We pay fat piles of taxes for the government to secure liberty.
The idea that that government is "managing" that liberty is Constitutionally murky. The "private property" fig leaf is scant comfort.
The idea that that government is "managing" that liberty is Constitutionally murky. The "private property" fig leaf is scant comfort.
Thinking that you can be a free-from-all libertarian is like being a house cat that does not comprehend the system that keeps him alive. It is only because the system works that you can enjoy personal freedoms.
Russians have fully outsourced their both internal politics (resulting in for example the absolutely atrocious state of the courts of law) and foreign politics (mobilization! yay, go die in a trench!) to the tzar and look how that turned out. They also paid taxes and generally speaking accepted the offered social contract, but didn't monitor the situation and react to transgressions.
So because the government does something (THANK GOD), we all need to advocate for more government?
...the specific Col. Jessup instance that breaks down and calls away a Code Red.
Our Civil Servants are neither civil nor (apparently) serving any but themselves.
How to avoid becoming a cure worse than the disease?
One thing would be to rotate these staffers more frequently, so they are less prone to what looks like GroupThink.