[ExI] communism/authoritarianism

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2020-9-18 11:13, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat wrote:
> I read Popper on this in_The Open Society and Its Enemies_. It was,
> IIRC, in his critique of Plato's politics. My guess is Popper got that
> from earlier [classical] liberals too. I've often tried to use the
> same idea on today's partisans -- telling Democrats and Republicans if
> you give the president ever more power, imagine what'll happen when
> the other party (the guys who believe are out to destroy all that's
> decent and fine) is in power. But they are partisans.

It may be intentional.  (On my least cynical days I'll say the intention 
is subconscious.)  "We've created this Huge Government Program which 
will solve all problems and never do anything bad, so long as you NEVER 
AGAIN do something STUPID like vote for the Other Party."

When I take off my anarchist hat and put on my constitutional hat, I 
have a bunch of structural reform proposals that the Biparty will never 
adopt because they lower some stakes.

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