Leftie

The other day I was asked if I am a leftie.

I had the question clarified and I was being asked whether, politically speaking, I am a social progressive.

I said no. Not any more.

So then I automatically became a conservative!

I said no. Not that.

I said I just don’t believe that, in the main, we should look to Parliament to solve most of our issues (when was the last time they created an opportunity?).

Once it was a great institution. But after centuries of legal solutions designed to protect and enrich us, the job is mostly done.

In Australia it seems to me that new acts of Parliament, on average, are taking us into a horribly over-regulated nightmare where contentment hardly exists.

Therefore the reason that I am not a social progressive is that I simply don’t believe that politicians offer any value in this era.

If you don’t look to politicians for anything then you simply can’t be labeled as to your political leanings.

I think we would be all well placed to stop looking to law makers to remove risk from our lives. This miserably addictive behavior is gutting our souls.

I am not exactly espousing a classical libertarianism here, more a post-parliamentary responsibilitism.