[M]aking sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the — with, with, with the COVID. Excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with . . . look, if . . . We finally beat Medicare!
President Joe Biden in a spectacularly surreal flub from the CNN-hosted Presidential debate with then-former President Donald John Trump, June 27, 2024.
Is not the minimal state, the framework for utopia, an inspiring vision?
The minimal state treats us as inviolate individuals, who may not be used in certain ways by others as means or tools or instruments or resources; it treats us as persons having individual rights with the dignity this constitutes. Treating us with respect by respecting our rights, it allows us, individually or with whom we choose, to choose our life and to realize our ends and our conception of ourselves, insofar as we can, aided by the voluntary cooperation of other individuals possessing the same dignity. How dare any state or group of individuals do more. Or less.