This Is A Very Sick Man, This

It Turns Out That Justices Are Also God’s Children; And Being Of This World, Their Makeup Consists Of Actual Flesh And Blood. They Are No More Noble Or Virtuous Than The Rest Of Us, And In Some Cases Less So, As They Suffer From The Usual Human Imperfections And Frailties. And The Court’s History Proves It.

He [the Statist] Is Unmoved By Reason, Evidence, And History.

Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?

Social Security Is A Widely Popular Program Because The Individual Has Been Deceived By The Statist To Believe That The Government Has Been Prudently And Diligently Managing His Accumulated Pension Investment In His Social Security Account, Which He Presumes To Be Funded By His Own Payroll Taxes.

The Statist Deflects Public Scorn For The Consequences Of His Own Central Planning By Blaming The Very Industry He Is Sabotaging For Supply Dislocations And Price Hikes.