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Impossible. citizens have proven that the government cannot do that since it would take too much money to control "aspects of every little thing" since most things don't even need to be controlled. Like grass. or butterflies, or people taking a shit or dying.
rationing out resources by the threat of force, controlling our social and personal behaviors.
Why would they do that besides being fantasy villains and putting their citizens in shitty moods for absolutely no reason? Most people with evil ambitions like that never get opportunities to become in charge of military forces or even become part of the government since everyone thinks their insane and have nothing to offer to the country, and when they do get into power they will have a high change of getting assassinated, either by the civilians or the military force that work for them. I, for one, wouldn't work for a crazy fuck like that, or a giant council of crazy fucks.
I've pretty much stopped trusting any sort of authority or orginization.
Even your internet provider, electric company, the farmers who grow your food and the water filtration plant that provides your water? Do you live in the woods with a Solarpanel based powergrid with tinfoil antennae pirated internet signals with a computer made from wood and magnesium?
I also have a hard time swallowing this romanticized view of the stat being our saviors from the evil businesses and rich people.
being our saviors from the evil businesses and rich people.
? The Glacier National Park and Northwest Electric is evil?
Max Baucus and Jon Tester are something to be protected from even though they are making my state better by increasing the amount of funding for highways and roads?
I felt the same way about Vocaloids. I loved Luka, and Double Lariat, until I realized she was a Vocaloid. Then I hated her and ditched my Luka avatar.
Because the fact that Luka is affiliated with nico marketing garbage will always mean her music is shit and nobody should like her.
Why? Because you sound so fucking hypocritical?
You complain, vilify, and demonize any government or social institution with any kind of hierarchy, all while you sit comfortably in your home, reaping the opportunity, comfort, and freedom provided to you BY said structures. You exercise your freedoms of speech, enjoying a relative margin of safety granted by your county's police department, your state's national guard, and your country's military, from domestic, international, and natural threat. Electricity is supplied to your conveniences, enabling your internet rants. Then you can go into your kitchen and drink a cup of water, which you know is free of unhealthy substances such as heavy metals or bacteria. And then you go relieve yourself on the toilet, which works, and your waste is processed so the water in it can be reused.
So really, when push comes to shove, and you bitch about "Hey, don't play that card" what you're really saying, is that you're perfectly content to take advantage of all the things an organized society provides for you, and that you wouldn't REALLY be interested in living in a place where none of the above things are guaranteed, just to get away from that ''big bad gov'ment"
Excessive taxation is hardly excessive here. I still have enough money to buy food, and pay my electric bill twice.
^You know how you're always afraid the government tries to control all aspects of life, and people dismiss it as paranoia? Here's philosophy by a French poof to actually back up your ideas with academic sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopower (also try Agamben, even though he is even more unreadable than Foucault).
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Gee, thank you for leading me to this. It brings up a lot of interesting points that seem to prove that it's impossible for congress to become a totalitarian oppressive political power.
Also Vorpy since it is I think the state government of your state handling the roads it may pass under the tenth Amendment
Because political cartoons say more than a thousand words:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/news/071111_p8_cartoon2%20Sarkozy%20in%20Love.jpg
Only in passing. However, this strikes me as something you(and me, too) should adhere to more closely, seeing how willy-nilly you throw around buzzwords like fascism without ever defining it more concretely:
"Berlin argued for a nuanced and subtle understanding of our political terminology, where what was superficially understood as a single concept could mask a plurality of different uses and therefore meanings. Berlin argued that these multiple and differing concepts, otherwise masked by rhetorical conflations, showed the plurality and incompatibility of human values, and the need for us to distinguish and trade off analytically between, rather than conflate, them, if we are to avoid disguising underlying value-conflicts."
Capitalism- You have tow cows, You sell one to your neighbor and buy a bull.
Communism- You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides
you with milk. You wait in line for you share of the milk, but it's so long
that the milk is sour by the time you get it.
Socialism-You have two cows. The government takes one of your cows
and gives it to your neighbor. You're both forced to join a cooperative where
you have to teach your neighbor how to take care of his cow.
Fascism- You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to
take care of them, and sells you the milk.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/You_have_two_cows/31#Traditional_Capitalism
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/You_have_two_cows/17
This probably veers too much into the direction of oversimplification, but hell if it isn't funny.