What is the freeodm alternative to the woke cancel culture authoritarians on the left and the crony corporate collaborators on the right? Are the GOP or Trump and his backers the freedom alternative?
Freedom means different things to different people, we like the concept of freedom being the domain of the free and that being free means very little of your life’s decisions or circumstances are dictated by people with whom you do not agree. This kind of freedom has, as we see it, three legs: virtue, liberty, and independence. This is the motto on the Pennsylvania flag, and we think it’s there for a good reason, to show that freedom needs these three elements.
If you want a domain of the free, then the free need civic and moral virtue that ensures everyone treats each other with dignity and respect. In a domain of the free, the highest law is a law of liberty, something like what was contained in the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, with the most generous interpretation favoring the individual’s human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing. Finally, in practical ways, individuals and voluntary groups or local communities need to practice material and economic independence from top-down structures of control.
When you consider the political options, in terms of people and parties, who among them offers a true freedom alternative in the face of wokism and cronyism which, together, are choking this country and leading us toward a road to authoritarianism?
President Trump may appeal to many who want that alternative because they feel he is ghe strongest opponent of the woke authoritarians, but the former President hasn’t waged as relentless a battle against cronyism as he has against aspects of the wokist cancel culture. In terms of civic and moral virtue, he hasn’t quite lived up to any ideal of a leader whose conduct and behavior are such we would wish our children to emulate them.
While Trump has flaws, he fights, and most of our criticism of his potty mouth and pettiness could also be said of most other leaders today. The way President Biden talks and acts is different from the way President Trump did, but the man has shown a stunning lack of moral courage or character. His numerous questionable deals with his son., Hunter, should mark him as a corrupt politician who owes the world a frank and transparent explanation.
Trump is an option, a way to push back against the wokatariate ruling class, who generally seem to loath him, and not because of his lack of decorum. On vital issues, especially the areas of social values and the family, Trump sides with the wokatariate itself: he has no marital fidelity and he views marriage as any two people coming together for however long and purely for self-satisfaction, mostly sensual.
So, while Trump is an option and a way to fight the wokatariate ruling class, he doesn’t check all the freedom boxes, he is not a freedom alternative.
Then there is the GOP. The GOP is a crony collaborator party mostly interested in lining the pockets of its myopic donor class. None of their words matter, all their actions have shown that all they are ever capable of is slightly slowing the march toward authoritarianism. In every major step on the march toward a monopoly power regime, perhaps two parties both controlled by one single cabal, the GOP has either collaborated directly (the infrastructure bill), initiated things (the Patriot Act), or stepped aside and let it happen (Obamacare).
While one may settle on single GOP leaders who they like, the overall momentum and direction of the GOP is toward collaboration and cronyism, hence the phrase “crony collaboration party.”
Even if you don’t like the Democrats, the GOP, or Trump, for various reasons, or if you like one of these choices, which among them faithfully and consistently fights for pure and unadulterated freedom for all people? The short answer is: none of the above are true freedom alternatives!
The argument that one might support Trump or the GOP to counter the greater threat from the wokatariate is not an argument that these choices are freedom alternatives. They are shades of authoritarianism below the stronger shades of the wokatariate and its disruptive, draconian, and intolerant authoritarianism.
At present, the choices for party or candidates who are true freedom alternatives are practically nil. We simply don’t have a true and faithful freedom alternative who lives up to virtue, liberty, and independence with vigor.
