I'm trying to see how respecting the constitution and promoting individual liberty suggests all out anarchy? If a government's just powers derive from the consent of the governed, I think it's evident it's taken some liberties of it's own. Did any of us consent to the four months of paychecks we're giving the government each year? Did any of us really consent to throwing black people in prison for smoking pot? Banning public nudity?
As far as whether it's sane to depend on government to solve our problems...
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" Frédéric Bastiat "The Law"
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