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All Governments are Dictatorships
The arguments about progressivism versus liberalism miss the point. ALL GOVERNMENTS ARE DICTATORSHIPS. A dictatorship is any government that imposes rules and regulations upon the entire electorate. Since the entire electorate includes people who did not vote for that government, that government rules over them without the consent of the governed. Therefore, all governments are dictatorships to one extent or another. It doesn’t matter whether the rules are reasonable or extreme, because one person’s idea of reasonable is another person’s idea of extreme.
Governments attempt to find the mean between these extremes. All governments fail in this function because all governments are under the control of a ruling oligarchy. Oligarchies all share one characteristic: they believe they have a right to rule because they have bought the government.
Democracy only exists on election day. From election day to inauguration day, we are basically living in a period of anarchy, with one administration in power and another about to assume power.
All Governments are Criminal Enterprises
