What I Want For My Birthday

You know what I want for my birthday? I want to be able to call myself a liberal. I don’t like the word libertarian. It just confuses most people, they have no clue what it means. It means that I believe in the absolute sovereignty of the individual and the sole purpose of government is to protect the rights of the individual. It means I believe in the writings of John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Adam Smith and FA Hayek. However the word liberal which used to describe these ideas has been hijacked by the Democratic party. People who reject the ideas of these men and instead believe the rights of the group, or the collective, outweighs the rights of the individual and the role of government is to protect and provide for the group at the expense of the individual. These are NOT liberal ideas. So I wish they would just call themselves the Left-Leaning Statist Party (as opposed to the the Right-Leaning Statist Party, aka the GOP) and let true liberals like me call themselves liberals.
Thats what I want for my birthday… but I’ll settle for a beer.

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