77zach
Regular Member
Thank you for weighing in, my honored disputant.
I think that there are at least five assertions there that you are categorically denying.
- Libertarians lie that they are not progressive.
- Democrats, demotic, are progressive.
- Republicans, repugnant, are progressive.
- Progressivism believes that men are good to god-like and need no law.
- Alistair Crowley's Thelemic Law is: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Anarchist's of any stripe, referring to "anarcho-capitalists", are progressives. The words very roots tell us ἀναρχία, anarchia, from ἀν an, "not, without" + ἀρχός arkhos, "ruler", meaning "absence of a leader", "without rulers"
ETA: Wasn't Gavrilo Princip some sort of anarchist? Yes, looking to the vaunted Wikipedia, he was a member of the Young Bosnians that had anarchist leanings. The citation is there.
But I've had a couple of cranberry tonics (equal parts gin, pure cranberry squeezings, tonic water, on crushed ice) ant this is awfully heavy thinking directed primarily at the unlettered - archly (id est look it up) which excepts you.
I believe that unjustified force and fraud should be punished. I call myself a libertarian. If that's progressive then sign me up!