{"id":9985,"date":"2012-01-27T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T12:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/27\/the-stupider-the-citizen-the-more-the-justification-for-governmental-overreach\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T12:51:15","slug":"the-stupider-the-citizen-the-more-the-justification-for-governmental-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/27\/the-stupider-the-citizen-the-more-the-justification-for-governmental-overreach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupider the Citizen, the More the Justification for Governmental Overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2092071\/Stacey-Irvine-17-collapses-eating-McDonalds-chicken-nuggets-age-2.html\" target=\"_self\">this Daily Mail &#0160;story<\/a> is to be believed, a 17 year old English girl has subsisted on little more than McDonald&#39;s chicken nuggets and fries for the past 15 years. &quot;The factory worker \u2013 who says she has never tasted fresh fruit or vegetables \u2013 had to be taken to hospital earlier this week when she collapsed after struggling to breathe.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Stories like these are used by&#0160;nanny-staters to justify ever more government intrusion.&#0160; But the more the government intrudes, the less self-reliant and childish the people become &#8212; which justifies even more intrusion.&#0160; Or as Dennis Prager likes to say, &quot;The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.&quot;&#0160; To which I add, &quot;The bigger the government, the more to fight over.&quot;&#0160; So if you want a politics increasingly polarized and embittered, agitate for more government control and less individual &#0160;liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this Daily Mail &#0160;story is to be believed, a 17 year old English girl has subsisted on little more than McDonald&#39;s chicken nuggets and fries for the past 15 years. &quot;The factory worker \u2013 who says she has never tasted fresh fruit or vegetables \u2013 had to be taken to hospital earlier this week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/27\/the-stupider-the-citizen-the-more-the-justification-for-governmental-overreach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Stupider the Citizen, the More the Justification for Governmental Overreach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}