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"People can really believe anything these days!" - Ismism

This page is meant to represent Dr. Occo's political views. Please do not make any major edits without their permission.


Leerderism is the current ideology of polcompball contributor Dr. Occo. It unites a strong interest in old Frisian culture and political structure with the more Socialist, Progressive and Statist leanings of its creator, seeking to establish a reformed, but recognizable Frisian Identity within an independent East Frisian State and a socialist economy. It is essentially a less authoritarian, more esoteric form of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Fracturism.

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I am a General Center-Leftist, mostly aligned with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Agrarian Socialism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Market Socialism. Smaller influences on my ideology are Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Local Patriotism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Frisian Cultural Nationalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Progressive Conservatism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reactionaryism, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Cosmicism. I am opposed to any form of Dogmatism and Campism, as well as Black-and-White worldviews, and I do not believe that people can be inherently good or evil. My ideology is flexible, since I do not want to sacrifice my values for being ideologically consistent, and I take influence from many different ideologies, while also questioning everything so I do not fall into an echo-chamber.

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First: Capitalism is a blight and should be abolished. It accelerates climate change and gives an unfair amount of power to unelected lobbyists and industrialists, not to mention that it makes everyone under it a pawn in an exploitative game against the poor. Capitalism enables the exploitation of any and all workers, allowing the owning class to basically steal the surplus value that workers create from them. In a conventional company, the Capitalists have complete control, and are immune from the consequences of their actions. If they mismanage something, and the company loses money, they are never the ones whose money is taken away. No, the low-rank employees, the workers, they are the ones being punished for what managers and company boards decided. After a possible revolution, or through intense reforms (in government and out of it), I would propose the installation of a highly decentralized, localist market socialist economy. Farms and businesses should be seized and their means of production redistributed to the workers, but the government should not directly control the economy. Instead, it should be regulated and controlled by workers' guilds, institutions that cooperate with the government, but are made up of the workers of different small businesses. This system has many similarities to forms of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Corporatocracy Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, which would be a good compromise position between the current system and my ideal, however still has its own problems, especially when Class Collaboration gets in the way of the Workers' cause. I am also in favor of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Workplace Democracy for specific workplaces that have to contain a power structure for whatever reason, which would likely be found out in the process of transition between economic systems.
Second: I am a Left-Nationalist. This means I oppose economic globalization, because it is the biggest contributor to climate change and exploitation. Everything that can be manufactured or harvested in the homeland, must be harvested, manufactured and consumed therein, not only to keep emissions low and prevent unfair practices, but to strengthen National Unity and Community.
Third: Local Markets must be strenghthened. This is the most "reactionary" part of my ideology. A farmer should not have his potatoes shipped off to Egypt, but directly distributed to his own community through local markets, which would strengthen community bonds and reduce emissions from transport. We know this system "works", because it has been in place for aeons before globalization was even possible. Obviously, some products can not be grown or manufactured locally, and those products have made society way better. But this system obviously wouldn't be universal. A country that can not, by using its own goods, manufacture life-saving medicine, should be able to import the materials for that medicine from other countries, so that the people don't die needlessly. This sytem has also been in place for as long as there was humanity, and despite the problems it did create, it has generally improved living standards whereever its effect was felt. So, I would be pro-worldwide distribution of resources, just not in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination this system and not nearly as much as we do now.

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I am a staunch welfarist. While I recognize that financial stability is very important in the long run, it is equally important not to leave the helpless and vulnerable in the mud just to get ahead.
Firstly, while working must obviously still be rewarded with more money, the people who are not able to work should still be able to live a good life. A good way to achieve this would be a Universal Basic Income, a certain amount that everyone, no matter if employed or not, would be guaranteed. This would simultaneously eliminate many peoples concerns about poverty and create an easy frame for workplaces to set their wages.
I also want a significant boost to efforts of integration of neurodivergent, disabled and similarly disadvantaged people. Since I myself am Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination neurodivergent, this should not be surprising. It would be great if we could create a framework where any workplace is ready to accommodate for anyone who might not have the same capacities as other workers, or has special needs that need to be met.
Our public sector needs funding, all parts of it. No healthcare office, no post office, no care facility, no hospital, no library, no theater, no museum should be ignored. Especially institutions that preserve history and identity are more important than they first may seem.

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My position on the Environment is pretty simple: I believe it is of the utmost importance to preserve it at all costs. There are many tactics that should, and really need to, be used:
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Environmentalist Economic Policy - (Much of this I already discussed in the "Economy" section.) In the Economy, Environmentalist goals should mostly consist of reduction of emissions through less international trade, strong environmental regulations and the promotion of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination explicitly Environmentalist workplaces over regular ones.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Environmentalist Laws - In the government, environmentalist laws must be passed. This includes high luxury taxes on especially eco-unfriendly expenses, subsidies for environmentally friendly workplaces (which would NOT be transferrable, what a fucking stupid idea) and, in extreme cases, outright bans on things like Cruise Ships, country-internal flights and the other critical polluters.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Climate Protests - The first of a pair of tactics, the protests of groups like Fridays For Future should continue. While I have my doubts about specific protests, they are a net positive and should continue, especially if continued with strikes and popular unrest. Which brings me to...
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Insurrectionary Action - Ooh, spicy. This is pretty simple, but radical: Environmentalist action units, who conduct attacks on polluting infrastructure, are doing purposeful work, and this type of unlawful conduct should not be overly discouraged (as long as it stays non-violent and does not target the livelihoods of poorer people, obviously).
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Identity - The nature of the nation is often a strong point of pride among patriots. This sense of Nature as a part of National Cultural Identity should be strengthened in all people, and should form a motivator for environmentalist change.

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Let me move on to my favourite talking point: National Cultural Identity. Yes, I am a Cultural Nationalist. I believe that a National Cultural Identity, a Shared collection of cultural views and traditions, should form the backbone of a nations society. Since the multicultural principle of different and separate cultural groups in the same society often leads to parallel societies, isolated cultural outgroups with little connection to wider society, which are a breeding ground for crime, especially when they are neglected by the government. Immigrants should still be welcome in East Frisia, as long as we can physically provide for them without sacrificing the well-being of our own citizens, but they should not form a Split-off parallel society hostile to the dominant one. This could be encouraged by the government with good and well-thought out welfare benefits for struggling immigrant families as well as an effort to guide them into becoming fully functional members of East Frisian society and at least being willing to accept its culture. If migrants prove to be completely unwilling or unable to conform to East Frisian Culture, they need to be dealt with effectively, and if necessary, they need to be expelled from the country before they become a liability.
Plus, Culture is just nice to have, and it strengthens the community.

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I despise Hegemony, and hold the view that autonomy is a nations highest right. I believe in the concept of the right to self-determination of all peoples, and I would want it to be applied to every people with an identity of their own (for example: Kurds, Basques, Frisians). I am also not willing to brutally invade other nations with little legitimization to impose my arbitrary beliefs on them, as the US and Russia like to do. Of course, I want my nation to intervene in wars, for example by shipping supplies to the better side, since I do not want to passively support Imperialist great powers. But all in all, I am mostly for Non-Alignedism.
I am also not a fan of the overly idealistic and liberal-ideological foreign policy that much of the West has adopted over time. The biggest offenders by far have to be the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Schröder and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Merkel administrations, who somehow believed (or claimed to believe anyway) that by buying the gas of Putin’s pet company Gazprom they could democratize Russia, which has predictably led to Germany being caught off-guard by the Invasion of Ukraine. Now, the people who need gas to survive are rightfully angry, and the new government (with Merkels former finance minister in charge) is struggling to handle this crisis as well as all the other crises that have cropped up. While I am not supporting Machiavellian Powerplays to achieve German supremacy, I am very much in favor of a more realistic and pragmatic approach to foreign policy. Sometimes, it is better to immediately make hard choices than to endlessly kick the can down the road, especially if that road leads to catastrophe.

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„Inclusion, not Diversity.“

Socially, I fit comfortably in the progressive Anti-SJW, Inclusionary, or Moderately Progressive, whatever you want to call it, territory. I want all forms of discrimination by identity, skin colour, orientation or sex to end, and I think that, in an ideal world, we would never even feel the need to discuss our identities to define ourselves. After all, being a gay Autist is not really something I should take pride in, because neither did I choose it nor can I change it. In the same vein, a white straight cis man should not take pride in his identity, since he did not choose to be born into such an advantageous position. Instead, I would much rather everyone take pride in their accomplishments and values.
However, I do not like many of the tactics the liberal left uses today, from Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Cancel Culture, over Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Multiculturalist Identity politics they ripped from the US even though that makes zero sense or File:Neotribe.png Neo-Tribalism, to the annoying arguments about things like Quotas (which I will discuss in more detail later) or Gendersprache, which I personally find ridiculous. You can argue in favor of trans rights without calling the 80-year old grandma a bigot for not knowing how to use neopronouns correctly, that is very much possible.
Overall, my goal is Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination a United and Inclusive nation in which everyone can feel welcome, and no one has to endure judgement based solely on their belonging to a certain social group.

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As explained in the „Nation“ paragraph, I believe in the concept of a unifying National Cultural Identity. This Cultural Identity would be one of traditional Frisian culture. The Frisian and Low German languages are a part of it, as is a strong communitarian bond, some typical regional food and drinks like cabbage, beans or tea, and a general quiet rural atmosphere.
I am heavily opposed to cultural Artifism, Futurism and Foreign Cultural Hegemony, specifically that of the USA. Their art, their sayings, their culture have been exported to the entire world, oftentimes threatening to change local cultures not through conquest, but through gradual Americanization. This all must be opposed if we are to preserve our own cultural heritage.

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I am generally in favor of Religious freedom and tolerance, as long as religions stay out of government. The separation of church and state is extremely important.
All people should be free to practice whatever religion they believe in. I can understand how it may be hard for someone to accept that other people believe in different religious concepts than themself, but that does not make religious supremacy or terror against other religious groups okay. In fact, if there exists a religious community that is based on preaching hate, like, unfortunately, many already do, the state should have the authority to investigate them. We can not accept Cult-like behavior or zealous bigotry to grow in our society and form the dreaded parallel society.
Personally, I was raised by a Catholic mother and a Protestant (but very irreligious) father, I was baptized in the Catholic Church, I am mostly Atheist and I philosophically align most with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pastafarism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Lovecraftianism. I also like the Old Cultural implications of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination original Paganism. But none of those tendencies should be mandated for anyone but me. I am perfectly comfortable with the personal religious identity being completely separate from the National Cultural Identity.

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If there is a god, and they are all-knowing, all-powerful and all-loving, it logically follows that we must live in the world that god considers perfect. This means that any argument about the state of things which involves the notion of „gods will“ must be obsolete, since god must always will every situation exactly as it is. If this is not the case, surely god can not be all-knowing, all-powerful and all-loving all at once, because if they were, and the situation were not as they desire, they would have changed that situation with their all-power before it even was perceived by us. Either this, or the gods that exist must do so on such a different level that their thoughts and plans are not even imaginable by the human mind. The Gods would be such alien and unknowable entities that even a second-long glance at their perceptions would drive any person mad. In this case, arguing about the will of the gods is even more pointless, since the will of the gods can not even be understood, let alone acted on, by us.

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I am existentially Nihilist. I do not really believe that anything possesses any inherent values, virtues, morals or purpose. I believe in a strictly scientific and evolutionary interpretation of the world. However, this does not mean I believe values, virtues, morals and purpose are somehow „stupid“ concepts, and I do not think being a Nihilist must imply dismissing anything and everything as not important. Morals are made up, but that doesn’t mean we should not follow them. If Society has decided that stealing is wrong, that means, for all intents and purposes, that stealing is wrong in society. Just because we made something up, that does not mean that that thing is completely worthless. We made up money, and it still obviously has a material worth.
I also do not believe in the concept of inherent evil. When a person does something, no matter how vile that thing may be, they always have a reason for it, and that reason is never „because I am evil!“. It may be an extremely petty, non-proportionate or unsympathetic motivation, but there always is one. Most criminals do not see themselves as evil, they either see themselves as desperate people who need to commit crimes to survive, or they believe that what they are doing is not actually a crime or even immoral. Everyone has reasons, everyone is complicated. Learn empathy, and you will come far.

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I am opposed to the death penalty and police militarization, and I like the Nordic prison system. I completely believe in a rehabilitative justice system, and believe punitive justice to be mostly unnecessary.
I would also propose introducing more constructive civil programs to alleviate the causes of crime, instead of cracking down hard on crime itself, since this will not solve the problem, but simply overcrowd prisons, cost boatloads of money, and ruin countless lives.
I'd also propose legalizing many drugs, including Cannabis, since it creates more problems to let them stay illegal than to make their selling, purchase and use legal, and this would even create a new source of taxes for the government to improve its finances.

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As I see it, the Culture War is not something the left should be very involved in. I see the Culture War as a fight between Progressive Liberals and Alt-Lite Conservatives, that mostly works on Capitalist and Liberal assumptions about what is good and fair. The Left should not discuss if there is a lack of female representation in, for example, corporate boards, because this would undermine the left's efforts to get rid of those same boards.
Of course, this does not mean we should abandon minorities that are under attack by conservatives and their allies. The attack on civil rights is real, and it needs to be opposed, however, I don't think we should be playing in the Alt-Right's[1] field, by engaging in the Culture War, but make clear that we do not condone the frivolous nonsense that Liberal "SJWs" and the Alt-Right are spouting. I mean, seriously, there are more important issues than the non-existent genitals of a toy potato or the skin color of a Disney Princess.
So, whenever we notice an attack on any civil rights, we should call it out, and if it is veiled, we should uncover it for the world to understand, and we should even be willing to sacrifice our own peace and comfort for this, however we should never let ourselves get baited into petty discussions on who is the stupider side, or which Popcultural Staple is now a black lesbian because of some corporate pandering. Never fall for the Alt-Rights trick, they want you to seem petty and arrogant.

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I want to practice for a fusion of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Utopian and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pragmatic thinking. While my goals may be utopian and unrealistic, I do not think I should take drastic steps to achieve them as soon as possible, but instead use them as a lens through which I can see the problems and conflict of the present. So, while I would want East Frisia to secede from Germany, I do not argue for an immediate secession, instead I argue for more local projects, cultural and infrastructural, which will directly help East Frisia, which will hopefully lay the groundwork for a secession, that will happen when the time is right. The same is generally true with everything else in my ideology. I do not want to immediately install an Agrarian Socialist state, I want to bring about Socialism through reforms and worker action over time. I do not want to immediately convert everyone to traditional styles of living, I want to argue that they are the superior system. Etcetera.

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  2. ↑ I view Nationalism, specifically Frisian Nationalism, as a necessity for Frisian self-determination, not as a point of xenophobia.
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