Every so often, I’ll notice a tweet that has some remarkable characteristic.
- Best tweet about capitalism vs socialism.
- The most depressing tweet.
- Trump’s worst-ever tweet.
- The best-ever counter-tweet.
- The most-flattering tweet about Trump’s policy.
- The best-ever tweet about inequality.
Today, we’re going to add to this collection.
The Democratic National Committee sent out a tweet back in April that seems like it should have been issued instead by the Libertarian National Committee.
My answer to the DNC’s question is “never.” That’s why I’m a libertarian.
Even when I grudgingly acknowledge that something is a legitimate function of government, I’m never tempted to say or think that “things seem to be going smoothly.”
That’s true when looking at what happens in Washington, what happens in the states, and what happens at the local level.
Needless to say, the DNC wasn’t trying to recruit libertarians. The goal was to condemn Trump’s governing style, specifically with reference to a story about the administration’s chaotic approach to the coronavirus.
And I certainly agree that Trump gives critics plenty of ammunition.
But there are plenty of similar episodes of malfeasance and incompetence during the Obama years. And the Bush years. And in every preceding White House.
The bottom line (as suggested by my collection of “Government in Cartoons“) is that Washington at best is a clumsy oaf. And quite often is a bloated bully.
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It matters not a whit that government is too big or too stupid. The real issue is that fixing government is a true sisyphean task: impossible. Yet, like Sisyphus, we keep trying to improve government, to make it beneficial to ALL of us, not just MOST of us.
The Philosophy of the Absurd rules “government reform”. It’s putting lipstick on the pig, a ballgown on a goat. No matter the shade of the cosmetic or the provenance of the gown, it will never change the basic unfairness of having an organization that rules the great mass of citizens with strict sanctions for disobedience to its laws and, ironically, demands voluntary compliance when handing over some of their income.
I posit that there is no perfect system of government, that attempts to reform government are, at best, done piecemeal and temporarily. Only when there comes a time when unlimited resources are available to everyone will government slowly fade away. We live in a universe that has unlimited resources (every human on earth could have their own solar system just in this Milky Way Galaxy), but a government that sent men to the moon multiple times in the 1960s and 1970s now can’t replicate those feats until years from now.
Human endeavor will persevere and governments will come and go and the human spirit that has existed since we dropped out of the trees will continue. Someday we’ll get to the stars because, simply, it is our destiny.