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V1198 t1_j6og675 wrote

Of course we have felons as state reps…🤦🏻‍♂️

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Starving_Orphan t1_j6oli7w wrote

I mean some are felons due to bullshit drug laws. Looks like he was convicted for “aiding a tax dodger”.

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goodwilhuntingseason t1_j6om5zf wrote

He was convicted for assisting in an armed standoff of said tax dodgers. He had pipe bombs, rifles, and anti government literature at his apartment when he was arrested. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/nyregion/14bomb.html

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Reddit_in_her_voice t1_j6orghn wrote

Everybody should have anti government literature. Or do you think president trump is just great and you have no complaints?

People in this very thread are expressing anti government sentiment.

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warren_stupidity t1_j6oueyy wrote

Ok you have conflated criticism of a specific administration with opposition to government in general, but I’m sure you knew that.

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Reddit_in_her_voice t1_j6ozduo wrote

You like a government that allows Donald Trump to have the nuclear button?

Wew lad

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warren_stupidity t1_j6pd641 wrote

Well it made me very uncomfortable, but yeah I want a government at least nominally elected by the people in charge of real weapons of mass destruction. Again, opposition to the current regime is not the same as opposition to the institution itself.

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liber_tas t1_j6ounmz wrote

So, like a Founding Father of the USA?

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Mynewuseraccountname t1_j6p32lg wrote

Dawg the founding fathers LOVED government above all else. They literally founded one lol.

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