Like the socialists and the fascists of the past century, the leftist's Democrat's dream is to run your life.
Socialism
LR Podcast: Truth to Power in Davos
However, it was not all plotting on how to best rule the world at the forum. President of Argentina, Javier Milei had some words for the WEF and their collectivist tendencies.
Dystopic Journal: Halloween Special 23
Are the Scandanavian countries socialist Utopias as many on the left suggest? Poor Yorick (late of Denmark) shares his views on the subject.
LR Podcast, S3E29: The Global Redistribution of Wealth
Is this UN scheme a fund for natural disasters, or simply a means to redistribute wealth on a global scale?
LR Podcast, S2E42: What real fascism is
We need to take back the definition of fascism and put it back where it belongs, with the collectivist ideologies of the Left alongside communism and socialism.
LR Podcast S2E34: Good for whom?
Though the altruistic approach seems good on the surface, even to theists, especially Christians, upon further reflection on how this value actually plays out in the real world, one can see the cracks in the secular altruist's argument. Mainly, how do we define what is good for all of society? We as individuals, cannot determine what is best for society, for we can never have a complete enough picture of what society most needs, at least not to a moral certainty. Moreover, is the simple fact that no individual can act on behalf of society.
Good for Whom?
Altruism seems good, even Biblical, but cannot serve as a code of ethics. The problem with altruism isn't that self-sacrifice is bad, it's that it allows society, not the individual, to make the call on who is required to sacrifice their own best interests and why. Society is the majority, and altruism makes one's actions subject to the need of the collective.
LR Podcast S2, E29: Are they evil or just bad?
So are the leftist Democrats in power really just inept or is all the destruction being caused to our society and economy just a price to be paid to achieve the collective Utopia they seek?
LR Podcast S2, E27: What scares me in 2021
The alarming rise in authoritarianism in Western democracies is just that, alarming. It can come from a benevolent place, a patronizing attitude toward common people. It can come from a sinister place, a sadistic need to control others and delight in their misery. It is condescension made into governmental policy.
LR Podcast S2E8: Right on, Rand!
Ayn Rand saw collectivism in all its forms as an impediment to human rights. "The good of society" cannot be the basis of rights, since society is merely a collection of individuals, and so the only proper rights are individual rights. When we base rights on what is good for society, that begs the question: Who speaks for society? Throughout history, such people who claim to speak for society inevitably turn out to be tyrants. You have a few, even a single person, deciding what is good for the people. Rand thought that people ought to decide for themselves, based upon rational self-interest.
Liberty Relearned 