Beryism

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

Economy
The way Beryism views it, 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.

The natural process of a market- and price-oriented economy has always shown to be the more efficient way of allocating goods, according to him.

[[File:Orlib.png]]Best type of market economy?[[File:Soccap.png]]
In an ideal system, Beryism believes we should maximize civil and economic liberty through reform while staying within the boundaries of the German-style social market economy. He opposes bureaucracy and overregulation, as he thinks it gets in the way of progress and growth.

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:Neoliberal-icon.png]]Free Trade[[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]]
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.

[[File:Socdem.png]]Healthcare[[File:Socdem.png]]
The healthcare sector must remain public at all costs. A system such as in the US would be truly nightmarish. Beryism considers the right-libertarian argument for privatised healthcare referencing "long waiting times" to be unsensible.

[[File:Regulationism.png]]Taxation[[File:Regulationism.png]]
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, 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.

There must be a carbon tax for CO2-emitters.

[[File:Welf.png]]Social Welfare[[File:Welf.png]]
Welfare is usually a better mean of helping out the disadvantaged than private charity is. That, however, doesn't mean he wants the welfare state to be expanded. It's better if the welfare state is slowly weakened (but not fully eradicated) and self-reliance is promoted instead, as well as making sure freeloaders don't get the welfare.

[[File:Envi.png]] Environment vs. Economy [[File:Cap.png]]
Although he doesn't self-identify as an environmentalist, the economy is of slightly less importance than the environment is, since damage to the environment is near-irreversable, as opposed to economic crises.

However, 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 aforementioned 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[[File:Regulationism.png]]
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 interal 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.

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, though it's a bit more skeptical of harder drugs.

[[File:Dem.png]]Democracy[[File:Dem.png]]
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.

[[File:Nation.png]]Nationalism and Patriotism[[File:Modnat.png]]
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[[File:Civlibert.png]]
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:

1. Holocaust denial,

2. Organising, or actively calling for violence.

Although he thinks they deserve free speech like all other people, it deeply annoys Beryism how some 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.

[[File:Fem.png]]Affirmative Action[[File:Fem.png]]
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[[File:Trans.png]]
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[[File:Sec.png]]
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[[File:Libertarian.png]]
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.

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, he loathes war. But in regards to diplomacy and geopolitics, he views the West  as the lesser of the two evils when compared with its     opposition.

In his honest opinion, a fully anti-militarist foreign policy as seen with Die Linke 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[[File:World.png]]
Beryism strongly supports the European Union, Schengen agreement and Eurozone, but supports leaving  NATO. It 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 doesn't support European Federalism. He finds it unfeasible for similar reasons as World Federalism, it 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. 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[[File:Anat.png]]
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 with other self-inserts
(PURELY IDEOLOGICAL)

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.

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 support the alter-globalization sham, which is sad. But good for being a democrat and a cultural liberal, among some other things.

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 non-interventionism is gigachad. Overall a typical alt-lite; bad, but not making me want to commit alt-die.

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.


 * - 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.

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.

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?