Michael Zaretski
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- Sep 11, 2005
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- Location
- Israel
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Liberal
Well ... where to start. I'm a Leftist, a staunch Liberal, but there's more to it than that.
When I say I'm a Liberal, I mean in my socioeconomic stance. I believe in private freedoms, and that people's lifestyles are none of the state's business, all up to the point of trampling on others, of course. And I believe that, though the free market can generate wealth, it can never distribute it fairly; the job of the state is to regulate the economy for that, and in order to force corporations to behave.
My foreign-politics stance ... now that's a little different from what you'd expect from a Liberal. My stance flows from the left-wing tenets I hold, but it's a bit unusual nowadays. Namely, I don't support political correctness, unrestricted multiculturalism and tolerance towards anti-democratic beliefs and actions. I hold, for example, that Muslims living in Western countries should be forced to accept Western values, even if they're against Allah's Law (shari'ah), on penalty of deportation. I hold that the dominionist forces of the world, whether Nazi or communist or Christian Reconstructionist or Islamist, can never be appeased, but must be fought to the end. I reject postmodernism, meaning the acceptance of all narratives as true--I hold the narrative of the West, based on 5th-century BCE Athenian democracy and 18th century Enlightenment values, to be the only valid one. Western values aren't a subject of debate, in my eyes.
So, for example, with regard to George W Bush: I oppose the socioeconomic way he's leading America to, his policies making the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. I support his War on Terror, the war against Islam (though I don't think the invasion of Iraq was the right step to take. It's much more a war of worldviews and minds than of arms and battalions).
That's all for now.
When I say I'm a Liberal, I mean in my socioeconomic stance. I believe in private freedoms, and that people's lifestyles are none of the state's business, all up to the point of trampling on others, of course. And I believe that, though the free market can generate wealth, it can never distribute it fairly; the job of the state is to regulate the economy for that, and in order to force corporations to behave.
My foreign-politics stance ... now that's a little different from what you'd expect from a Liberal. My stance flows from the left-wing tenets I hold, but it's a bit unusual nowadays. Namely, I don't support political correctness, unrestricted multiculturalism and tolerance towards anti-democratic beliefs and actions. I hold, for example, that Muslims living in Western countries should be forced to accept Western values, even if they're against Allah's Law (shari'ah), on penalty of deportation. I hold that the dominionist forces of the world, whether Nazi or communist or Christian Reconstructionist or Islamist, can never be appeased, but must be fought to the end. I reject postmodernism, meaning the acceptance of all narratives as true--I hold the narrative of the West, based on 5th-century BCE Athenian democracy and 18th century Enlightenment values, to be the only valid one. Western values aren't a subject of debate, in my eyes.
So, for example, with regard to George W Bush: I oppose the socioeconomic way he's leading America to, his policies making the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. I support his War on Terror, the war against Islam (though I don't think the invasion of Iraq was the right step to take. It's much more a war of worldviews and minds than of arms and battalions).
That's all for now.