In The Name Of The People

I learned at an early age that anyone who claims to speak “for the people” or do things “for the good of the people” is usually wrong.

In fact, the honest and earnest zealot who thinks he’s improving everyone’s life by doing x y or z if more of a danger than your average, run of the mill venal corruptocrat who merely wants to line his pockets and move on. (Note the current crop of corruptocrats are different. They explicitly seem to want to destroy everything while lining their pockets. I...