Interesting, and thoughtful, post from Dan Bongino, a response to a hate-filled tweet

◼ If I might humbly suggest a major between right and left, it’s that conservatives aren’t against a lot of the abstract goals that leftists are, it’s just they think harder about the costs, whether or not the means are ethical, and what groups of people or individuals are best to carry them out. It’s like the 19th Century French author Frederic Bastiat wrote:

“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”

It’s not that conservatives are against people being insured, it’s just that they don’t believe that government mandates, bloated bureaucracies, and endless handouts are the way forward to a better country....