I just schooled someone called "SoCalPundit" via email

[WilliamPitt]

Got this earlier. He starts by quoting my last essay:

"Somewhere, at this moment, a neoconservative is seething because his entire belief structure regarding government has been laid waste by a storm of singular ferocity."

And then goes on to say:

You mean to tell me that you believe that the failure of government to meet the needs of each and every citizen is something that surprises and upsets a conservative? You need to get off the crack asshole!

Just because you are able to get this shit into print does not make it true. In reality your statement is so rife with contradictions to reality that it discredits your entire commentary.

I replied:

Illuminate me.

Her replied:

I explained very clearly I think that it is liberals that worship
government. Most conservatives I know are not at all surprised that FEMA, State and Local government failed to get the job done. We sent the government to do a job that an NGO could do better.

But we'll never see the day when NGOs are put in charge of anything the government is in charge of today because the liberals have been successful in propagating the lie that we need government, that government is our friend.

What a croc.

I concluded:

You want NGOs to handle a crisis that spans four states? That crosses through a dozen different jurisdictions? What manner of special powers would you be willing to grant private organizations? Police powers? Where does the accountability rest?

At a minimum, public organizations have public accountability, appointees and the elected oficials who put them there. They also have pre-established legal/police powers that should never be surrendered to a private group accountable to no voter and no citizen.

I am not against NGOs, for goodness sake. But sometimes there are problems, crises and issues so broad, spanning so many state, parish/county, police boundaries, that it must be public institutions that address them.

Government isn't evil. Government is where people come together, in the best instance, to lift everyone else up. Government is only evil and stupid when it is run by people who hate government.

Oh, PS, such a massive industrialized nation can't be run by private organizations. Just isn't possible. The idea that it can be, so often propagated by pundits from Southern California, is 90% of the reason we're in this mess in the first place.

Cheers.

So that was fun.