Comments on: Good Boy! http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/15/good-boy/ The Revolution Will Be Doodled! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:39:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: chophshiy http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/15/good-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-2289 chophshiy Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:21:36 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=228#comment-2289 I'm with you on this, Dale. Or at least I'm with what I think you're saying. The whole election thing has me on the verge of both physical and mental illness. Hey, just pick which gun you'd like to be held captive with already! It's a privilege! I’m with you on this, Dale. Or at least I’m with what I think you’re saying.

The whole election thing has me on the verge of both physical and mental illness.

Hey, just pick which gun you’d like to be held captive with already!
It’s a privilege!

]]> By: Dale http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/15/good-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-2269 Dale Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:03:22 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=228#comment-2269 I'm not willing. I don't think you'll be able to get enough free staters in there to change the status quo. Even if you did, I think the moment you started making real waves (if ever), you'll rouse the beast and it will fight back. The nature of government is to grow. The nature of politics is to control violence; not shrink it. Candidates always have to make compromises and avoid upsetting things to keep winning the politics game, which means they won't change anything substantially. Most people elect politicians to get things they want; not to be passive. Meanwhile, you'll have played along and fueled the legitimacy of this violent game, so cries of injustice from any of the "players" against the system of mobocracy will seem rather disingenuous. Frankly, any time I hear political activists complaining about politics, it sounds insincere to me. It just doesn't have the ring of truth, sincerity that comes from the heart, that I feel is necessary to truly change hearts and minds. This is what I describe at the start of this post. If I'm lying and I know I'm lying, people sense that on some level. I ask of politicians, is the system ok or isn't it? If you believe in it, then you believe everything that's happening to us now is just and valid. If you don't believe in it, if you're running for office to dismantle government and minimize what you believe is a truly harmful process, then say that in the pamphlets that you mail or hand out going door-to-door. If you're not saying what you really believe, then you're already making the compromises that I spoke of, becoming the iron fist that voters want so you can win instead of following principles that would shrink government, and you maintain the status quo. I’m not willing. I don’t think you’ll be able to get enough free staters in there to change the status quo. Even if you did, I think the moment you started making real waves (if ever), you’ll rouse the beast and it will fight back. The nature of government is to grow. The nature of politics is to control violence; not shrink it. Candidates always have to make compromises and avoid upsetting things to keep winning the politics game, which means they won’t change anything substantially. Most people elect politicians to get things they want; not to be passive. Meanwhile, you’ll have played along and fueled the legitimacy of this violent game, so cries of injustice from any of the “players” against the system of mobocracy will seem rather disingenuous.

Frankly, any time I hear political activists complaining about politics, it sounds insincere to me. It just doesn’t have the ring of truth, sincerity that comes from the heart, that I feel is necessary to truly change hearts and minds. This is what I describe at the start of this post. If I’m lying and I know I’m lying, people sense that on some level.

I ask of politicians, is the system ok or isn’t it? If you believe in it, then you believe everything that’s happening to us now is just and valid. If you don’t believe in it, if you’re running for office to dismantle government and minimize what you believe is a truly harmful process, then say that in the pamphlets that you mail or hand out going door-to-door. If you’re not saying what you really believe, then you’re already making the compromises that I spoke of, becoming the iron fist that voters want so you can win instead of following principles that would shrink government, and you maintain the status quo.

]]> By: Denis Goddard http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/15/good-boy/comment-page-1/#comment-2268 Denis Goddard Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:22:29 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=228#comment-2268 This isn't always the case -- there a lots of Free-Staters, libertarians, and Libertarians running for NH State Rep. Granted, voting in a Free-Stater doesn't remove the office entirely, but Free-Staters in office is hardly "the status quo" Are you willing to vote for, and perhaps even stand and hold a sign for, the proprietor of Murphy's taproom on election day? He's a pretty libertarian dude... This isn’t always the case — there a lots of Free-Staters, libertarians, and Libertarians running for NH State Rep.

Granted, voting in a Free-Stater doesn’t remove the office entirely, but Free-Staters in office is hardly “the status quo”

Are you willing to vote for, and perhaps even stand and hold a sign for, the proprietor of Murphy’s taproom on election day? He’s a pretty libertarian dude…

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