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Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appe
by jsnk 4y ago
Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes.
- Murray Rothbard
- 0134340 4y agoAnd those who gather to oppose "government" through means of governing what people can and can't do themselves form a government. That's the hypocrisy of "freedom" movements like "freedom" convoy, coming together to form a governing body to block roads so you can't freely use them. Careful we don't over-romanticize the so-called freedom-fighters because in the end they're usually anything but that. Some of those same people would probably be happy to see me locked up for some of my rather benign beliefs, let alone actions.