Beryism

Beryism is the self-insert ideology of BeryAb. It is liberal, direct-democratic, economically center-right to right-wing, and culturally left-wing.

[[File:Cap.png]] The Market
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, was said to have asked British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher how she even made sure that all of her citizens are well fed. Spoiler alert: She didn't. The market allocation of goods did so. The market economy is the superior way of allocating goods. There is no central planner or feudal lord telling their underlings what to produce, over which period of time, and how to do so. If people want Product A, the first supplier will be the first one to set the price. And then, other competitors flock in and set lower prices in order to be able to sell said product. Until the ideal price is reached. You get it, the basics of economics. Thus, he believes planned economies are bound to fail. It has been seen it in the past. Countries with centrally-planned economies either just stayed far behind till their collapse, or slowly moved towards economic liberalisation regardless. There are way too many mutual relations between prices and products in the economy for central planners to effectively keep track of.

[[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Free Trade
Free trade is preferable to protectionism. The only exception he would put would be for products from dubious places in general. CETA was more problematic. It ended up giving way more power to corporations thanks to extensive regulations and unfair advantages than actually making free trade between the EU and Canada easier. Corporations were, in essence, given the right to protest against government regulations that would undermine their profit. And they would profit from doing so. This gets terrible when they do so against regulations meant to protect the environment. The dumbest thing you can do is trying to regulate in favour of corporations.

[[File:Socdem.png]] Healthcare
Beryism believes that quality healthcare is a right of every citizen, and that it falls under the rights to life and liberty. So in a way, he does value positive liberty. The baseline medicare program would remain, and be availabe to every individual, but if an individual desires to access higher standards of medical care, and/or has to do so (as in, cannot afford to wait in lines, due to a very serious injury, for example) then it is their very good right to do so.

[[File:Regulationism.png]] Taxation
Taxation is not theft according to Beryism, because who's gonna finance that medicare, those social programs, and those roads? Having to pay tolls every other minute, crossing from one dude's privately owned McRoad to the other's, that's not it. That's basically advocating for a far worse version of taxation, for a service that is practically essential. He, however, is against the government wasting taxpayers' money for stupid projects no one asked for, but that's rather easy to say. Income taxation is to be mildly progressive, if not flat, and especially low for working-class and middle-class folks. It is rather beneficial to keep taxes lower for the populace and moderately high for big corps. Furthermore, he wants to repeal the coffee tax, since through less spending, there wouldn't be such a need for niche taxes on everyday things. Beryism would not introduce an inheritance tax, either. The person who gives the money probably worked hard for it, or his ancestors did, and it was their choice to let their children inherit it.

[[File:Welf.png]] Social Welfare
Beryism believes that the current welfare state is way too inflated and has too many people living off of it, even when given the opportunity to work. He wants to cut social spending, and reduce the welfare state to its essentials. In essence, he proposes a limited, curtailed welfare state, for those who truly need it, such as disabled people, or those that were recently fired.

[[File:Ecocap.png]] Environment vs. Economy
Beryism recognizes man-made climate change as a real thing (dun-dun-dunnn!). However, he believes that a strong economy is not to be damaged, because giving heavy, sudden blows to the economy for "environmental purposes" will make many people's lives terrible, as they will have less to eat, earn less in general, et cetera. Nevertheless, economic crises are very much able to be reversed, this isn't necessarily the case with environmental damage. That being said, Beryism doesn't want a purely restriction-oriented environmental policy, it's better to make use of market instruments to combat climate change, such as emissions trading and introducing carbon taxes. Technological progress is one of the greatest allies in fighting climate change, and extensive regulation doesn't help that. He is disappointed in Angela Merkel having cucked nuclear power on popular demand.

[[File:Regulationism.png]] Self-regulation
Beryism, to a high extent, believe that markets regulate themselves. As seen with big corporations eventually growing so big that they cannot keep track of all the internal processes and smaller corporations being faster to adapt to new environments. Note also that the rich rarely even support laissez-faire economics, but rather support neoliberal regulationism that hurts emerging competitors more than themselves. As such, price controls tend to be a bad idea for him. Politicians, especially populists, like making lots of promises that they're going to cap the prices of a service or a product, when it's just a short-term and unsustainable solution. Rising prices are not always a sign of a corporation's "greed", but rather of changes in supply and demand. And when politicians want to lower the "costs" of certain services or programs in order to make it "more accessible", what they really mean is that they are going to lower the prices. The supplier's costs (material, workers/employees, time) remain the same, and only make it so that the price controls effectively end up in the employees getting underpaid. The same applies to rent control for the most part, although landlords can be arses, as he knows. Despite all of that, he believes it is incredibly important that there are regulations to keep the competition fair, most notably in regards to worker's rights; workplace safety, a sufficient amount of annual leave/vacation for employees, and a suitable minimum wage (though one that is not too high). It must also be made sure that suppliers of goods don't just put in their products whatever they want, they ought to make sure their orange juice makes no one die of dysentery.

[[File:Regulationism.png]] Public Broadcasting
The German public broadcasting system (ÖRR) is obviously a mess and needs reform. First of all, the taxpayer is paying way too much money in financing this stuff. Many of these taxes are being spent on entertainment programs instead of anything meaningful. This should be in the hands of private suppliers. That being said, most public broadcasters should be privatized, to curb spending, and to relieve the taxpayer's wallet. However, basic news broadcasting would remain, as everyone should be informed on what is out there.

Society and Culture
Beryism is culturally liberal for the most part, favouring equal rights and opportunities for people regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality or anything else. He supports the legalisation of cannabis, and the progressive legalisation of harder drugs later on.

[[File:Dem.png]] Democracy
Beryism absolutely stands by democracy, agreeing with it being the "least worst system". As opposed to an absolute monarchy or a fascist dictatorship, you won't be ruled by one idiot for eternity, but instead get to replace your currently ruling idiot with a slightly more suitable idiot every once in a while. He favours representative democracy over direct democracy for the most important decisions such as economics and foreign policy, and the introduction of direct democracy (in the Swiss tradition) for most social policies, for those are less of an objective matter than, say, how to run the economy. To Beryism, it's sad that the AfD is the only major party advocating for this right now. Authoritarianism is the highest form of ideology. The belief that your ideology is objectively the right one, for all times, and that it is to be engrained into everyone's minds. Even though Beryism obviously has his own set of beliefs that he deems right, the point of a democracy is to adapt to change and be open to new ideas. In the end, it is not he who is strongest, or who is smartest, who will succeed, but the one who is best prepared for change.

[[File:Nation.png]] Nationalism and Patriotism
Patriotism is endorsed, as it is not only natural, but also for the sake of national cohesion. But Beryism reject the ideology of nationalism, it usually ranges from a populistic pest to straight up chauvinism. He doesn't reject national liberation movements, as long as they are for anti-imperialist causes. He is a bit more skeptical of multiculturalism. It conflicts with his idea of a cohesive nation with a shared civic and cultural identity. But on the other side, he supports everyone's right to do as they please. That includes freedom of religion, for example.

[[File:Civlibert.png]] Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech must be guaranteed by the government, and hate speech largely falls under free speech, though Beryism disdains it on a personal basis. The only restrictions he would put on free speech would be: Although he thinks they deserve free speech like all other people, it deeply annoys Beryism how  are so deeply hypocritical about free speech, as in going off and ranting about how their "free speech" is being taken away, but then continuing to praise  regimes that valued said right the very least.
 * 1) Holocaust denial
 * 2) Organising, or actively calling for violence

[[File:Fem.png]] Affirmative Action
He is no advocate for affirmative action. As mentioned, he wants equal rights and opportunities for people regardless of gender or background, and he absolutely does not want anyone having their positions denied based on these factors, but top-down  enforcing "equality" through projects such as women's quotas hurts the meritocracy, and might as well just be reverse discrimination.

[[File:Gay.png]] LGBT rights
Beryism never got behind discrimination. He finds it stupid to devote all of your energy towards hating a certain group of people, and find it repulsive that this is such a political issue, one should do what they want, but ideally not pretend like denying a group of people basic rights is an opinion equivalent to liking a different flavour of ice cream, or wanting slightly lower taxes. Homosexual individuals should be allowed to marry and reap the benefits that civil unions wouldn't grant them, they should also be able to adopt children in most circumstances, but ideally not when there is a heterosexual couple already ready to adopt as well (because it still believes that mothers and fathers play separate roles in raising children).

[[File:Sec.png]] Death Penalty
As an ideology that supports rehabilitative justice, Beryism vehemently opposes the death penalty. People who committed irredeemable crimes (e. g. raping a minor) should be sentenced to labour for life, where they would help build things like houses, monuments and bridges, and thus could still contribute to society while getting what they deserve.

[[File:Libertarian.png]] Gun rights
Never was, and likely never will be an important issue for him, or his country. Advocating for gun rights over there in Germany is basically political suicide. There are good arguments from both sides, though.

Tradition
Despite Beryism leaning progressive, that is, in the "live and let live" type of way, not the progress-for-the-sake-of-progress type of way, he has no qualms with a country preserving its heritage and the traditions that are worth preserving. He, quite frankly, just wants to get rid of obsolete insitutions that hinder individuals from living their lives the way they want to live them. "Peace and love, y'all". Essentially, a truly progressive society respects YOUR decision to live a traditional life, as long as you don't force it on anyone else. Looking at State Atheism.

Foreign Policy
Beryism is non-interventionist and more of a dove than a hawk. But in regards to diplomacy and geopolitics, he views the West  as the lesser of the two evils when compared with its     opposition, but this should never serve as a justification for imperialism from our ends. In his honest opinion, a fully anti-militarist foreign policy as seen with  would have devastating results. If the West just decides to immediately leave all the places they're currently present in, who's gonna fill that power vacuum? And how is Germany going to defend itself from outside threats? Such a foreign policy would be nice to strive towards, as Beryism is pacifist, but not immediate and unconditional demilitarisation. There are far bigger threats to world peace out there other than ourselves, according to him.

[[File:World.png]] Alliances
Beryism strongly supports the European Union, Schengen agreement and Eurozone, but supports leaving  NATO. He views NATO as imperialistic, obsolete, and overall as a net negative. Too many times has NATO ended up funding more terrorists than actually fighting them, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, you name it. He desires a new alliance, focused around actual self-defence, not playing the global cop. He doesn't support European Federalism. He finds it unfeasible for similar reasons as World Federalism, he states that you can't represent the desires of all nations, let alone individuals, on such a large scale, without an ungodly amount of bureaucracy. He thinks Pan-Africanism is bad for similar reasons, although it's fine as a lifestyle (respecting your fellow Africans and feeling a sense of unity, likewise with Europeans and Pan-Europeanism).

[[File:Anat.png]] Open Borders
Beryism, while supporting the Schengen agreement, believes it is best if a nation opens up its borders after reducing the welfare state's size, for people who are just genuine freeloaders and who refuse to work.

Relations
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Based

 * [[File:M4RKAru.png]] M4RKAruism - Good all around. Free markets and mixing patriotism with international co-operation is very nice. There is some stuff here and there that makes me think a bit, but you are deserving of being up here.
 * [[File:MattBall1.png]] Mattism - Basically as left-wing as you can get while still being tolerable. Too left economically, the welfare state shouldn't really be worshipped. But what can I say, our basic principles and goals are the same: Liberty, democracy, secularism and progress. And you're not a socialist, so that's good.
 * [[File:Capacitationism2.png]] Capacitationism - Basically if lib-unity was one person. We have many, many mutual beliefs, and the one major thing we probably disagree on is property rights. Overall, keep it up, though.

Pretty Based

 * [[File:Tomjazz.png]] Tomjazzism - Surprisingly awesome for a socialist. Markets, environmentalism, progress, direct democracy, nicerinoes!
 * [[File:Cflski.png]] Celfloskism - Honestly, you're fine. Too far left economically, too etatist, and supports the alter-globalization sham, which is sad. But good for being a democrat and a cultural liberal, among some other things.
 * [[File:Chirotesla.png]] Chiroteslaism - Another social democrat, not the worst our world has to offer. I don't like that you're a Eurosceptic, and you have similar problems to Scarlet in regards to economics; this is what causes stagnation. But otherwise, you're fine. Also good job on being actually progressive, unlike some of your acquaintances.
 * [[File:Aaron.png]] Aaronism - Another somewhat workable socialist, in a similar manner to Capacitationism. While I agree that the individual should be free to pursue his own destiny, separate from what the government told them, I'm not so sure on ideologizing hedonism. But seriously, respect property rights.

Mixed

 * [[File:ScrLt_Ushanka.png]] Scarletism - Although there is nothing to disdain from the bottom of my heart, as you are fairly moderate, the socialist and openly populist schtick is incredibly cringe. You recognise the importance of a functional market, which is good, but you want to overregulate it so badly that it would end up practically useless. Otherwise, you are tolerable with civic nationalism and the likes.
 * [[File:Typicalfan2.png]] TypicalFan1 Thought - Cringe Mexican AfD stan (never thought I'd ever say that) and "anti-SJW". Economics are pretty sweet, social views extremely cringe, isolationism is not beneficial either, but at least you don't feel like bombing Iraqi orphanages. Overall a typical alt-lite; bad, but not making me want to commit alt-die.
 * - Yes, morality is subjective. No, we should not fully reject it. Good for being an anti-authoritarian individualist, but taken to a frankly horrifying extreme. Many based takes, but philosophically, we are miles apart.
 * [[File:TIMUAAAism.png]] ThisIsMyUsernameAAAism - An ancum and a socialist. But despite that, not only do we get along, you also have many cool cultural takes, you hate authoritarian socialism, you support rehabilitative justice, the main problem is the gift economy taking the place of the market economy.
 * [[File:Ultro.png]] Ultroneism - Very similar to Councilguy, with many of the same quirks, and the one who started the egoist revolts of PCB. Your criticisms of morality are interesting and might get me to read Stirner one day, I have the ability to read the original version, after all. But otherwise, yeah, many disagreements, but you are no authoritarian.
 * [[File:ChronicFemcel-newicon.png]] ChronicFemcel Thought - Ack! Another anarchist! So basically, similar to Ultroneism and Post-Councilism. You're socially progressive, which leads us to agree on many things, including that the "Old Left" is kinda stinky doe. But you dislike democracy and hate the free market, so yeah. But you are a very pleasant acquiantance.

Pretty Cringe

 * [[File:Bmanthought.png]] Bman thought - Marxist-Leninist with nationalist and command economy characteristics. Big yikes from me. However, based LGBT rights, secularism and anti-imperialism.
 * [[File:SituBlart.png]] Situation-Blartism - Blartism, more like, fartism. No, but seriously, a filthy commie that supports regressive economics, and mad about me (jokingly) being a radlib. And calling me a friggin neolib?! Not cool man, not cool. You're still not [[File:Noctua.png]] that far gone, though. At least you don't like murder, it seems.

Cringe

 * [[File:GenShrekf.png]] General Shrekretary Thought - Basically my polar opposite on every issue, besides race. Unironically looks up to Stalin, favours a command economy (why), is populistic and disdains free trade. Goes here for obvious reasons.
 * [[File:Noctua.png]] Noctuaism - Two questions. How? Why? Actually wants to kill people he disagrees with. A Frankenstein's monster of an ideology, a racist commie, can't make that one up, not one agreeable thing here, either.
 * [[File:Cheesenism_(PB).png]] Cheesenism - An authoritarian theocrat with no respect for the individual's dignity. Don't know, but it feels like you tried to combine almost everything wrong with this world and cram it into one. But hey... you're not a socialist? Yay?!

Comments:
Tomjazzy- It's really interesting to me that you consider you're self Lib Right, seeing as in my country, most people would probably call you left wing. For my part, I feel like you're more center libunity, with about a 50%/50% mix of social and classical liberalism. Councilguy - could you add me please?
 * [[File:BeryAbLib.png]] BeryAb- Huh, interesting.
 * [[File:Tomjazz.png]] -anyway, if you could add Tomjazzism, that would be pretty cool.
 * [[File:BeryAbLib.png]] BeryAb- Both of you will be added tomorrow. I'm too busy today.
 * -Can you add me?


 * [[File:Cheesenism (PB).png]] kaiser emperor of cheese empire [[File:Cheesenism (PCB).png]]- hello can you add me to your self insert ?