Politics, politics, politics!

To me, this piece is key:

In the long run, reality wins, which means evolution wins. Ironically, it's part of the natural evolutionary process, expressed at the societal level. Government control short-circuits that process. I guess we're lucky, in this country at least, that so far more than 50% of our "representatives" still believe in science. I'm not really down with the idea that could change, and then so would government-approved textbooks. Are you?

Every issue which falls under the purvey of government becomes an "us vs them" issue, deepening the divide between individuals of different teams.

Every issue which falls under the purvey of government leads to a "one size fits all" solution. Regimentation becomes the order of the day.

Every issue which falls under the purvey of government thenceforth moves forward at bureaucratically-throttled, special-interest controlled, government-approval speed. If the special interest is powerful enough, the future is crippled or stillborn at the hands of the regulators they own.

Every issue which falls under the purvey of government is forced into one of two channels, dependent on the party in power. What if the issue is really a marshland, where subjective solutions are all over the map?

The fewer the issues in the hands of government (and their allies, government-created corporations), the less there is acrimony in the streets, the more future possibilities are allowed to express themselves and live or die on their merits, the better limited resources are allocated, the better society is able to function as the evolutionary organism is is.

The inverse is necessarily true.

And, as the article goes on to point out: