Your astonishing claim that that view of government is "bizarre" leads me to doubt very seriously if you've read any of them, frankly, and simply claiming to do so doesn't cut much ice in this forum. Your emotional reaction to Rousseau is a case in point - I quoted him as one end of a spectrum including such luminaries as Locke and Burke - all of them agree on the point, as you would be aware if you really had read them (as, for that matter, does Karl Marx, and whether you think him "evil" is irrelevant - he, too, was a great and significant political thinker).
I am not your "buddy," and believe me, IMHO you could stand a lecture or two.
Have you read Rousseau? Is your glorification of the State up to his standards?
"Every service a citizen can render the State he ought to render as soon as the Sovereign demands it; but the Sovereign, for its part, cannot impose upon its subjects any fetters that are useless to the community, nor can it even wish to do so; for no more by the law of reason than by the law of nature can anything occur without a cause." - The Social Contract
I call this Evil. Totalitarian and communistic,
If you can defend it, go live in Cuba. You have nothing to teach me. Socialist jerk.