I never said that government was de facto beneficent. I never explicitly defended Obama or his policies. I addressed the striking similarities between the clumsy political allegory of the episode with the clumsy political narrative of the "tea party" style pundits. Nothing you have said seems to have anything to do with what I wrote.

If you want to get into a debate about whether America today is analogous to revolutionary Russia or the Fascists power, or whether the state is necessarily a hindrance then there are better places for that, better people.

Thanks for stopping by.