Whose side are you on?
Isn't that the cry?
You must believe that everyone must choose a side, correct?
But what side?
Is there even a side to choose from?
The political spectrum.
One that runs from someone extreme to the another means that you're either 'on the Left' or 'on the right'.
We accept this as philosophical reality. But why?
Because that's what we're taught in school.
Schools that are run and controlled by governments. Government that do not want us thinking, but blindly following.
It's no wonder then - that schools being the foundation of our politics - that we misunderstand the whole paradigm of politics.
What if this 'traditional view' is backwards, an inversion of reality?
Ie. - it's downright wrong.
As I seem to say many times on here - 'the answers are easy , but asking the right questions can be very tricky...'
Let's break it down so that we can start asking the right questions, shall we?
On the one side - the far right - you have 'Nazism' and 'fascism'.
The kind of brutal nationalism and tribalism of Mussolini and Hitler.
What are there qualities that make them 'far right'?
These 'far-right-isms' involve a lot of government control of the means of production. (fascism)
And with that, comes no freedom of speech and no freedom of association. In far right dictatorships, there's hardly any freedom at all.
The terror, the cracked skulls, and the body counts that comes with the implementation of these far right regimes is high.
Very high.
Then you have the far left.
You have socialism, Marxism and Maoism - and all of these isms
that we are told in school, are fundamentally different than those on the right.
But when you sit down analyse the characteristics of them both - they sort of feel, and act - the same.
You still have government control of businesses and factories, just using different methodologies.
You still have no freedoms - of speech - of free association - of political dissent.
And the body counts with the leftist regime's is equally, if not more so - staggering.
Does this them mean 'the middle of the road' , 'centrist politics' is the way forwards?
Somewhere halfway, between socialism and fascism?
No.
Why?
Because the paradigm we are being presented with, to make the choices from - is false to begin with!
This entire -faux- left/right spectrum, is a lie.
What it does do, is to serve to divide people. (divide and conquer).
It creates two problems. First off it keeps us fighting with each other.
Common ground is difficult to see when you're in a fight.
Secondly - it allows people in the so called 'middle' to claim a moral high ground - a intellectual superiority because they don't have some ideological agenda.
They position themselves as the 'just want to do what works' group.
(Obama actually used this one liner in his presidential campaigns...Mmmm...).
He stayed far away from his 'technocratic progressivism' when he was stood on the podium.
When a politician starts talking about 'good government' they're really talking about more government (be it 'left' or 'right').
This whole left-right framing of politics it's the wrong model. The very model that we were taught in 'education camps', growing up.
Have you ever noticed that when it come to helping the banks (wall street, institutions, etc.), the two ideological opposed sides always seem to 'come together' to help?
Have you worked out why this is?
Politics doesn't go from left to right.
It goes from top to bottom at the bottom.
'Left' and 'right' are a total smokescreen.
(one sewn in the classrooms, all those years ago...)
All of these despots - 'left' or 'right' -that want to dictate the terms of your life like how you decide to earn a living, what you're allowed to say in the public forum, and even what you're allowed to think (political correctness).
Lets look at it differently.....
At 'the bottom' there is no liberty - there's only misery.
At 'the top' there's liberty.
At the bottom, there's oppression.
At the top, there's cooperation, entrepreneurial endeavor, and all of the great things that happen when people are left free to get on with their lives.
This is what a real political spectrum looks like.
ISM's or liberty.
At the bottom you can see the worst type of totalitarianism.
National socialism, Marxism, communism. 'Left' and 'right'.
Communism is considered a 'far left ideology', and Nazism is far-right.
Why is that?
Stalin and Hitler both seized private businesses.
They both banned freedom of speech.
They both killed millions of people.
WHY are these two systems so different to each other?
'Left' and 'right'?
I call it bullshit.
Clean your head...
ALL of these isms have one thing in common.
They put somebody else in charge of your life.
Someone in charge of you, who thinks that they know better than you.
Someone who is willing to use brutal unchecked force if you do not comply.
Governments from both sides of the fake political spectrum force you to comply.
The 'experts' - the tenured professors and the really 'smart'
people in big media will never admit this. They are part of it.
Self-styled 'smart people' (the modern 'liberal') think that socialism maybe spiraled out of control alittle - but the
aspirations of he ideology are so noble.
We just need to 'get it right' next time. ...
Try just one more time, and then we'll all have unicorns and rainbows. Honest.
Fascist regimes that we're taught about are exactly the same - Atrocities committed in the name of some 'noble ideal' - some ISM.
The body-counts of innocent victims killed along this path to righteousness were just 'unfortunate'.
And it's NO DIFFERENT with 'the left'.
Chairman Mao and 'The Great Leap Forward'.
Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was the direct product of Marxist
professors and idealists.
'Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it', as they say....
The deadly pursuit of 'isms' is a bloody history beyond belief.
Then we see things like ' democratic socialism'
(Bernie Sanders says it's 'different' than regular socialism , that it's kinder, somehow).
It's an ISM! - It's just plain old socialism with a smiley face.
And then there's corporatism.
...Big business in cahoots with big government and all the corruption and graft that comes with it.
This is where we are today.
At 'the top', we have Liberty.
We have freedom.
We have free people coming together.
To innovate, to create, to solve problems.
There's no such thing as good government.
There's only limited or unlimited government.
This whole left-right paradigm is an illusion to keep people divided.
The authentic political spectrum is...
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If i have to choose from 2 bad ,.... i do not choose , i fight them both if they bug me . i am for free-ism , sort of ;-)
Made a post a bit like this a long time ago , ... did it inspire to that nice left-right graphic layout picture ? Or is the universe pushing info from the void on to us ? https://steemit.com/politics/@small1axe/state-of-government-tool
