I was thinking of starting my own political party just for fun and I can't seem to come up with a name. Thinking about it, I'm not sure what sort of label properly even captures my political beliefs. I'm open to suggestions:
- Dictatorship/Absolute Monarch > Democracy/Republic
- Market Economy > Planned Economy
- Private Property Ownership > Public Property Ownership
- Strict Objective Moral Values Enforced by Government > No Moral Values Enforced by Government
- Racial homogeny > diversity.
- Elitist > Egalitarian
- Patriarchy > Equality
- Military Class Rule > Merchant Class Rule
- Taxes as close to 0% to still maintain society > high taxes
- No welfare state whatsoever > any welfare state
What would you call such politics if you wanted to give it a catchy label?
I always contradict this when I hear it and amend it with "Power only reveals corruption that was lying beneath." I wholly disparage the notion that 'being in charge' is some type of magic debuff that turns you into a crazy person. This is what morals are for. It's the premise of superheroes like Superman. Essentially immortal and unstoppable, but raised right and with a good moral compass so he doesn't do more harm than good, if he ever harms at all.
The concept of "you will always turn evil if you're in charge of enough stuff" sounds both like an attempt to discourage otherwise good people from risking their goodness to try to be in charge, and also just defend the corrupt ones already in power from being besieged by too many at once when trying to root them out.
If being a leader automatically corrupted people, the corrupt people wouldn’t have had to assassinate so many leaders.
I agree that "power reveals corruption" rather than power corrupts, but I wholeheartedly disagree with his/your insinuation that raising taxes from 5% to 8% to fund an annual yacht regalia or whatever fun thing he wants is corruption.
If u/RaceCreatesCulture is the absolute monarch, then he owns everything and it is his God-given right to raise funds for his kingdom's needs or wants - and he is the preeminent citizen of that kingdom. After all, a happy king = happy subjects. The only "morality" of concern here is practicality - raising the taxes too high would obviously reduce the subjects happiness and damage the kingdom's finances long-term.
5% is a ballpark, I might raise it to 8% but not because I want yachts but because 5% was in fact too low. I don't think 5% would be too low though and I wouldn't raise taxes lightly. I consider lower taxes better.