A little something I wrote for the upcoming election. If you live in Colorado, you should have your ballot by now. Vote!
I pledge allegiance to the ideal
For which the flag of America stands
And to the country that, in my studied judgment, most wisely embodies that ideal:
That government is the servant of its people;
That it is made and blessed by its people;
And that its purpose is to enrich them, and to protect them, and to unite them
When they cannot unite themselves.
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This essay is a follow-up to a previous piece I wrote on the topic of Objectivism.
The role of government should be as small as possible–otherwise the friction of the necessary bureaucracy would just be a waste. But how small is that? Some hold that the only true function of government is to protect its citizens from the use of force through the military and the police; hard-line Objectivists sometimes advocate for the complete or near-complete elimination of government except for these duties. Yet I think this attitude is too narrow: military and police are one necessary function of government, certainly, but might there be others? To understand what government’s role should be, we must first understand why large-scale organizations and bureaucracies, including governments, exist at all.
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