The irony is that the man who said that was a liberal (George Carlin). Liberals back then were more about liberty though. Now being a liberal is synonymous with wanting a nanny state.

I used to be a leftist. And my reasoning is that taxing the wealthy to redistribute to the poor gives more liberty to the poor at the cost of reducing liberty of the wealthy by very little. Since it's not a big deal to have 9 yachts instead of 10. The problem is that the government bureaucrats pocket most of those taxes from the wealthy for themselves and give very little to the poor. Homelessness, housing bubbles, Canadian jobs, the situation all got worse with the expansion of government.

And the government now is threatening to fine me $880 to fuck my gf (since we don't live together) because our regions are both in lockdown and the government doesn't want us to inadvertently kill a few 84 year olds. My granpa caught the flu awhile back and died of pneumonia at 85. C'est la vie. The amount of government intrusion we are allowing into our lives is absolutely ridic.

The irony is that the man who said that was a liberal (George Carlin). Liberals back then were more about liberty though. Now being a liberal is synonymous with wanting a nanny state.