re: #160 Targetpractice

It has a lot to do with one of those bits of US historical trivia, namely that the Founders made no concessions for the formation of political parties and generally did not like the idea of such being a thing in this new democratic government they were formulating. …

They also had no concept of things like automatic weapons, weapons of mass destruction, cryptocurrencies, global telecommunications or multi-billion-dollar international corporate trade and financial entities….

Which is why the ideal “small government” that Fundamentalist conservatives so revere is no longer viable in a world full chocked full of automatic weapons in the hands of our own citizens, weapons of mass destruction in the hands of dozens of nations, cryptocurrencies, instantaneous global telecommunications and multi-billion-dollar international corporate trade and financial entities that take advantage of trade and tax legislation to make themselves from prosecution and taxation…