Latter Day Sinner

I am still a member of the American Solidarity Party. I believe that the preservation of life is the highest value to which people can aspire higher even than liberty which is why I can’t reasonably call myself a libertarian. That said beyond the whole life emphasis I am finding more and more disagreements with the ASP. Social justice is a charged phrase that meant something different a hundred years ago and radically morphed over that hundred years. The party wants to use the original meaning and that seems problematic to me. Economic justice and distributism seem like they would require an amount of social engineering which I am not comfortable and I would rather stick with the selfish interests of the free market and the specialization of labor which will always produce uneven outcomes. And then there’s Christian Democracy. I don’t think a specifically Christian party has any business in American politics, but the affirmation statement is secular and I am in decent alignment with it except for concerns as I said about the term social justice. Democracy is abhorrent to me. It goes back to the specialization of labor. I don’t want a public vote on how the roads get built, or how much of a police force an area needs, or who should pay taxes. Again I defer to the specialization of labor. Some people are just more qualified than most to make those kinds of decisions. Naturally there is a need for government redress but that’s a far cry from public votes on everything public. Democracy is essentially mob rule and I oppose it. But I’m still a member of the ASP if anyone wants to talk about it.