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Unfortunately it is a power ratchet. Once acquired, new powers are never relinquished.
I'm starting realize the only thing government does is create and amplify problems and bounce around the illusion of solving the problem between parties with the intended goal of simply staying in power and so-called relevant but they don't fix any problems we the people have because they would become much less needed and relevant.
And all we really had to do (in the US) was almost nothing. We seem to be overall better off in a gridlock. Just do almost nothing.
And that’s why I wrote this…
Not that I think it would ever become law until there is an armed revolution (what politician would vote to restrict their own power?), but here it is…
View article →Every new law removes an extra piece of freedom.
The government divides the citizens against each other which distracts the citizens from the natural state of the government being the common enemy of the citizens.
Basically an impossible task.
US is a very young country. Give it another 200years and then we can talk.
A wise man will not create a rule that he wouldn’t sanction if it were used against him.
Wisdom is so dearly missed these days as collective time preference shortens.
If the government was not actively seeking to profit from the citizenry it would probably be a really nice thing to have. The state does provide services, But one needs to reach a point of desperation to realize them. Whether anyone uses the services the government provides is not a qualification for payment of those services. Imagine if all those services were free and available to anyone? Obviously being independent of government is the most comfortable position, But it is a fight to reach that point, And most people actually never will. People open up and love each other unconditionally when they have all their needs met. The sustainability of this prosperity is the limit of how long this unconditional love can exist, Because all humans are inherently self interested, And only people who are dependent on others for resources will sacrifice themselves to preserve those resources.
Governments taking the marshmallow test is immediately eating the marshmallow and then shaking down the test administrator for at least half of his marshmallows because he didn’t declare them all when entering the room.
The govt pendulum swings to the right then to the left but it also grows longer in the process. Ever increasing the size of govt over time
The left right march of Globalization and tyranny is afoot!
It's like the chart that shows inflation rising regardless of which party is in office.
Is the government headed towards greater and greater totalitarianism?
Yes
Democrat, yes
Reluican, yes
npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a highlights an obvious flaw in modern democracies
Parties & their supporters on either side of the spectrum usher in new powers without thought of the risks of who might wield them in the future
Rather than reversing the extra powers the last side granted themselves, they grant their own side even more powers to counter the power grab of their opponents
It's both idiotic & depressingly predictable
But the real issue is not the short-termism of politicians who come & go, it is the long-term incentives of the growing bureaucratic class who prevail, accumulating more & more power along the way
It is the bureaucrats who have the strongest incentive to ever expand their power, simply printing money to support useless & damaging overreach
Voting harder doesn't fix this
View quoted note →Himanity must love them some marshmallows
If only is was written into the constitution that they didn't have ever expanding powers. Something like: "any powers not specifically given to the federal government by the Constitution, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to those respective states, or to the people."
Name one single example of "the left" in USA.
Because you are clearly talking about liberals (far right authoritarians) when you say left.
Bernie Sanders is considered a right wing moderate outside of USA.
Y'all are so badly brainwashed and indoctrinated it makes me sick to think about.
Talk about what?
America is an ideal, not an empire.
The bug of the democracy is when a more popular person comes he can pass more terrible laws, accelerating demise further. So in that case voting to target 50/50 populairty should be the nash equilibrium for the libertarians.
Democracy is legalised mob rule.
That is written there, as the 10th Amendment, except the word "specifically" is not there. The Bill of Rights protections have proven in many cases to be mere "parchment barriers" as James Madison said they would be.
What makes you think I was talking about the USA?
But real “right wing” should restrict government power instead. Todays politics is just a theater to keep us taxed, divided and conquered.
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Getting rid of government is the final stage: when you realize marshmallow's are shit for you and you are better off without them.
Yeah nah left is left everywhere.
Indeed! Govt took some time, but they are really entering the digital age right now
Both sides are pushed apart by one funding group with the obvious eventual goal of dividing the country.✡️
and eventually it swings so hard and has grown so large that it snaps off and goes flying "permanently" in one direction.
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lol okay
Anything a politician you love, can do to a person you hate,
A politician you hate, can do to a person you love.
Poignant these days it seems
There is no Left or Right. There is only Freedom and the boot of the State on your neck.
View quoted note →I couldn't have said it better myself.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance
Not only governments, but that's is the modus operandi of fake entities like charities, as well.
