Government has a purpose in our lives. What do you want your government to do for you?
Your rights and freedoms are at stake. You also have the ability, and perhaps even a responsibility, to define how the government protects your rights and freedoms without imposing on them.
I want mine to guarantee that the most possible people can define their own purpose in life and pursue their own happiness. It should accomplish this with as much force as necessary, and not one ounce more.
For instance, the problem with the fascist right is not their horrible ideas, they are absolutely free to have them! The problem is when the fascist right enforces their beliefs on me through law.
There is no compromise here. My government must protect my right to believe, say and do anything as long as I am not taking someone else's life, liberty and property. You start enforcing what I can believe, say and do to conform to your ideas and that is no longer freedom, that is now fascism.
The history of America, and the history of the world, is never actually delivering a universal government guarantee that every last resident of the country be treated as an equal human under the law.
We have a tension! The White Christian Nationalist gets to believe and spout their awful beliefs. They even get to be their racist selves. We get to tell them how awful they are. But once those beliefs start to harm another person's life, liberty and property, the government has a duty to step in and put a stop to it.
This must be universal and applied to every one in our borders: citizen, guest resident or visitor.
In the exact same way the government uses forces to protect my ability to believe, say and do, it has an obligation to guarantee that I can participate in a competitive marketplace. This comes by taxing excessive wealth, by taxing every dollar of wealth the same for individuals and corporations, by breaking up monopolies and oligopolies, by creating a safety regulatory system that does not choose the marketplace winners and losers.
A corporation paying even one worker a full-time wage that does not allow for the worker to pay for their own home, clothes and food is a freeloading corporation. That corporation wants you and me the taxpayer to pay for their profits, instead of earning their profits. No more freeloading corporations! It stops now with the power of our government enforcing these rules that we all have to play by.
When a competitive market cannot exist because the profit motive and social motive do not align, like with healthcare, education and defense, the government has a responsibility to create that market. Is this (Marxist) socialism? No!
Do you know how I know that it is not (Marxist) socialism? Because no one is talking about abolishing private property, getting rid of cash, banning religion and ending the very idea of the state.
Managed markets are still capitalism. They are just not the unregulated Free Market Capitalism or Laissez-faire Capitalism that every great thinker of the last 300 years said is as bad as Socialism. We also have seen how bad Free Market Capitalism is with our own eyes.
We have plenty of places to point to that are competitive market economies with great individual freedom. Again, with our own eyes we can see the success of a Denmark and a Norway. These countries are meeting the metric I laid out at the beginning: government is guaranteeing that the most possible people can define their own purpose in life and pursue their own happiness, while accomplishing this with as much force as necessary, and not one ounce more.
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