![]() This is clearly and obviously true in its entirety. And that means they will tell us they are deeply concerned about unemployment while they raise more and more barriers to entry-level jobs. And that means they will tell us they want to help care for the helpless while they make it illegal for charities to feed the starving. And that means that they will tell us that they do not believe in spying on the American people or in a government that operates in secrecy, while they continue spying on the American people and locking up or hounding anyone who questions that secrecy. And that means that they will take money from people most of us wouldn’t shake hands with. And once those people-good or bad, helpful or controlling-are in the system, they use it to further their ends. Politics is a system that attracts not only people who want to help, but people who want to control. ![]() Politics is a machine that turns good people and good ideas into bad ones, and turns bad people and bad ideas into worse ones. I don’t think that debate much matters, because I think both parts of it are true. We can debate, as my friends and I have on Facebook, whether asshats become politicians or politicians become asshats. It means that even if the occasional politician supports a policy you like or gives a speech you admire, you know enough not to turn him or her into a hero. Saying that politicians are asshats means that you acknowledge the deep truths of public choice theory. ![]() We should note that there is no Skwire's Second Law.Īnd I want to talk about how Skwire’s law-though simply expressed-is not merely a sigh of exasperation, a political version of “boys will be boys.” It’s a manifesto condensed into three words. I would like to introduce you to Skwire's First Law: ![]()
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