(08-29-2024, 08:44 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-29-2024, 08:13 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Let me help. What Mikey thinks the government does well just happens to align with ways they make other people more money. What the government does poorly is to implement any ideas that don't make people money. He's ok with the first, because he's been conditioned to think like that, and he's not ok with the second, because he's tacitly admitting the people don't have any real power and the government doesn't have any real backbone.

Carry on.

I get that it doesn't feel good when you lay it all out like that. 

But what if it's true? 
What if this really is just about the best we can do? 
What if greed and complacency are the only legitimate animating forces of a strong and stable government? What if substutung reason or religion as animating forces is the path to anarchy or revolution or both?

That's a sad response. Greed is good, according to Ayn Rand, when competing forces drive down prices for the people. Greed is terrible when it's captured the power of the state. Your problem is you are unwilling to even look at our government and recognize that it's been wholly captured by special interests. We have no power. It will lead to revolution or totalitarianism.

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