I'm certainly not one who buys the story that Trump is sooooooooo much worse than what we had before (or whatever we'll get next). Seems pretty par for the course as far as I'm concerned. Bush lied about WMDs and got us into two wars. Obama drone struck anyone he felt like. So on and so forth as far back as you'd like to go.
However, I don't think America is fine. It seems to me that the bureaucratic machinery of the state is only going to grow in power and inertia and that the consequences of this will be it's own kind of tyranny. Things like the income tax, TSA, the patriot act, bank secrecy act, and so on get introduced in a weak form, but steadily expand until they alter life in ways that were unthinkable to the people who voted for them. I don't see any saving ourselves from this fate. Hence, my interest in Bitcoin and other systems that hopefully allow us to route around reliance on the state (even if it may be a forlorn hope).
I'm certainly not one who buys the story that Trump is sooooooooo much worse than what we had before (or whatever we'll get next). Seems pretty par for the course as far as I'm concerned. Bush lied about WMDs and got us into two wars. Obama drone struck anyone he felt like. So on and so forth as far back as you'd like to go.
However, I don't think America is fine. It seems to me that the bureaucratic machinery of the state is only going to grow in power and inertia and that the consequences of this will be it's own kind of tyranny. Things like the income tax, TSA, the patriot act, bank secrecy act, and so on get introduced in a weak form, but steadily expand until they alter life in ways that were unthinkable to the people who voted for them. I don't see any saving ourselves from this fate. Hence, my interest in Bitcoin and other systems that hopefully allow us to route around reliance on the state (even if it may be a forlorn hope).