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The main one being that your support of a government strong enough to do your "ever so liberal" bidding is also strong enough to wring all our necks.
You are going to get a powerful government whether you like it or not. I can't think of a single example of government power being permanently reduced without some sort of calamitous event.
One of my father's favorite sayings was "There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax". I've come to see his wisdom as I grow older.
Do you honestly think the government of the CSA would have been any less freedom destroying than that of the USA had the CSA survived to this day?
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. -Frank Herbert
