VII. Freedom layers & freedom lovers. Meaningful classification of participants in the politics
Here again we shall use the same universal criterion:
The degree of freedom
I am an extremely rational person, and to me the discussion how to vote on the election day would be over as soon as I learned that the freedom, the free market is the only way for a nation to survive both demographically and economically while all the totalitarian distributionist societies (Eurosocialism, communism and fascism) kill the society, they all die out in front of our eyes. It's a dead end of human civilization. If you are at the crossroad between free market (a.k.a. freedom) and totalitarianism, (specifically in America– between conservatism =classic liberalism and leftist "progressive" liberalism) then you have only 2 choices: to survive with the free market or to perish with the totalitarianism. It's like "He had 78 possible causes of death, including decapitation", to which I'd respond: "Stop right there– I don't need any more causes! Decapitation is enough!" There is no single redistributive Nanny-State survivable society in the world, they all are doomed, they all literally die out– Europe, Russia, Japan, and aging China will join them shortly. Their demographic crisis will be compunded by the inevitable fiscal crisis, and their weakened by the Almighty Nanny State societies, populated by the castrated zombies, will put up no fight to the coming islamofascism, to jihad. On Aug.27, 10 NPR announced that during last 2 years since Obama was elected in 2008, America had its deepest fall in the birth rate ever. Obamunism kills the nation the same way any other redistributionist society (socialism, national socialism, communism and the like) kill any given nation that it infects. There are many factors, starting with the government taking over the retirement system, general uncertainty in the future under totalitarian government, destructive effects of totalitarian redistributive policies on the business and free market– you name it. How many mechanisms are at work, how exactly the Big Government and the obamunism kill America is much less important, the end result is the only thing that matters. Too much governments kills a nation, too much government is a path to self-destruction and any step empowering government under any excuse is a step on the slippery slope to the national suicide. Redistributionism, including Euro-socialism or the American democratic socialism is a dead end of civilization. Only based on the free market, on freedom society can survive and prosper.
However, it seems that majority of the people tend to ignore unpleasant Big Truth about inevitable death sentence to a nation when they vote for the "progressive" Democrats (or for any other brand of totalitarians) and about choosing Free Market as THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE for a nation. They instead focus on tiny pleasant details of European way of national suicide, which means we have to have further discussion. Alas, then we have to go into the details as well, in order TO TRY to show to the ignorant ones that "two times two equals four", even if we don't like this result.
To start discussion, let's first look on the simple one dimensional graph, where on the left is absolute slavery with no freedom, and on the right there is an ideal absolute freedom. In reality it can't achieve it just as the absolute zero by Kelvin = minus 273.16 cannot be achieved (even crystallized Helium gets only -273.09) or the light speed, but we shall use approximation.
Absolute slavery X Absolute freedom
X, for the sake of discussion, represents the current equilibrium, today's state of freedom, say, in America. All the individuals, political parties, states and any other entities on the right side from the X that pull the balance point towards "More freedom", represent The freedom lovers camp, while all the entities to the left of the X represent The freedom haters camp , and they pull the balance of powers point towards "Absolute slavery" respectively. As more freedom– as better: freedom is the most productive economic power and the main goal in the pursuit of happiness. Entities on the right extreme of the graph are pretty much pure good, while those on the extreme left are pure evil. Some political forces around the X point might fluctuate both in the short term (usually around election time) and in a long term (due to the societal changes with the shift of the X point or because of the entity's itself shifting elsewhere).
As freer the system is as more productive it is in any sense because then you work for the person you love– YOU. Respectively, the absolute slavery is the least productive system because you work for the person you likely to hate– for your master. The freedom, the free market does not make you smarter, but it gives you the motivation, the incentives to be the best possible you that you can be, so you are likely to realize your full potential.
Forces of good:
Everything that increases individual liberties, personal choices, free will, individual decision making powers, free market and private property does increase the degree of freedom and,thus, does improve the feedback loop function in the self-regulation, hence, improving outcomes of all positive processes in a society.
Forces of evil:
Everything that negatively impacts individual liberties, personal choices, free will, individual decision making powersm free market and private properties, automatically worsens the feed back loop function in the self-regulation processes, thus, worsening the outcomes in a society. This negative shift of power is commited whether by a government or a by a totalitarian ideology. Totalitarianism is a definition of a system that takes away aforementioned rights and powers from individuals and gives it to the system, to the authority, to the individual, oligarchy or collective dictatorship. Natural evolution of totalitarianism in the beginning may be slow worsening (as in the European Union), or a fast deterioration (as a result of coup or revolution, as in Russia, Hitler's Germany), but it always gets worse. Totalitarianism is characterized by the authoritarian government where citizens don't have much say, pervasive totalitarian ideology and propaganda, personal cults, control over the economy, mass surveillance, disrespect for privacy & private property, regulation and restriction of speech, usually disarmament of the people– well, you get the picture, it's exactly was is happening today here in the US. European soft tyranny was gradually shifting to the more totalitarianism, and the process typically accelerates. As more powers the government has– as easier and faster it can grab even more power.
For the freedom haters' camp I will use the term totalitarians interchangably because totalitarians do hate freedom.
Today's common (but misleading, not just meaningless) classification of the political forces as the "left, right and centrist moderates", based on historic accidental bench seats location, is a nonsense and serves only one purpose: to confuse public and to blurr the lines between right and wrong. It promotes false assumption that "the truth lies in the middle". Really? So, if a criminal raped a girl and then denies it, then what is "the middle ground"? That he raped her "just a little bit"? "Only" once? The facts of life repeatedly show that in politics those classic liberals who are in favor of freedom, free will, individual choices, free market with ensuing prosperity are friends of the people. Those totalitarians ("progressive" liberals included) who take away people's right to make decisions for themselves and free will, who hate and destroy freemarket (because it exposes their uselessness as it creates free and prosperous population that does not need those "noble anointed elite") wuth ensuing poverty are the enemies of people, of freedom. "The moderates", the "middle ground" false notion is an eclectic mixture that is neither faul nor fish, neither friends nor overt enemies of the people, but by highjacking rightousness from the classic liberals and occupying their place in the public mind they actually assist to the totalitarian enemies of the people. That's why I propose functionally much better classification based on the degree of feedom criteria.