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Now let’s analyze the tactics of politics. What political positions should you take or how should you decide what policies are good and what policies are bad. I will explain to you how if you haven’t figured it out yet.

There are many libertarians and freedom minded people that always get confused. I can’t blame them, the propaganda is overwhelming. But with some critical thought that can be overcome.

What is more hard to decypher is what goal or movement should you support in the first place. Obviously you can’t zig-zag between positions, because that will accomplish nothing. So you have to be consistent in your political goals and you must also understand the fundamental ethics of your position.


You basically have 2 choices:

  • Support a short-term selfish strategy that only benefits you in the short term and ignore the long term consequences
  • Support an ethical, but sustainable long term position

It is more preferable to take the longterm position, which might not fulfill itself in your lifetime, but it will help your children and humanity at large so that your offsprings can be proud of their ancestors.

I am not proud of my ancestors because all they did was to support more and more tyrannical positions, so all their lives was in vain, they have accomplished nothing, with a few exceptions.

But if we want our offsprings to be proud of us, we should better support policies that will leave the Earth and society at a better standing than we have inherited it.

So we can’t be selfish in politics, it always have to be the longest and most sustainable solution. Short term benefits for long term suffering is not good.



What to support?

Okay so keeping in mind what I said above, you should only support policies that:

  • DECREASE VIOLENCE OR
  • DECREASE THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE

You should only support these policies. Your clear goal should be to decrease violence and the threat of violence. Coercion must decrease, and be eliminated from society.

Policies that are opposite to this only bring tyranny, suffering, and possibly extinction of the human race (Nukes).

The only policies that are sustainable and bring peace and harmony to Earth are those that strive for decreasing coercion.



How to know which one fits this?

Now keep in mind, not always it is an absence of a law, sometime it is the introduction of a law, but only for short term period to stabilize a situation, and after that abolished.

Also you can’t immediately abolish certain laws, even if they are very coercive, because the abolishment of them would bring even more chaos and violence in the end.

So we have to be very smart about what kind of policies are good for freedom and what aren’t, and we must be very open minded and analyze each one thoroughly.

For instance as much as taxes are evil and coercive, abolishing taxes right now would literally bring back street violence, gangs and extreme poverty, which would be much more coercive than what we have now.

But that doesn’t mean that taxes should exist, it only means that they should be lowered gradually, and abolished only after society had time to adjust itself to the new paradigm.



Let’s take examples

So let’s take examples, and we will start with the hardest issues, and see which one is which.


Open Borders & Immigration

In this example we have the coercion of the border control & customs taxes versus letting in people from incompatible cultures, possibly terrorists and gangster criminals into a country.

I think the position on this should be obvious. While border control is pretty coercive, certainly being stuck in North Korea like in a country-wide prison is not fun. Borders could keep people in just as they could keep people out.

However here we have millions of Arabic extremists flooding into Europe with a known history of violence, possibly gangsters or jihadists, with a very totalitarian mindset flooding into Europe.

So which one will cause more coercion? Border guards? Or millions of violent extremists?

I think the answer is obvious. So having borders at this point is preferable. Preferable until people all around the world don’t calm down and become peaceful. Until there are violent people on the planet, you have to have borders as well.

Just as you have to have a door in your house. Until the last burglar exists, people should have doors on their houses.

And this doesn’t mean you can’t let people into the country. It doesn’t have to be a prison on lockdown.

It just means that certain people have to be filtered out, just like you don’t invite violent people in your house.


Gun Control

Now let’s look at this issue too from a different perspective. Europe has been disarmed already and it’s defenseless against these invading hordes of immigrants that are very violent in most cases. So we will take the US for example.

What would it take to disarm everybody in the US? Well it would literally take house-to-house raids of everyone’s house being inspected from top to bottom to make sure they haven’t stashed away guns somewhere.

Of course Americans will probably not put up with that level of tyranny, so that will probably spark a civil war.

So to disarm everyone in the US, it would take massive amounts of violence to accomplish it, and regardless which side wins, the damage would be massive.

So anyone who supports gun control literally supports massive amount of violence to be carried out against everyone.

Thus the gun violence that exists now in the US pales in comparison to how much violence a total disarmament would result in.

So it’s not just that people have a natural right for self defense, but also a disarmament only results in massive violence.

So if you oppose violence, you should support gun rights.




Conclusion

So these are just the 2 “hottest” examples that circulate now in politics. But you can apply this principle to any issue to see whether you are morally consistent.

Our goal should be to decrease violence and the threat of violence on Earth, and for that we should only support policies that do that, and not the opposite.

The end goal is Peace on Earth, Liberty and Prosperity. If you don’t support that, then you are a totalitarian control freak bent for world domination.



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Very thoughtful post, thank you for this.

So on the gun control argument you have a few points that are pretty disingenuous.

Europe has been disarmed already and it’s defenseless against these invading hordes of immigrants that are very violent in most cases.

Let's start with "most cases". I mean that's just obviously untrue. There have been millions of immigrants to Europe in the past decade, the vast majority of whom have not committed any violent crimes.

Ignoring the choice to use the obvious dog whistle of the word "hordes", let's inspect the underlying logic here. You imply that the average citizen being allowed to own guns makes us safer from the threat of violent attack. But can you provide a single case where the so-called "good guy with a gun" actually stopped such an attack?

So anyone who supports gun control literally supports massive amount of violence to be carried out against everyone.

This conclusion is based on a gross mischaracterization of what gun control advocates want. I have literally never heard anyone advocate for the forced removal of all privately owned firearms. The priorities I usually hear about from gun control advocates are removing the gun show loophole (which allows you to bypass any and all background checks) and allowing for gun-free zones around school.

And before you go thinking I'm some anti-gun nut, I'm not. I own a Mossberg 500. And while I do think the gun show loophole should be closed, I honestly don't care that much about this issue. What are a few dozen dead compared to the prospect of making the earth as a whole unlivable for future generations?

I was offended not by your position on the issue but by your use of logic and mischaracterization of the opposition.

Let's start with "most cases". I mean that's just obviously untrue. There have been millions of immigrants to Europe in the past decade, the vast majority of whom have not committed any violent crimes.

I am not sure about the statistics but in Sweden, the immigrant problem has been on since the 70's. The crime rates immediately increased.

In South Europe the immigration is recent, especially since the Arab Spring, the crime wave hitting the EU is obvious.

But can you provide a single case where the so-called "good guy with a gun" actually stopped such an attack?

I have literally never heard anyone advocate for the forced removal of all privately owned firearms.

Yes they did. Even if they do it slowly, just chipping it away slowly so that it doesn't get noticed, and then you wake up disarmed one day. It's the boiling frog analogy.

And before you go thinking I'm some anti-gun nut, I'm not. I own a Mossberg 500. And while I do think the gun show loophole should be closed, I honestly don't care that much about this issue. What are a few dozen dead compared to the prospect of making the earth as a whole unlivable for future generations?

Good for you, I live in a gun free zone, obtaining a firearm here is nearly impossible except with extensive psychological evaluation and regular home inspections which sounds Orwellian. But a criminal can get a gun on the black market easily. Gun death are low, which is true, but stabbing deaths are enormous, especially bad for defenseless women who could get raped if they don't have means to defend themselves.

Thankfully I live in a decent suburb in the rich quarters, but I used to live in the city a while ago and let me tell you there are places there that you don't want to go into.

So if you have to travel through those zones for work or for commuting reasons, then the police won't be there to protect you.

This certainly puts things in perspective, and I heavily support the message of thinking about policies in the long term vs. short term which is the norm. Short term thinking is clearly a big reason as to why we are in our current position.

And no wonder it's become like this, when politicians only have to think about the next four years as long as they exit elegantly with high ratings, so they can be re-elected.

In my country nowadays, more than half of us vote for the conservative parties (not me, to be clear), with stances like: "Less taxes to the rich", "abolish road fees", "immigration lockdown" (because they are all terrorists anyway), "cheaper booze" etc.

After almost five years of this (they won the second term) has resulted in:

  • More racism. The stance appears to have become more legit, as certain government officials say (quite candidly) that immigrants are terrorists, so they deserve nothing of our "hard earned" oil money.
  • Public healthcare is on its way down the drain, as government keeps taking money away from the sector, while at the same time only use private health care.
  • Our newspapers are talking about "people growing colder towards each other" because of our current governments policies.
  • Road fees have more than doubled

But who cares, as long as me and my family eats, right?

I must, however, disagree (strongly) with you on one point. I think this statement is problematic:

[...] immigrants [...] are very violent in most cases.

The road from saying "most immigrants" to "all immigrants" is not very long. Now, I'm not saying this is your opinion. But you reach many people with your posts, and some people tend to have a very simplistic world view, where everything is either black or white.

Certainly border control is necessary, but if the starting point is "most of them are terrorists", they will ALL be treated accordingly at the border control. This has gotten much worse in Norway with our new government, as immigrant youths are locked away in prison camps indefinetly, without proper health care and professional help, and adults similarly. If they weren't terrorists before, they might just become one from being treated like this.

My point is that a racist or an aspiring racist will find support for their world view in your statement and go "Yep, that's certainly true".

One could also argue that racism is a form of violence (undoubtedly, in my opinion).