
Fear and Greed: The Real Political Parties of the State
• www.libertariannews.orgYou can pick any singular political issue and ask any statist member of the general public why they support a State solution to the given political issue and you will always find the emotional states of fear or greed driving their decision to advocate the use of violence against their neighbor. Typically what you’ll find are people who project their own fear or greed onto others, which results in their calls for violence.
Let us take public schooling as an example. When you ask a statist why they support public schooling, the typical response will be that poor children would be left uneducated if there was no violently funded public schooling. So lets break down that answer and look at the emotional states that drive people to support it.