My theory of government

I have expressed here several times my theory of government, haven't I? Well, in case you have missed it, my theory of government resembles that of George Washington: like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master. The first government was the tribal chieftain, usually the most ruthless and fearsome thug in the tribe. Of course, that evolved into tyrants, into regional kings, to emperors and so on. The point is that at the start, there is nothing more to legitimize these tyrant's rule over anyone else than money and power.

Eventually, certain things were established as "things a national government should do." These included defending the border against enemies who might invade, coining money, judging breeches of the peace between individuals, law enforcement and tracking down outlaws, and, of course, collecting taxes. Our founders came the closest of any group to putting into practice a well reasoned government with defined purposes. Even so, as Chris Chantrill says at the American Thinker in Government Equals Piracy Equals Loot and Plunder, things haven't changed, despite our Constitution:

In my view, all government, everywhere, is a loot and plunder operation, and always has been. Back in the day, governments celebrated this, as when victorious Roman generals paraded their soldiers and their loot and their slaves through downtown Rome in a Triumph. The innovation of Marx and the socialists was to gussie up a moral justification for their looting. Then Horace Mann justified his free gubmint “common schools” by asserting that they would reduce crime by 90 percent. Social Security was sold as an insurance program.

Even ObamaCare had a penumbra and an emanation of the arc of history about it. Our First Black President at least made a pretense that nobody would pay, for “if you like your health plan, you’ll be able to keep your health plan.” And, of course, Obamacare would cut premiums by $2,500 per year. But really, he was just rewarding his supporters, and they knew it.

In the post-Trump era, the gloves are off, and you Commoners are gonna pay reparations, you racists.

I am not sure who said it, but one wag claimed that politics is the system by which we decide who gets what. Hmmm