6. “You don’t have to like our leaders, but you should respect them”
Respect should be a response to virtue. Ordering the use of initiatory force against people to control them is not virtuous behavior, therefore it is unworthy of respect.
7. “You don’t have to like the president, but you should respect the office of the presidency”
The office of the presidency, like any part of any government, is a violent criminal institution. Violent criminality is unworthy of respect.
8. “Our military”
If the military is “ours,” then “we” should be able to exercise exclusive control over it. But “we” neither command the military nor have the freedom to destroy it. Thus it is not “ours”; it is a tool of the ruling classes used to make it very difficult for citizens to violently overthrow the government, provide a last line of defense for the state in the form of martial law should the citizens succeed in violently overthrowing the government, and present a deterrent to other rulers elsewhere in the world who might seek to take over the state and capture the tax base for themselves.
I’m totally in favor of extremely limited government.
But this list veers darn close to anarchy. If you are totally against government, then things will get more interesting than you might like.
Oh I love it when they equate the military, clean* tap water, sewers, and roads to the idea that Obmacare, Welfare, Medicare, and bloated government are totally justified because of those things!
“How can you hate socialism when we have a military and roads”
(that is actual logic I’ve had used on me)
Never mind that water, roads, and sanitation are a local and state responsibility, and national defense is actually spelled out in the constitution.
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I’m trying to agreeing w 50% of the list....
He’s trying too hard.
Punctuated better, this sentence is a classic.
Of course, it's hard to see any way governance could be achieved otherwise. We just aren't removing enough sociopaths from office.
Out of respect, Ronald Reagan wouldn't remove his suit jacket in the Oval Office.
Bill Clinton masturbated in the Oval Office sink.
I refuse to give any more respect to the office of president than does the holder of that office.
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Either this author is woefully ignorant of the concept of a universal (and believes only in particulars), or it's anarchist BS. I vote for the latter.