Alan Grayson: Conservatives are anarchists!

[2046]

What would you do if you and your friends wanted to live at the expense of as many people as possible? The government is only a small number of people, we who are exploited and coerced are the vast majority of the people. Certainly they do not govern by brute force alone, as ancient Egypt for example. How are those who desire to control able to get away with this?

Of course Ayn Rand knew the answer, and taught that it was that only by default of the opinion of the majority of the people, who cooperate with them because they are told what the government does to us in the name of altruism is necessary and beneficial. The philosophers and intellectuals engineer legitimacy through spreading altruist-collectivist ideas as most people are "intellectually lazy" and choose not to engage in a lot of ethical and political thinking, passively accepting whatever is told to them. Once they are able to convince the public to give them a monopoly over education and schooling, it becomes easier to instill the right doctrines. One of the first things they must teach people, generally around kindergarten age, goes like this: "Our government builds roads, sends kids to school, delivers the mail, manages the national currency, creates jobs, runs the health care system, etc. There exist some people that don't want our government to do these things. Imagine they were to be elected, then we would not have these things. There would be nothing."

A great demonstration of how they are able to get away with convincing people to consent to being ruled over and to take any suggestion that they should not be exploited as frightening:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/2...-are-anarchists

At their hugely popular website ‘Crooks and Liars,’ John Amato and David Neiwert have helped to expose the fact that there is no conservative party in America any more. They show that the right wingers are not conservatives, they are anarchists.

The only law the right wing believes in is the Law of the Jungle. No schools, no hospitals, no job programs, no nothing. Their idea of nirvana is Mogadishu. See it there, at ‘Crooks and Liars,’ and read it here. [emphasis in original]

Without the government to monopolize these things, there would be no schools, no hospitals, no jobs, no nothing. These things can only possibly come into existence by government's will. If you are against having these things controlled and planned at gunpoint by others, then you are for no government at all. If you are think government should exist for any non-coercive reason, and not for planning society and controlling roads, education, and the economy, then you are for anarchy. If you think you should live for your own sake (edit: not that any of this is what conservatives believe, btw, I mean Objectivists here), and no one should be entitled to live at your expense, you are for the Law of the Jungle. Without the government to tax and spend, there would be chaos! Stop opposing us!

Edited June 3, 2010 by 2046