I am a consequentialist and a pragmatist classic liberal. Interested in increasing personal and economic freedom by influencing people to act and participate in politics. Third Party platform, purity of beliefs, orthordoxy and dogma is not for me
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx
My definition of a "statist" is, stolen from an article in Freeman,:
“Someone who learns nothing from human nature, economics, or experience, and repeats the same mistakes over and over again without a care for the rights and lives of people he crushes with his good intentions.”