRuum]

I do find myself often disgusted by the "you're not liberal enough" crowd. I will say that at least. Far from a definition, but just a generalized complaint kind of in the same vein as you've mentioned.

In short, I consider myself to be a progressive libertarian. The individual does not need to be socially regulated, nor does culture need to be engineered. People are generally good about finding, even if it takes them longer than the early adopters, that which works best in their lives. I say let them go about their business. There are plenty of collective entities in this country which wield greater power in this country greater than what a single individual can, and they've largely declared us insignificant to the political process. THESE are the entities which need to be brought under control. There is a society which functions poorly because too many are being led around by too few, being convinced that big government is a bad thing. If this is true, how come so many in this country will identify the best times in the past century as those which were quietly times of big government?

I am often disgusted by banter around here that basically devolves into a tirade amounting to starting with "Well if I were the Decider..." and ending with people thrown in jail for thoughtcrime.

It chokes my brain to no end to see people who have been basically had their necks stepped on by a corrupt political system all too ready to get their own size 12s on my carotid artery when it suits them to do so. THESE are the ones I feel are the ones who stand to gain most by a system of categorization, of political "boxing" if you will.

How do we stop them? We don't. We can only point out the error of this kind of arrogance. Whether they choose to see it or not is their decision. Only THEY can stop them. And they have to want it for themselves.