I haven’t hit this theme lately. Time for a rehash.
Freedom is the goal of criminals and psychopaths. Normal people want to live a normal life and do useful work. Normal people want to be PROTECTED FROM THE FREEDOM-LOVING DEMONS.
Freedom really means I win, you die.
The high-status hippies were campaigning for freedom in the 60s. They meant FREEDOM FOR ME. I win, you die. Now that they’ve won, everyone else is dying.
When we reshape laws to make more freedom, we are making more room for criminals and demons, and leaving less space for ordinary people to live ordinary lives.
Libertarians are quite open about this formula.
Zero tax + zero regulation = Atlas wins, non-Atlas dies.
Instead of campaigning to grant more freedom “for everybody”, which really means FOR THE DEMONS, we should be trying to constrain the demons. See Sharia. See Fairness Doctrine.