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Political change isn't fast. There is also a legal process underway as well. Both are very slow moving, but can bring a lot of changes.

RexRollman 13y ago
Unless something happens to ramp up the fear again, like some kind of attack.
- jonsleet 13y ago
  Yes, apparently that is the go-to sales pitch.
- CWuestefeld 13y ago
  I highly recommend the book "Crisis and Leviathan", by Robert Higgs. Everyone knows that government has continually grown in size and scope during this past century, but how and why has it done so? Is this growth inherent in the nature of government or because of some greater social needs, or are there other causes? In Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs shows that the main reason lies in government’s responses to national “crises” (real or imagined), including economic upheavals (e.g., the Great Depression) and especially war (e.g., World Wars I and II, Cold War, etc.). The result is ever increasing government power which endures long after each crisis has passed, impinging on both civil and economic liberties and fostering extensive corporate welfare and pork. As government power grows, writes Higgs, it achieves a form of autonomy, making it ever more difficult to decrease its size and scope, and to resist its further efforts to increase its reach, so long as the citizenry remain uninformed of its true effects. One of the most important books ever written on the nature of government power, Crisis and Leviathan is a potent book whose message becomes more trenchant with every passing day. -- http://www.onpower.org/about.html http://www.onpower.org/about.html
  - csense 13y ago
    Yes, this is the problem -- but how can we solve it? Does the book have any insights on that?
    - anoncowherd 13y ago
      The only way to "solve" the problem is to spread awareness of it. Political authority is the idea that a small group of people "has the right" to impose their will on everyone else. In reality though, they obviously do not. Everyone has the exact same rights (and they don't include coercing other people), and you can't delegate rights you do not have. But the belief in political authority is the root cause of practically all problems in today's world. Once the "Authority Religion" unravels, so does mankind's enslavement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE
- yogo 13y ago
  And there aren't ways to ramp up that fear? I'm not going to venture into conspiracy land here but I believe it's safe to say that there are ways to manipulate or stimulate certain means in order to accomplish goals (the ends).

RexRollman 13y ago

Unless something happens to ramp up the fear again, like some kind of attack.

jonsleet 13y ago
Yes, apparently that is the go-to sales pitch.
CWuestefeld 13y ago
I highly recommend the book "Crisis and Leviathan", by Robert Higgs. Everyone knows that government has continually grown in size and scope during this past century, but how and why has it done so? Is this growth inherent in the nature of government or because of some greater social needs, or are there other causes? In Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs shows that the main reason lies in government’s responses to national “crises” (real or imagined), including economic upheavals (e.g., the Great Depression) and especially war (e.g., World Wars I and II, Cold War, etc.). The result is ever increasing government power which endures long after each crisis has passed, impinging on both civil and economic liberties and fostering extensive corporate welfare and pork. As government power grows, writes Higgs, it achieves a form of autonomy, making it ever more difficult to decrease its size and scope, and to resist its further efforts to increase its reach, so long as the citizenry remain uninformed of its true effects. One of the most important books ever written on the nature of government power, Crisis and Leviathan is a potent book whose message becomes more trenchant with every passing day. -- http://www.onpower.org/about.html http://www.onpower.org/about.html
- csense 13y ago
  Yes, this is the problem -- but how can we solve it? Does the book have any insights on that?
  - anoncowherd 13y ago
    The only way to "solve" the problem is to spread awareness of it. Political authority is the idea that a small group of people "has the right" to impose their will on everyone else. In reality though, they obviously do not. Everyone has the exact same rights (and they don't include coercing other people), and you can't delegate rights you do not have. But the belief in political authority is the root cause of practically all problems in today's world. Once the "Authority Religion" unravels, so does mankind's enslavement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE
yogo 13y ago
And there aren't ways to ramp up that fear? I'm not going to venture into conspiracy land here but I believe it's safe to say that there are ways to manipulate or stimulate certain means in order to accomplish goals (the ends).