There are only TWO types of governments: Responsible Individualism and Collectivism
The current media characterizes governments by whether they are LEFT or RIGHT, but that’s not at all descriptive of the real metric for for how free a government is. John Birch Society did a wonderful video explaining the central issues:
- Overview of America (OFFSITE LINKS)-John Birch Society, John McManus
The above video measures how free a government is based on how much INDIVIDUALISM and PRIVATE property that it has. Anything other than these two represents an acceptance of collectivism in some form:
- Responsible Individualism is based on:
1.1. PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE rights.
1.2. Personal responsibility
1.3. Organic law, common law, and equity rather than CIVIL law. See:
Common Law and Equity Litigation*, SEDM
https://sedm.org/common-law-litigation/
1.4. Does not permit the intermingling of PRIVATE property and PUBLIC property:
Separation Between Public and Private Course, Form #12.025
https://sedm.org/LibertyU/SeparatingPublicPrivate.pdf
1.5. Is described in:
Self Government Federation: Articles of Confederation, Form #13.002
https://sedm.org/Forms/13-SelfFamilyChurchGovnce/SGFArtOfConfed.pdf - Collectivism is based on:
2.1. PUBLIC PROPERTY AND PUBLIC RIGHTS.
2.2. PUBLIC responsibility for all problems.
2.3. STATUTORY civil law, which functions in essence like a Private Membership Association (PMA) that EVERYONE is compelled to join.
2.4. State ownership or control of all property.
2.5. Is implemented with monarchies, democracies, fascism, communism, and socialism.
2.6. Makes domicile MANDATORY and prevents any way to avoid it.
2.7. Interferes with the use of common law, private law, or organic law to protect private property and replaces them with franchises, license, and privileges.
2.8. Is described in:
Collectivism and How to Resist It Course, Form #12.024
https://sedm.org/LibertyU/Collectivism.pdf
We aren’t the first people to have this view. G. Edward Griffin, the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, agrees with us on this and has been promoting this idea for decades. Here is an example of him doing exactly that below:
They Are Going To Kill The Creature aka The FED, G Edward Griffin, Soar Financially, Minute 50
https://youtu.be/rLCYGjE9FtA?si=LhBJVW2eMyVb5uOr
The reason why collectivism always maximizes pain and suffering of mankind is summarized below:
The only way you’re ever going to understand the world is to abandon your delusional belief that people are inherently GOOD. As long as you believe that myth, you will project your own goodness onto them, and you will think that governments, corporations, NGOs and non-profits are all acting out of GOOD FAITH. And you will be wrecked and confused by their behavior, because none of them are inherently good. They are almost all run by people who are selfish, greedy, arrogant and often incompetent, mentally ill, violent and vengeful. When selfish people join government, they don’t become angels. When greedy, malicious people run NGOs, they don’t become saints. All the institutions of society are just as evil as the immature, narcissistic individuals who run them, and in my experience, you’re lucky to meet even 1 out of 20 people who are inherently GOOD people. By “good,” I mean people who set aside their own self interests in order to make decisions and take moral, ethical actions that benefit the greater good of society, even if it costs themselves something such as profit or prestige. Ask yourself honestly how many people you know who would sacrifice their own benefits in order to assist others? The answer to that question is a shockingly small number. People are not automatically “good.” And that’s why Big Government, Big Pharma, big corporations and NGOs will always be evil as well. The answer is not to change the people running big government but rather to DISMANTLE all such large institutions and decentralize everything in society so that evil traits cannot aggregate in powerful institutions and gain monopoly coercive power over anyone else. Anarcho is GOOD. Centralized human power is BAD. By definition. That philisophy is at the heart of the Separation of Powers Doctrine at the heart of the American system of government.