badgenome on 20 September 2012
| Mr Khan said: Whoever that is is doing a bad job of being clever. The understanding, here, is that society is capable of being just as oppressive as the state is, and so the state needs to work to stamp out societal oppression, without itself being unduly oppressive. |
Unduly oppressive is exactly what it is at the moment by subsidizing irresponsibility and punishing responsibility, taking from the productive class and giving it to a growing class of perpetual moochers, by squeezing out competitors in schooling and dooming kids to lives as future moochers by giving them an insufficient education.
All for our own good, you say! Well, it's good for someone, all right.
