We apparently need to start doing the same thing that the revolutionary colonists did when the British troops tried to denigrate them by calling them Yankee Doodles, which in the language of that day implied a flashy dressing effeminate man. The colonists responded by adopting it as a positive implication. You're damned right I'm anti-govt, especially anti-US govt. I'm not ashamed to admit it. This govt has destroyed our Constitution, destroyed our liberty, and appears to be bent on turning the country into a fascist, crony-capitalist country.

The most insidious form of serfdom is that where the slave is kept ignorant of the weight of his own chains.

Yes, and they also want you to believe their regulatory schemes are a basic a part of government as are the police and the military. I've heard people call these socialist institutions.

Then again, Rand herself noted a lot of libertarians held police and the military no more legitimate than the regulators--and proposed a society defended only by vigilantes, private security services, and mercenary armies and navies.

Of course... the government is supposed to do all the thinking for us, so all we have to do is follow their benevolent orders like good serfs, and follow their path for us as sheep. If we dare not follow the benevolent government's kindly intentions for us - we are evil individualists, not helping the groupthink collective...

Government has only one legitimate function, which is to protect its citizens from all forms of coercion, foreign and domestic. In a truly free society, all structure, rules and laws could be encompassed in a booklet, 50 pages long or less.

In the quote from Jefferson, "timid" could be replaced by "cowardly". Resistance to despots and tyranny takes courage as it has consequences as evidenced by the harassment received by those who oppose the policies of the administration.
A return to constitutional principles of government would involve returning to the states those powers given them in the Constitution and founding papers.
Not "anti-government", pro-Constitutional government. As it was intended.

The liberal-progressive agenda is to establish a new aristocracy ruled by self proclaimed "intellectual" elites. It is by dint of their "superior" education and moral compass that they are qualified to determine the "proper" activity of the great unwashed.

My complaint about this article is its ultimate resting of everything bad on corporations. Big corporations are pawns or useful idiots for government. Mao and Stalin were quite good at producing a horrible government without the help of corporations.

Really great article, thank you for posting.

I hope the slur isn't really that common.
I'm pro-individual and pro-peace, or in their language, anti-gov't and anti-war.

those who use the term are causing the number of anti-government people to increase in volume.