"Unicorn Governance: Ever argued public policy with people whose State is in fantasyland?"
June 20, 2016
Mike Munger nails the core problem of big government advocates.
My friends generally dislike politicians, find democracy messy and distasteful, and object to the brutality and coercive excesses of foreign wars, the war on drugs, and the spying of the NSA.
But their solution is, without exception, to expand the power of "the State." That seems literally insane to me—a non sequitur of such monstrous proportions that I had trouble taking it seriously.
Related: Peter Gordon, "Not Just the Toadies," refers to some of the relevant literature.