http://www.trialofthecentury.net/2018/02/05/abhorrent-to-the-people-even-still/
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It is good to mistrust the massive, bloated, corrupt, inefficient, grossly expensive and wasteful federal leviathan; indeed it is among the most American things you can do. Is it all bad? No—not all of it, and “reflexively” be suspicious of your government is not the same as being obstinately suspicious of it. But still, the obvious truth remains: most of it is rotten and wholly worthy of your contempt, a stinking circle-jerk of graft and political opportunism designed to take money from you, burn it on useless crap, and enrich people who do not deserve it. And as Nunes’s memo aptly showed, the American intelligence apparatus is among the institutions that do not deserve our intrinsic trust. Don’t feel bad about looking askance at your government; it is your birthright as an American.
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It is good to mistrust the massive, bloated, corrupt, inefficient, grossly expensive and wasteful federal leviathan; indeed it is among the most American things you can do. Is it all bad? No—not all of it, and “reflexively” be suspicious of your government is not the same as being obstinately suspicious of it. But still, the obvious truth remains: most of it is rotten and wholly worthy of your contempt, a stinking circle-jerk of graft and political opportunism designed to take money from you, burn it on useless crap, and enrich people who do not deserve it. And as Nunes’s memo aptly showed, the American intelligence apparatus is among the institutions that do not deserve our intrinsic trust. Don’t feel bad about looking askance at your government; it is your birthright as an American.
