Libertarianism: What's In A Name?

[Globalfightback]

We live in a world where, increasingly, the meaning of words is a confusing flux. The confusion, one might argue, is deliberate: doublespeak, if you like, to use a word coined by the brilliant George Orwell in his novel 1984. The more confusion, the less people can be sure of what they are being told and, therefore, the less able they are to objectively evaluate it.

Libertarianism, as this Wikipedia article explains, originated as a left-field anti-capitalist ideology, but in more recent years it has been hi-jacked by the right: thus, the term becomes a large extent meaningless without venturing into the complex semantics of the various forms of definition; and thus, one might argue, it becomes easier to fool people of a left-field persuasion that the right-wing libertarians, or libertarian capitalists, are actually on their side, when in fact the opposite is true.

The article linked below is, I believe, of massive importance to all left-field activists, and well worth the read. This is what left-wing progressives are up against. The Sovereign Individual: it has a nice ring to it. Who would not want greater personal freedom to live the life that they want, free from the fettles of some faceless interfering State? But wait - Whilst the right bleat on about Agenda 21 and increased attacks on personal liberty, the right-wing libertarians have been mapping out the future for decades. You might consider that the article paints a bleak scenario: one where the rich elite get richer: free from democratic law, free from scrutiny, free from accountability, free from taxation and the resultant contribution to the wider pool of humanity; and the rest of us..... well, we lose our personal freedoms! In fact it's happening right now right in front of us: just look at the stage-plays currently acting out in the US and the UK in the context of this article and it may help to explain the extraordinary attempts to subvert democracy in the one and the unflinching passion for Brexit in the latter.

What if Agenda 21 is a masterful smokescreen of doublespeak, whilst all along it is the right who are seeking to erode the liberty of the masses for the benefit of a small elite? What do you think?

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2020/12/1 ... and-beyond

[Globalfightback]

This powerful article paints a stark picture of the outgoing #POTUS. It's also a harrowing insight into utterly unashamed selfishness, which drives many of the people our screwed-up value systems elevate into some sort of ghoulish 'elite' that makes a mockery of any noble vision of humanity some of us might aspire to. Taken along with the insights of the Alistair Campbell article linked in the top post it paints a stark picture of an approaching dystopia. The light on the horizon is that, as with Cohn, Trump is finally running out of road, but people like this leave an immense amount of collateral damage in their wake.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... ary-228144

[DownUnder]

So, Trump, eh?. He's back again! Who'd have thought the US electorate would be dumb/unprincipled enough to vote in a charlatan and now concicted felon for a second term!