People Like Socialism

I like freedom. I really do. And I believe in freedom. But not everyone else does. There are many people who would rather give up freedom in exchange for, well different things: perceived safety, free housing, charity, and other things. So when people use the freedom they have to vote to reduce freedom, what's to be done?

Recent election results in North Carolina suggest people simply do not want freedom -- because they're voting against it.

Cary Mayor Ernie McAlister, who supports property rights and freedom was recently beat by Harold Weinbrecht, someone who believes he, personally, should determine what, when, and where you should build things on property that you claim to own. And he won with 58% of the vote. That's pretty strong support for serious socialism in Cary.

Wake County voters, by huge margins, strongly supporting government using guns and threats of force to take things that people earn from them to buy land to build nothing on. By 2:1 margins, people actually voted to take land away from people by force and do nothing with it (and prevent anyone else from doing anything with it, either). That's more massive socialism at work.

Recent statewide polls also show that people simply do not support freedom. People were asked whether individual property owners should be able to build things on their land, or if government should come in and dictate where, when, and how people should be permitted to build things in the name of transportation. 68% of the people said that they didn't trust people and instead that only government is capable of determining all use of property.

Next month Charlotte voters will decide whether to raise taxes to give government more cash to waste on transportation and heavy handed regulation of property rights. The supporters of the tax increase are using threats and intimidation to get their tax increase in place and to increase socialism.

So what's a person to do who actually wants freedom? Isn't our country founded on freedom? Doesn't the Constitution, the foundation of law in the land, ensure that we are permitted freedom? But when a majority of people honestly do not want freedom, what options are left for the minority of us who actually want freedom?

Update: Reader Wuptdo, from Cary, suggests the Cary race was more about politicians who were in the pocket of developers than it was about property rights. That's bad because it appears that property rights STILL go out the window, but it's good because perhaps the rights are going away as a side effect, not an intentional destruction.

Posted by: Ogre at 12:16 PM

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