ext_50177 ([identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] fpb 2009-10-22 06:51 am (UTC)

Exactly. As I said elsewhere (though to the wrong person):
You right-wing anarchists all fail to understand what the Founding Fathers said - their actual words go in one ear and out the other. And as it never occurs to you to imagine that there might be an ethical foundation to the duties of the State - a foundation expressed by Jefferson and his co-signers in language so luminously clear that only ill-will can explain its being misunderstood - you end up with the nightmare of a State that is force for its own sake; from which you escape into anarchistic dreams that will never have any reality. The dreams go away; the nightmare bully State of your own evil dreams becomes reality - because you have rejected the plain substance of Jefferson's luminous words. And that is why every bout of Republican rule ends up leaving the American state more legally omnipotent, more unbound by law or custom, and more indebted and predatory, than it has ever been before. Ayn Randism and George W.Bushism are Siamese twins, and neither can live without the other.

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