What Would a Country Based On Individual Rights Look Like?

Freedom is scary for people who have been born in slavery.There are very few people alive today who were of voting age in 1945 and so the very idea of freedom and liberty is foreign to the post war generation.This is why the near hysteria that erupts if you dare to venture that the Welfare State should be abandoned.It is akin to questioning apple pie and motherhood -or the British equivalent.You are howled down.We msut have this debate regardless!We must not be bamboozled into silence.There is too much as stake to simply cower apologetically for the sin of believing in freedom and a limited state which is its sine qua non.

The extent to which the Conservatives have sold the pass to liberalism is scary.Statism has gained such an ascendancy over their minds that whatever defence of freedom they can muster is feeble, half hearted, mealy mouthed and reeks of insincerity.When freedom and individual rights are damned with such faint praise it is small wonder that no one rallies to the Conservative flag and even in the light of the catastrophic Labour legacy they are now umbillically joined to the liberals in the coalition.Such are the bitter fruits of pragmatism.

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