by Andrew Ian Dodge

Statism Sucks! is a satiric and radical examination of the direction in which the state should move in the next century. With both sides of political spectrum, in the US and the UK, failing fundamentally to check the spread of the state, the politically motivated seek to find a solution to the ever-expanding leviathan. Each session of Parliament and of the US Congress sees more and more laws passed that do little to solve the problems that still remain in education, health and poverty. Is the state the answer to all problems? Or to any problems?

This modern day treatise aims to provoke thought on a new and radical view of how to change government for the better. Written in a style that is approachable, not patronising: rather than interrupting the flow of reading with frequent quotes and references, Life will contain a few pithy quotes. If this treatise is successful, it will amuse and anger the reader, preferably both at the same time.

Synopsis:

Statism Sucks! examines the reasons for the decline in the freedoms and individual liberty in the late 20th century both in the US and the UK. Even those parties that claim to seek smaller government and fewer taxes, once in government are unable to stop the ever-increasing reach of the state and its threat to our freedoms. The bureaucratic leviathan, the necessary evil, has gathered a life of its own, crushing all in its path. How did we get to this point, and what can be done to reverse the machine that is the state?

First, we examine the erosion of Personal Responsibility in everyone from politicians to parents. Bad parenting and inadequate teachers affect the young, turning children into ill equipped mental cases without the ability to face the ever-changing world in which we live. Parental responsibility in this "having- it-all" culture has been replaced by parents who fob off their responsibilities on schools and the state. Parents have children as a right but without the responsibilities that goes with raising a child. To many, a child is yet another lifestyle accessory no different from a new BMW or house in country.

Education in schools and university has been replaced by politically correct indoctrination. The only priority is that the young are instructed in the belief systems of 60s radical thinking. We live in a world where a draft-dodging rapist can send a defensive force to attack a foreign country. The baby boomers who put the man there defend him with their last breath, a war not much different from the war they protested in their youth.

How will the information age after our freedom? With more and more information instantly accessible, how long will the state continue to hide behind its mechanisms? How long will the average citizen put up with being treated like an uninformed nuisance when questioning the state's actions? How will bloated government monopolies such as the Post Office, handle the challenge of e-mail and electronic communications?

After examining the sorry state of the so-called "liberal" democracies, the author will propose an overall solution that will return government to the ideal of the "classical liberals," such as De Tocqueville, Locke and Jefferson. Will the dawning of the 21st century be the dawning of a new age of reason? Or, do we in the US and the UK to go the route of the Germany and Russia in the 20th century? Are we truly on the "road to serfdom"? And more importantly can we get off?

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