"They are the ones that want to leverage government controls against people, whether that is to get what they want, or prohibit what they don't want. To regulate how they live their lives."
Got me dead to rights. I pointed out that not everyone of working age CAN work, or DOES work. And further Those that do, pay TAXES to support elderly, disabled, and those who get social security income otherwise. Not to mention vets who recieve VA care. I also claim that one critical measure of a society is indeed how they care for elderly, disabled, and the poor.
Complaining bitterly about how one is "supporting an entire other person!" means the complaintant puts himself first all the time.
Yes I probably support a wnole 'nother person - it's a matter of pride for me, and should be for every citizen of the US. If it makes me a fascist in your book, so be it.
If your hope is to make yourself pious, by the assertion that threatening violence to obtain what you want makes your actions somehow moral, you have failed on several counts. 99% of your day is spent putting yourself first, as is mine. I am sure that you have countless assets that would better serve other people. If you want to be hyperbolic and act as though your are a martyr for being proud of your malevolence and love of violence by all means continue. At least you have the comprehension to understand that you are a fascist.
One critical measure of a society is indeed, how they care for their elderly, disabled, and poor. Holding a gun to someone's head taking their money and spending it on something else, and then berating the person for their lack of caring does not make you a moral person. By any measure, any measure, the government is a absolute failure in helping people. Please feel free to dig deep and pull numbers that show the efficacy of the Federal Government in helping people. Every
SINGLE ONE of my friends has been let down by the VA. Every single one of them has had to seek private treatment with private funds. I have a friend who works with an organization, I would be thrilled to give you his number, who does nothing but help people the government has failed to help. They built an entire organization that helps people, with absolutely no federal, state, or local funding, so that it can
actually help. My mother in law has 40 years of stories of government, state, and local failures working in public health. She regularly meets with people to advocate, discuss, and try and figure out how to help people, privately, because the government is such an epic failure.
In the Covid 2020 bill they passed included $4 billion dollars in "homeless assistance", that's $6,872 per homeless person in the US according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. $320 million dollars was set aside to "end child homelessness". You know who helped to end child homelessness? Not the federal government, my mother in law. That $320 million has evaporated without even make a single percentage of difference. My mother in law made a difference though, she paid out of her own pocket to help an illegal Pakistani family who the government turned down for assistance, who turned them down for a green card, after approving them for amnesty due to religious and political persecution.
So let me be clear so that you can hopefully understand this in your addled brain. Using violence to force your views on people, no matter how altruistic, is still of violence. You are advocating and worshiping the
LEAST effective and efficient means. You want to strut around "Proud" that you are literally, not figuratively, forcing people to turn over their money to a system that hurts more than it helps, costs more than it benefits, by every metric.
Private altruism will always benefit others more efficiently, more effectively, and with better results for both parties.
I recommend you read Bastiat's
The Law, written long before the word fascism was created.
