The idea was that Government would not seek it own self interest, ( like it does now) it would seek our self interest, only in the protection of our constitutional rights.

I suppose that in a fully free, rights-respecting, free-
enterprise society, someone who took a government job, such as sheriff, would be doing it for his own self-interest; it would not be to his self-interest to allow the area to be taken over by criminals. (And also, there might be technical things about the job, such as message transmitting, that might be of professional interest to him). And, of course, these positions would be paid. That is not altruism.

No, Nature and existence itself has laws that govern it's functions which can be observed and reasoned out and perhaps understood.
God?...lots of critters and inanimate objects were called gods but to some causation for existence itself, of everything we observe including ourselves and our minds, none of which we played no part in, should logically and gratefully be appreciated...but we don't need an organization (religion) by men nor beast to remind us of that fact.

All laws are man made. Especially the ones published under sockpuppet identities such as "God" or "Reason".

Man made laws: punish the many, because of a few, in favor of a few and to aggrandize the man that makes the rules.

I'll agree that the very core functions of government, such as law-making, have to be done altruistically to the extent they can only be done by officials (though I'd prefer to put some constraints on lawmaking for just that reason, for instance by requiring every law to be approved by a vote of the people AND a vote of net taxpayers in addition to legislative approval).

But most of what we think as government functions are really fee-for-service exchanges, and the people doing them should be seen as ordinary employees, not priestly gatekeepers. And when at all possible, their organizations should be spun off as private companies and be subject to competition. Even police and (non-supreme) courts can be handled this way as long as they are under enough of a central authority to avoid wars among them.

Government is the only entity that is required to be altruistic in nature. Government deserves no profit, no happiness nor property. It exists only to insure those things for individuals.

Payment for the privilege of insuring those rights should be commensurate to any similar position in the free market.
Government workers do not deserve more benefits than anyone else gets in the free market economy.

It is a privilege to represent the people but they are NOT privileged in doing so.

Interesting contrast here. Everyone on this list seems to hate the idea of altruism, except when we are talking about politicians, but yet we expect them to engage in altruism.

The major reason I believe libertarianism is better than what the Democrats offer is that libertarians do not assume either that politicians or bureaucrats are uniquely smart or uniquely trustworthy. Human beings are human beings, and it is better to avoid exposing them in the first place either to problems you or I could not solve or to temptations we might not withstand.

Yes, Rand nailed all this stuff...what vision.

We need to wipe out the altruist morality. But this cannot be done at the political level. Teach your children the truth, don't expect the school to do it; and promote home-schooling and private education.
(Though you can't trust all private schools either).

D*** right!

Atlas Shrugged in operation!

Yea, that was encouraging...also shows that her mental perversions are not genetic in nature...

The high point of my week! Other than daddy Harris disassociating himself from darling daughter!

We haven't figured out which "Cortex" she occasionally uses...there are many. (wonder who started that first?) Maybe we both came to that concussion at the same time...that came to me the first time I heard it speak and heard it's name.

Hmm, interesting...probably why I purposely do not react to marketing...I'll do the opposite most times...won't give em the satisfaction of thinking they have figured me out!

Ah, your last sentence points out the real problem.
The real problem is the 2 party system, party politics, lack of accountability.

Honestly, our forefathers, if they saw this, would have had rules like term limits, NO running for any future office if you were in elected office and the budget was not balanced. The definition of Quid Pro Quo would be "normalized" to mean ANY arms length transaction, or attempt to hide said transaction. (notice how the IRS can freeze your assets AHEAD of a guilty verdict... But a congresswoman who takes money and promises to vote a certain way... There is no quid pro quo there, eh?)

Marco Rubio went from In Debt, to selling his home, for above market prices, to get out of debt, and get into a new home... Once he became a senator. Hmmm... Methinks this should be criminal.

Being in office should be a LOT MORE Like running a charity. You do it for love of country, and not for personal profits! You do it to give back (while getting paid).

But you DO NOT (Joe Biden), take your son on a plan to China while you are VP, and have your son sign a billion dollar deal with the chinese government. And act like you are helping the downtrodden.

Our republic has gone sour.

"occasional cortex" lol That's what Gad Saad calls her too: "Prof Dr Occasional Cortex." He's great on twitter. He is... "Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary behavioural scientist at the John Molson School of Business who is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour."

Interesting point...they are backwards...might just think it's a good thankyou...

If only SHE and her MINIONS read that the same we do.

They think they won.

We know who lost!

Tyey could just "Beg" the question in the Census!...LMAO

Cortez finds this "annoying".

But she also inserted a shrugging Emoji in her Twitter post when she whined about it.

The best response a Millennial socialist nitwit can come up with: shrug!

well, AOC will enable the dems to test the waters and see how many really stupid and unaware voters are out there.

they are getting less taxation to make it economic for them to locate there. Its just less theft

I love it! Cool! Socialism vs Capitalism. You got your wish AOC. Good luck with that!

She probably wasn't any good as a bartender, either.