False Assumption

I’ve written before on many occasions about how people love to create caricatures in their minds, apply a label to that caricature and then pretend it has something to do with reality.  The primary example is of course sex work; prohibitionists define sex workers as victims and then claim everyone who identifies as a sex worker is a victim whether she agrees with that assessment or not, and those (such as me) who are clearly not any kind of victim must not really be sex workers.  The same is true of anti-authoritarians; collectivists apply labels such as “greedy” or “racist” or whatever to people they call “libertarians” (whether those people would define themselves with that word or not) and then argue that anyone who doesn’t trust sociopaths who enforce their whims at gunpoint must be exactly like their carefully-constructed straw man.  Because I despise socialism, find the idea of “wealth inequality” vacuous and mock the idea that self-appointed “experts” are more qualified to decide what to do with my hard-earned money than I am, some people make the (largely intentional) mistake of thinking that I’m against efforts to make things economically better for the working classes.  Of course, those who think that are fools who haven’t actually read my writing; what I actually believe is that the fascist establishment will turn whatever naive attempt at Utopianism you can come up with into a way to oppress the poor even more.  For example, all the white middle-class “woke” who support gun control while ignoring that the vast majority of people thrown into cages for gun-law violations are poor & black.  In short, it is not possible to “fix” the current system by voting or whatever, because it isn’t broken; it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do, namely empower the ruling classes while crushing the working classes and herding the middle classes like fattened livestock.