Self-righteousness, arrogance and envy

We’ve recently heard several contributors urging the curtailment of individual freedoms for what they believe to be the greater good in areas of climate improvement, personal health and public safety.

These have ranged from restrictions or bans on travel, alcohol consumption, dietary choices, family size, vehicles, energy consumption and firearms. Now it’s a proposal to ban AirBnBs to make more housing available for the homeless.

This is right out of the 1917 Communist recipe book. Maybe the proponent of this idea would like to volunteer as a block commissar to re-apportion living space in other people’s homes in the name of social justice. Please think this through again.

Pressing for limitations on other’s freedoms for the sake of fulfilling one’s own ideas isn’t right. It reeks of self-righteousness, arrogance and envy. Haven’t we already had a bellyful of over-reach from government without people wanting more?

Governments limit freedoms instead of increasing them. It’s all about power and control which is sold under various virtuous guises. The only new freedoms we’ve seen over the past eight years are legal access to previously illegal drugs and expanded gender choices. More government is a problem, not a solution.

The Cato Institute downgraded Canada to 13th place in the list of the world’s most free nations, down from number six in 2021. It’s the first time in more than a decade that we haven’t been ranked in the top ten. Excessive and prolonged COVID controls are cited as a major factor.

The Liberals have increased the size of the federal bureaucracy by 78,000 over the last eight years to manage the processes of increased socialism. We’ve also seen the imposition of more controls and regulations in many aspects of our lives. Many of these are driven by ideology, rather than any useful purpose.

The fruits of socialism are becoming hollow and bitter in spite of all the lofty rhetoric and promises of sunny ways. Healthcare has deteriorated, crime keeps increasing, inflation is rampant, and food, energy and housing costs continue to mushroom. It’s a house of cards which isn’t sustainable, yet people keep expecting more. We’re now confronted with a $1.3 trillion national debt which has been doubled during eight years of Liberal rule.

Shouldn’t we be reading more appeals for smaller, sensible, and less intrusive government? Perhaps an unwarranted sense of entitlement, widespread group thinking and self-censorship has become too pervasive for this.