Decentralization as Imperatice [was: The Libertarian As Conservative]

[zen at freedbms.net (Zenaan Harkness)]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:40:36PM +0000, coderman wrote:
> > When I first realized that I was already a libertarian, and always had been, in about 1975, it was always quite clear that Liberals, Leftists, and fellow-travellers hated (or at least strongly disliked) libertarianism.  For reasons that are clear studying the Nolan Chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart   and the World's Smallest Political Quiz.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Smallest_Political_Quiz
> >
> > The Right opposed libertarianism because libertarians promoted both personal and economic freedom, while the Right seemed to like only the latter.
> > The Left opposed libertarianism because libertarians promoted both personal and economic  freedom, while the Left seemed to like only the former.
> >
> > That made 'sense', so to speak.  Not that the liberals and conservatives actually made sense.
> 
> it is actually more fundamental!
> 
> consider that both Right and Left  promote the idea of an infallible strong center, which conveys the laws upon mankind.
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> Libertarianism is by definition decentralized; delegating decisions to the edge.
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> given that power corrupts; and absolute centralized power corrupts absolutely, it is clear that both Right and Left are deceptions by Centralized Power to maintain itself.
> 
> the political question at core is this:
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> centralization? (and abuse of power)
>  - or -
> decentralization (and individual responsibility)
> 
> the absurdity of humanity is that our cognitive bias sees only the direct cost of personal responsibility, yet ignores the global cost of centralized abuses.

Ack!

global -and- personal costs of centralized anything, of course...

and failure to see the benefits of personal responsibilityâ?¦