Flame — HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to " Normal people shouldn't have much interest in the government....."

No, he's right.
TB — (archived)

If the government didn't have power far beyond anything that was ever intended by the founders, we wouldn't be sweating blood over who our leaders were going to be from year to year.

To watch our elections over my lifetime, you'd think we were electing a god every four years instead of a chief executive of one of three branches of government.

Pournelle says it used to be more important for most people who their mayor was than who the president was. In the Age of the New Deal, local and state governments have become largely appendages to the almighty Federal government, and it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Not sure what a pseudonym has to do with anything. Not like most of us are using our real names.

I am amazed at how you can switch on your skepticism at the weirdest moments.

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