constant fretting in the US about the government becoming Tyrannical is simultaneously:

great (because that would be very bad and people should be mad about the possibility)

and completely stupid (because I can already be thrown in jail for cutting hair without a License)

"wow wouldnt it suck if the government were Undemocratic and people could just stop you on the street and demand yuor Paper's"

bitch i cant even buy amphetamines at my corner market

this thread brought to you by fucking @paulkrugman who I have hated ever since his idiot 2008 column on the GSEs where he claimed they had no subprime or Alt A exposure, which I read immediately after spending 10 hours writing a memo about GSE 10-Ks which showed just the opposite