I'm As Radical As Libertarians Come.

Violent Crime Is A Solved Problem - All They Have To Do Is Repeal The Laws That Keep Those Intelligent, Capable, And Responsible Men And Women From Arming Themselves, And Violent Crime Evaporates Like Dry Ice On A Hot Summer Day.

Government Can Only Do Two Things: It Can Beat People Up And Kill Them. Or It Can Threaten To Do So. When It Seems To Be Doing Something Else - For Example, Handing Out Money Or, Say, Surplus Cheese - What's Actually Going On Is That Something Has Been Taken Away From One Set Of Individuals By Deadly Force Or The Threat Of Deadly Force, A Hefty Middleman's Fee Deducted, And Whatever Is Left Thrown To Peasants Delighted To Receive Stolen Goods.

The First And Most Important Thing To Understand About Politics Is This: Forget Right, Left, Center, Socialism, Fascism, Or Democracy. Every Government That Exists - Or Ever Existed, Or Ever Will Exist - Is A Kleptocracy, Meaning "rule By Thieves." Competing Ideologies Merely Provide Different Excuses To Separate The Productive Class From What They Produce.

Socialism, Whether It's The 'soft Tyranny' Of The Euroamerican Management State Or The Murderously Repressive Forms Taken By Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Or Pol Pot, Is All About Disindividuation, A Steady, Relentless Erasure Of The Individual Differences Among Us, Everything That Makes Us Who We Are. 'everybody In, Nobody Out!' Is The Marching Mantra Of Militant Collectivized Medicine, But It Accurately Describes All Other Aspects Of Collectivism As Well. No Alternatives Allowed, No Choices, No Individualism, No Individuality, And Ultimately, No Individuation.

To Politicians, Solved Problems Represent A Dire Threat - Of Unemployment And Poverty. That's Why No Problem Ever Tackled By The Government Has Ever Been Solved. What They Want Is Lots Of Problems They Can Promise To Solve, So That We'll Keep Electing Them - Or Letting Them Keep Their Jobs In A Bureaucracy Metastasizing Like Cancer.