Thread by @mhbx

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 1/ I'm just going to arbitrarily stop for awhile. We'll pick it up the next major screw up and go at it again. I think this conversation would be better suited to a salon or something. Twitter posts are frustrating bec I can figure out if you are being dense; are you purposely

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 2/ misunderstanding me for the purpose of keeping some provocation going; are you not really reading and understanding my replies to you, perhaps they are too embedded in philosophy & political science that you are unfamiliar with? Whatever it is, in these few posts I have not

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 3/ prooffered anything particularly unique or on the edge, yet you seem un-inclined to understand and retort w what seem to me to be nothing but unintelligible non-sequiturs. So..I'll let it rest. I would suggest you read 1984 and other Orwell works ...

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 4/ Solzynitzn, if you can stand it - its pretty tough stuff, and even some non right wing perspectives on Keynes. The Federalist papers will be useful as a inquiry on the nature of power and the state and the purpose of governance. As is the core idea of Lincoln ...

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 5/ Pulled from the preamble of the Constitution That the government is an institution instantiated for the purpose of creating the framework and context of managing power in such a way that creates liberty and not authoritarian states. Anyway... there is more as well.

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 6/ if you want to understand what government not constrained by these deeper enlightenment values read your Machiavell - The Princei. Its useful as it describes the uses of raw power. And it has direct relevance to today. I think I'll take a re-read.

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 7/ I have no idea of course, but my best take on your position(s), best I can deduce from these snippets, is that you are so upset w government, considering it the enemy, that you are willing to have any other thing takes it place. Not unlike the electorate supposedly so angry

@RKBower1 @RandPaul 8/ at the status quo and a ramped up sense of outrage that they were willing to vote for Trump as the lesser of two evils. However bad and corrupt the gov is, & it is, seriously -it may not recover- to be ruled by corporations is simply replacing a flawed system w a Fascist one.

@RKBower1 @RandPaul If your really brave and willing to challenge your devotion to Trump I suggest reading @davidfrum 's book. And then @GenMhayden. To at least get a different, and more accurate picture of The Art of the Deal, read newyorker.com/magazine/2016/… from the fellow that wrote the book.

@RKBower1 @RandPaul There is more. But this will get you started.
If you don't at least have some familiarity w these works I don't think our exchanges will be meaningful.

@RKBower1 @RandPaul At least I hope you'll finally figure out that my antipathy towards Trump is not "You hate him". But is grounded in a wide range of principles, ideas, events, and policies that I think are worse than bad for the country. Its too easy to so glibly dismiss everything as you do.

@RKBower1 @RandPaul Frankly I'm tired of it. I hope some of this will penetrate...Not to change your mind...I have no need or intention...that s for you to figure out. But to at least be honest or at least informed and stop all these unrelated rejoinders.

@RKBower1 @RandPaul - bec I can -
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- because I cant -