{"id":74407,"date":"2020-06-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74407"},"modified":"2020-06-11T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:15:14","slug":"spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74407","title":{"rendered":"Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Political scientists love to talk about the Spectrum, left-wing parties versus right-wing parties.<br>I look at it more from the point of view of government control. Anarchists are on one end, no government control it all. Totalitarians are on the other end, government control of everything.<br>Pure Liberty is pure license. It&#8217;s the right to do anything you want at anytime to anybody. We saw that during the riots. That&#8217;s anarchy. Nobody wants that.<br>Which means that in order to have real Liberty, there must be order. And ordered Liberty requires restrictions on what people can do. And restrictions require someone to enforce them, with force if necessary.  Which means police.<br>If Minneapolis seriously goes forward with the plan to abolish the police, they are intentionally heading toward Anarchy territory. It&#8217;s no wonder businesses are uninterested in rebuilding there, and residents are talking about fleeing.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>WIthout order, prosperity is impossible.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WIthout prosperity, liberty is pretty much academic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without liberty, prosperity is pretty much a &#8220;ruling clicque&#8221; thing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tension between liberty and order is what kept the founding fathers up all night writing the Constitution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Political scientists love to talk about the Spectrum, left-wing parties versus right-wing parties.I look at it more from the point of view of government control. Anarchists are on one end, no government control it all. Totalitarians are on the other end, government control of everything.Pure Liberty is pure license. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74409,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74407\/revisions\/74409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}