Where’s the exit? Mystic Kev predicts…
I have some hope that this new Con-Lib coalition may well end up being one of the most classically liberal governments we’ve had in a long time. But not a lot of hope.
What I suspect will happen is that the government will have to make some very unpopular decisions. Lefty Lib Dem members will tear up their membership cards and those who voted Lib Dem to keep the Tories out will start voting Labour. The coalition will collapse by next year and we’ll have a voting system where an ignorant tyrannical majority elects centre-left governments from here to eternity.
I’m a 30 year old entrepreneur. I’m about to get married and start a family. I want my children to grow up in a society that understands the virtues of liberty. I’m thinking of my exit strategy.
This is a genuine and serious question: Where should I be heading?
You know where.
The US would leave me a long way from my family. It was (is?) the best country for promoting liberty but it’s on the downward slope at the moment. Every civilization seems to forget the republican principles that made it great but then there IS some hope for america that they live in an age where education and learning is only a mouse click away. Perhaps America’s youth can learn to fall in love with The Constitution again but it will require them to stop going all gooey eyed every time they see a statist superhero (See http://www.kevinmonk.co.uk/2010/03/16/libertarian-superheroes/) like Obama. A good start would be if they took a look at ShaneDK’s lectures on the constitution at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7qF0t_2xms
Switzerland, with its system of competing cantons, seems to have created the conditions for Darwinian government and this appears to be reflected in its constant appearance in the list of “The World’s Most Livable Cities”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_livable_cities
Funny you should mention this. My fiancée and I were chatting about this the other day. Next year I’ll be working for a German company, but I’d rather not live in Germany. Switzerland is one of the foremost European options; but whilst being economically very liberal, socially they are very conservative.
Singapore, Hong Kong or one of the Korean or Chinese SEZs again have advantages in terms of economic liberalism, but not so much in social liberalism. Australia likewise, and they’re hampered by harsh immigration law and internal racial tensions.
The US is unique I think in that — with luck — one Prez will go a step too far, and a couple of states will secede.
I absolutely hear you on the distance thing. Friends and family are a long way off, particularly from the West coast. I suppose this will be true pretty much anywhere outside of Europe. But Switzerland could be perhaps be an option, you think?
By European standards Obama is far from statist. The US is just starting from a totally different baseline.
From reading your comments on various websites, it seems you’ve already disappeared completely up your own arsehole. You truly are a cunt of the highest order.