Please Don't Lay the Crimes of the Coercive State at the Feet of Liberalism

Please Don't Lay the Crimes of the Coercive State at the Feet of Liberalism

By Bretigne Shaffer

LewRockwell

Posted on September 23, 2023

“So what next?”

That’s the question pretty much everyone in the medical-freedom movement is asking. We all recognize how very broken – broken beyond what many of us had imagined – our political and economic systems are. But how to fix them? And what to put in their place?

To further complicate matters, most of us – even long-time medical-freedom advocates – have been brought up with the official narratives regarding political and economic systems. Foremost among these narratives: That freedom – economic freedom in particular – can be a dangerous thing, and sometimes we need the government to “step in” and make things safe.

So when I reply to Toby Rogers, as I did about a year ago, it is that narrative that I am addressing.

Toby had another piece up last week, in which he poses the question:

“Underneath our pleas for bodily autonomy I think that we’re actually arguing for a return to political and economic liberalism (free people and free markets). But I think that we need to have a conversation about the limitations and contradictions of that approach. The question I would like for us to discuss is…

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