The notion that “the people are the government” is one of the biggest slanders that the average citizen will endure in his lifetime. To presume that any specific private citizen must be held responsible for all the cabals and conspiracies engaged in by all the bureaucrats and politicians is absurd. This is the political version of the doctrine of original sin; it assumes that a person is born politically damned with the weight of all of the past and future sins of his government upon his head.
I remember listening to an episode of the Geopolitics and Empire podcast where James Bovard (author of the article linked to) was the guest. I remember it being an entertaining and edifying conversation. Jolly fellow this Bovard. Also knowledgeablea and experienced.
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Bovard seems to be quite the ANCAP type person. He does not appreciate governments on any level. I don’t know exactly what his stance on BTC is, but I think he may appreciate them as private competition for fiat.
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