<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> I've noticed all too frequently, </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">libertarian-leaning folks quickly morph into authoritarians once they</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">get close to power. dan</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">And look what happens in S. America and elsewhere: the communists overrun the government, nationalize industry, etc. They get control of the military and turn into dictatorships. Power is so very addictive. bill w</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:50 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-10-22 04:42, John Grigg via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> I grew up in Alaska, and we had a gregarious individual who always had a <br>
> booth at the state fair, where he would promote his organization that <br>
> had the goal of Alaska seceding from America, so it could be its own <br>
> nation. My stepfather would always take some time to argue with the guy, <br>
> by saying that without the American military to protect it, Alaska could <br>
> never stay free from Russia.<br>
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When? Some years ago I heard more than one person speculate that the <br>
USA should buy Siberia. (My reaction: acquire a land border with China?)<br>
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*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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