There’s a lot of talk about Big Government in the media these days. Health care, war, education, economic protection, and of course, how all of it is either good or bad. I’ve heard the word ‘communist‘ used more readily and fluently (and fraudulently) than any year post Cold-War Cool-Off, the ideas of Socialism, Democracy, Capitalism and Freedom hacked to pieces and represented by all sides of every debate, and have seen irony of ironies as people argue, protest and wage rage-fuelled wars against the very ideas they claim to uphold. What a load of epic bullshit. And while it is easy to pick on the Right Wingers of the World right now due to the collapse of the economic stability they crave as a reason to toss off the shackles of oppressive rule (imagined or otherwise), this is something we are all guilty of doing. Of complaining about. At one time or another, we have all bitched about someone with authority getting in our business, and we think it would be better if they didn’t. Well, I’m sorry people, but as a collective species, right and left, up or down, vertical or horizontal, none of us have any fucking right to complain, because we all need our babysitter.
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