Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Merkels New Censorship Legislation Even Opposed by the Far Left" video.
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Good point. Germany will go plenty fascist, as long as it's given the label 'antifascist.'
Fact is, the former Eastern Bloc, for all its hatred of Soviet-style socialism, is still very authoritarian. And I'm not sure that's necessarily a problem for a smaller country with a more homogeneous population. One of the reasons - and nobody remembers this on the left - that our federal government was LIMITED in the FIRST place, was because of DIVERSITY. The concerns of Boston, Massachusetts are NOT the same as Birmingham, Alabama's. So legislating on everything under the sun for the whole COUNTRY is just STUPID. Build the basic rule set (The U.S. Constitution) and let the states run their affairs within that very simple framework.
You want single-payer? Let some states experiment with it. (We have. They failed. Bureaucrats are no more suited to running health care than they are suited for running a farm, an auto company, or ANY OTHER BUSINESS. Paid bureaucrats DGAF about the customer or efficiency or effectiveness. They have all the wrong incentives to run things properly. But a business person with their reputation and future livelihood on the line HAS to play it fair and square, UNLESS there's a government bureaucrat they can hide behind! And we see THIS all the TIME, but libtards still love muh regulations and regulators, who are the biggest thieves of all! That's why they go for those jobs! The POWER!
You can run a small state or a company in top-down fashion, and get away with it. There are lots of advantages to being able to just order everybody around on some things. But in the long term, you need the constituent parts of the system to be self-correcting, self-sustaining, and self-replicating. No government bureaucrat is qualified to make those decisions, but we seem to want them to make all our decisions for us!
The societies that are most stable and advance most rapidly, do so from the ground up, not from the top down. Bill Gates, building computers in his garage. That's how the BIG changes take place, especially in the Bill Gates's themselves, who quickly become creatures of the establishment to make it REALLY big! LOL!
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