“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” -Benjamin Franklin
“Those who refrain from speaking out against a government structure that artificially elevates one group over another, are cowards, and deserve neither a free society nor a lame-duck Congress seat.” -Murf
So far I have only seen three of us who have spoken out against the injustice of the current govt structure put forth in the draft Constitution: myself, Martin, and Steve Wollett. I couldn’t watch the last debate and I don’t see a replay video so I don’t know if any spoke out in the debate.
I am a stark realist and I believe without question that lack of publicly speaking out against something you know is wrong stems from two areas. One is that you are fearful of the repercussions, and the second is that you stand to benefit from it somehow. Fear of something so vital to your future freedom equals cowardice and so we don’t need to discuss that first aspect further.
The second aspect of benefitting from it; it honestly seems that many of these candidates who have emerged from obscurity to suddenly run for Congress, simply believe more in pursuing their own benefit rather than the benefit of the society . It looks good on a job application to say you were a Congressman for a country. It sounds prestigious. Though it’s a lot of work to run for a position that the President or the Senate can fire you from whenever they feel like.
Do many of these candidates even believe in giving any info to the public? The candidates that were previously Congressmen like Justin Sun and Brittany Kaiser, what did that Congress accomplish? Besides ghosting, of course? I honestly want to know, because there is almost zero public disclosure of anything except rumors. Obviously those candidates don’t believe much in public disclosure of anything, or they would have done some of it.
Liberland has plenty of people who want to be in some position of power, but how about vocal critics? It has almost none of those. It seems that if anyone really wanted to be of service to LL, they would fill some roles that are desperately lacking. And the role of providing public honest feedback about policies and decisions of those currently in power is desperately lacking. What is the personal benefit to you in doing this? There’s none. But the society as a whole cannot function without it.