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The proper response to “why don’t you move to Somolia then?”

O’Hare’s subtle conflation of “society” and “the government” makes this sort of absurd reductio possible. Because of course, while it is true that living in America makes one vastly better able to create wealth than living almost anywhere else, much of that wealthy creation comes not from anything the government provides, but from the infrastructure of people, skills, and norms that surround one. It is a common fiction that government can somehow represent the will of “society”, but this is high-test bunkum; government is its own institution, a part of society, not the instrument of its divine will. Anyone who has studied any political science at all knows that to the limited extent that you can even say that “the will of the people” exists, it is at best only partially and somewhat haphazardly represented by their elected government.