Comment Re:even a broken clock... (Score 1) 523
The reason I "hate" the Baggers is because they are ignorant anarchists. An anarchist (like a good ole boy or a redneck) cares nothing for anyone but themselves. In social groups this only works for so long, until cooperation becomes compulsory once one or more believe they can dominate the others. Government poses the same threat but tends to be inclusive rather than exclusive (the irony being the Founding Fathers knew this, despite continual social conflicts between adaptation and conformity) and inevitably must expand in order to maintain the social order, something anarchists don't believe in at all.
Without a broadly accepted social structure for regulating the distribution of resources, economy is simply not possible and all men become prey to whoever moves among them. The Baggers simply do not understand this, and are therefore prey to whoever moves among them. This is why I hate them: they would put us all at risk for a fantasy, an ideal of freedom which has never
existed.
And as much as many deny it, the Baggers represent more than fiscal conservatism. It is their "extremism" which has pushed the country to the brink time and again, only adding to the problem and making it harder to find solutions. But they don't want a solution, they want a broken government as an excuse to do whatever they want to. And that is called anarchy.