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On 07/06/2023 21:41, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2023-06-07, The Natural Philosopher <
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>> On 07/06/2023 03:35, Robert Riches wrote:
>>
>>> On 2023-06-07, bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Alas, `tis true. Trouble is not a conserved quantity....
>>>
>>> Indeed: trouble is usually served up by cons. ;-)
>>
>> Surely some mistake. Trouble is what the liberal politician seeks out,
>> identifies, and then manages to propose state engendered solutions to,
>> that manifestly will not fix it, so that it remains a problem, and an
>> excuse for yet more centralised bureaucracy, state subsidy, and
>> restriction of personal freedom to fix it better.
>> The logical progressions of this is full communism, where nothing works,
>> and the politicians are the problem.
>
> And this is just as true of right-wing extremists. As a wise person
> once pointed out to me, they all meet somewhere around on the dark side.
>
The 30s era fascists only differed from the communists in the
aspirations of their supporters. The end result was the same. A narrow
totalitarian elite.
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"Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of
other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"
- John K Galbraith
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