My point isn't so much about wingnuts being willing to apply violence to get power. My point is that most wingnuts I've met have a blind spot the size of a carrier task force when it comes to all the ways you can exercise power without the application of violence.

This leads them to the naive assumption that there is no power in private relationships, since the government holds the monopoly on the exercise of organised violence. Since there can be no power in private relationships, there can be no asymmetries of power, and thus there can be no oppression. Therefore, smaller government means less oppression, meaning more freedom.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.