[Steve_Seattle]

Yes, we have a military. Yes, we have telecommunications companies. Yes, we have news media. Yes, we have drug companies. Yes, we have financial institutions. What was his point? That somehow he can create a world where these things don't exist?

The closest thing I've seen to fascism lately is Paul's supporters chasing Sean Hannity down the street as he was going to dinner. They looked and sounded like brownshirts.

[RegulatorCountry]

The closest thing I've seen to fascism lately is Paul's supporters chasing Sean Hannity down the street as he was going to dinner.

The closest thing I've seen to fascism lately is the growing hubris of increasingly paramilitary-styled police forces in the United States, emboldened by no-knock warrants.

[HawaiianGecko]

"“So you have the military-industrial complex, you have the medical-industrial complex, you have the financial industry, you have the communications industry. That’s where the control is,”

You also have the unions industrial complex, the accounting industrial complex, the hamburger flipping industrial complex.  Everyone is a lobbyist. I've never met anyone that wasn't lobbying their own personal well being on some level for most of their conscience moments. Even in passionate moments each partner is trying to convince the other they are better than reality.  :-)

 

[lormand]

"The closest thing I've seen to fascism lately is Paul's supporters chasing Sean Hannity down the street as he was going to dinner. They looked and sounded like brownshirts."

They are anarchists doing what anarchist do best, which is annoy the hell out of everyone until it gets too dangerous to tolerate.

[lormand]

"The closest thing I've seen to fascism lately is Paul's supporters chasing Sean Hannity down the street as he was going to dinner. They looked and sounded like brownshirts."

They are anarchists doing what anarchist do best, which is annoy the hell out of everyone until it gets too dangerous to tolerate.

[ravinson]

Yes, we have a military. Yes, we have telecommunications companies. Yes, we have news media. Yes, we have drug companies. Yes, we have financial institutions. What was his point? That somehow he can create a world where these things don't exist?

No, the point is that by paying off politicians, big corporations get special subsidies, protections, and favors that individuals and small businesses do not. China is moving from Communism toward corporate cronyism and the USA is moving from free markets toward corporate cronyism. The only solution is pure libertarianism, where even the military will have to raise their money voluntarily and all individuals will be compelled to take full responsibility for their mistakes and get full credit for their successes.