re: #234 The Ghost of a Flea

Something I’m going to keep belaboring:

The people who keep talking about fighting “The Government” routinely conflate

the actual Weberian-monopoly-of-violence of the US federal and state governments

with

any and all people and institutions that are not their brand of paleoconservative.

Keep this in mind when they start talking about how they need to protect themselves, or about the inevitable violent struggle they’re preparing for.

I think the most salient point about bellyaching about Federal over-reach with talk of nullification etc. is that it has come to a peak precisely twice in US history —- the Civil War era and the Civil rights era.

So I view all such rhetoric as neo-confederate or worse.