Mike Ruff
Saturday, 22 October 22 at 9:37 AM MSTThe fundamental problem is not that the elections are rigged, not that the candidates are reprehensible scumbags, not that the news media are lickspittle lapdogs for incumbents and the establishment, not that election turnout is low and public ignorance of the issues high. No, the fundamental problem is the existence of the state. Absent this essentially criminal enterprise, there would be no need for elections to public offices, candidates and politicking for such offices, political reporting, or anyone’s knowledge of politics and its countless inanities and corruptions. Absent the state, people could occupy themselves with more honest, productive, and beautiful activities.
However, without the state it would be vastly more difficult for large numbers of people to get (or imagine they are getting) something for nothing and to abuse their neighbors to gratify their own twisted sense of morality or virtue or proper conduct. For these ends, the means best suited to the purpose is definitely the state. So, let us give three cheers for the state: without it, we just wouldn’t be able to enjoy the kind of rotten-to-the-core society that now envelopes us.
— Robert Higgs
H/T John Pfersich — Monday, 24 October 2022 at 3:09 PM MST
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
- Robert Higgs — Infogalactic / Wikipedia
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