Anarcho-capitalism

So yesterday came and went with a lot of media attention, but it wasn’t until today that I really spent a few minutes figuring out what all the hoopla really is about. The vote is over, millions wasted a few hours getting to the polling booth and back, and the end result doesn’t matter no matter which side won a specific seat: my wallet will be thinner.

I didn’t see anyone running on a “downsize government” platform. There were no promises to significantly reduce taxes and the size of government, both which are necessary to truly make my wallet a little fatter. Everyone was running on campaign promises that would require money to come from somewhere in order to add more employees to the government dole, or to transfer more wealth from those who seem to have it to those who seem to not have it.

Most of my friends and family voted and felt like they voted their conscience. I’ll picture those I love snagging a few bucks out of my wallet without my permission, as I usually do. I’ll work hard, but those with the power of the majority behind them will work less to gain more. I won’t have a choice — I have to pay for the results of the vote.

I’m not sure exactly what people hoped the outcome was.

The Democrats were hoping for more laws providing for equality across the board (forced equality but really no standard for what level is really equal). They were hoping for less war, even though more Democrats support war in order to get Republicans to support welfare.

The Republicans want more war, or at least more support for the legal killers in other regions. They will happily give in to the welfare State in order to get more war support.

They aren’t different parties, they aren’t even battling each other. In order to get what they want, they give in to what they don’t want. Your wallet gets thinner. Your freedom to work, to worship, to entertain and to be left alone is diminished. Some will say that they had to steal from you because you weren’t giving enough to the poor. Others will say they had to steal from you because you weren’t giving enough to defend your land. They won’t ask if the reason you weren’t giving enough is because so much is stolen from you already — they think the problem is that not enough is stolen from you, not that you aren’t giving enough.

More will be stolen from all of us now, and that means that more will have to be stolen since we will have even less to work with. The slippery slope is long behind us, we’ve been sliding into the abyss for almost a century. But people will wear their “I robbed you” stickers this week, more people will be self-congratulary that they will be able to steal more than is stolen from them. More people will have more reason to be irresponsible with their actions and charity since they’ll have someone else to push that responsibility onto.

It is unfortunate that that is how it is, and that is how it will be. I have no choice since it isn’t the majority that has decided — it is almost everyone that chose forced responsibility rather than true responsibility. Freedom doesn’t come from government, from troops, from wars, from laws, from equality or from the vote. Freedom comes from making the decision to take care of yourself today so you can take care of yourself tomorrow. From the vote totals, I can see that most Americans would rather not be responsible — they’d rather rely on forcing others to take care of them.

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