reductio ad retardum.
my unwillingness to weep tears of blood for the jackasses who build their houses in a flood plain and get washed away EVERY OTHER YEAR does not mean i believe we should devolve into some bizzare savage law of the jungle society based on the ruminations of some Anarcho-_______ist beard stroker from the 1880's. likewise i do not desire a nanny state with it's swollen teats shoved forcefully into the mouths of all, willing or not.
our government has, by dint of it's distance from the people it is presumed to serve, become unresponsive, self-perpetuating and uncontrollable. its a tree thats grow too big and too wild for it's location. now it's knocking tiles off the roof, dropping leaves down the neighbor's chimney and it hasnt had a good fruit crop in decades. i propose we prune it, carefully and with measured caution, not that we hack it down and burn the branches and salt the earth so that nothing else may ever grow there.