@Phil @adamgurri As I say, we agree its disagreeable when in our name and with our resources government does what we abhor. But I think it most disagreeable to allow private power to concentrate and act without fetters. Government is like fire, a technology that if incautiously applied will burn your house down, but you tame it, don’t abjure it, because you require it to keep you warm. Or, in the case of government, to keep you free from the depredations of concentrated private power.