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Originally Posted by henry quirk
"So you love it that extremists are playing right into China's hand. "
Nope. What I loved what the possibility folks might see for themselves they don't need as much 'governing' as they're told they do.
What I loved was the possibility folks might see the politicians need them a helluva lot more than they need the politicians.
What I loved was the possibility that ludicrous amounts of scrip might stop being spent on horseshit.
China: fuck 'em...what they gonna do? Without the U.S., China goes back to being just a Third World hole.
All moot anyway...*shrug*
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Great. Right up until the part where a bunch of children actually starve for lack of food aid programmes; old people actually freeze in the coming winter because they cannot heat their homes, and a rash of small businesses are crippled by the soaring cost of borrowing.
You may not need that much government, but there are a fuck of a lot of people who do in fact need government.
Government didn't expand because it is some hulking beast wanting more and more. It expanded because the alternative to doing so would leave some people for dead. It expanded to fill the gaps left by libertarian and free market ideologies. It expanded to facilitate the broadening out of society's benefits to all Americans and not just those who successfully rode the financial surf.
Now, I daresay you'd be quite comfortable with all that. Survival of the fittest, no passengers, no such thing as fairness idyll.
I honestly don't know what it is you expect to happen if the government were to suddenly shrink to the bone.