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rexysdayoff:

The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act.

Well there we have it, the government encroachment on liberty continues.  We might as well haul the Bill of Rights out of the National Archive and burn it in the streets.

“In fact, this larger notion that the only thing we can do to restore prosperity is just dismantle government, refund everyone’s money, let everyone write their own rules, and tell everyone they’re on their own — that’s not who we are,”

-Barack Obama

This quote offends my Libertarian ideals in so many different ways.  I was brought up to be self reliant and I was taught that if there’s something you want, you have to go out there and get it…nobody’s going to give it to you.  This though, is the statement of a typical Statist; what he’s really saying here is don’t depend on yourselves, depend on the government.  ”Just put your faith in us and everything will be okay.”  Sounds a bit like a snake oil salesman to me.  What he fails to mention is that entitlements, big government and their abuses of power have landed us in this mess, the best thing they can do to get us out of it is to just get out of the way.

And one more thing, if you think there are actually differences between Democrats and Republicans, then you’ve been fooled. They’re all Statists; they both just want power and control, over you and your life.  The system and government that we have in place today is at odds with everything I believe in.  Just take a look below at the definition of statism and you’ll find there’s no denying it.

Statism (or etatism) is a scholarly term in political philosophy either emphasising the role of the state in analysing political change; or, in describing political movements which support the use of the state to achieve goals.

When used to describe analyses, statism refers to analyses that use a dichotomy between state and society, with the state viewed as a homogeneous institution capable of using political power to enact policy on a passive or resisting society composed of the body of people. Such an analysis, dependent on the elitist theory of power, is contested by those who prefer the pluralist theory of power which contends that power is exercised by individuals and competing organisations within society.

Economic statism (dirigisme), for instance, promotes the view that the state has a major and legitimate role in directing the economy, either directly through state-owned enterprises and other types of machinery of government, or indirectly through economic planning. It may refer to the ideology of statism that holds that:

Sovereignty is vested not in the people but in the national state, and that all individuals and associations exist only to enhance the power, the prestige, and the well-being of the state. The concept of statism, which is seen as synonymous with the concept of nation, and corporatism repudiates individualism and exalts the nation as an organic body headed by the Supreme Leader and nurtured by unity, force, and discipline.

The term statism is sometimes used to refer to state capitalism or highly-regulated market economies with large amounts of government intervention. It is also used to refer to state socialism or co-operative economic systems that use the state, through nationalization, as a means of running industry.