On Sarah Palin’s Allegiance to the State

Karen Kwiatkowski: Why Does Sarah Palin Want More War?

….her life, rogue or not, is the story of state subsidy, state employment, state redistribution of wealth, state corruption and state centralizing power….

…Her….dad was a science teacher, and mom a school secretary in Idaho, and in Alaska as well. They believed in public schooling. Sarah and her siblings were schooled by the state, as were and are Sarah’s kids…..

….But I think that the problem with Sarah is simply that she just hasn’t thought enough about the state, how it lives (parasitically) and why it survives (redistribution and fear). Growing up as a member of the great publicly employed in Alaska is probably the worst way to critically understand the welfare and warfare state….

She learned that freedom looks like government protecting you. She learned that liberty means doing what is good for the state…..she likes the idea of small government and non-interference. But as a child of the warfare-welfare state, she will build bridges to nowhere at home, and repeatedly blow them up overseas, without a hint of irony…..