Those of us wary of big, intrusive government have warned for years that the mainstream political tribes, left and right, Democrat and Republican, were creating a monster. That monster, with its surveillance, arbitrary and sometimes secretive enforcement mechanisms, impersonal bureaucracy, and intolerance of scrutiny, was dangerous, we warned. It would eventually strangle us all or force us to illegal resistance.
Team Red and Team Blue seem to have taken our warnings as "how-to" advice. Now they're gleefully proving every one of our warnings correct as they turn the monster they built against one another. For those of us who cautioned that this day would come, all we can do now is sit back and enjoy the show as those who created the problem now slash away at the legitimacy of their own government.
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Thursday, August 23, 2018
Endorsed, for the Sake of Domestic Tranquility
Dear Democrats and Republicans, Please Keep Tearing Down Your Government