The history of these past two years is that the worst ideas have been adopted by force and anyone questioning those ideas has been suppressed by force.
Suppose some people don't like the services furnished by a "minimal state." Don't these people have the right to establish their own services to compete with the minimal state?
The original "leftists" wanted to abolish government regulation and controls. The rightists were the old control-freak authoritarians. But then the Jacobins hijacked the Left.
For Jesus and his followers, private enterprise was there from birth, through life, and to death, providing a refuge of safety and productivity, just as it has in our time.
Colorado and Washington State have shown governors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic how they've been missing out on collecting taxes from cannabis sales.
Europe's governments are caught up in a destructive symbiotic relationship with Europe's central bank. If they don't end QE and cut debt, they face some very hard times ahead.