What does it take to turn an ordinary Aussie schoolteacher into a raving Libertarian?
Prevent her from frolicking in nightclubs with her mates, tell her she can’t have a piss up with 30 friends at her own house, and mandate that she hide her lovely visage under a face muzzle.
All right, so the actual motivations for my political shift over the last 12 months are a little more profound than those fairly frivolous examples and they have probably been a much longer time coming.
So what is it that has me breaking out in a rash when I see our glorious leader Annastacia Palaszczuk on my Facebook feed? What makes me start gagging uncontrollably when I hear Kommandant Dan Andrews’ grating tones in his latest self-promo…I mean, press conference? Why is it that I want to beat my head against the wall when I see Prime Minister Scott Morrison do….nothing?
Stay with me and I’ll share some of my thoughts with you. Let’s find out if we have something in common.
Are you sick to the teeth of the left/right divide in our political discourse? Does trying to squeeze yourself into a political box somewhere along the straight-line political spectrum make you feel like a contortionist trying to turn himself into a pretzel? Does listening to the drone of politicians from either side of politics waffling on make you feel like you’re listening to a recording of clones? If so, we have something in common already. Perhaps what you and I are experiencing is the realisation that our views sit outside what the wonderful (my favourite!!!) Libertarian Tom Woods calls the index card of allowable opinion.
Do you get hot under the collar when you hear that your government has just mandated another Covid lockdown? Do you get an attack of heightened blood pressure when our betters in government inform us that granny is not to be visited this Easter? Does your blood start boiling when our wise and benevolent overlords wag their fingers and tell us that what is best for our health is what they have decided for us (masks, vaccines, “social” distancing)? If so, we have something in common again. We might soon be best friends.
Have you ever had a sneaking suspicion that personal responsibility no longer seems fashionable? Do you shake your head in disbelief when you hear people thanking politicians for “keeping them safe”? Do you want to run screaming and set up a cabin in the wilderness when you hear media/politicians/the authorities insist that you must be a homegrown terrorist if you don’t want to take an experimental vaccine for the “common good”? If so, we now have a fair bit in common and are on the way to becoming best mates. Pull up a chair and join me at a non-allowed party at my house, with more people than is permitted ,without any socialist…excuse me, social distancing, and no muzzle on your snozzle.
In the next few blogs, I’d like to share in more detail, the thoughts and ideas that have turned me into a Libertarian. I am no great intellectual. I’m just a part-time teacher, a wife, a mother, an Aussie and I want to reach out to other ordinary Australians who are concerned about the ever-increasing loss of civil liberties in this great country. I would like to get feedback from others about my ideas, I want to learn about other ideas I haven’t heard of yet, but most of all I want to gauge if there are any Australians left who are willing to fight for the preservation of individual liberty, so that we can pass this freedom on to our children and their future.
Below is a link to the website of my favourite Libertarian Tom Woods.
Liberty Downunder 