Message from @DrYuriMom
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*>I want power with the people not the Dollar.*
Is it now? Is it people's votes that get swayed by money or is it the politicians who get swayed?
That said, we've seen a lot of abuse with private prisons. I like his vision but I don't like the practice I've seen
People choose to vote for bought politicians. That's their choice.
Mr Murphy has a lot more faith in humanity than I do
I look to government to protect me from humanity's baser instincts
Government is humanity's basest instinct.
There is where we disagree
Do you agree with the principle that government should have a monopoly on violence?
The voters have a monopoly on violence. The voters deputize the government to act to maintain their will. We as voters collectively accept restrictions on our monopoly through a Constitution which exists to limit our power.
Collective action is a spook
There is no such thing as the will of the collective.
Has the constitution done a good job limiting the power of government?
It's works for well over two centuries insofar as collectively accepting Constitutional government
We're flawed humans and or government is flawed as we are. But overall, yes.
There have been a lot of failings along the way, and even currently
But yes, we still have a Constitutional government
The fact we (more or less) calmly handed power from Obama to Trump is proof of the beauty of our system.
And the fact two or six years from now we will (more or less) calmly hand power to someone else, possibly as antithetical to Trump as Obama is amazing.
The swamp is undrainable, there was no danger there.
We are well past the possibility of top down reform
Warts and all
And God knows there are a LOT of warts
The administrative state is what is meant by the swamp
I disagree
Or if it is, then we agree we have problems
The Administrative State as it exists now is almost antithetical to Constitutional Government
Constitutional Government is about limits - diffusion of authority. The administrative state is about aggregation of authority.
```"Nothing is more misleading, then, than the conventional formulae of historians who represent the achievement of a powerful state as the culmination of cultural evolution: it as often marked its end. In this respect students of early history were overly impressed and greatly misled by monuments and documents left by the holders of political power, whereas the true builders of the extended order, who as often as not created the wealth that made the monuments possible, left less tangible and ostentatious testimonies to their achievement."
-Hayek.```
I agree with Hayek.
Monarchies were more accountable to the people, because you only needed to chop off one head.
But Constitutional Government and "powerful state" are not exactly compatible
Feudalism sounds more appealing every day.
https://mises.org/wire/feudalism-system-private-law
```"If I must be a slave, I would rather be privately owned, than publicly owned"
-Hans-Hermann Hoppe.```
Once again I agree with Marc Thiessen. That the Dems are refusing to dicker with a transactional president like Trump is going to drive me nuts.
Finally had a chance to catch up on the Brexit news from yesterday. Totally unsurprised by the result of the no-confidence vote. No one else wants to be PM that most Tories would want to see in the post. May wins by default because she's the most palatable of those who will actually do it, not because anyone really wants her there.
Anyway, with this out of the way we at least know that this is it. May can't be challenged again for a year. I suspect there may have been Tories who wrote letters to bring up the no-confidence vote now so that it would be impossible to hang it over May's head for another year.