Lightism

Lightism is a LibRight, culturally progressive, patriotic, and transhumanist ideology. I support a minimal government, free markets, privatization, diplomatic isolation, free trade, cultural progress, and endless tech innovation.

= Lightism =

=== Lightism is a LibRight, Progressive, Pacifist, LGBTQIA+ and leaning Globalist Ideology that likes Coca-Cola and hates authoritarianism so much. Lightism can be mostly found in Ireland. Lightism is actually named after a person called Lightning Striker. ===

[[File:Libertarian.png]] Civics [[File:Libertarian.png]]

 * [[File:FreeSpeak.png]]Free Speech[[File:FreeSpeak.png]] is essential to a prospering society, everyone should have the right to voice his or her opinion no matter what. Even if it's in favor of a terrible ideology, as long as it doesn't threaten anyone else, it's completely fine. Any government that is strong enough to suppress it is naturally going to become leviathan and extremely authoritarian.
 * [[File:Libertarian.png]]Gun ownership[[File:Libertarian.png]] should also be allowed for everyone without a severe history of NAP violation. It's a basic right, and a protection against potential violence by the coercive state.
 * [[File:Dem.png]]Democracy[[File:Dem.png]] is an idea that I'm mixed on. If it's a form of representative democracy with heavy checks on the leader's power, it's a good system that can work well. However, the forms of democracy in practice, AKA Authoritarian Democracy and Direct Democracy, are absolute abominations. The first one is simply an umbrella for dictators, and the latter is simply ochlocracy.

[[File:Cap.png]] Economics [[File:Cap.png]]

 * [[File:Cap.png]]A completely deregulated[[File:Cap.png]], Laissez-Faire, economy is optimal. Business regulations prevent small businesses from acquiring the workforce and money to fulfill these regulations, and thereby collapsing. Minimum wage, another regulation, prevents the least capable workforce from finding a job because of the lack of jobs for them above minimum wage, thus creating unemployment. Therefore, any regulations must be gone for a flourishing economy. However, I recognize that this is unrealistic for the time being, so a transition to this will have to go through a fairly lengthy process of deregulation.
 * [[File:Corp.png]]Monopolies[[File:Corp.png]], unlike many socialists claim, are not created by a free market, but by government intervention. As stated above, business regulations make small businesses collapse, which is a step towards monopoly. The bigger fact, though, is that the government itself is a monopoly on various things, such as law, military, healthcare, and education.
 * [[File:Property.png]]Property rights[[File:Property.png]] are essential for a flourishing society. People should be able to own property, a compensation for all of the hard work they're doing. Without property, society would descend into mob rule, with every person being able to intrude into everyone else's homes and workplace and creating violence.
 * [[File:Regulationism.png]]Taxes[[File:Regulationism.png]] are theft, as the state robs people's possessions without consent and ends up wasting the tax money on all sorts of stuff like the military. "Free" healthcare, education, and such are scams by the government, since the taxes people pay for these poor quality "services" are about as expensive as much better quality privatized ones. Taxes are theft, wasteful, and must be gone for the optimal economy. However, I acknowledge the current state of things, so a temporary carbon tax or minor LVT to encourage more efficiency and to fund a minimal government is fine for the time being.

[[File:Prgess.png]] Culture

 * [[File:Prgess.png]]In terms of culture[[File:Prgess.png]], I firmly believe in the freedom of people to express themselves and cultural progress, here's my opinion on the following
 * [[File:Religious.png]]Freedom of religion[[File:Religious.png]]: This one is extremely important to a prospering society, everyone should be able to express their religious beliefs or lack of freely without limitations. I'm firmly opposed to any form of rules on religion, including all theocracies and State Atheism.
 * [[File:Anti-Racism.png]]Racism[[File:Anti-Racism.png]]: It's obviously an insanely stupid idea, it simply creates hatred, division, chaos, and in the worst cases, genocide. This abomination of an idea should always be combated, through and through.
 * [[File:Gay.png]]LGBT[[File:Gay.png]]: I'm extremely supportive of LGBT rights. It's simply just people having different feelings on sexuality and gender compared to most others, completely natural, and absolutely tragic how badly LGBT people are treated. I see homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination against LGBT as nothing better than racism. Pride parades should always be allowed, as long as it doesn't take place inside someone else's property (which they almost never do anyways). Schools should also be able to teach about LGBT awareness whenever they feel like so.
 * [[File:Fem.png]]Gender equality[[File:Fem.png]] is also an extremely important part of a prospering society. I stand with the ideas of Feminism and Men's Liberation, believing people shouldn't be tied to traditional gender roles and should be free to express themselves. With that, I'm also fully opposed to gender supremacism on both sides, including Radical Feminism and Manosphere.