"Our Supreme, Mr. Li Ang, has agreed to become Krakoa's king."
Emma Frost, the White Queen, announced at the meeting.
Everyone's expression varied. Although Li Ang had saved them, not everyone agreed.
Only the White Queen, Storm, and a few others remained calm. They had close ties to Li Ang.
"However, the Supreme won't be staying on Krakoa all the time, so we'll have to handle day-to-day affairs ourselves."
Emma Frost reassured everyone.
After all, Mutants had established their own nation because they wanted to be free.
They didn't want anyone else controlling them.
But in Li Ang's eyes, that was just a lie to deceive the other Mutants.
Once they established their own nation, the people sitting here would become the elite.
The freedom they talked about was only their own.
Even Professor X thought the same way.
It was all well and good for Mutants to govern Mutants.
But who actually wanted to be governed?
Why should they be the ones being ruled?
You could only say that liberalism was the biggest con of all.
We shouldn't look at what liberalism says. We should look at what problems it solves.
The so-called liberalism had emerged during Europe's Age of Exploration.
At the time, in the British Empire, only a small number of people—the nobility and royalty—could engage in the slave trade, the infamous "Triangular Trade."
The capitalists weren't having it.
They wanted in on this profitable business, and so "liberalism" was born.
They wanted the freedom to sell Black slaves...
Not the supposedly noble "freedom" they waxed poetic about.
It was pathetic that this kind of robber's liberalism could still be revered as gospel.
Society had naturally imbued the word "freedom" with a sacred meaning, making it seem noble and righteous.
Plenty of people shouted "freedom" and waved