Hello Straightlinelogic,
Their plan- insidious.
Your column- excellent.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Robert; So strong, so true and what's necessary to be said. With sincere admiration. Txs.

Robert....excellent summary of why the "conservatives and libertarians" are losing the battle..."best of intentions"...

I start all my conversations with calling a "spade a spade"...and defining what we are talking about...I was in debate in high school and my major in college was philosophy...in debate and philosophy the primary saying was..."define or be defined"...win that battle and the rest follows...

All governments make bad, destructive decisions which are the end result of earlier bad decisions. Read The Guns of August to follow the European slide into the Great War, and the subsequent Versailles agreement that laid the seed for WW II.

I could take this example all the way back to the Peloponnesian War, but I think you see my point. The flaw is the basic international structure of nation's commitments to immutable promises: once event A happens, result B must follow, or that nation loses credibility. Witness the continuing deterioration of the global "Pax Americana" following the failure of President Obama's "red line" threat against Bashar Assad. The question is whether or not national leaders should feel obligated to make absolutist statements, or commit to unconditional, inevitable actions, when the data surrounding the trigger events is less than crystal clear (Russian action in Ukraine, whether or not Assad's forces or rebels were the guilty party in use of poison gas).

Your psychophilosophical determination that somehow these decisionmakers are nihilist and self destructive is questionable. I can't make out if you're building a case for pacifism or anarchy (which is a neighbor of objectivism). Do we trust that our not getting involved in other nations' conflicts will have better end results, or do we eliminate governmental structure entirely, since the narcissistic power seekers seek to occupy control of those structures?

Hear hear - I hate the "best intentions" BS. Of course the people saying that often agree with their destroyers on morality. Even Jack Kemp use to say this.

This is why I cannot say Environmentalist are EVIL often enough.

You keep impressing me.

Robert without reading the full article the reality is that EVERYTHING that the government does IS developed to FAIL from the get go. Then the civil servants that created what ever, obamacare as an example can now work at correcting the initial problems. Of course they will never succeed at the correction but will only create additional problems that in turn will have to be dealt with and again corrected. Now here is a situation that I have observed for several years.
Soldiers wear boots that retain moisture which becomes a wonderful breeding ground for foot ailments that have led in some cases to trench foot. When it is pointed out to the developing agency Natick Laboratories that the reason for moisture accumulation in the boots is directly related to the use of goretex and thinsulate stifling the movement of moisture out of the boots and therefore these two components should be eliminated they refuse to accept that. So instead the Marines developed a insert to put in boots when you take them off that will dry the interior of the boot. Unfortunately these pads only last for about 10 to 15 uses and they can not work at all if the temperature goes below 32 degrees.

I knew from the outset that Obamacare was a fraud. However, I was fool enough to think that it was just liberal crap as usual. I couldn't believe Obama was so devious, it took me a couple of days to realize that they were so rotten as to foist this road to single payer on the public, causing more grief than benevolence. I have to admit I was taken in because I simply didn't want to admit to the depravity of those horrorshows in DC.

Excelent.
I will add: To be or not to be, to gain conscience or not, to become conscious, human and gain an immortal identity or hold close an ego for distruction, disorder, chaos; having been measured and found wanting...that is the question.
There are those that chose the latter because they fear the soveriegn responsibility thinking they can avoid the consequences. It very well may be a sickness.
However, those we should fear the most are those born this way with reccessive genes gone wild.
Yes, evil is an apt assessement indeed.

I must be clairvoyant. As soon as Obama made that deal to increase the prices and deductibles under Obamacare, I knew that the real desire was to expand medicare as a cheaper alternative to the private insurance companies.

BRAVO!!!

Robert,

This part is not true "the US government the power to destroy the world several times over"

Gosh SLL. I had such high hopes reading your excerpt above but found ur article jumped right into the deep end of moral equivalency between communism and freedom. I wish you had just focused on the pitfalls of Obamacare. And I still wouldn't go so far as to say thay 'they' don't want man's survival b/c they don't really want their own survival. I've seen how strong the human biological urge is to survive even in the face of imminent death. I ascribe the poor choices and disbelief of ultimate outcome to cognative dissonance, not nihlism.

Intentions are irrelevant; outcomes are.