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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin is being invaded by Leftists
by
Carlton Banks
on 13/10/2016, 12:36:30 UTC
The left/right isn't a political spectrum, it's a divide and conquer tactic, whereby liberalism gets split into economic liberalism and social liberalism, and then one side is fed arguments about why the other is the source of all problems.

The best approach is to never use the left/right concept, as you're always going to look like a reflexive partisan, one step away from using the non-argument "you're just one of them!"

This is why libertarianism and the various other anarchy inspired political ideologies are popular among Bitcoiners; they appear to be left-right blind, taking ideas from the left or the right as long as they promote liberty.

Look bitcoin is always political, and it will always be. You cannot talk about bitcoin and ignore the fundamental reality. And yes Carlton Banks, it is a foolish idea to fit both left & right ideas into bitcoin, it should be only right.

Bitcoin transcends politics:


"Right" wins: Bitcoin enabled a sound money system that could not be stolen, confiscated, debased or disrupted

"Left" wins: Bitcoin enabled borderless money, rendering state imposed capital controls or trade tariffs meaningless

"Right" wins: Bitcoin removes Central Banking's monopoly on money supply & interest rates

"Left" wins: Bitcoin disrupted corporate monopoly on multiple types of financial services (investment, loans, gambling etc have all been liberalised)

"Right" wins: Bitcoin enabled all small business owners access to all the worldwide markets that large businesses do (and the cheap financial services fees that previously only larger businesses could access)

"Left" wins: Bitcoin enabled safer marketplace for illegal contraband that doesn't generate victims



It goes on and on.

If you cannot understand how "Left" has both Bad and Good aspects (as does "Right"), and that all apply equally to either Bitcoin or any other topic, then don't expect many to take your entrenched position seriously.