Here's my definition of fascism, it is when more and more economic power is determined by the political process. It is when the State not only has a monopoly in the use of legimitate force but adds the power to tell holders of private property how to use their property. It is a sort of "light" nationalization of everything. No title gets transferred to a socialist government but the right to determine the use of property adheres to the State, and nominal ownership pales. If you cannot determine how your property will be used, in what sense do you own it? The State owns it under fascism and does with it what it will.
In politics, it is force and law and mob belief that determines how things will be done. When the 60's radical proclaimed that "the personal is the political" in true leftest fashion they stated it backwards. What was the reality is politics expanded like "The Blob" to subsume all personal preferences. The political became the personal.
So if you liked a BMW instead of a SAAB, if you attended certain progressive elite colleges you were in a distinct minority in the parking lots. People might even oppose you politically because you owned the wrong car. The political became the personal. You had to believe the correct thoughts, consume the correct products, live the correct life to be politically acceptable. Failure to follow the proscribed thoughts would lead to political punishment. Try in your personal life stating an unpopular thought just to see what freedom you have. Say asians have high IQ, African Americans, not so much so. I hope you did not really say that, even if you said that you did not mean it, you might be done in thein world more than a person rejected by all the selective schools.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Time to Leave
The chances of reforming our current governments are slim. The closest anyone got to changing the progression to statism was Ronald Regan. His effects were limited. I liked the way he spoke. He spoke openly of smaller government, freeing the American businessman, etc.
His actual results were modest. The tax changes were significant, however his more liberal VP, even after making the strongest possible political promise not to raise taxes, started eroding the tax reductions. This was a twofer for the statists. We got higher taxes right now. Additionally, he destroyed the connection between the promise and the delivery. So voters became even more jaded. Now, even if some politicians honestly desire to reduce taxes and shrink government, the voters would have to set aside their experience to expect delivery.
Anyway, I don't want to get off point.
I started looking into moving somewhere else. Somewhere that might not be as good as the US for any average citizen, but somewhere that a monied elite could live a quite compatable life. A place where your money could buy you what any previous generation US citizen could accept as their right simply by virtue of being a citizen. A place where one may purchase freedom. Once freedom was fee in America, but now America becomes statist. Maximum freedom may be available in other corners of the globe as long as one has certain resources. I'm not looking to have household servants or lord over the local population, I just want to live free, as a prior generation of Americans largely did.
His actual results were modest. The tax changes were significant, however his more liberal VP, even after making the strongest possible political promise not to raise taxes, started eroding the tax reductions. This was a twofer for the statists. We got higher taxes right now. Additionally, he destroyed the connection between the promise and the delivery. So voters became even more jaded. Now, even if some politicians honestly desire to reduce taxes and shrink government, the voters would have to set aside their experience to expect delivery.
Anyway, I don't want to get off point.
I started looking into moving somewhere else. Somewhere that might not be as good as the US for any average citizen, but somewhere that a monied elite could live a quite compatable life. A place where your money could buy you what any previous generation US citizen could accept as their right simply by virtue of being a citizen. A place where one may purchase freedom. Once freedom was fee in America, but now America becomes statist. Maximum freedom may be available in other corners of the globe as long as one has certain resources. I'm not looking to have household servants or lord over the local population, I just want to live free, as a prior generation of Americans largely did.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Bye Bye USA
Recently, I have been toying with the idea of leaving the USA, renouncing my citizenship and relocating my family elsewhere.
I decided to start a blog for people who have a similar interest in leaving the United States. We could exchange knowledge and hints, so to speak.
The cause of my interest in going elsewhere is my modest success. I mean, when I was young and had student loans and lived paycheck to paycheck, anything as distant as changing country of domicile was simply off the radar. Now most of my life is behind me and I worked hard, deferred gratification, made sensible choices, refrained from indulgence, stayed married when it was no fun, eschewed real estate speculation, provided for my children, and now, today I look around me.
Here in New Jersey, the politicians promised so much to government workers that anyone who stays in New Jersey to pay the bill will indeed be a fool. Most young people will move south or west. I do not see why I should stay around to pay the bill. The politicians promised future benefits to their minions to achieve and retain their political power. I never wrote letters in support of or voted in support of fantastic retirement and health benefits to the employees of my town, county or state.
Now on a larger scale, most of the political life of my beloved country had degenerated to “the government may do anything it wants to,” the mob determines what the government wants to do, individual people are gist for the mill.
I decided to start a blog for people who have a similar interest in leaving the United States. We could exchange knowledge and hints, so to speak.
The cause of my interest in going elsewhere is my modest success. I mean, when I was young and had student loans and lived paycheck to paycheck, anything as distant as changing country of domicile was simply off the radar. Now most of my life is behind me and I worked hard, deferred gratification, made sensible choices, refrained from indulgence, stayed married when it was no fun, eschewed real estate speculation, provided for my children, and now, today I look around me.
Here in New Jersey, the politicians promised so much to government workers that anyone who stays in New Jersey to pay the bill will indeed be a fool. Most young people will move south or west. I do not see why I should stay around to pay the bill. The politicians promised future benefits to their minions to achieve and retain their political power. I never wrote letters in support of or voted in support of fantastic retirement and health benefits to the employees of my town, county or state.
Now on a larger scale, most of the political life of my beloved country had degenerated to “the government may do anything it wants to,” the mob determines what the government wants to do, individual people are gist for the mill.
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