Government has a limited number of roles that can be successfully handled by individuals acting out of self-interest; government predicates on the notion that individuals cannot solve their own problems, which is true for many (not least of all due to public schooling.) The people who advocate government as an absolute necessity have not yet themselves realized their own potential as sovereign individuals and the influence they have within an economy; they've yet to hit a philosophical awakening, a place many of us have come from and lived in at some point in time. But I would certainly say a 'libertarian' statist is closer to this awakening than the conservative, and far closer than the "liberal" zombies.
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