This argument is nothing new. Always some portion of the people who benefit from the system will support it no matter how evil it is. The condescending comment

This argument is nothing new. Always some portion of the people who benefit from the system will support it no matter how evil it is. The condescending comment on Hacker News comments is not going to persuade simply because the premise that "self policing for the government might be good in some cases" is totally wrong.