Liberty Group
Liberty Group Rán Violirsk | |
|---|---|
| Chairperson | Yon Paul |
| Secretary-General | Sidrigun Farsōlen |
| Stanora Leader | Kírin Vendikur |
| Founded | 2003 AD |
| Headquarters | №12, 41-ram, Tyderian Waterfront, Kartika |
| Newspaper | Herald of Liberty |
| Membership (21204) | 600 million |
| Ideology | Kiravian Libertarianism |
| Stanora Caucus | Kiravian Free Alliance (2021-) |
| Federal Stanora | 27 / 545 |
| Website | |
| www.violir.isk.kr | |
The Liberty Group (Kiravic: Rán Violirsk) is an interstate conference of Kiravian political parties with a broad libertarian orientation. From 2003 to 2021 AD delegates endorsed by the Liberty Group and its member parties formed their own caucus in the Federal Stanora which later merged into the Kiravian Free Alliance. It has been an important part of the post-Reunification Kiravian political landscape as a counterforce to the more statist tendencies of the Coscivian National Congress, Caritist Social Union, and Federalist Republican Alliance, though it has partnered with the latter two to dismantle the legacy of Kirosocialism. The Liberty Group draw on Kiravian traditions of localism, weak state-strong society configuration, and non-state communitarian self-governance through private law, as well as the modern Kiravian experience of success with market economics, individual liberty, and free enterprise.
Platform
Legalise drunk driving. Deregulation of firearms. Abolition of censorship, internal trade barriers, state surveillence. Privatisation of the many state-owned enterprises that remain at the provincial level. Monetary pluralism. Lower tax rates and fewer, more efficient taxes. Drawing on the Georgist tradition that came down through the Renaissance Party, most of the conference endorses Georgist tax reform and the use of land value tax as the primary source of government revenue. This is a key differentiator between the Liberty Group and its frequent allies in the Authentic Historical Caucus, who are anti-LVT.
The Liberty Group is the most strongly antifederalist and decentralist of the major caucuses, seeking to curtail the power of the federal government and maximise the fiscal and political autonomy of the states. The caucus's manifesto calls for the abolition of "Federal grants and programs that serve to keep the states in line more than they serve the Kiravian people."
Many LG members advocate for a deprofessionalisation of government, on both the federal and state levels, and regularly introduce bills to reduce and restrict Federal salaries, place tighter regulations on campaign finance, and establish term limits for Federal officials. As most LG Delegates were independents and many hail from states where political parties are banned, the Liberty Group often promotes measures to reduce the power of parties and caucus.
The Liberty Group generally does not take firm collective positions on issues related to culture, social change, or public morality, and does not emphasise this issue area. On the whole it can be said to be passively latitudinarian in comparison to the more conservative FRA, but less so than the more liberal UDI. At the analytical level of individual member-parties and politicians, a plurality can be classified as libertarian conservatives, while minority factions may be cultural liberals or palæolibertarians.
Voter Base
The strongest base of support for the Liberty Group comes from rural voters living in the forest and mountain regions of Great Kirav (especially the Western Highlands), as well as in the more remote overseas colonies. According to the political science journal Review of Politics, Liberty Group candidates do best "where people are most independent and self-reliant as a result of geography, and least-likely to benefit from government programs." However, there are nonetheless significant numbers of votes cast for the Liberty Group in lowland agricultural areas, as well as in micropolitan areas. In suburban and exurban settlements, candidates from LG-affiliated parties are often very successful on the local level, campaigning on platforms to lower taxes and abolish intrusive local ordinances.
Ethnically-speaking, Ĥeiran Coscivians, Celts, Kaskem, Saskem, Dark Coscivians, and (to a lesser extent) Sëorans and North Elutes are the most likely ethnic groups to vote for the party, and Ĥeirans are disproportionately represented among LG politicians. Liberty Group-affiliated parties are also popular among Coscivian groups who migrated to Kiravia fleeing totalitarian régimes in Democratic Bodwara and Brystolville. Kiro-Kyians, who were expelled from Logan & Ky for their support of the Rising Tide libertarian separatist movement in that country, are a small but loyal ethnic constituency for the Liberty Group in Cascada and Lataskia.
Liberty Group voters fall heavily on the analogue side of Kiravia's sharp digital divide On average, Liberty Group voters have the lowest rate of internet access and the second-lowest rate of cellular phone ownership of all the Stanora caucus (behind the Agrarians).