Prove Them Wrong, Tea Party

[liveonearth]

I'm reading an article in New York magazine (April 7-20, 2014) about the color of Obama's presidency, and the first thing mentioned is the Bill Maher show in which Bill Kristol was frankly upset at him for saying that the rise of the Tea Party was due to racism. My liberal friends here in Oregon, and the ones that live in the Rockies and the South

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[bobby1933]

Well, o.k., I am in favor of small government too. But what is small government for a nation of 300+ million people (a hundred times larger than the society for which the Constitution was written -- five hundred times larger if you consider that only free, property owning, white, adult males were allowed to participate directly in the first governments under the Constitution).

So i ask, why not go all the way and be an anarchist? So the libertarian might say (i admit i have never asked, shy, isolate, autist that i am) Some government is necessary to protect legitimate behavior. Like what? Like business. Well what happens when business takes on the role of government, making life and death decisions for people who could not care less about business? Well, that is not going to happen. Well, it is happening already. Capitalism is democracy for the rich, misery for the poor. Capitalism is herrenvolk democracy. I only need government to protect the poor from the rich, and government is not designed to do that

[liveonearth]

If you were supreme dictator, what kind of government would you institute, before retiring to do as you please?

[bobby1933]

LOL, your question makes me think of a story about Dorothy Day. One of her friends said of her. "Dorothy believes in anarchy as long as she gets to be chief anarchist." Of course, "Christian anarchism" is dependent on God's "rule" and i have never been as certain as some other people that i know what God's rules are, so it would be disingenuous of me to say that i believe in some kind of "spiritually based anarchy." But i do sort of go along with Thoreau: if less government is better than more government, then wouldn't no government be the best government of all. Or, as Ammon Hennacy put it: "I don't need a policeman to tell me how to be good

[liveonearth]

So you would sit on a mountaintop?