Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Tyrus: I find this tragically disgusting" video.
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@ConcernedPublic some truth in what you and @Fyrch Myrddin are saying. I don't think progressives set out to enrich themselves. They just have an inordinate faith in government bureaucrats to actually deliver on whatever their pie-in-the-sky, feel-good dreams are. It's the bureaucrat who actually has to make progressive dreams a reality, regardless of whether they're competent to do so, or whether or not there are actually sufficient resources available to actually implement those dreams. Then there's the whole "The dream slips away" as the economy/ecology adjusts to the new rule set in ways the surprise NOone but progressives, who insist that they're RIGHT, and they just put the wrong guy in charge.
Our founding fathers KNEW about the oligarchs of Byzantine Rome. They studied the Fall of Rome, extensively. Any new agency or institution is, in a sense, a new life form introduced into the ecology/economy. It doesn't what birthed it, it is alive, in a sense, and it will grow to the absolute limit of the available resources, and BEYOND available resources, as long as it can get away with it, just like rabbits will breed beyond the capacity of the ecosystem to support them. In Nature, they just die back. In government, as long as they can keep borrowing or printing money, they can defy reality for long periods, causing untold damage and economic and ecological ruin.
The thing I don't get is how we feel like we're failing if we're not growing, when we should be maximizing quality of life. Government's insatiable appetite for resources and power always pushes growth rather than sustainability.
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