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I'm not sure if we're speaking past each other, but it seems we're both making the same point. The right is not advocating for the complete destruction of the
by tdhoot 8y ago
I'm not sure if we're speaking past each other, but it seems we're both making the same point.
The right is not advocating for the complete destruction of the Government. The left is not advocating for the removal of corporations as a legal entity.
Those two positions are equivalent and neither side has cachet at the moment.
The destruction of certain government agencies is closer to the breakup of certain corporations or industries than it is to the right-equivalent of a Worker's Revolution.
- roywiggins 8y agoI guess I'm equating "oil corporations should not exist" with "oil corporations should not be regulated by the feds". The latter seems to have some sway with the current administration, see: https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-drain-the-swamp-scott-angelle.html https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/john-oliver-last-week-toni... This guy does not seem worried that he might look a bit cozy with the industry he is supposedly regulating; he's practically asking the industry to ask him for leniency. There are countries with state oil companies and nobody is advocating for that; but there seems to be people advocating for the total abdication of regulation of oil companies. If there's a continuum between "state run" and "fully unregulated", the "fully unregulated" side seems to have a certain amount of sway whereas the other end doesn't.
- specialist 8y ago"The right is not advocating for the complete destruction of the Government." Government is not the solution, it is the problem. -- Ronald Reagan. Shrink government so that it can be drowned in a bathtub. -- Grover Nordquist.