Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Trump Is A Symptom Of A Larger Problem" video.

  1. This is why government, itself, should be restricted to its proper role and scope. It's only by exceeding its proper role and scope that it can act on behalf of big corporations. This is the fatal flaw in progressive thought. You're so eager to solve the human condition, yesterday, and government has the monopoly on use of force to MAKE THINGS THE WAY WE DEMAND, INSTANTLY. So, being in a hurry, and being a little lazy, you demand that the government solve the problem, and that opens the door to corporate capture. Corporate capture is inevitable, then, because lawyers in the legislature are legislating WAY over their heads when they depart from basic guarantees of liberty, and basic enforcement of laws against persons and property. So they bring in the "industry experts" with all the "best reputations." And they craft legislation with the appearance of solving the problem that guarantees that the big corporation will not be significantly harmed, and any harm caused THEM will be visited on their smaller competitors times 10, assuming they even have the resources to comply with the 500-page document filled with bureau-speak gobbledygook. And even if the big corporation runs afoul of it, it has a team of lawyers to twist the deliberately vague and contradictory language to wriggle off the hook. But if you're a Mom 'n' Pop, who can't afford a $200,000 attorney (or million-dollar legal TEAM), you just go out of business. This shit has been going on since the transcontinental railroad days, if not before. Review your history. For a good, short treatment, I suggest Ayn Rand's "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal." She was talking about this shit damn near 100 years ago. I feel that all progressives should add "Wealth of Nations," "Blackstone," and "The Federalist Papers" to their reading list. It may put your Howard Zinn in perspective and make you question your insistence on looking for federal-government solutions to human problems. But you're always in too big of a hurry, and so you tend to make bigger problems due to unintended consequences of the use of force. Opposing the welfare state, as designed, doesn't mean you're FOR poverty or selfish. It just means you disagree with centralized solutions imposed across an entire continent, when different (DIVERSE!) conditions prevail in different places. What works for one state doesn't work for all states, hence the idea of federalism in the first place.
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