dmitry orlov

dmitry orlov said in a blog on the 17th of this month that politics in the united states was a "mostly harmless game." i rebutted this in a comment which he posted, seemingly so he could tell me that even though i was at least partially correct there was no point in discussing it because there was nothing i could DO about the venality and brutality of american politics. instead i should "...drop the pretense and stand behind the government, which should maintain a monopoly on violence, to avoid a conflaguration." when i replied that this was a hobbesian response and that no government should have a monopoly on anything, much less violence because if it did then that violence would be used in the service of the elite's purposes whether or not it was beneficial or harmful to the interests of the citizenry would be irrelevant....this he decided not to publish...either because he had no answer or he resented being labeled hobbesian, or, as he says in his blog, he just didn't think it was "good"...so much for mr. orlov and free speech.