I simply recognize that American bureaucracy is fucking awful and not a remedy for life's ills. The federal governments role should be limited so that it can focus on the tasks it's supposed to perform - things like diplomacy, justice, defense and making sure the states don't throw up trade barriers between them. Instead, over the centuries, it's just become a jobs program, leeching money from more productive portions of the economy and becoming a drag on all of us. How many millions of people in this country are dependent on me earning money so they can take a small portion of it for themselves? I don't hate this country or necessarily the government, I hate the patronage and the cronyism and the do-nothing jobs.SuperJail Warden wrote:
You got it backwards. I make fun of the political compass test for being too simple. I only see the media being liberal in relation to cultural issues not much else. The whole dismantle the government thing you consider to be center right is bizarre and uniquely American that it distorts the whole economic conversation.Jay wrote:
For someone that mocked the political compass as being too complex in favor of the simple left-right axis, you sure are being a pedantic twit. American media is left of center, not hard leftist. Stop being stupid.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Higher income taxes and a mixed system healthcare scheme are not bravely leftist ideas. Even fascist groups support higher income taxes to support their members and healthcare systems to promote social growth. Eisenhower and Cold War republicans were okay with high taxes to support their ideological war against global communism. Really leftist ideas like changing laws regarding how corporations are structured, requiring joint ownership with the state, high taxes on capital gains, price controls for basic necessities, nationalizing natural resources and more are leftist ideas that do not get debated on television.
Debt relief and the option to refinance student loans through the financial services market are not far left ideas. Leftist don't even trust big finance. A leftist idea would be to nationalize all colleges in the U.S. and move to a totally publicly financed system like they have in Norway. No one suggest that not even Bernie since those Harvard and Yale graduates on CNN don't want their schools to become open to the masses.
Saudi Arabia is a very conservative country but even they are investing a lot of money into building new infrastructure and educating people for more advanced jobs while cutting down on waste.
Like, if you actually care about the plight of the poor you shouldn't be advocating for yet another expansion of Leviathan, with yet another department formed, you should be advocating for a universal basic income system that wipes out 99% of the bureaucracy. That was the Progressive solution to everything - scientific government - and it created this monstrosity.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
