Democracy Is Not Liberty

Try telling these people there is such a thing as too much freedom; I'll bet nobody dared.

The sole justification for the state is the protection of Freedom.
No state in the modern world actually does this, but to a degree there are some that still take freedom seriously.
Democracy is the sort of dimwit's answer to questions that really don't need to be answered, such as 'self-determination' for non-entities that actually have no self, such as Sudetenland or the Eurozone. Democracy is some sort of avowedly imperfect method for imposing the bleats of a majority of sheep on the lives of all the sheep.
Our rulers(both statutory and fairly secret) live on the sidelines, tipping the balance when it suits them and they are able, riding out the little groundswells in their luxury land-yachts, and playing their games while laughing at the futility of this illusory system of imposition.
Occasionally a Hitler or Mussolini will come along and threaten the status quo, but this is usually not a reality unless they use reassuring appeasement to reach strength first.

It is a shame, but it really looks as though the mad bastards of the axis actually cleared out some of the rulers(for little reason and no gain)only to create a deficit into which unexpurgated elites from foreign lands could infiltrate.
But not for long, as there was still sufficient gravitas in the application of new Constitutions to Germany and Japan as to provide some sort of vague guarantee of independence, a role for those country's own people in their own countries.

In the balance was(and is) the struggle between those who have sincere feelings of sympathy for freedom, and those who definitely don't.


There has to be a difference between legitimacy and illegitemacy, between the present, invalid but more valid state, and the various groups of fairly secret pretenders.
There is one thing and one thing only that distinguishes these groups from a generally free for all power struggle; possession and control of the law.

The Law is what defines the State, and the State is supposed to be the rock, the rallying point around which people can unite to defend their Liberty. Not 'liberties'. Liberty.
Today the state is withering fast, even as it arrogates more and more bad law for the purposes of capturing the imaginary imagination of progressively more stupid segments of the public.

Until it decides to allow the Liberty that every right-minded Human Being wants, then it will continue to fade and will cause the fairly secrets to gain in power and influence, until the day comes when we reach 1933 all over again.

This is inevitable.The SA and the Communists forced Hindenburg to choose a 'Germanic' strong man then; some other groups will threaten coups-d'Etats in some other way in the future, possibly the near future, and institutions like Labour(New),Conservative(Cameron)and Liberal Democrat(headless chicken subject to internal power struggles) won't be capable of stopping it or even willing to recognise it.
Nobody will be shot(except Brazilian electricians)(what do we really know about that man?), they will simply be replaced.

The state will be aggrandised and eroded at the same time, and Liberty will disappear.