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Originally Posted by Digit here is a good example.
they say that man, above all else, craves power.
rightism let man believe he can achieve power by his own betterment/effort and can measure the power achieved against the power of others around. leftism lets man believe he has power because power is shared equally between all men which can be checked against others to see if they have excessively less or more power.
the rightism man sees the leftism government taking away his ability to gain power.
the leftism man sees the rightism government taking away their share of power.
so rightism man doesnt like what he's lost from leftism government's actions and gets pushed further into the corner of pushing for a rightist government as they wouldnt have taken away those power climbing freedoms.
so leftism man doesnt like what he's lost from rightism government's actions and gets pushed further into the corner of pushing for a leftist government as they wouldnt have taken away those personal freedoms.
problem is, both leftism man and rightism man are stupid because they never twig onto the fact that their own respective governments, despite promises to the contrary, never remove the constraints of the opposite wing government. and so with each successive change of power from left to right, we only see more restrictions. As Leftism Government takes power after a rightist government's term, there would be more restriction to ecconomic freedom, yet they, being a government, do not release the personal freedoms taken by the previous government. As Rightism Government takes power after a leftist government's term, more personal freedoms would be curtailed (its far easier to market your product if you helped shape the thinking of the consumers), yet they, being a government, do not release the ecconomic freedoms taken by the previous government. Its is a very rare thing to see a government GIVE freedoms to the people rather than taking them. many anarchists and libertarians will argue that it must be taken. I try not to get involved in that argument, but i will say that we certainly wont get our freedoms, our inalienable human rights, if we sit around on our asses doing nothing.
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This is actually a good point, and one that I'm very afraid of. I am extremly scared a liberal will get in office, and ban firearms. We would then be defenseless when the right came back and wanted more patriot act bullshit.
Oh and on guns...would it make you feel better if they threw people out windows instead? Or hacked them up with a sword? I have a post around here somwhere that said for every 1 time somone uses a gun for a crime it is used 4 times for self defense. I'll try to find it later