[identity profile] nairiporter.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
Hi guys! As the titular Monthly-topic announcer is a bit offline these days, it's my pleasure to present the result from last month's poll for a Monthly Topic:

Big Government: The Power Grab

Oops! Following "Money in Politics", now this is as controversial as controversial goes.

Some details, like you need any:

- Forms of government.
- Forms of statism: Kemalism, Leninism, state capitalism, etc.
- Bureaucracy gone rogue.
- Statism and the nanny state.
- Libertarianism and the idea of a limited government.
- Inefficient and dysfunctional government institutions.
- The clash: federal power vs state rights.
- Intransparency and lack of accountability in government.
- The system of checks and balances.
- The welfare state, social nets, and their abuse.
- Cost and benefit of big government.
- Government as a guarantor for civil rights and social justice.
- The police state: universal surveillance in the name of security.
- Mixed economy and welfare capitalism
- Anarchism, technocracy and other utopian alternatives to big government.

And the poll for the August monthly topic:

[Poll #1921895]

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Date: 1/7/13 16:29 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-rukh.livejournal.com
Well, in particular "The myth of some sort of big government power grab and other contrived propaganda"

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Date: 2/7/13 02:27 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-rukh.livejournal.com
I'm on it, right after I do that other thing I've been meaning to do.

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