Somewhere along the way these countries redefined the relationship between government and citizen into something closer to pusher and junkie. And once you’ve done that, it’s very hard to persuade the junkie to cut back his habit.
It's tempting to gloat, and Mark does. But we're rapidly becoming trapped in the same death cycle of transforming our government into nothing more than a massive entitlement bureau. This is bad for two reasons: the government gradually ceases to be capable of performing its essential functions; and the people cease to be capable of fending for themselves. We see it already in our inner cities: despite all the rhetoric about lifting minorities out of misery and into productive citizenship, things get no better, because the government does not have the power to make one person valuable to his fellow citizens. The only thing that can do this is the acceptance of that person of the values that society holds, insofar as it will allow him to function within it. This, of course, is precisely what the elite tell the geto boys they should not do, as it will rob them of their precious unique culture, their noble savagery. One has to wonder whose interests are really being served by this.
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