I thought about writing a piece by the same title, but my friend and fellow activist has already said it so well.
We've followed similar political evolution, and reached many similar conclusions; so, all I really have to say is, DITTO!
Eric Sharp; you should know that other than the obvious points you and I have already discussed before, your point in this piece about opposition to other authoritarian and abusive hierarchies and power-structures besides 'just the state' resonates with me a lot. I want to move away from the statist structures of human organization for more peaceful and beneficial forms of organization, which I know is a value we both share.
But I'm also realizing that a lot of political libertarians either do not share the same feelings with me about other authoritarian hierarchies, or sometimes even only support political libertarianism specifically because they only want the state out of the way for the establishment of an equal repugnant or worse authoritarian hierarchy in its' place. And right now specifically; the largest growing ominous threat (imo) can be defined as a type of neo-fascist, autocratic, and even significantly theocratic threat probably most accurately labeled - 'white Christian nationalism."
I thought about writing a piece by the same title, but my friend and fellow activist has already said it so well.
We've followed similar political evolution, and reached many similar conclusions; so, all I really have to say is, DITTO!
Eric Sharp; you should know that other than the obvious points you and I have already discussed before, your point in this piece about opposition to other authoritarian and abusive hierarchies and power-structures besides 'just the state' resonates with me a lot. I want to move away from the statist structures of human organization for more peaceful and beneficial forms of organization, which I know is a value we both share.
But I'm also realizing that a lot of political libertarians either do not share the same feelings with me about other authoritarian hierarchies, or sometimes even only support political libertarianism specifically because they only want the state out of the way for the establishment of an equal repugnant or worse authoritarian hierarchy in its' place. And right now specifically; the largest growing ominous threat (imo) can be defined as a type of neo-fascist, autocratic, and even significantly theocratic threat probably most accurately labeled - 'white Christian nationalism."