Monthly topic

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Hi guys! As the titular Monthly-topic announcer is a bit offline these days, it's my pleasure to present the result from last month's poll for a Monthly Topic:

Big Government: The Power Grab

Oops! Following "Money in Politics", now this is as controversial as controversial goes.

Some details, like you need any:

- Forms of government.
- Forms of statism: Kemalism, Leninism, state capitalism, etc.
- Bureaucracy gone rogue.
- Statism and the nanny state.
- Libertarianism and the idea of a limited government.
- Inefficient and dysfunctional government institutions.
- The clash: federal power vs state rights.
- Intransparency and lack of accountability in government.
- The system of checks and balances.
- The welfare state, social nets, and their abuse.
- Cost and benefit of big government.
- Government as a guarantor for civil rights and social justice.
- The police state: universal surveillance in the name of security.
- Mixed economy and welfare capitalism
- Anarchism, technocracy and other utopian alternatives to big government.

And the poll for the August monthly topic:

[Poll #1921895]

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Oooh we went there! (Wherever that is!)

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

...and other contrived propaganda

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a topic for a post: "The myth of big government and other contrived propaganda".

We are all ears! :-)

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

What is this "post" thing that you speak of? Does it involve *GASP* writing words? :O

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Well, in particular "The myth of some sort of big government power grab and other contrived propaganda"

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Good. I can't wait for that post! :-)

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I'm on it, right after I do that other thing I've been meaning to do.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I am surprised that Bush the Elder's famous "New World Order" does not merit a bullet item (except perhaps for the surveillance state). Global policing is an aspect of big government with which people on both the right and left are uncomfortable.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

We're getting more comfortable with it....whether we like it or not.

/this message brought to you by the conformity police.
please conform. we don't want to bring the police into this.

//snark

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Also, Bush the first?

That's so two thousand and late.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

Pardon my nostalgia. I have a thing for panama hats.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

It's quite alright; we all yearn for that time when we were young and invincible.
For some of us, it lasts longer than others ;)

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I was not so invincible back then and Panama certainly was not either.

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

I vote for SCIENCE!