Politics

Michelle Obama pulling a Hillary, trying to set up her own political career.

I wholeheartedly agree that libertarians should never underestimate the state.

"Because the state has the capacity to raise enormous amounts of money and to bamboozle the great mass of the public, it can employ these two tactics — outsourcing of operations and use of raw force — pretty much as it finds optimal. It is a mistake to underestimate the state simply because its visible face consists of seemingly idiotic politicians."

It's not just that. If you think of the state as a service organization, like many people erroneously do, you see all its services are terrible. It looks like incompetence. It's only when you realize the goal is to maximize the theft of money and to maintain control that you realize the state is brutally efficient.