But Gary, Socialism is THE most top-heavy kind of government.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 2:23 amI agree. A large cumbersome government is inefficient and prone to corruption. So are large corporations and individuals who accumulate more wealth than that which they need to live and reasonably flourish. individuals shouldn't be allowed inordinate power or ownership in society to such an extent that they become defacto emperors.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:35 amPopeye's not wrong about that. Neither are you, Gary.
Here's what always puzzles me, though. It's people who know that the various governments -- both Russian and American -- are manipulating the narrative and abusing people...and they insist that the solution to that is more big government. Like, maybe even global governance, or if not that, at least a more and more bloated and top-heavy national welfare state.
That's like fighting a flood by using a fire hose, or fighting a fire by using gasoline. How is there anybody who thinks that the problems of tyrannical governments can be fixed by giving more power to governments?
Under Socialism, the government has control of everything, and one man ends up in control of the government. There are no competitors to keep them honest, no market-forces to indicate to them when they are being irrational, and no money they're working with that is their own, so they have no reason to be careful in how it's burned up, and nobody left to hold the government accountable. That's why Socialism has always been and will always be the first choice of dictators, from Stalin to Hitler and Mussolini, to Mao and Pol Pot, and to Mugabe, Castro and Ceacescu: it puts control of everything in one place, the singular government that cannot be challenged, and thereby into the hands of its leading figure, the dictator. It never fails: Socialism is the immediate road to dictatorship by a singular, monolithic government controlled by a strong man. It's happened in 100% of history's cases.
So how can anyone who knows how deadly big government is be an advocate of Socialism?