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Post #2548917
2026-05-09 14:39 UTC
One of the biggest piles of steaming shit in the American psyche is the sense that Liberalism is primarily about Individual Freedom. This is where Libertarianism comes from.
Liberalism balances collective responsibility with individual freedom.
Libertarianism in the US is anathema to any form of governance and social organization because it eliminates all collective responsibility and solidarity in favor of an individual's rights over everyone and everything else.
Libertarianism only has meaning as advocacy for individual rights within a functional Liberal government. It is not an actual political philosophy with a workable theory of social organization and governance.
Libertarianism is also not a revolutionary ideology because solidarity has no real place in it.
This is why Libertarianism has been pushed by billionaires in the US, and why the US is falling apart with their ascendance. It is merely a cult of self above all others.
In light of this consider how isolated and narcissistic we all are.
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Mass shooters in the US are born from Libertarianism. The idea that you alone are the only one who is right and that you must impose your will on all those bad people through the barrel of a gun.
Support for recall elections is the same. The idea that all those stupid voters fucked us by voting wrong so we must force a new election until I get what I want out of it.
YIMBYism is the same. This is the idea that only the market rate housing developers should have any say about what gets built and that anyone who wants to exert influence over development is a NIMBY.
The Abundance agenda is the same.
It is a rejection of society. Disbelief that anyone else but you has a valid perspective. Distrust of law, institutions, governance, everything.
This is why Fascism rose so quickly.
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