Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "In 2025, we have to say yes to the power of the state" video.

When the Right say that they hate "the state", they really mean that they hate democracy. There are plenty of "scholarly" articles published by organisations like the Mises Institute and the Cato Institute which argue that democracy is a barrier to "liberty". And when you come down to actual cases, neoliberal experiments like those in Chile, Iran and Argentina have depended on a brutally powerful state to ensure that those who have beneficially exercised their liberty do not have to fear the reaction to poverty and desperation of those they have exercised it against.
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