Reply #36: The author, perhaps, allows a loophole that allows it out of context. [View All]

[Festivito]

Perhaps he should have said that the government of the people is best when it governs least, inasmuch as the people in charge of their own government would discipline themselves.

Haiti, by its ownership disparity, then takes this out of the context of rule by the people -- despite Haiti's start with good intent.

ADDING: The DU rift seems to arise, and does arise from me, from the implication that bigger government would therefore be better government just for the sake of being bigger. Not gonna fly.