August 15th, 2015 by Mark Henkel

“In everything you see me do, my vocations or avocations, I view things through this lens of being The Anti-Socialist.” I make that concluding soundbite during my speech, The Anti-Socialist.

Although the speech is not specifically about polygamy, it succinctly provides background-insight into why I so passionately advocate for the unfettered Constitutional freedom of unrelated consenting adults to choose polygamy if they would so consider.

Incentive and choice are essential elements for the betterment of humanity – both for individuals and for larger society as a whole. Socialism removes incentive and interferes with choice. The result is mediocrity due to fewer “good” options remaining from which to choose.

Advocating for UCAP (unrelated consenting adult polygamy) is not about suggesting that everyone would, could, or even should choose polygamy. Not at all. Rather, the use of big government marriage control to forcefully impose OMOW (one man one woman) is what I have identified as marital socialism. It effectively mandates a Karl Marx style of socialist cry, “One for each so that each might have one.”

The result of that marital socialism is that men have little incentive for self-improving to become better husbands. Women are left with choosing lesser men who had no incentive to try to be better. Because of these results from this unnatural and anti-free-market imposition of OMOW marriage control, society has consequently become what I call “the era of dumbed down males,” with marriage-phobic males and abandoned single moms.

As such, it is insanity to be criminalizing the men who would self-improve to become better husbands for the women to choose, and to thereby deny women those choices of better men.

Contrariwise, I rationally advocate for UCAP for the betterment of individuals and society. By abolishing marital socialism and returning to true Constitutional freedom, people will again have incentive and choice.

Even if most men still would not seek to be polygamous husbands themselves, all men would still have incentive to self-improvement. To wit, because women would thus have freedom to choose the truly better men (even when such men could already be proven-good husbands), the lesser men would immediately see their urgency to self-improve (else go without) if they wanted women to choose them at all. In the end, it would equilibrate anyway.

Yes, I am an Anti-Socialist because I genuinely care about people. Whether with work or hobbies, vocations or avocations, I care about the human spirit and society. In all things, I see and know that our betterment and self-improvement are only made possible with the human necessities of incentive and choice.

Hence, it is precisely because I view all things through the lens of being an Anti-Socialist that explains why I so passionately advocate for unrelated consenting adult polygamy.

As part of the overall project to produce tools of shareable memes to polygamy supporters, the pic for this sound-bite has been posted on Pinterest.

The video for the entire speech is posted online.

It has also been embedded here below.

These three links (one to Youtube and two to Pinterest) are offered here as tools for supporters to use when working to persuade and encourage others to allow freedom for polygamists.

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August 14th, 2015 by Mark Henkel

“That’s why I am an Anti-Socialist. I care about people. I care about the human spirit. I genuinely care.” I make that important soundbite during my speech, The Anti-Socialist.

This speech provides an education by providing clarity with the following three insights.

  • Socialism
  • Incentive
  • Choice

Those three insights form the foundation and basis for why I am an Anti-Socialist.

Socialism is about creating an equality of outcome that proverbially says that we’re all “tied scores.” But as I literally alliterate in the speech, “Socialism Seriously Stomps Special Skills.”

Incentive is essential for humanity. As human beings, we have to have the hope of reward (to inspire us to self-improvement) and we have to have failure (to teach us to abandon foolishness).

Choice – the amazing human power of choice – can change our lives and can change the world. But socialism interferes with the choices of others.

By the premise of these three foundational insights, “That’s why I am an Anti-Socialist. I care about people. I care about the human spirit. I genuinely care.”

As part of the larger project to provide tools of shareable memes to polygamy activists, the pic for this sound-bite has been posted on Pinterest.

The video for the entire speech is posted online.

It has also been embedded here below.

These three links (one to Youtube and two to Pinterest) are offered here as tools for supporters to use when working to persuade and encourage others to allow freedom for polygamists.

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August 13th, 2015 by Mark Henkel

“Socialism interferes with the choices of others. “ I make that important soundbite during my speech, The Anti-Socialist.

With every choice we make, we must face the consequences – whether they be good or bad. When we do not take responsibility for our choices, the burden of any negative consequences will inevitably fall onto others instead.

When we thereby burden others, we become the direct cause of reducing/harming the range of criteria by which such others may more freely make their own choices.

Socialism seductively misleads human beings into thinking that we may supposedly be free to make choices without having to take responsibility for negative consequences. Yet, that allure is a siren song to lead us only to destruction.

In truth and in fact, socialism does not actually prevent negative consequences, nor does it prevent responsibility for negative consequences. Rather, socialism merely re-distributes the burdens of those negative consequences onto others.

The consequence of that re-distribution of negative consequences is the imposed interference for others to more freely make their own choices. Before such others may determine the criteria by which they would make their own choices, they are first faced with the imposed burden of responsibility of the re-distributed negative consequences.

Indeed, the very burden itself of taking responsibility of such re-distributed negative consequences can even hinder, thwart, or outright prevent such others from making the choices they would otherwise choose to make for themselves.

As socialism thereby forcefully interferes with the choices of others, it prevents humanity from more freely using the amazing power of choice to accomplish even greater things which we humans could otherwise truly achieve.

For that essential reason, I am an Anti-Socialist.

As part of the over-arching project to create tools of shareable memes to polygamy activists, the pic for this sound-bite has been posted on Pinterest.

The video for the entire speech is posted online.

It has also been embedded here below.

These three links (one to Youtube and two to Pinterest) are provided as tools for supporters to use when working to persuade and encourage others to allow freedom for polygamists.

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August 12th, 2015 by Mark Henkel

Whenever I share my belief in the power of choice, I also always add, “But with choice, we must take responsibility.” Indeed and to wit, I made that very soundbite during my speech, The Anti-Socialist.

It is that corresponding issue of taking responsibility which sometimes complicates how some people perceive the power of choice.

If we fellow human beings had the anarchy to make choices without consequences, the laziness aspect of our human natures would certainly succumb to that. But we must remind ourselves that, if there are no consequences, then that also means that there would be no positive consequences either.

As such, because we do have hope for positive consequences, we must make our choices with the expectation of consequences, no matter what. Alas, that expectation does simultaneously risk the possibility of negative consequences too.

If we choose to not take responsibility for our choices, any negative consequences from our choices will fall onto others. Thereby, the consequences of our choices become the consequential burdens imposed on others, diminishing their range of choices for their own selves.

Socialism pretends to “backstop” the negative consequences of our choices. But the actual consequence of that pretended “backstopping” is that it simply re-distributes the burdens of those negative consequences of our choices onto others against their own preferred choices.

For the true freedom of all of us to maximize our human power of choice, we must each take responsibility for our choices – whether the consequences are positive or not.

For that powerfully important reason, I am an Anti-Socialist.

As part of the larger project to develop tools of shareable memes to polygamy supporters, the pic for this sound-bite has been posted on Pinterest.

The video for the entire speech is posted online.

It has also been embedded here below.

These three links (one to Youtube and two to Pinterest) are provided as tools for activists to use when working to persuade and encourage others to allow freedom for polygamists.

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August 11th, 2015 by Mark Henkel

“I believe in choice. I believe in your power to make a choice to change your life. Choice can change the world.” I state this soundbite in my speech, The Anti-Socialist.

The power of choice is one of humanity’s greatest powers. We could even smilingly call it a “super-power.” At every situation of life, we face options of choice.

Sometimes, criteria by which we will make a choice might limit us to otherwise think that we have “no choice.” However, to quote the lyrics of the song “Free Will” by the rock band, Rush, even “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

No matter what challenges we face, we must always remind ourselves that we have this “super-power.” With this self-awareness, we can consciously and pro-actively make bigger and more important choices to change the very lives we live. It all comes down to our choosing to make those choices.

Socialism interferes with the power of choice. It re-distributes the consequences of others’ choices, forcefully imposing new criteria that limit the choices that we ourselves would otherwise choose.

Ultimately, socialism interferes with the human power of choice. On a micro-level; it interferes with the power of a person to choose to change their life. On a macro-level, socialism interferes with the power of choice that could even change the world.

Because I believe in the power of choice, that is why I am an Anti-Socialist.

As part of the overall project to provide tools of shareable memes to polygamy supporters, the pic for this sound-bite has been posted on Pinterest.

The video for the entire speech is posted online.

It has also been embedded here below.

These three links (one to Youtube and two to Pinterest) are provided as tools for activists to use when working to persuade and encourage others to allow freedom for polygamists.

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